Budgeting in small manufacturing firms in South Africa

Stickiness in Small Manufacturing Firms

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Civic Participation in Sub-national Budgeting in South Africa

Information Systems Competences in Small Manufacturing Firms

This paper focuses on information systems (IS) competences in small firms. The paper draws on prior IS research that has used resource-based theory. The literature was used to identify many types of IS resources and competences, predominantly based on research in large firms. The paper reports evidence gained from interviews within nine small manufacturing firms using the Peppard & Ward (2004) ...

Skills, investment and exports from manufacturing firms in Africa*

It has been argued that Africa will not be able to export manufactures as it lacks the necessary skills. Without an ability to export there will only be an incentive to invest in the sector if domestic demand grows rapidly. Comparative data for four African countries the Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe shows that in the early 1990s investment in manufacturing remained very low. The micro ev...

Exporting from manufacturing firms in Sub-Saharan Africa:

The poor performance of many African economies has been associated with low growth of exports in general and of manufacturing exports in particular. In this paper we draw on micro evidence of manufacturing firms in five African countries Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa and Nigeria to investigate the causes of poor exporting performance. We exploit a data set which has a much longer panel d...