Abstract
The study is based on the role that project, programme and operations management methodologies can play in terms of creating a climate conducive towards sustainable industrialisation in South Africa. The study focuses on industrial development funding, the soft and hard manufacturing and critical infrastructure projects, as well as special economic zones. From project financing, the study examines the efficiency and effectiveness of the investment reimbursement programmes within the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Industrial Development Corporation, the Development Bank of Southern Africa and other development financing institutions; to be more specific, the extent to which project and programme management is applied during the life of the programmes, mainly looking at the synchronisation between project budget, schedule, scope and quality of processing projects for funding...
Ph.D. (Operations Management)