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Evolution of a doctoral thesis research topic and methodology: a personal experience
(Elsevier Ltd, www.elsevier.com, 2009)
This paper gives an insight into the practical process of identifying the research philosophy, methods and research topic by doctoral students. The paper draws from personal experiences on the dilemma and challenges of the ...
Critical Realism in Management Studies
(Botswana Journal of Business, Faculty of Business, University of Botswana, 2006-09)
In Africa as in other parts of the world critical management research is assuming a lot of significance. There is now a felt need to break away with positivist or empiricist research, which has over years assumed hegemonic ...
Business Planning in Small and Medium Enterprises in Botswana
(Faculty of Business, University of Botswana, http://www.ub.bw/ord/ord_journals.cfm?pid=540&rf=545, 2004-03)
Although the relationship between planning and profitability is inconclusive, there is much consensus in the strategic management literature that no firm can survive in todayâ s turbulent and competitive markets without ...
Linking environmental scanning to total quality management through business planning
(Journal of Management Development; Emerald Group Publishing Ltd; www.emeraldinsight.com/0262-1711.htm, 2004)
This paper investigates the relationship between scanning and planning, planning and TQM practices, and scanning and TQM practices by collecting primary data from 54 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through ...
Monitoring environmental complexities and changes:some lessons from small firms
(International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business; Inderscience Enterprises Ltd; http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijgsb, 2006)
The process of gathering and interpreting pertinent information from the environment and introducing the results into the business planning process is referred to as environmental scanning. This paper investigates the ...
Managerial Competency and Organizational Flexibility in Small and Medium Enterprises in Botswana
(Business Perspectives; Sumy State University (Ukraine); http://www.businessperspectives.sumy.ua/, 2005)
Although the discovery of diamond has propelled Botswana from one of the poorest countries in 1966 to its current stage of development as a middle-income country, the country still faces the problems of economic diversification, ...
Towards small business development through business incubation programmes: a review
(Botswana Institute of Administration and Commerce (BIAC), 2004-11)
The number of new indigenous business start-ups in Botswana has significantly increased during the past two decades. Unfortunately, the majority of them are not successful. Over 70% of new start-ups fail during their first ...
IT skills of academics and practising accountants in Botswana
(Inderscience Publishers, http://www.inderscience.com, 2008)
Information Technology (IT) skills are important for practising accountants and accounting educators. This paper reports on a study done to evaluate the levels of IT skills of practising and accounting educators in Botswana, ...
Esential skills for accounting graduates: the accounting practitioner's pespective
(Institute of Finance Management, 2006)
This study was undertaken to collect the views of practicing accountants in Botswana on a number of skills considered essential for any gradute in Accounting. Questionnaires were delivered to 250 accountants employed by ...
Lending decision making and financial information: the usefulness of corporate annual reports to lenders in Botswana
(Asian Network for Scientific Information, http://www.scialert.net/jindex.php?issn=1991-0886, 2007)
This study sought to determine the usefulness of annual report information to lenders in Botswana with a view to establishing whether users of financial statement information derive any utility from information presented ...