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:

Prof A Aregbeshola

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.

Prof N Sewdass

Tel: 012 429 2795
E-mail: sewdan@unisa.ac.za

Bio:

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. 

Prof S Rudansky-Kloppers

Tel: 012 429 4689
E-mail: rudans@unisa.ac.za

Bio:

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.

Prof T Botha

Tel: 012 429 4764
E-mail: brevit@unisa.ac.za

Bio:

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.

Prof T Visser

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.