scholarly journals The relationship between resilience and organisational control systems in the South African aviation industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estie Serfontein ◽  
Krishna K. Govender
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
South African ◽  
Technical System ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
The South ◽  
Company Culture ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Organisational control systems, such as quality assurance and corporate governance, configure an organisation’s internal environment to manage the velocity of change and pro-actively stabilise disturbances. Resilience in a socio-technical system is a multi-disciplinary approach to instil a system’s transformability and adaptive capacity to achieve desirable outcomes and continuous improvement. This study confirms theoretical postulations that detachment between the disciplines of quality assurance and corporate governance reduces resilience in a socio-technical system. Coherence between these disciplines in a complex socio-technical system is achieved through four components of organisational resilience: strategic management and company culture, monitoring and awareness, exposure management and responsive adaptation.Objectives: This study aimed to explore stakeholders’ perceptions of the relationship between the components of organisational resilience and organisational control systems in the South African aviation industry.Method: A cross-sectional survey was used to collect data from 203 stakeholders in the South African aviation industry. The data set was subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analyses.Results: A strong positive linear relationship exists between organisational control systems and organisational resilience and its four components: Strategic management and company culture, Monitoring and awareness, Exposure management and Responsive adaptation.Conclusion: This study revealed that a harmonised application of organisational control systems, such as quality assurance and corporate governance, stimulates organisational resilience in a socio-technical system through the autonomous advancement of four components of organisational resilience. Furthermore, the robustness of organisational control systems activates an organisation’s capacity to adapt sustainably, whilst maintaining stakeholder value within complex socio-technical systems, such as the aviation industry.

scholarly journals Embedded Resilience Properties Identified in Quality Assurance and Corporate Governance in the South African Aviation Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-100
Author(s):  
Estie Serfontein ◽  
Krishna Govender
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
South African ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
The South ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Methodological Principles

This study aimed to identify embedded drivers of organisational resilience through examination of stakeholders’ perceptions of the interaction between quality assurance and corporate governance in the South African aviation industry. The study followed the methodological principles of qualitative content analysis to collect and analyse data from semi-structured interviews conducted among a convenience sample of 26 stakeholders to the South African aviation industry. A fragmented relationship between quality assurance and corporate governance in the South African aviation industry was identified. Dissonance between quality assurance and corporate governance reduces an organisation’s ability to remain resilient. Principles and practices associated with quality assurance and corporate governance stimulate underlying resilience. The study provided a framework promoting organisational resilience derived from participants’ perceptions on quality assurance and corporate governance principles in the South African aviation industry. This contribution harmonised multiple disciplines of existing management systems into a practical and synergised unit to simultaneously overcome fragmented cooperation between quality assurance and corporate governance and stimulate resilience. As the aviation industry provides a service to the public and serves as a platform for economic development of other industries, the insight associated with this study transcends the aviation industry itself.

ÖRGÜTLERDE ÖRGÜTSEL BOLLUĞUN GİRİŞİMSEL ORYANTASYON ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurdan Gürkan ◽  
Ahmet Ferda Çakmak
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Organizational Slack ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
The Relationship

The concept of entrepreneurial orientation, which emerges with the development of strategic management, refers to entrepreneurship orientations of businesses. The businesses need resources in other words organizational slack in order to develop their entrepreneurial trends. The organizational slack consists of three slack type. These slack types are available slack, recoverable slack and potential slack. The purpose of this study is to examine whether organizational slack in the businesses has an effect on entrepreneurial orientation. The relationship between organizational slack and entrepreneurial orientation was investigated through 20 companies that were traded in Borsa Istanbul Corporate Governance Index for 2010-2014 period using panel data analysis method. The results of the study indicate the existence of a statistically significant relationship between and the available slack and the recoverable slack with the entrepreneurial orientation in the businesses. According to findings; there was no statistically significant relationship between potential slack and entrepreneurial orientation.

Unraveling the South African Breast Cancer Story: The Relationship of Patients, Delay to Diagnosis, and Tumor Biology With Stage at Presentation in an Urban Setting

2019 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Sarah Rayne ◽  
Kathryn Schnippel ◽  
Surbhi Grover ◽  
Kirstin Fearnhead ◽  
Deirdre Kruger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
South African ◽  
Tumor Biology ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
The South ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Probing strategy-project alignment: The case of the South African Social Security Agency

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit Van Der Waldt
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
South African ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
The South ◽  
Project Failures ◽  
Organisation Management ◽  
Social Security Agency

Public institutions, such as the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) increasingly function in multi-project environments to translate strategies successfully into service-delivery initiatives. However, this ‘projectification’ often causes projects to be designed and executed haphazardly. This can lead to budget and schedule overruns, and the general wastage of an organisation’s resources. Project failures often occur where organisations do not ensure that specific projects are aligned with their core strategies. The purpose of this article is to combine the theories and principles of organisation, management, strategic management, and project management in an effort to pinpoint core determinants that can help establish the extent to which an organisation manages the alignment of its strategic projects. In the present study, the author applied the principles of interdisciplinarity, systems thinking, and organisational integration. The combined core determinants that were uncovered were then used in an empirical investigation of SASSA. The purpose of this investigation is to identify particular challenges the organisation faces in aligning their strategies and projects successfully. Thereafter, a number of recommendations follow to address these challenges.

scholarly journals The corporate uses of debt

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 90-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinclair Davidson ◽  
Laurence Rapp
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
South African ◽  
Agency Problem ◽  
The South ◽  
Corporate Environment ◽  
Present Evidence

In this article we consider the use of debt by South African firms. There are two possible uses of debt: firstly, it is a method of raising finance and secondly, a method of corporate governance. Within the South African corporate environment it is not clear whether firms would use debt for both or either of these purposes. We are unable to find evidence in favour of Modigliani and Miller's proposition one or proposition two. It appears that firms do not use debt for corporate governance purposes and we present evidence that there could be an agency problem inherent within the structure of South African business.

scholarly journals Community structure and centrality effects in the South African company network

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Durbach ◽  
D Katshunga ◽  
H. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Social Network ◽  
South African ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
The South ◽  
Market Capitalization ◽  
Johannesburg Stock Exchange ◽  
The Relationship

This paper conducts a search for community structure in the South African company network, a social network whose elements are South African companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Companies are connected in this network if they share one or more directors on their respective boards. Discovered clusters, called communities, can be considered to be compartments of the network working relatively independently of one another, making their distribution and composition of some interest. We test whether the discovered communities of companies are (a) statistically significant, and (b) related to other attributes such as sector membership or market capitalization. We also investigate the relationship between the centrality of a company’s position in the network and its market capitalization.

(Post)Colonial Culture and the South African Legal System: Understanding the Relationship between Living Customary Law and State Law

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sindiso Mnisi
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
State Law ◽  
The South ◽  
Value System ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Culture ◽  
Law Of Succession ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper traces the relationship between state law and indigenous systems in South Africa from its incipience, and argues that living customary law has been systematically ignored or inaccurately applied. In it, I advocate a paradigm shift as being fundamental to developing the theories, methods and standards adopted in consideration of customary law. I use the law of succession as a vehicle for displaying the clash of state and customary law and, herewith, expound the process by which this tension came about. In conclusion, I argue that a paradigm shift allowing for customary law to be understood within its own functioning and value system, rather than in a manner imposing western notions of society, culture and progress is necessary. This will enable the reunion of the South African legal order and reincorporation of customary communities into the national project.

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