Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences: Recent submissions
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Home delivery of medication as part of reducing congestion in primary healthcare in Tshwane District Health Services
(Medical Publishing Group, 2020)Congestion at health facilities poses the risk of extensive spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2) to patients at high risk for severe illness and death due to this infection. During the ... -
A systematic literature review of factors affecting the adoption of technologies in food waste management
(Elsevier, 2021)Food waste has become a growing topic in many disciplines. The study explore factors affecting the adoption of technologies in food waste management. There are limited studies in literature on factors that affect the ... -
Factors affecting the adoption of technologies to improve fleet safety management
(Elsevier, 2021)are limited studies in literature on factors that affect the adoption technologies to improve fleet safety in the logistic industry. The understanding of the factors is important for the success of the adoption of smart ... -
Towards student inclusivity during COVID-19: Testing the #datafree Moya messenger
(CSALL University of Durban-Westville, 2020)The coronavirus has highlighted the socio-economic plights of many of our students who are not able to continue learning due to the lack of internet access and the high cost of data. As a result, a large majority of ... -
Evaluating the benefits of cloud computing in small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (smmes)
(Elsevier, 2021)Cloud computing is becoming an essential tool in lowering Information Technology (IT) costs amongst Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprises (SMMEs). As such amongst a myriad of challenges, SMMEs are faced with a general ... -
The challenge of privacy and security when using technology to track people in times of COVID-19 pandemic
(Elsevier, 2021)Since the start of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) governments and health authorities across the world have find it very difficult in controlling infections. Digital technologies such as artificial ... -
Design principles for interdisciplinary collaborative learning through social, digital innovation
(Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, 2021)As academics, we are acutely aware of our responsibility in the design of our teaching and learning environment to instil principles of ethics, sustainability, agency and social justice. We are at the crossroad between ... -
Impact of culture on the adoption of diabetes self-management applications: Cape flats, South Africa
(ifip, 2021)Diabetes is a global health problem with a high mortality rate. The research indicates low levels of technology use amongst diabetic patients in low socioeconomic environments and minority groups. We posit that the culture ... -
Students’ engagement in an anonymous peer review: Using the open-source sakai platform
(ifip, 2021)There is a need to provide quality education without discrimination or prejudice to all students. However, there are challenges in implementing quality education in large classes, especially during remote learning. ... -
Cyberattacks and threats during COVID-19: A systematic literature review
(AOSIS, 2021)The novel Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a deadly contagious disease has left the global village in disarray, driving people and firms, especially healthcare service providers to rely heavily on information ... -
Factors Affecting Digital Transformation in the Retail Supply Chain
(2021-06)The digital transformation, introduced by the fourth industrial revolution, has significantly transformed the value proposition of supply chain organisations. However, there is limited extant ... -
Egotism and female managerial performance in South Africa: Evidence from SMEs in the agricultural sector
(Taylor and Francis, 2021)This study sets out to address the perceived pitfalls of egotism among female entrepreneurs in South Africa. This study further ascertains a unique strategy and group of accustomed performance factors that are believed ... -
Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urbanhunger and its contextual correlates in an African city
(Elsevier, 2022)Although progress has been made in addressing hunger and poor diets in African cities, many urban res-idents still suffer from food insecurity, and there is large heterogeneity within cities. We examine spatialvariations ... -
Factors affecting digital technology adoption by small-scale farmers in agriculture value chains (AVCs) in South Africa
(Routledge, 2021)Digital technologies enable small-scale farmers to reduce some constraints to participate in Agriculture Value Chains (AVCs). Small-scale farmers face significant challenges and barriers to adopting digital technology. ... -
Industrialisation and the decline of the coastal cities in South Africa: A neglected dimension
(Development Southern Africa, 1990-05)Empirical evidence points to a mismatch between the growth of population and the growth of manufacturing activity among the metropolitan centres of South Africa. While the coastal metropoles lag behind the PWV and certain ... -
The fuel of unparalleled recovery: Monetary policy in South Africa between 1925 and 1936
(Routledge, 2021)The newly established South African Reserve Bank (SARB) was tasked to protect the currency by navigating the interwar gold standard, and, from March 1933, maintaining parity with the Pound Sterling. We find that South ... -
Taking togetherness apart: From digital footprints to geno-digital spores
(SAGE, 2021)Increasingly, the lines of our lives are prescribed, mediated, drawn and knotted together by digital technologies. It has been argued that ‘digital footprints’, as a trail of user data points collected from online communities ... -
Socio-economic inequity and decision-making under uncertainty: West African migrants’ journey across the Mediterranean to Europe
(Cogitatio Press, 2021)Understanding the nexus between poverty, inequality and decision-making under uncertainty in migrants’ journeys across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe remains a significant challenge, raising intense scholarly debate. ... -
Polycentric regional ocean governance opportunity in the Benguela current convention
(frontiers in marine-science, 2021)The Benguela Current Convention (BCC) has been operational for a decade and has emerged from the precursor natural and fisheries science large marine ecosystem programs. This regional ocean governance institution emerged ... -
Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2021)Communities of Practice are sites of social learning for the co-production of knowledge. Building on recent literature on Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice, this article reflects on the experiences of an emergent ...