- Title
- Developing a long-term strategy for a selected small transport entrepreneur
- Creator
- Burgins, David Christopher
- Subject
- Transportation -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- Planning
- Subject
- Transportation and state -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Transportation -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- Finance
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MBA
- Identifier
- vital:8714
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/929
- Identifier
- Transportation -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- Planning
- Identifier
- Transportation and state -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Identifier
- Transportation -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- Finance
- Description
- South Africa, recognised as a developing economy, is encouraging its citizens to be entrepreneurs through various initiatives and assistance, with a bias towards the previously disadvantage people. This encouragement, from the government, has been taken advantage of by numerous citizens to the detriment of themselves, especially in the transport industry. Kazderich Pro Trans, a small transport entrepreneur, has founded itself based on the notion that businesses will utilize its services frequently based on the preferential treatment, to previously disadvantaged communities. The stakeholders in the transport industry, however is firstly geared towards maintaining their market share in a fiercely competitive industry with arguably an introspective view of the preferential treatment governmental policies. The purpose of this is to research the transport industry and accurately identify the environment the transport businesses operate in, with a view of analysing competencies that attract and retain business. This paper negates the government policy to a minor external environmental factor and argues that the company (Kazderich Pro Trans) should operate on the same principals as its competitors in the transport industry. The important issue being discussed in this research, the long term strategy, is to make small transport entrepreneurs realise that researching and planning their business are more important than starting it. The attraction and retention of clients is the basis of a successful transport business and the analyses of the questionnaire employed are used as guidance in developing the long term strategy.
- Format
- ix, 84 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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