The role played by management's commitment, education and ethics on organisational entrepreneurship in Gauteng non-profit organisations

Thesis (M.Com. (Marketing Management and Information Systems))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, School of Economic and Business Sciences, 2015The objectives of the study were to explore the extent to which three management characteristics related to organisational entrepreneurship in not-for-profit organisations (NPOs) in Gauteng, as well as the relation between organisational entrepreneurship and the organisational performance. The research was based on a quantitative approach which involved a random sample of 257 NPO managers who responded via a self-administered questionnaire. The research instrument measured management’s commitment to their occupation, management’s continuous education and management ethics, as well as organisational entrepreneurship and organisational performance. Data analysis techniques comprised of structural equation modelling which focused on confirmatory factory analysis to confirm conceptual relations and path model analysis to determine the causal relations between each management characteristics with organisational entrepreneurship, and organisational entrepreneurship with organisational performance. Path analysis results returned significant at the 99% confidence level that management’s continuous education and management’s ethics had strong positive causal relations to organisational entrepreneurship, as well as the positive relation of organisational entrepreneurship with organisational performance. The research noted implications for NPO management teams, including the renovation of business model structures to incorporate continuous learning and constructive risk-taking in order to take advantage of the performance benefits derived from organisational entrepreneurship. The study also recommends further research into potential citizenship bodies for NPO management team to foster commitment to their occupation in the non-profit sector

Management's Commitment, Education and Ethics on Organisational Entrepreneurship: The Case of South African Non-Profit Organisations

The objectives of the study were to explore the management characteristics that are related to organisational entrepreneurship in not-for-profit organisations (NPOs) in Gauteng, South Africa as well as the relationship between organisational entrepreneurship and the organisational performance. The methodology involved a quantitative approach of collecting and analysing research data. A field study was conducted in Johannesburg, South Africa whereby research data were collected from 257 NPO managers from voluntary organizations. Using the SPSS 22 and the AMOS 22 software program, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was performed to analyze the research data. The study noted implications for NPO management teams, including the renovation of business model structures to incorporate continuous learning and constructive risk-taking in order to take advantage of the performance benefits derived from organisational entrepreneurship. The study also recommends further research into potential citizenship bodies for NPO management teams to foster commitment to their occupation in the non-profit sector. The research makes a significant contribution by providing a framework in which management's commitment to NPOs can be measured and analysed

FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE PURCHASE OF COUNTERFEIT PRODUCTS BY STUDENTS: A CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA

The current research attempts to investigate the use of the two potential predictors of customer purchase intention of counterfeit products (perceived behavioural control and price- quality inference of counterfeit products) as a means of establishing whether they have influence over customer attitudes towards economic benefits of purchasing counterfeit products which ultimately lead to purchase intention of counterfeit products. Field study is conducted in Braamfontein, Johannesburg and research data are collected from 380 respondents 25 years and older. Using SPSS 22 and AMOS 22 software program, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is performed to analyse the data set. The results reveal that price- quality inference of counterfeit products is seen to possess the strongest influence on customers’ attitudes towards the purchase intention of counterfeit products as compared to the other variables. Keywords: Counterfeits, Price-quality, Purchase intention, students, consume