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"Incompleteness" and the quest for multiple identities in South Africa
(GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Institute of African Affairs, 2015)The article explores the contours of multiple identities in contrast to singular identities in situations of social complexity and cultural diversity. Nyamnjoh’s concepts of “incompleteness” and “frontier Africans” imply ...
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Afrikaans on the Cape Flats: Performing cultural linguistic identity in Afrikaaps
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines Kaaps and how speakers use this linguistic variety to demonstrate or perform various aspects of their identities. The theories of Butler (1990) and Pennycook (2004) are used to ...
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Self-Service Information Systems adoption in the Western Cape: The influence of demographical factors
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis explores the relationship between demographics and self-service information systems (SSISs), with SSIS considered as potentially technical, socio-technical or social. Alter (2008) is used to ...
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Belief driven sensemaking and strategy - arguing to identify and amplify weak signals
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is about arguing as a belief driven sensemaking process within a strategy making environment. It is a conceptual analysis which attempts to shed light on ways to improve the modern strategy ...
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Quality knowledge in regional economic communities : applying the KMDL to a case study in COMESA
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: thesis covers the following chapters Chapter 1: The Question of Knowledge in a Regional Economic Community This chapter focuses on the research objective, the problem and also includes the detailed research ...
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Knowledge in informal African markets - a case study of three informal markets in Zimbabwe
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: If knowledge is power, this thesis tries to show how informal African markets share that power. In many African countries such as Zimbabwe, policy makers and development partners are yet to fully ...
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Towards a Decision Support System for wicked problems: A literature analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well-informed just to be undecided about them (Conklin, 2001, p. 1) Wicked problems are complex and challenging to solve. This ...
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Organisational learning and monitoring and evaluation in project-based organisations
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organisation routines are central to performance and, if organised and done in a non-imitable way, allow for an organisation to gain competitive advantage. The objective of the thesis is to identify ...
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An investigation of dead-zone pattern matching algorithms
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-02)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Pattern matching allows us to search some text for a word or for a sequence of characters|a popular feature of computer programs such as text editors. Traditionally, three distinct families of pattern ...
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Organisational learning in a traditional rural context : A case study at Lumwana Mine in Zambia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis investigates the relationship between the learning organisation culture and information systems quality. The research is based on the seven dimensions of the learning organisation as per the ...
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Formal education and critical thinking skills for the knowledge economy in Zambia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the question: Are GCE ‘O’ Level examinations administered by the Examinations Council of Zambia (ECZ) supporting the development of the critical thinking skills of analysis, ...
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A sensemaking perspective on collaborative learning as the driver of innovation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The thesis explores the concept of organisational innovation as a process of collaborative learning. It takes its point of departure the sensemaking theory of Karl E Weick. Through the this lens the ...
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Collaborative regional organisational networks : cultivating regional knowledge diffusion to become globally competitive
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis takes as its focus collaborative regional organisational networks. It is argued that in knowledge intensive sectors, such collaboration clusters are an important factor for being competitive ...
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Ubiquitous electronically mediated informing and sensemaking in organisations
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the impact between sensemaking as proposed by Karl Weick and his associates’ school of thought, and ubiquitous electronically mediated informing (UEMI) which is the attention-efficient ...
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Characteristics of subsidiary entrepreneurial culture in a post-acquisition environment : the case of Libstar
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research set out to prove that subsidiary entrepreneurial culture in a postacquisition environment is different from entrepreneurial culture in an independently owned company. Whereas independently ...
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Conceptions of knowledge transfer in organisations : a bibliometric and content analysis of three journals
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Central to this study is the transfer of knowledge in organisations. The aim of this study is to ascertain how the concept of Knowledge Transfer (KT) is represented thematically in the three journals MIS ...
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Evaluating the effectiveness of the vehicle registration and licensing system of Botswana's Ministry of Transport and Communication using the Delone and McLean model
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Information System Success Evaluation has been a concept of interest to many organizations for decades now. The main motivation for this activity is usually from the financial view of things, that is, ...
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Sense, signal and software : a sensemaking analysis of meaning in early warning systems
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis considers the contribution that Karl Weick’s notion of sensemaking can make to an improved understanding of weak signals, cues, warning analysis, and software within early warning systems. ...
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Learning and the use of smart phone devices : an experimental case study in a Gauteng secondary school
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this project was to investigate the prospects to advance and fast-track formal learning with the aid of smart phone technology, as learning should be reinforced through varied, pliable ...
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Organisational learning through scarce skills transfer : a case study in the Eastern Cape Province
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Knowledge Transfer is one of the key knowledge management practices that organisations employ to ensure cross-pollination of knowledge across their various divisions. It should be a cornerstone of a ...
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Learning from risk : facilitating organisational learning through enterprise risk management
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Modern business environments are characterized by rapid changes and organizations that are able to survive and to thrive in such environments must be able to adapt and respond to this environmental ...
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Agile software development as a response to complexity
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organisations are faced with ever increasing complexity. While there are many responses to complexity just as there are many definitions of complexity this thesis highlights the use of agile software ...
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Knowledge by narration : the role of storytelling in knowledge management
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Storytelling is gaining recognition as areas of inquiry in management and organisation theory, but it is difficult to ascertain to what extent it is useful for organisational knowledge management. The ...
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Social networking for knowledge management : group features as personal knowledge management tools
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the emergence of Web 2.0 (social network platforms) some Knowledge Management theorists saw the potential for incorporating its collaborative and networking features in Knowledge Management Systems. ...
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Control, value, sense and system : dimensions of hierarchy in selected knowledge management theories
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Knowledge management is an organisational science field that is viewed by many as a panacea to the challenge of successfully managing knowledge intensive organisations. Knowledge management is marked ...
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Effectiveness of user-curated filtering as coping strategy for information overload on microblogging services
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We are living in an increasingly global and connected society with information creation increasing at exponential rates. The research sets out to help solve the problem of mitigating the effects of ...
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Individual and organisational learning and the ecology : factors that influence the direction of learning
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organisations are required to change their internal structures and configuration at a rapid rate as the external environment changes. The external environment comprises of a number of actors and agents ...
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Garbage and goals : toward a prescription for research that would lead to a technology of foolishness
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this thesis is to develop a framework for research that will lead to a “technology of foolishness”, à la James March (1972). This is done by a) analysing the nature and b) evaluating the ...
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Oor die veelduidigheid van tekste
(LitNet Academic, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: On the plurality of religious texts - Plurality in the interpretation of texts is not a new phenomenon. However, recent developments have made this phenomenon more prominent. With the focus on religious, ...
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Incongruence and enactment in information systems : a sensemaking analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the six decades since organisations rst adopted computer machinery to support their operations this form of technology has undergone rapid evolution. This evolution is characterised by both the ...
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