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    Top management role in ensuring sustainable supply chain management practices : exploratory review of literature
    (South Florida Publishing LLC, 2024) Agbenyegah, Albert Tchey; Kumadey, Gifty
    Purpose: Top management plays a crucial role in implementing Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) practices, especially in developing countries, by driving performance, securing resources, and promoting necessary changes. This study explores how top management's commitment and strategic leadership impact SSCM adoption and implementation in developing countries like Ghana, where SSCM adoption rates are low and empirical research is lacking.   Method: Using a qualitative research design and a systematic literature review from the SCOPUS database, the study analyzes peer-reviewed studies from 2010 onwards.   Results and Conclusion: Findings reveal that top management's commitment to sustainability fosters organizational responsibility, innovation, and compliance with ethical standards, encouraging proactive approaches to opportunities, market adaptation, and green practices.   Research Implication: These insights provide practical recommendations for improving performance, building trust, and achieving sustainable development goals, contributing significantly to the understanding of SSCM practices and their positive impact on organizational performance.   Originality/Value: By leveraging empirical work this study builds analytical patterns on issues that relate with management roles and sustainable supply chain management. The standardized assessment of the issues provides a trustworthy result as this study does not entirely rely on the exclusive opinion of the researchers but is based on standard deduction of the role of managers in ensuring the adoption of sustainable supply chain management within industries.
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    Can commercialisation address consumer debt in local government : a case of South African metropolitan municipalities
    (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-05-30) Murwirapachena, Genius; Kabange, Martin M.
    Consumer debt continues to challenge local government financial sustainability. There is a debate in the literature on whether developing countries should consider commercialising local service delivery. Using data from South African metropolitan municipalities, this study examines the impact of commercialising service delivery on consumer debt. Fixed effects modelling is adopted, and results show that commercialising sanitation increased consumer debt by 22.5 per cent, commercialising solid waste collection reduced consumer debt by 11.9 per cent, while commercialising electricity had no significant impact on consumer debt. These results imply that policymakers should consider the type and nature of public service when deciding its commercialisation.
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    An investigation into whether current definitions of corruption have disproportionate adverse impact on some economies
    (2019-05) Naidoo, Bhagavathie Bhavani; Bayat, Mohamed Saheed
    To date, no globally acceptable definition of corruption exists. Over the last two centuries the term has been variously redefined to point to very different behaviours. Yet a plethora of reports and publications by agencies such as Transparency International, The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank and other similar organisations have emerged, identifying and calling out activities that they term corrupt practices in emerging and developing countries. Utilising a conceptual research methodology, this study considers whether allegations of the existence of widespread corruption to justify directive behaviour are true, and examines to what extent the consequent impact of this behaviour is equitable across states. The study traces how different views of what constituted corrupt behaviour evolved across cultures/nations/ states/economies from antiquity until the present. It explores the provisions of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, and other pertinent international and national policies and legal instruments. And tries to establish whether such provisions have contributed to even-handed application of policy across countries. The study finds that the tools and scales that claim to measure levels of corruption are unreliable. They either: 1) depend disproportionately on subjective measures of popular perception; 2) are too reliant on proxy measures; 3) are unclear on what is being measured in the absence of a clear definition of what constitutes corrupt behaviour; or 4) are reliant on the selfassessments of the organizations under scrutiny. Consequently, institutions with vested interests and specific political ideologies or economic theories misuse the rules and guidelines they construct around corruption to pursue their own interests. With the result that current definitions of corruption and how they are applied have disproportionate adverse impact on some economies.
