Department of Business Management

Prof Annemarie Davis

College of Economic and Management Sciences
School of Management Sciences
Department: Business Management
Professor
Tel: 012 429 8357
E-mail: davisa@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Commerce in Business Management (Unisa)
  • Master of Business Leadership (Unisa)
  • BCom (Honours): Strategic Management (University of Johannesburg - UJ)
  • BCom: Communication (UJ)

Currently teaching

  • Strategic Management (MNG4801) - Primary lecturer
  • Masters and Doctoral studies - Strategy-as-Practice research

Fields of academic interests

  • Strategic management
  • Strategy-as-Practice
  • Middle managers
  • Higher Education management practices

Field of Specialisation

  • Strategy-as-Practice
  • Change management
  • Qualitative research

Books

  • Davis, A. 2019. “Business level strategy”, Chapter 8 in Louw, L and Venter, P. 2019. Strategic Management Winning in the Southern African workplace. 3rd edition. 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. 3rd edition. 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.

Journal articles

  • 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 Technology 28(2).
  • Davis, A., and Venter, P. 2011. Performance and success of postgraduate business students: Contributing factors in open and distance learning. Progressio 33(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.

Paper presentations

  • 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.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Strategic Management Society member

Projects

  • Middle manager capacity building in NPO sector