Elroy Eugene Smith

• Nelson Mandela University

Shared Value (SV) has become a management concept and a strategy among corporations for gaining competitiveness and sustainability while solving societal problems. The purpose of this study is to establish whether demographics influence perceptions regarding SV and selected SV antecedents within the South African mining industry. After conducting a...

Purpose: The study investigated the perceptions of Shared Value (SV) and its antecedents and outcomes within the mining industry in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach: After conducting a literature overview of the South African mining industry and theories linked to SV, a hypothesised model of the study was developed. This study used a quan...

BACKGROUND: Mining has helped to shape South Africa to a greater extent than any other industry and accounts for a significant proportion of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), foreign exchange earnings and employment numbers. Despite mining being recognised as a 'sunset' industry plagued by rising costs, technical difficulties, political h...

This paper sets out to assess perceptions of food retailers regarding climate change, greenhouse gas emission and sustainability in the Nelson Mandela Bay region of South Africa. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the food retailers’ greenhouse gas emissions strategies. Climate change catastrophic potential and the harmful effec...

Objective - SMEs often fail to market their business and their green marketing initiatives effectively. This paper assesses how the promotion of green social media marketing could provide a possible solution to SMEs failed marketing efforts within the metropoles of Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Me...

Objective – Despite growing concerns for the natural environment and overall public health, waste levels in South Africa remain alarmingly high. A solution suggested to overcome this rising levels of waste is the practice of zero waste shopping. It should be acknowledged that people around the world currently lived through a global pandemic, forcin...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and its associated effects have been a debate in literature for many years (Hoffman, 2011:5; Williams & Schaefer, 2012:175; Whitmarsh, 2011:690). According to Jackson (2016), climate change is seen as a yearly change within the earth's climate that is a result of changes in its atmosphere, as well as interactions betwe...

The image of an enterprise in relation to the environment in which it operates is currently of increased importance (Liskova, Cudlinova, Partlova & Petr, 2016, p.64). An enterprise's brand image is a customer's perception of a brand and can help customers assemble information, discriminate brands, create positive feelings, and create a reason to pu...

In any modern society, waste is the ultimate symbol of inefficiency and represents a total misallocation of resources (Zaman and Lehmann 2013, 123). Waste generation is one of the greatest challenges facing society. By the year 2050, global waste will increase by 70% if action is not taken. According to Babayemi and Dauda (2009, 83), waste is defin...

Distributive justice is associated with the perceptions of an individual of the presence of equity and fairness in an organisation and how employees compare their expectations to the actual outcome. The primary objective of this article is to critically assess distributive justice within the South African financial services industry. A quantitative...

Employee engagement is widely-considered to be a powerful and useful tool to assist organisations achieve competitive advantage. This study investigates employee perceptions regarding the impact of engagement on organisational performance in the Eastern Cape Province. Organisations often fail to enhance long-term business success when they focus na...

Organisational justice has captured the interest of scholars in recent years since it is associated with the perceptions of an individual to the presence of fairness in an organisation. The primary objective of this study is to critically analyse organisational justice within the South African financial services industry. A quantitative research de...