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Accelerating resistance breeding in wheat by integrating marker-assisted selection and doubled haploid technology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Elsabet Wessels --- Department of Genetics, South Africa Willem C Botes --- Department of Genetics, South AfricaGenetic resistance is the simplest and most cost-effective way to guard against disease in plants. The pyramiding of resistance genes is a useful practice in bringing about durable resistance. This study aimed to develop a series of doubled haploid (DH)... -
Frugality, Grassroots and Inclusiveness: New Challenges for Mainstream Innovation Theories
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Mario Pansera --- University of Exeter Business School, UKIntriguing and provocative concepts such as frugal innovation, Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) innovation, empathetic innovation and inclusive innovation are attracting the attention of many scholars in emerging countries as well as raising concern in Western countries. These notions are... -
The Mobile Phone as the Tool to Redefine Savings for the Poor: Evidence from Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Tonny K. Omwansa --- School of Computing and informatics, Kenya Timothy M. Waema --- School of Computing and Informatics, Kenya Charlene Chen --- KickStart, Kenya Nicholas P. Sullivan --- The Fletcher School's Center for Emerging Market Enterprises, USAResearch conducted on the poor and their finances indicate that there is a need to develop financial instruments that specifically fit their needs. However, banks have not been able to provide such services, because the returns do not justify the... -
Agency theory, insider ownership and corporate focus: some South African evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: S Davidson --- Department of Economics and Finance, AustraliaIt is widely believed that unbundling will immediately add value to shareholders. This paper investigates the basis for this belief. It is contended that the benefits of unbundling are not based on the US experience of corporate refocussing. In the... -
The Discount to Net Asset Value, Unbundling and Shareholder Interests
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: G.D.I. Barr --- School of Economics University of Cape Town, B.S. Kantor --- School of Economics University of Cape Town,The argument has recently been made by powerful political voices that the large South African corporate conglomerates (or groups) should be broken up into their constituents or “unbundled”, as the process has become known in South Africa. Critics of these... -
Household Enterprise in Base-of-the-Pyramid Markets: the Influence of Institutions and Family Embeddedness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Justin W. Webb --- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Christopher G. Pryor --- High Point University, USA Franz W. Kellermanns --- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USANearly half of the population in Africa lives on less than $1.25 per day in what scholars refer to as base-of-the-pyramid (BOP) markets. More broadly, BOP markets account for two billion of the world's population living in extreme poverty. Household... -
Challenging the bottom-of-the-pyramid narrative in Africa: A cross-cultural management perspective on the impact of mobile money
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Terence Jackson --- Middlesex University, UK Ellis L.C. Osabutey --- Northumbria University, UKThe “bottom-of-the-pyramid” (BoP) narrative underpins the introduction of fintech initiatives such as mobile money into Africa’s largely informal economies by multinational enterprises (MNEs) often endorsed by the international development community. This is claimed to enhance financial inclusion and enterprise development...