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    Exploring capacity development programmes for socio-economic transformation in South Africa : a case study of the South African petroleum industry
    (2021-12) Kikasu, Tanzala Eustache; Dorasamy, Nirmala; Lekhanya, Lawrence Mpele
    Capacity development programmes in the workplace, whether in the public or private sectors, play a strategic role through increasing the ability of people, organisations, and societies to cope with or adapt to challenging and adverse circumstances that affect the organisations or systems that societies depend upon. Capacity development programmes are an approach that addresses, in a continuous manner, specific issues at institutional/organisational, socio-economic, environmental, and infrastructural levels, with the aim of improving the delivery of adequate services; boosting organisational competitive advantages; improving productivity; and meeting sustainable development goals. In the workplace, capacity development is a significant socio-economic resource and a foremost key factor that can guarantee the development of employees’ skills, abilities, talents, performance, and value, as well as enabling organisational perspectives for improved innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth. This study examined capacity development programmes as a tactical approach, suitable for tackling and bridging the gaps of technical skills shortages, skills waste and the deficit of positive human capital capacity affecting the South African society and petroleum industry respectively. The vision and mission statements of capacity development programmes are to continually equip, build and develop positive, creative, and innovative human capital capacity with functional, technical, and behavioural capacities to convey organisational and societal change through supporting people knowledge, skills, talents, capacities or abilities improvement and development in various spheres of socio-economic activities. The focus of this study was to describe the role that capacity development programmes could play in the petroleum industry for socio-economic transformation in South Africa, through the case study of the South African petroleum industry. It also examined the critical factors affecting the best practice of policies, programmes and strategic plans that support structures of human capital capacity development in the workplace and the challenges obstructing the effective best practice of capacity development programmes on job-related skills development of employees in the South i African petroleum industry. Therefore, the triangulation methods assisted the researcher with using more than one approach as sources of data collection and analysis process and by approaching data with various theories or perspectives in mind to extend the possibilities of bridging the gaps of technical skills shortage, skills waste and the deficit of positive human capital capacity affecting the South African petroleum industry. This method was useful in producing knowledge from diverse viewpoints upon matters that were discussed in this study. The triangulation methods facilitated the researcher in terms of gathering and converging quantitative and qualitative data from petroleum companies that are members of the South African Petroleum Industry Association (SAPIA). Therefore, the quantitative survey combined with qualitative in-depth interviews provided a better understanding of the information obtained. In this study, the PESTIE framework was applied in line with the aim and objectives defined for this research. However, only the political, economic, and social variables were examined to identify the challenges and effects of capacity development programmes in the process of developing technical skills, controlling/minimising skills waste and developing positive human capital capacity in the South African petroleum industry. Accordingly, findings indicated that (87.6%) challenges affecting the petroleum industry development and socio-economic transformation in South Africa are mostly caused by the lack of policies, programmes, and strategic plans best practice to bridging the gaps of technical skills shortages, skills waste, and the deficit of positive human capital capacity in the workplace. In addition, respondents (77.6%) affirmed that policies improvement and best practice could be a vital key in promoting scarce skills development in the South African petroleum industry. Furthermore, respondents (78.6%) agreed that awareness campaigns about capacity development programmes best practice in the South African petroleum industry could fuel the engine of technical, functional, and behavioural capacities development, and put in place a locomotive of organisational improved competitive advantages (innovation, productivity, and performance improvement) and socio-economic transformation. Moreover, respondents (73.7%) agreed that an improved/developed model of capacity development programmes in the workplace could be a sine qua non condition for scarce skills (technical skills) development and retention in the South African petroleum industry. Therefore, the CDP-PUSH-Effects model that comprises the Big Push and Push-Pull strategies associated with reactive, proactive, and active approaches was suggested as an indispensable tool, useful in tackling the critical matters of technical skills shortages, skills waste and the deficit of positive human capital capacity affecting the South African petroleum industry and society. Accordingly, more awareness, resources and efforts from role-key players (policy-makers, decision-makers and stakeholders) would be required towards supporting the scarce skills development process and strengthening employees’ ability to deliver quality services as well as deal with unpredicted adverse events that could prevent the petroleum industry’s development and socio-economic transformation processes in the country.
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    Corporate governance, structure and accountability as affected by national government infrastructure in developing countries
    (Virtus Interpress, 2016-01) Mugova, Shame; Sachs, Paul R.
    Businesses in developing countries face different challenges than those in economically developed countries. Markets and supply chains are less well-established. Dissemination of information is uneven. Because governmental infrastructure has limited ability to support business operations,, businesses take on responsibilities that elsewhere are handled by a central government. This study revie3ws key elements of corporate governance. The study then reviews the banking and manufacturing sectors in Zimbabwe with attention to the presence or absence of financial infrastructure, legal infrastructure, market challenges, supply chain and government involvement to support corporate governance structures and systems. Recommendations for policy and practice changes are offered. The present analysis of Zimbabwe can guide research on and policy recommendations for governance in other developing countries.