African Journal of Economic and Management Studies: Volume 1 Issue 2

Business strategies for achieving sustainable development in Africa: Introduction to the special issue

Robert Rugimbana

In this editorial the Guest Editor attempts to link the idea of sustainable development in Africa to the different contributions that have been made by papers written on varied…

Strategic human resource management practices: effect on performance

Beatrice Akong'o Dimba

Strategic human resource management (SHRM) practices are used by large foreign multinational companies to improve their performance. The purpose of this paper is to establish the…

Entrepreneurship training and poverty alleviation: Empowering the poor in the Eastern Free State of South Africa

S.N.‐A. Mensah, E. Benedict

The purpose of this paper is to determine the major long‐term role that hands‐on entrepreneurship training could play in poverty alleviation and job creation in one of the poorest…

Financial literacy and youth entrepreneurship in South Africa

Emmanuel Kojo Oseifuah

The purpose of this paper is to assess the level of financial literacy and impact on youth entrepreneurship in South Africa.

Modelling the time‐varying volatility of equities returns in Kenya

Morekwa Esman Nyamongo, Roseline Misati

The paper seeks to investigate the relationship between stock volatility and returns in the Nairobi Stock Exchange, Kenya. It uses daily returns data over the period January 2006…

HIV/AIDS in the workplace: a case study from higher education

Jill Von Der Marwitz, Tom Were‐Okello

This paper seeks to highlight the nature and possible effect of the South African higher education (HE) sector's human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome…

Gender buying behaviour: German tourists – informal craft markets

Reulene Küsel, Peter J. Ras

The purpose of this paper is to determine the gender buying patterns of German tourists travelling on coach tours while visiting South Africa.