Faculty of Business Management Sciences and Economics: Recent submissions
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The impact of mining activities on local people and environment: A case study of Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation operations in Chiadzwa, Marange
(2018-10)Mining is indispensable to the economic development of countries endowed with mineral resources. At the same time the effects the mining activities on the local people and the environment have also been wide spread in ... -
Dimensions influencing the performance of District Health Executives (DHES) in Mashonaland East Province
(2018-10)The District Health Executives are performing their work below expectation. The objectives of the study were to: find out the role of supervision on the work performance of DHEs; establish the influence of management ... -
An analysis of the benefits of employee engagement on organisational performance: A case for companies in the commercial sector in Harare
(, 2018-10)In a challenging economic environment coupled with globalisation and increasing competitive market forces, organisations are looking for critical strategies to get ahead. The challenge for managers is offering something ... -
An evaluation of the effectiveness of adopting Corporate Social Responsibility as a business strategy to gain competitive advantage amongst Commercial Banks in Zimbabwe
(2018-10)Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a hot topic in today’s business with varied and broad definition. Various CSR theories have been used to explain the concept as a strategic tool to gain competitive advantage ... -
An investigation of the effectiveness of donor funded micro finance programming in Zimbabwe
(, 2018-10-29)The study sought to investigate the effectiveness of donor funded micro finance programming implemented in Zimbabwe as an economic development tool to reduce poverty. An assessment of the effectiveness of microfinance ... -
Strategic planning practices: The antecedents and business perfomance outcomes in Zimbabwean Small to Medium Enterprises (SMES)
(2018-10)Despite Zimbabwe sharing with the rest of the world, the notion that SMEs are the impeccable engines to economic revival, growth and development, many of the nation`s SMEs are plagued with high failure rates, a phenomenon ... -
An investigation into strategies for transforming Dairibord Zimbabwe Pvt. Ltd. (DZPL) ice cream sticks production section into a lean six sigma profitable enterprise after a partial initial trial
(2018-10-29)The purpose of this research was determine the strategies that could be adopted to implement Lean Six Sigma at Dairibord Zimbabwe (DZPL) in the Ice cream sticks section. The research also sought to assess the initial trial ... -
A critical evaluation of SAP healthcare industry solution implementation as a source of competitive advantage: A case study of Chitungwiza General Hospital
(2018-05)Globally, SAP systems solutions are increasingly playing an important role transforming business processes. More important hospitals with their complex and varied operations have turned to the use of these enterprise ... -
Strategies for gaining and sustaining property management mandates in Zimbabwe's real estate industry
(, 2018)Real estate agents firms in Zimbabwe like Knight Frank Zimbabwe are losing property management mandates to subsidiary property investors’ in-house management teams, contrary to the trend worldwide, were most corporates ... -
Internal control processes and risk reduction in Harare's retail SMEs
(2016)Progressively in the past few years, there has been a problem of high Small to Medium Enterprise (SMEs) failure rate. Much of the studies conducted have put forth much effort on availability, accessibility and cost ... -
University of Zimbabwe Business Review Vol 3; issue 1/2
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University of Zimbabwe Business Review Vol 2; issue 2
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University of Zimbabwe Business Review Vol 2; issue 1
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University of Zimbabwe Business Review Vol 1; issue 1
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University of Zimbabwe Business Review Vol 4; issue 1
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University of Zimbabwe Business Review, Vol 4; Issue 2
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Community capacity building, tourism and environmental conservation: The case of the Honde Valley Bamboo Crafts Project, Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Commerce, 2016-12)Production of bamboo baskets for the Zimbabwean mass market resulted in the depletion of the bamboo grass which threatened the livelihoods of the Honde Valley community who derived their income from selling bamboo crafts. ... -
Challenges in the role of the travel agent in tourism in Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Commerce, 2015)Travel agents are key elements in the distribution chain of the travel products. However, changes in characteristics of the consumer, growth of use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and the popularity of the ... -
Investigating factors influencing the performance of the Office of the Auditor General in Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Commerce, 2016-12)The Office of the Auditor General’s (the OAG’s) primary mandate is to audit and ensure the best practices of financial management among public sector entities. However, despite this mandate being driven by the national ... -
Turnaround strategies for distressed Zimbabwean companies operating under judicial management
(University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Commerce, 2016-12)Many Zimbabwean companies facing financial distress and having gone under judicial management, which is supposed to be recuperative, have failed to recover. Studies indicate that more than 80% of companies under judicial ...
