As background to this study, organisational leadership has faced scrutiny due to ethical failures, governance crises, and global challenges, highlighting the limitations of models focused on short-term gains, specifically over the past two decades. This study, as a systematic literature review,...

Product counterfeiting is a serious, global problem that is increasingly attracting the attention of academics, businesses, brand protection practitioners, law enforcement, and transnational organisations. Previous research found that consumers' confusion over the definition of the "counterfeit"...

This paper focuses on the macroeconomic implications and the critique of a too narrowly defined category of economic competitiveness. Typically, the short-, medium-, or long-term goals that are to be achieved through competitiveness are not further addressed, let alone potentially conflicts of...

This research was conducted by Coaches and Mentors of South Africa's (COMENSA) Research Portfolio Committee (RPC) on behalf of the COMENSA board and the COMENSA Supervision Portfolio Committee (SPC). The purpose was to investigate how international and relevant literature defines supervision and...

Blockchain was introduced in 2008, yet it remains poorly defined over a decade later. Despite the lack of a universally accepted definition, its utility continues to be widely advocated. However, a function or feature can only be classified as a technology if it addresses a specific human...