The strategic implications of black empowerment policy in South Africa: a case study of boundary choice and client preferences in a small services firm

Boshoff, Willem H.

doi:10.4102/sajems.v15i2.54

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“…The B2B supplier preference constructs were developed and adapted from a number of authors, viz. : preference of suppliers' salespeople [128][129][130]; BEE status [29,[131][132][133][134]; service quality [82,87,135]; relationship with salespeople and management [119,136,137]; environmental sustainability [90,138,139]; culture, EE, and AA [33,34,97,109]; personal relationships and gifts [106,108,140,141]; and access to personnel and exceeding expectations [119,120,142]. Refer to Table 3 and Appendix A.…”

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Modeling a New Supplier Preference Paradigm: A Business-to-Business and African Developing Economy Context

Duffett

Wakeham

2022

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The recent COVID-19 pandemic, and subsequent invasion of Ukraine by Russia, has demonstrated to the world the volatile and fragile nature of global supply chains. Hence, this study is based on research gaps that propose new sustainable business-to-business (B2B) procurement/supplier models that consider different factors across industries and uses the triple bottom line (TBL) framework as the theoretical underpinning. The study used a quantitative methodological approach and convenience sampling to survey 445 organizations in a B2B procurement context in South Africa. The data were analyzed via structural equation modeling. The inquiry revealed that service quality was important to determine access to personnel and environmental sustainability, which had a favorable influence on personal relationships and gifts and, in turn, positively influenced relationships with salespeople and management. Culture, employment equity, and affirmative action positively affected Black Economic Empowerment status which had a favorable influence on the preference of suppliers’ salespeople. Several other positive associations were revealed, which resulted in a unique theoretical supplier preference contribution to the TBL framework. The study also provides organizations with a number of practical benefits stemming from the associations between the new sustainable B2B procurement/supplier constructs that are important as value-added business activities in an African developing economic context.

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Modeling a New Supplier Preference Paradigm: A Business-to-Business and African Developing Economy Context

Duffett

Wakeham

2022

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Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa: Challenges and Prospects

Shava

2017

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The purpose of this paper is to assess if the Black Economic Empowerment act has brought new economic horizons for the historically disadvantaged South Africans, or it has contributed to further impoverishmentof the lower classes in communities. The paper based its argument on an extensive literature review which envisaged that, despite many years of its implementation, BEE has caused the emergence of classes resulting fromfraud and corruption, fronting, difficulties in registering status, political interference, and poor accountability strategies. The paper interrogates the implementation strategies of BEE in the local government context to assess whether historical imbalances have been addressed or not. The paper concludes that the government needs to revisit BEE as an economic empowerment policy to see whether it has benefited the black majority or not. The paper reiterates further that, BEE as a black economic emancipation blueprint requires proper implementation and alignment with other economic policies such as the National Development Plan to accelerate economic opportunities for the black majority. The paper recommends the government of South Africa through local municipalities to exercise monitoring and evaluation in the BEE procurement systems are prerequisites in safeguarding the manipulation and corrupt tendencies arising from the awarding of tenders in the local government.Key words: Black Economic Empowerment, South Africa, Challenges, Prospects

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Institutions, organizations and markets for inclusive growth

Corbishley¹

2016

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The strategic implications of black empowerment policy in South Africa: a case study of boundary choice and client preferences in a small services firm

Cited by 4 publications

References 44 publications

Modeling a New Supplier Preference Paradigm: A Business-to-Business and African Developing Economy Context

Modeling a New Supplier Preference Paradigm: A Business-to-Business and African Developing Economy Context

Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa: Challenges and Prospects

Institutions, organizations and markets for inclusive growth

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