Faculty of Business: Recent submissions

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  • The effects of characteristics of partners on strategic alliance performance in the SME dominated travel sector 

    Pansiri, J. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.; www.elsevier.com/locate/tourman, 2008)
    This study examines the effects of characteristics of alliance partners on perceived strategic alliance performance. Alliance relationships were explored within and between the travel sector, and other tourism sectors of ...

  • Critical Realism in Management Studies 

    Marobela, M. (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 ...

  • A Test Measure Equivalence of Conflict Resolution Strategies in Joint Purchase Decisions 

    Makgosa, R. (Botswana Journal of Business, Faculty of Business, University of Botswana, 2006-09)
    The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the importance of ensuring the measure equivalence of marketing concepts in cross-cultural research. It is crucial to give attention to measure equivalence in cross cultural ...

  • Monitoring environmental complexities and changes:some lessons from small firms 

    Temtime, Z.T. (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 ...

  • Linking environmental scanning to total quality management through business planning 

    Temtime, Z.T. (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 ...

  • Perceived managerial problems in SMEs: evidence from Botswana 

    Temtime, ZT; Pansiri, J. (Development and Learning in Organisations; Emerald Group Publishing Ltd; www.emeraldinsight.com/reprints, 2006)
    Although the discovery of mineral wealth (i.e. diamond) has propelled Botswana into the middle-income category, the country still faces the problem of economic diversification, employment creation, income distribution and ...

  • A decision tree approach for integrating small business assistance schemes 

    Temtime, Z.T.; Chinyoka, S.V.; Shunda, J.P.W. (Journal of Management Development; Emerald Group Publishing Limited; www.emeraldinsight.com/0262-1711.htm, 2004)
    There is a general consensus among public policy makers, academics and researchers that entrepreneurship is a vital route to economic advancement for both developed and developing economies. As a result, a host of small ...