The purpose of this study was to examine the variables impacting on whistle-blowing intentions in the public services of two developing countries, South Africa and Mauritius. In particular, this study considers the barriers to whistle-blowing and the effect of demographic and cultural values on the perceptions of these barriers. The study finds major differences between South Africa and Mauritius with minor differences in regard to gender and education.
Food security is a major concern for different countries across the world including Africa. Factors such as climate change, droughts and frequent floods, diversion of food products for production of bio fuels, piracy, and increasing demand for food products from emerging countries have led to sharp increases in the prices of food products. Many countries have been adversely affected by the increase in their food bills and they also have to face scarcity of food products due to their inability to pay. It has made people in different countries become more conscious about the importance of increasing food security within their own countries since they will not be able to influence all the factors responsible for this growing problem. Mauritius is a net food importing country due to its small size and its inability to benefit from economies of scale. It faces sharp increases in food prices and the risk of periodic scarcity of some essential commodities. In order to deal with this threat, the government has taken a lot of measures since several years. This paper has analyzed the different factors responsible for growing concern for food security in the country, the different policies adapted by the government, and the strengths and weaknesses of these strategies. Both secondary and primary data have been collected. A survey was carried out among 307 respondents in Mauritius through electronic mail to investigate different aspects of government policies and personal initiatives regarding food security. Recommendations have been proposed in order to improve the current practices. This will enable government officials of other countries to benchmark and learn from the success and failures of Mauritius in terms of food security policies.
Management development is vital for ensuring the competitiveness of an organization. However, few studies have been carried out to understand the actual process of developing managers within the hotel sector in Mauritius. The purpose of this paper is to understand the way in which management development is being done within the Mauritian hotel sector. A grounded theory approach was used since little research has been carried out on this aspect in Mauritius. In this context, 27 designers (human resource and training managers) from Mauritian hotels were interviewed to get relevant information on the management development process. The research enables to come up with a new conceptual framework on the management development process based on the views of designers. The conceptual framework helps to understand the actual process of management development within the Mauritian context.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) operate in an environment where their existence are impacted by information technology – an attribute of Society 5.0, adoption of technologies and resource scarcity. As a key contributor to countries’ economy, SMEs need to innovate, create social businesses, and develop new business models to stand the test of time. Hence, SMEs must focus on key aspects that will empower them to leap- frog the traditional pathways of development and innovate. The purpose of this study is to present SMEs with a disruptive innovation key factor checklist based on an investigation of key disruptive innovation factors from the literature. The disruptive innovation key factor checklist was developed by analyzing a corpus of 137 papers through an automated content analysis process. Ten themes and 38 concepts were identified that informed the categorization to the Technology-Organization-Environment framework and the creation of the disruptive innovation key factor checklist. To create an instantiation of the checklist, we mapped the key factors checklist to an SME case study. By considering the checklist, SMEs are guided to optimize their innovation strategy, stakeholder engagement, technology adoption and innovation impact.
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