Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (MBus) -- AUT University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (iv, 71 leaves ; 30 cm.) in the Archive at the City Campus (T 332.1068 YUN)

Konstanz, Univ., Diss., 2000.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1987. / Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1963. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 362-364).

Thesis (MTech(Business Administration)--Cape Technikon, Cape Town, 2001 / During the last decade, commercial banking competition has intensified for a variety of reasons. With shareholders requirements to satisfY and, at the same time to provide ''value for money" to i!s clients, banks restructured themselves to serve niche market segments, increase critical mass by growing volume business or a combination of both. With the change in political dispensation, the urgency for banks to evolve intensified for the following prime reasons: I. The increased number offoreign banks ~ntering the South African market and cherry-picking the commercial banks' best clients and employees. This was facilitated by the foreign banks low cost of entry and low overhead cost structure coupled with cheaper availability of offshore funding for South African businesses. 2. Increased emigration rates reducin6 the availability ofskilled and trained bank employees. 3. The stagnation ofthe economic emironment resulting in low organic growth of the business client base from the traditional white o\\ned segment. 4. The largely neglected black business segment which became politically. if not economically. attractive to the local banks. Against this background. commercial ban:,s strategies changed involving restructuring the internal organisation to refocus the banking industr.. efforts in achieving its profit objectives. satisfYing and keeping its clients and attracting new clients. primarily, from the local competitor banks.

Grunig (1992:114) states that internal communication is so entwined with the process of organising and with organisational structure, environment, power and culture that many theorists of organisational communication argue that organisations would not exist without communication. Grunig (1992) goes further by saying that internal communication is the catalyst if not the key to organisational excellence and effectiveness. In this study an attempt was made to illustrate the link between the internal corporate communication programme of an organisation’s Chief Executive Officer and the commitment levels towards the same organisation of middle management employees. The Absa Group is used as a case study for the purposes of this dissertation. The problem that prompted this research has, therefore, been formulated as: Does the internal corporate communication programme of the Group Chief Executive of the Absa Group have any significance for the commitment levels of selected middle management employees in Gauteng towards the organisation? Theoretical statements were based on the theoretical orientation of the open systems theory from a subjectivist approach, the importance of internal corporate communication and the relationship between leadership and internal corporate communication and were formulated as: · From a systems theory perspective, organisations must exchange (import-transformexport) “energy” (products, information and materials) with their environments in order to survive (Dahnke & Clatterbuck, 1990:162). · Internal communication is the catalyst if not the key to organisational excellence and effectiveness (Grunig, 1992:114). · Effective leadership communication leads to employee commitment (Mayfield & Mayfield, 2002:89). The dissertation concludes with the postulation that there is a significant link between the internal corporate communication strategy and approach of the Absa Group Chief Executive and the commitment levels towards the organisation of selected middle management employees. / Prof. Gideon de Wet

The principle aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between business process management and business performance, and the effectiveness of business process management in South African banking industry. This study has been undertaken with the specific objectives of understanding the difference between business process reengineering and business process management, whether business process management can be successfully implemented in a retail banking environment and, if so, how to implement and apply business process management in a banking industry in order to achieve business success. Banks are seeking to improve operational efficiencies, meet customer demands more quickly, and leverage existing technology investments. Business process management has the potential to deliver the benefits of process efficiency throughout all stages of a business process and to all areas of the organisation. Business process management focuses on business practices and management disciplines as the underlying enablers of a process-centric organisation The exploratory study was conducted to identify the process performance and readiness of a bank to implement business process management. / Prof. S. Kruger

This thesis, entitled “An analysis of bank risk management and its relevance for the non-bank corporate sector”, investigates the extent to which financial risk management by the banking sector can be applied to the non-bank corporate sector. As banks’ risk management techniques are more sophisticated than those of the non-bank corporate sector we have endeavoured to ascertain the applicability of these established risk management methods to the non-bank corporate sector. The main objectives of this study were to analyse the banking sectors’ risks and management thereof, and compare them to the risks faced by the nonbank corporate sector. This analysis was then used to present a theoretical financial risk management model for the corporate sector. This analysis was conducted using qualitative research. The thesis engaged in an in-depth investigation of financial risk management through a documentary, literature and media analysis. It was elucidated that not all companies face the same financial risks and therefore each company requires its own unique financial risk management model. Furthermore, it was established that there are several risks that both banks and non-bank corporates are subjected to. However, the management of these risks is not necessarily the same for these two types of institutes. This thesis concludes by putting forward a financial risk management model which presents all the possible financial risks that non-bank corporates may face.

Thesis (M.M. (Finance & Investment))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, 2013. / The recent market turmoil caused by the subprime crisis highlighted the fact that an inappropriate liquidity risk management process may strongly affect the capacity of banks to maintain their financial equilibrium and economic performance under stress conditions. In addition, it has been observed that the most significant challenge facing banks when they are adopting new regulations such as Basel I, Basel II and now Basel III is the imminent threat of imbalances between the interests of the shareholders and those of the regulator (Chabanel, 2011). This thesis proposes a framework on liquidity risk management in the banking book that a bank may adopt so as to improve the way in it could manage the anticipated changes within tits regulatory environment.