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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"incentive schemes"”.
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Employee share incentive schemes : an integrated approach
… examined in this thesis is how employee share incentive schemes are taxed in the hands of employers and employees. This involved an analysis of the new section 8B and 8C of the Income Tax Act ("the Act") as well as the old section 8A. Sections 10, 1 1 (a), 56 and the Fourth, Seventh and Eighth …
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Incentive schemes in the financial industry. An experimental approach
… source of instability could be identified in the incentive schemes of the financial professionals. Yet, it is not clear whether the higher risk is due to the structure of the incentive scheme in itself or whether it emerges as strategic pricing by asset managers in order to deal with a more …
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Financing the "Valley of Death" : an evaluation of incentive schemes for global health businesses
Many early-stage biotech companies face a significant funding gap when trying to develop a new drug from preclinical development to a proof of concept clinical trial. This funding gap is sometimes referred to as the "valley of death", a reflection of the vast number of companies that are unable to …
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An investigation into recent developments in employee incentive schemes used by companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… has been used as a tool to align the incentives of company executives and employees with those' of the company shareholders. For instance globally, during the 1990's, there was an explosion in the issuance of employee stock options. This served several purposes, namely - to motivate …
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Barriers to energy-efficiency implementation: a study of the uptake of energy-efficiency initiatives offered through incentive schemes in South Africa
… recently participated in a fully funded local incentive scheme called the Private Sector Energy Efficiency Programme (PSEE). The PSEE performed an energy audit on each company, followed up by a report on its findings. The report clearly outlined the company's key energy-savings opportunities, …
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Anti-avoidance, amendments and anomalies: The impact of select anti-avoidance provisions and their subsequent amendments on employee share incentive schemes operating through trusts
Employee share incentive schemes have become a common phenomenon in companies world-wide and are an established method of allowing the employee to hold equity in the company which in turn allows the employee to personally benefit from the growth and profitability of the company. In light of the …
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Redistribution and sustainability : competing imperatives in the South African hake fishery
… then discusses the institutional structure and incentive schemes in the fishery and evaluates the economic, social, and environmental impacts of quota redistribution.
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Essays on economic theory
The first chapter considers team incentive schemes that are robust to nonquantifiable uncertainty about the game played by the agents. A principal designs a contract for a team of agents, each taking an unobservable action that jointly determine a stochastic contractible outcome. The game is common …
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An evaluation of the policy on incentives: to what extent do incentives enhance the policy objectives of South Africa?
… This research paper evaluates the usefulness of incentives in driving the investment policy direction of South Africa, the role of stakeholders involved in incentive schemes, and the impact on the tax base. It contributes to the assessment of the usefulness of incentives in enabling the …
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The taxation of income and expenditure of trusts in South Africa
… to create employee share purchase and management incentive schemes. Parents set up trusts to preserve funds for their children, others to support a religious or social cause. For decades the trust has been a key tool in estate planning for wealthier individuals and for a very long time trusts have …
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Do Self-Help Groups Work on Achieving Economic Goals? New Evidence from a Field Experiment in Medellin, Colombia
… promotes self-improvement through setting goals, incentive schemes, and self-help groups (SHGs). The results suggest that the FII model can be successfully implemented as a poverty alleviation policy in a developing country. The model does have a positive and significant effect on debt reduction, …
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The changing landscape of long-term share-based compensation in South Africa: an investigation into recent developments in employee incentive used by companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… has been used as a tool to align the incentives of company executives and employees with those of the company shareholders. For instance globally, during the 1990's, there was and explosion in the issuance of employee stock options. This served several purposes, namely - to motivate …
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Outsourcing transportation infrastructure maintenance : a theoretical approach with application to JR East
… and highway agencies, fixed-price contract with incentive schemes turn out to be mainly utilized. Evaluating maintenance contractor's performance by several comprehensive performance metrics is also a useful tool to manage and control the contractor's performance, which is linked to reward or …
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Conservation of private land by means of compensatory mechanisms and incentives
This report reviews the potential of financial incentives and compensatory mechanisms for achieving conservation goals on privately owned land in South Africa. Legal concepts, such as the notion of absolute ownership of property, are examined in the context of South Africa's historical and …
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Efficient User Incentives in Extreme Edge Sensing: A New Learning-Based Scheme
… (QoD) and coverage, as well as on developing incentive schemes to optimize performance. In this thesis, we assess the impact of users' mobility and availability on the spatiotemporal coverage and QoD of EES systems, considering the heterogeneity of users. We propose a distribution-aware and …
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Essays on incentives for innovation
… independent essays that examine the role of incentives for innovation in organizations. Chapter 2 studies the provision of incentives when workers explore new work methods in parallel. In such a setting under-exploration may result as workers attempt to free-ride on the new ideas of …
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Financial incentives for health-behaviour change: assessing behavioural and cognitive consequences
Offering individuals financial incentives for changing their health-related behaviour is one possible strategy for improving health and reducing morbidity and premature mortality. However, several important aspects of the behavioural and cognitive consequences of this type of intervention remain …
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Effective motivation of Coloured labour in the construction industry of the Cape Peninsula
… be in a more favourable position to introduce incentive - schemes and to create conditions at work that will improve the present level of motivation of their Coloured employees.
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New approaches to idea generation and consumer input in the product development process
… 1 examines whether carefully tailored ideation incentives can improve creative output. The influence of incentives on idea generation is studied using a formal model of the ideation process. A practical, web-based, asynchronous "ideation game" is developed, allowing the implementation and test …
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