Interest rates are a topical subject in the micro lending industry in South Africa. The micro lending industry has been accused of charging usurious interest and exploitating the consumers. This has led to the Department of Trade and Industry passing a Usury Act with an aim of protecting the...

Interest rates are a topical subject in the micro lending industry in South Africa. The micro lending industry has been accused of charging usurious interest and exploiting the consumers. This has led to the Department of Trade and Industry passing a Usury Act with an aim of protecting the...

In the game of rock-paper-scissors with three players, this paper identifies conditions for a correlated equilibrium that differs from the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium and is evolutionarily stable. For this to occur, the correlation device attaches more probability to three-way ties and...

Many countries plan to decarbonise their energy systems by increasing energy efficiency and expanding the use of renewable energy sources (RES). Such actions require significant investments in new energy infrastructures. While people are generally accepting of these infrastructures, opposition...

Institutional approaches to organization studies focus attention on the relationships among organizations and the fields in which they operate, highlighting in particular the role of rational formal structures in enabling and constraining organizational behaviour. A key contribution of...

The social-symbolic work perspective directs attention to the purposeful, reflexive efforts of organizational actors to shape or maintain parts of the social world, which are called social-symbolic objects. While this perspective shares much with other branches of strategy-as-practice research,...

In this chapter we:1. Discuss the cultural shifts that have made social-symbolic work increasingly common and important.2. Define and explain the concept of social-symbolic work.3. Present a process model of social-symbolic work useful in analyzing instances of work.4. Summarize the forms of...

Many countries plan to decarbonise their energy systems by increasing energy efficiency and expanding the use of renewable energy sources (RES). Such actions require significant investments in new energy infrastructures. While people are generally accepting of these infrastructures, opposition...