Evaluating the Management, Measurement and Prediction of Business Competitiveness

A company is a complex system that operates within an even more complex ecosystem. For companies to survive and grow, they must remain competitive. To achieve this, companies should understand how they influence and are influenced by the ecosystem. In his thesis, Evaluating the management, measurement and prediction of business competitiveness, it is proposed that multiple correlation tests are used to identify quantifiable predictors of financial competitiveness for companies. To test this proposition, two case studies were performed. The first on Sawmilling companies in South Africa and the second on companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The multiple correlation tests illustrated that it is possible to identify quantifiable predictors of financial competitiveness. These predictors in combination with decision-making techniques can be utilised to predict the financial competitiveness of a company or group of companies.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Pretoria

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Visser, J.K. (Jacobus)

• UCTD
• Engineering Management
• Strategic Management
• Operations Management
• Financial Management

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• © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.

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en

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S2019

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oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/70707