Corporate governance implementation at Sol Plaatje University
| dc.contributor.advisor | Crous, Cornelie | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Merahe, Gobonamang | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-03T10:52:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-03T10:52:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | en_ZA |
| dc.description | Dissertation (MBA (Business Administration))--University of the Free State, 2024 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | South African universities derive their funding from limited government grants. Owing to the limited funding available to universities, there is an increased requirement from stakeholders for universities to be transparent and efficiently use public resources. Thus, there is pressure on universities to develop good governance. Corporate Governance has become a severe challenge amongst South African universities. This challenge is demonstrated by the numerous universities investigated or under administration over the years. This study evaluates the current Corporate Governance practices at Sol Plaatje University (SPU) to prevent similar Corporate Governance challenges from arising in the future at the institution. Otherwise, it may experience similar Corporate Governance challenges that led to the collapse of some higher education institutions in South Africa. Therefore, the primary objective of this study is to evaluate the implementation of Corporate Governance disclosure principles at SPU from 2013 to 2022 to determine the application of Corporate Governance practices regarding disclosure. Furthermore, this study is guided by two secondary objectives: (a) To identify Corporate Governance best practices applicable to Higher Education institutions through available literature and (b) To assess the implementation of good Corporate Governance practices at SPU by analysing information disclosed in the Annual Reports. This study uses a quantitative content analysis approach to analyse existing data from SPU Annual Reports submitted to the Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation. SPU Annual Reports were analysed according to the instrument โ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฏ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ดโ designed by Crous (2017: 212โ375) to assess Corporate Governance practices at the institution. All SPU Annual Reports, published from 2013 to 2022, were selected for this study. The study, therefore, uses a census sample. The study reveals that SPUโs Corporate Governance practices were not up to standard, characterised by a culture of extensive non-disclosures, and indicative of less accountability and transparency in the institutionโs governance. The researcher recommended how SPU should ensure its Corporate Governance practices are up to standard. Failure of SPU to perform up to standard Corporate Governance carries the risk of the institution following in the steps of universities that collapsed. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11660/12891 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Accountability | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Annual reports | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Corporate governance | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Council | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Disclosures | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Higher education | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | International best practices | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | King IV | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Non-disclosures | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Sol Plaatje University | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Stakeholder | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Reporting regulation | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Transparency | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Corporate governance implementation at Sol Plaatje University | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Dissertation |