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Strategic response of private healthcare funders in South Africa to global climate change
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/26045 Strategic response of private healthcare funders in South Africa to global climate change Z Ismael ichelp@gibs.co.za Sery, Roy Aharon UCTD Private healthcare funders Corporate strategy theory Corporate response models Global climate change Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Climate change is an environmental issue that has actual or potential strategic impacts on many companies. The research problem emanates from the scientific work on climate change and the vast health effects that would pose as implications within the healthcare industry. The aim of the research was to explore the strategic response of private healthcare funders in South Africa to global climate change. By means of a case-study based research design, the stimuli for strategic response, risks and opportunities related to global climate change and strategy and an overall strategic organisational posture under the RDAP continuum scale framework had evolved. Evidence from the results and analysis brings light to the fact that global climate change as a strategic concern to private healthcare funders remains a point of scepticism. Although some of the organisations from the sample have considered climate change as a strategic concern, there are others that do not. The study showed that global climate change continues to remain an issue of complexity and uncertainty in the external business environment such that strategy formulation and implementation and acting proactively on the matter remains complicated. Copyright Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-07T02:10:51Z 2011-07-04 2013-09-07T02:10:51Z 2010-11-10 2010 2011-07-03 Dissertation Sery, RA 2010, Strategic response of private healthcare funders in South Africa to global climate change, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26045 > F11/504/hj http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26045 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07032011-133041/ © 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretori application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Private healthcare funders Corporate strategy theory Corporate response models Global climate change Strategic response of private healthcare funders in South Africa to global climate change |
| title | Strategic response of private healthcare funders in South Africa to global climate change |
| title_full | Strategic response of private healthcare funders in South Africa to global climate change |
| title_fullStr | Strategic response of private healthcare funders in South Africa to global climate change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategic response of private healthcare funders in South Africa to global climate change |
| title_short | Strategic response of private healthcare funders in South Africa to global climate change |
| title_sort | strategic response of private healthcare funders in south africa to global climate change |
| topic | UCTD Private healthcare funders Corporate strategy theory Corporate response models Global climate change |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26045 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07032011-133041/ |