Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

SUNScholar Research Repository

Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

 

The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, established in 1925, is the largest of the ten faculties of the University.

It consists of eight departments, a few centres, a bureau and an institute.

The Faculty occupies three buildings on the main campus at Stellenbosch, while the postgraduate programmes of the University of Stellenbosch Business School and the School of Public Leadership are offered in well-equipped buildingson the Bellville Park Campus.

Check the libopedia wiki page for more details

Sub-communities within this community

Recent Submissions

  • The importance of disaggregated freight flow forecasts to inform transport infrastructure investments 
    Havenga, Jan H. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013-09)
    This article presents the results of a comprehensive disaggregated commodity flow model for South Africa. The wealth of data available enables a segmented analysis of future freight transportation demand in order to ...
  • The history of the rail transport regulatory environment in South Africa 
    Janse van Rensburg, R. A. J. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1996)
    OVERVIEW: State intervention in rail transport began in England with public demand for safety regulation which resulted in Lord Seymour's Act in 1840 and the Railway Gauges Act which followed in 1846. Approximately a ...
  • Macro-logistics trends : indications for a more sustainable economy 
    Havenga, Jan H.   Simpson, Zane P.   De Bod, Anneke (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013-07)
    The North American and South African logistics cost calculation-time series are the two longest-running statistical series available worldwide. These calculations indicate that transportation’s contribution to logistics ...
  • Sustainable freight transport in South Africa : domestic intermodal solutions 
    Havenga, Jan H.   Simpson, Zane   Fourie, Pieter F.   De Bod, Anneke (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011-11)
    Due to the rapid deregulation of freight transport in South Africa two decades ago, and low historical investment in rail (with resultant poor service delivery), an integrated alternative to road and rail competition was ...
  • An investigation into the effectiveness of simulated annealing as a solution approach for the generator maintenance scheduling problem 
    Schlunz, E. B.   Van Vuuren, J. H. (Elsevier Ltd, 2013-04)
    The generator maintenance scheduling (GMS) problem is the difficult combinatorial optimisation problem of finding a schedule for the planned maintenance outages of generating units in a power system. The GMS model considered ...
  • Some insights about gender-based violence in the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) 
    Nyar, Annsilla   Musango, Josephine Kaviti (Science and Engineering Publishing Company (SEP), 2013-06)
    The article draws on a specific slice of data about gender-based violence from a recent Quality of Life (QoL) survey conducted amongst 16,729 respondents in Gauteng. While gender-based violence comes in multiple forms, the ...
  • An investigation into a peer module mentoring programme in economic and management sciences 
    Du Preez, Ronel   Steenkamp, Leon P.   Baard, Roelof S. (Clute Institute, 2013-10)
    All South African universities face the challenges of student success and retention - a challenge compounded by under-prepared students from diverse backgrounds. This article explores peer module mentoring as a possible ...
  • Incorporating online tools in tertiary education 
    Steenkamp, Leon P.   Rudman, Riaan J. (Clute Institute, 2013-10)
    Students currently studying at tertiary institutions have developed a set of attitudes and aptitudes as a result of growing up in an IT and media-rich environment. These attitudes and aptitudes influence how they learn ...
  • Strategic alignment of application software packages and business processes using PRINCE2 
    Kruger, Wandi   Rudman, Riaan (Clute Institute, 2013-10)
    Numerous factors exist that may contribute to the unsuccessful completion of application software package implementation projects. The most significant contributor to application software package project failure lies in ...
  • An investigation into a peer module mentoring programme in economic and management sciences 
    Du Preez, Ronel   Steenkamp, Leon P.   Baard, Roelof S. (Clute Institute, 2013-10)
    All South African universities face the challenges of student success and retention - a challenge compounded by under-prepared students from diverse backgrounds. This article explores peer module mentoring as a possible ...
  • Incorporating online tools in tertiary education 
    Steenkamp, Leon P.   Rudman, Riaan J. (Clute Institute, 2013-10)
    Students currently studying at tertiary institutions have developed a set of attitudes and aptitudes as a result of growing up in an IT and media-rich environment. These attitudes and aptitudes influence how they learn ...
  • The income tax deductibility of indirect empowerment measures relating to Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) in South Africa 
    Acker, Tim   Nel, Rudie (Academic Journals, 2013-07)
    When an entity incurs expenditure relating to indirect empowerment measures of broad-based black economic empowerment (‘BEE’) (that is the preferential procurement, enterprise development, skills development and socio-economic ...
  • African wisdom at work 
    Mgayi, Bongani (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, University of Stellenbosch Business School, 2012-12)
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Bongani Mgayi takes a look at African wisdom. Does it add value in the workplace? Must special provision be made for it?
  • Africa and project management hurdle 
    Leuvennink, Jaco (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, University of Stellenbosch Business School, 2012-12)
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa is planning infrastructure projects worth thousands of billions of rand while it is widely accepted that Africa needs an infrastructure boom period of a decade or so to realise its ...
  • What is the best way to predict financial distress of companies 
    Muller, G. H.   Steyn-Bruwer, B. W.   Hamman, W. D. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, University of Stellenbosch Business School, 2012-12)
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Predicting distress is essential for investors or lending institutions who wish to protect their financial investments. Which predictive techniques work best?

Search SUNScholar

Browse

My Account

Statistics

Discover

RSS Feeds