BCom (Honours): Strategic Management (University of Johannesburg - UJ)
BCom: Communication (UJ)
Strategic Management (MNG4801) - Primary lecturer
Masters and Doctoral studies - Strategy-as-Practice research
Strategic management
Strategy-as-Practice
Middle managers
Higher Education management practices
Strategy-as-Practice
Change management
Qualitative research
Davis, A. 2019. “Business level strategy”, Chapter 8 in Louw, L and Venter, P. 2019.Strategic Management Winning in the Southern African workplace. 3rdedition. Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa.
Davis, A. 2019. “Corporate level strategy”, Chapter 10 in Louw, L and Venter, P. 2019. Strategic Management – Winning in the Southern African workplace. 3rdedition. Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa.
Davis, A. 2019. “A process perspective on strategy”, Chapter 4 in Botha, T and Venter, P:Practicing Strategy: A Southern African Context.Juta Publishers
Davis, A. 2019. “Strategists and strategising”, Chapter 5 in Botha T and Venter, P. 2019:Practicing Strategy: A Southern African Context.Juta Publishers
Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice: Williamson, C.M. and Davis, A. 2023. Strategy as Practice in Africa. Editors: Whittington, R., Kratochvil, R., Jarzabkowski, P., Spee, P., Seidl, D., and Grossman-Hensel, B.
Govender, SG, Williamson, CM and Davis, A. 2023. Can pausing enhance intuition? Academy of Management Symposium, Boston, USA. 7 August 2023.
Cohen de Villiers, T., and Davis, A. 2023. Environmental consciousness and Air Travel Behaviour: perspectives from domestic air travelers in South Africa. International Business Conference. Swakopmund, Namibia. 24-27 September 2023.
Samson, S., Williamson, C.M. and Davis, A. 2022. In search of equilibrium: middle-manager sense-making during organisational change. Social Sciences International Research Conference, Mauritius, 19-21 October 2022.
Davis, A and Oosthuizen, AG. Awake to African identities informing management practice. Work-in-Progress, Southern African Institute for Management Scientists conference, 11-13 September 2022.
Jogie, P., Davis, A., and Le Roux, CA. Middle managers coping practices during organisational restructuring. International Business Conference, Cape Town, 24-26 September 2022.
Surju, J., De Metz, N. and Davis, A. 2020. The strategising roles of public sector middle managers.Acta Commercii,20(1), a804. https://doi.org/10.4102/ ac.v20i1.804.
Thakhathi, A., Le Roux, C.A. and Davis, A. 2019. Sustainability leaders’ influencing strategies for institutionalising organisational change towards corporate sustainability: A strategy-as-practice perspective.Journal of Change Management,DOI:https://doi.org/10.4102/ac.v20i1.804.
Davis, A. 2017. Managerialism and the risky business of quality assurance in universities.Quality Assurance in Education, 25 (3):317-328.DOI 10.1108/QAE-06-2016-0027
Davis, A., Jansen van Rensburg, M. and Venter, P. 2016. The impact of managerialism on the strategy work of university middle managers.Studies in Higher Education,41(8): 1480-1494.DOI:10.1080/03075079.2014.981518.
Grebe, L., Davis, A. and Odendaal, EM. 2016. The use of strategy tools by chartered accountants in the South African mining industry.Journal of Contemporary Management, 13 (1):843-865.https://journals.co.za/content/jcman/13/1/EJC195700
Valery, Y., Joubert, JPR., and Davis, A. 2016. Generic advertising of dairy products: The emotional route to consumer engagement.International Retail and Marketing Review, 12 (2).https://journals.co.za/content/irmr1/12/2/EJC198824
Ahmed, LC., Davis, A. and Dirkse van Schalkwyk. R. 2016. Leading and motivating pharmaceutical sales team through a strategic alliance strategy.Journal of Contemporary Management, 13:169-189.
Jansen van Rensburg, M., Davis, A. and Venter, P. 2014. Making strategy work – the role of the middle manager.Journal of Management & Organization, 20:2:139-263. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2014.33
Dirkse van Schalkwyk, R., Davis, A. and Pellissier, R. 2013. The impact of leadership practices on service quality in private higher education in South Africa.Journal of Contemporary Management, 10:223-238.
Venter, P., Jansen van Rensburg, M., and Davis, A. 2012. Drivers of learning management system usage in a South African ODL institution.Australasian Journal of Educational Technology28(2).
Davis, A., and Venter, P. 2011. Performance and success of postgraduate business students: Contributing factors in open and distance learning.Progressio33(2):72-90.
Xaba, L., Le Roux, .A. and Davis, A. 2023 Disruption and dissonance: middle managers’ sensemaking and sensegiving practices during organizational change. Journal of Contemporary Management. 20 (1): 376-403.
Samson, S., Williamson, CM and Davis, A. 2022. Managerial Survival: middle manager sense-making during organisational change, International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning.
Surju, J., De Metz, N. and Davis, A. 2020. The strategising roles of public sector middle managers. Acta Commercii, 20(1), a804. https://doi.org/10.4102/ ac.v20i1.804.
Davis, A., Jansen van Rensburg, M. and Venter, P. 2016. The impact of managerialism on the strategy work of university middle managers. Studies in Higher Education, 41(8): 1480-1494.
Vorwerk Marren, I., Davis, A., and Williams, C. 2023. Strategising for survival. Submitted to Cogent Business and Economics.
Davis, A. 2023. Academic Integrity in the time of Contradictions. Cogent Education.
Grebe, L., Davis, A. and Odendaal, EM. 2016. The use of strategy tools by chartered accountants in the South African mining industry. Journal of Contemporary Management. 13 (1):843-865.https://journals.co.za/content/jcman/13/1/EJC195700.
Davis, A. 2017. Managerialism and the risky business of quality assurance in universities. Quality Assurance in Education, 25 (3):317-328. DOI 10.1108/QAE-06-2016-0027.
Thakhathi, A., Le Roux, C.A. and Davis, A. 2019. Sustainability leaders’ influencing strategies for institutionalising organisational change towards corporate sustainability: A strategy-as-practice perspective. Journal of Change Management, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ac.v20i1.804.
De Metz, N., Jansen van Rensburg, M., and Davis, A. 2023. Acting strategically during change: a process and dwelling world-view perspective. Journal of Change Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2023.2238744.
De Villiers, R. and Davis, A. 2019. “It ain’t over ‘til it’s published: Generating a journal article from a thesis or a dissertation.” The Innovation in Teaching of Research Methodology excellence Awards. First prize.Eighteenth European Conference on Research Methodology. for Business and Management Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, 20-21 June 2019.
Davis, A and Oosthuizen, AG. 2015. QA=Risk? An enquiry into the risks of quality assurance tasks and processes. Ireland International Conference on Education, Dublin. 26-29 October 2015.
Davis, A. and Venter, P. 2010. “The long walk to student success: Drivers of student performance in a postgraduate ODL business course.”The 5th International Conference on eLearning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. 12-13 July 2010.
Davis, A. 2008. “Success factors in discussion classes.”Second African Conference on Curriculum Development, September 2008.
Davis, A. 2008. “Using marking rubrics in formative assessment” – poster presentation.Second African Conference on Curriculum Development, September 2008.
