The Department of Business Management has a number of staff actively engaged in producing quality research outputs in the field of business management as contributions to academia and industry. Fellow academics, Master and Doctoral students, and industry stakeholders have the opportunity to engage with the following academics:
Tel: 012 433 4719
E-mail: prinsp@unisa.ac.za
Bio:
Paul Prinsloo is a Research Professor in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in the College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa (Unisa). Since 2015 he is also a Visiting Professor at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany.
His academic background includes fields as diverse as theology, art history, business management, online learning, and religious studies. Paul is an established researcher and has published numerous articles in the fields of teaching and learning, student success in distance education contexts, learning analytics, postgraduate supervision and curriculum development. His current research focuses on the collection, analysis and use of student data in learning analytics, graduate supervision and digital identities. His collaborative research in the ethical implications/dimensions of learning analytics with Dr Sharon Slade (Open University, United Kingdom) received several international accolades.
Professor Paul Prinsloo of the College of Economic and Management Sciences recently became the first academic from Africa to be awarded a fellowship by the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN). Being a fellow of such a network means the organisation acknowledges one’s international contribution to the field. This accolade followed a year of good news for Prinsloo. At the end of 2018 he obtained a B3 National Research Foundation rating. This meant that he moved into the elite group of B-rated researchers who enjoy considerable international recognition by their peers for the high quality and impact of their research outputs. In June last year, Prinsloo received the best paper award at the EDEN conference together with co-authors Dr Sharon Slade (Open University, UK) and Dr Mohammad Khalil (Delft University of Technology). The jury members described the paper as an excellent and courageous contribution and lauded it for a fresh view on learning analytics.
Prinsloo received an Irish Research Council grant shared with Professor Su-Ming Khoo from the National University of Ireland, Galway. An amount of € 349,346.37 (some R5,6 million) was awarded to them for the B-CAUSE (Building Collaborative Approaches to University Strategies against Exclusion) project. The two academics will be looking specifically at exclusion in Ireland and Africa, and pedagogies for quality higher education and inclusive global citizenship. The project funding commenced on 1 April 2019.
Tel: 012 429 8505
E-mail: aregbra@unisa.ac.za
Bio:
Adewale Aregbeshola is a Professor of International Business (Finance) and Business Strategy. He completed his Bachelor’s Degree at Ogun State University, Honours and Master’s Degrees at the University of South Africa and PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand Business School. His academic and professional engagements have included appointments at the Management Development Institute (The Gambia), Babcock University (Nigeria), and University of Lagos (Nigeria). He currently serves as a Full Professor of International Business (Finance) and Business Strategy in the Department of Business Management at the University of South Africa. These appointments have been interspersed with numerous administrative assignments, international conference appearances and speaking engagements. He has authored a number of publications in local and international journals, and has presented a number of papers at local and international conferences, workshops and seminars, coupled with being a consultant and visiting Professor to a number of Universities.
Prof Aregbeshola is a specialist in International Business Strategies, expansions strategies of multinational corporations and international capital flow. He has also done extensive studies on the dynamics of African capital market and growth imperatives. His research focusses more on African countries and other emerging economies as well. He possesses advanced expertise in econometrics and quantitative approaches.
Tel: 012 429 2795
E-mail: sewdan@unisa.ac.za
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Nisha Sewdass is a Professor in the Department of Management Science at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Her research focus areas include Strategic Competitive Intelligence and business intelligence and she has conducted several certificate courses and workshops in these areas for government departments and industry in South Africa. She is currently working on Big Data Analytics for CI and the use of social media for Competitive Intelligence. She is also the founder and Chair of the SCIP (Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals) South African Chapter and the Chair of the African Summit 2014, 2016 and serves on the SCIP Global Advisory Board. Prof Sewdass is a member on the SCIP Board of Directors. She has published and presented several papers at local and international conferences.
Tel: 012 429 4689
E-mail: rudans@unisa.ac.za
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Sharon Rudansky-Kloppers is an Associate Professor in Business Management. In January 1988, she joined Unisa as a lecturer in the marketing section of the Department of Business Management. She obtained a DCom degree in business management from Unisa in 2002. She is a member of several professional organisations, the author of a number of accredited articles and papers presented at national and international congresses. She is the author and co-author of books dealing with business communication, marketing, and business management.
Tel: 012 429 4764
E-mail: brevit@unisa.ac.za
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Tersia Botha is an Associate Professor in Business Management. In January 1993, she joined Unisa as a lecturer in the Department of Business Management. She obtained a DCom degree in Business Management, with speciliasation in Investment Management from Unisa in 1998. She is currently teaching strategic management, leadership and business management by portfolio. She presented papers at national and international conferences and authored research articles published in accredited journals. She also authored and co-authored numerous books in various specialist fields in business management, namely practising strategy, financial management, leadership, corporate citizenship, business Management by portfolio and management principles.
Tel: 012 429 6583
E-mail: vissed@unisa.ac.za
Bio:
Thea Visser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Management at UNISA. Prof Visser is supervising Masters and Doctoral students in the fields of small business management, entrepreneurship, family business management and leadership; and serves as an external examiner for various national and international universities. She has published articles in accredited international journals and presented papers at international conferences.
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