M. Tech. Entrepreneurship / The world is experiencing remarkable social, political, economic and entrepreneurial changes and challenges. Some of these challenges relate to the incorporation of various social cultures to the business culture. Managers, businessmen and entrepreneurs need to reconcile the various cultural dimensions to survive in a highly competitive global market environment. When doing business with people it is important to understand what defines them and most people are defined by their social culture and tradition. Culture is therefore an important aspect in understanding how we all interact in our social and business lives. Culture creates the rules for social interaction that conditions how people will react to others within the business environment and that form of interaction occurs according to rules (norms) and values embedded in our various cultures. The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence of the Ubuntu philosophy and its practice on the functionality of family businesses.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001531 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Timana, Lovely. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
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