African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4188

Table of Content: 28 February, 2014; 8(4)

February 2014

The effectiveness of knowledge sharing on projects: How companies prosper by what they know

The topic focuses specifically on knowledge sharing on project team, specifically around project teams in the Information Systems (IS) sector. The paper review show knowledge sharing can be effective on IS projects, up to the point where the software is used by the business. A survey was conducted with participants who were actively involved in project teams. The focus was on key role-players, such as Project Managers,...

Author(s): Visvanathan Naicker and Hishaam Benjamin

February 2014

A simulation method for Material requirement planning supply dependent demand and uncertainty lead-time

Materials requirements planning (MRP) is a widely used method for production planning and scheduling. Planned lead-time (PLT) and lot size are two of the input parameters for MRP systems, which determine planned order release dates. In this paper deals with material requirement planning for a three levels production and assembly system with several types of components and one type of final product, in multi periods. In...

Author(s): Haibatolah Sadeghi, Ahmad Makui and Mehdi Heydari

February 2014

The effects of TMT interaction on enterprise performance from the perspective of enterprise culture

The relationship between enterprise culture and enterprise performance and the relationship between top management team (TMT) and enterprise performance have been the hot topics which academy and business circles focused on since Pettigrew put forward the "organizational culture"; Hambrick and Mason proposed the "upper echelons theory". However, previous studies on the relationship between enterprise...

Author(s): Xi Huai Liu, Yu Hui GE and QianNan Wang