International Winelands Conference

A practice orientation to leadership in public organizations, (for elected and appointed officials), disrupts the servant leadership orientation. This paper explores what happens when scholars and practitioners shift the focus from individual leaders to exploring the role practice and process has in enabling conditions more aligned with advancing institutional trust and good governance. A focus on centering the “leader” in a public Read More

The post-state capture and post-pandemic era have proven that South Africans are resilient people, have the ability to fight against corruption and overcome the effects of a deadly disease like the Covid-19 corona virus on their individual and communal lives. President Ramaphosa stated in his recent addresses that the resilience embedded in our South African nation is what we are known for. Looking through the lens of multi-s Read More

Governance and ethics within corporate and public sector institutions in South Africa is receiving increased attention and has become contemporary within the realm of academic discourse and research due to the prevailing unethical behaviour and non-compliance with governance principles within these institutions. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are not excluded from this phenomenon and serve as the locus fo Read More

Purpose: This study analyses how weather shocks influence agricultural entrepreneurs’ risk perception and how they manage these risks. It explores what risks agricultural entrepreneurs perceive as important, and how they face climate change and related weather shock risks compared to the multiple risks of the enterprise. Design/methodology: This paper uses qualitative data from several sources: eight semi-structured Read More

To deal with the financial dysfunction of municipalities – and indeed the outright fraud and corruption, responses from national government regulators over the last two decades have included increasing the intensity and scope of audits (e.g. in high risk areas such as supply chain management), proliferation of oversight structures (such as audit committees and Municipal Accounts Committees) with independent sp Read More

The enactment of the new Constitution of Zimbabwe in 2013 opened avenues for local government accountability. However, a decade has passed since the enactment of the Constitution of Zimbabwe but little headway toward achieving accountability at the local government level has been achieved. The main objective of the study is to identify gaps in vertical, horizontal, and downward accountability in local government in Read More

The purpose of this study is to describe the potential successful revenue models for preventive health care and thus identify barriers that hinder collaboration among stakeholders. As such, this paper aims to contribute to designing revenue models for preventive health care by taking a financial perspective. Moreover, by using game theory as an analytical framework for cooperation, this paper aims to contribute to the li Read More

The post-apartheid regime in South Africa confronted diverse challenges in a bid to ensure improved service delivery in local government administration. Government created policies and regulations geared toward good governance, accountability, and transparency in public governance for the purpose of ensuring redistribution of wealth and opportunity, exhibiting professionalism in delivery of service, and in Read More