Department of Applied Management

Dr A Weber

College of Economic and Management Sciences
School of Public and Operations Management
Department: Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain, Transport, Tourism and Logistics Management
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 012 429 4932
E-mail: snymaan@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • 2011: Bcom Marketing Management (University of Pretoria)
  • 2012: Honours Marketing Management (University of Pretoria)
  • 2015: MCom Business Management (University of South Africa) (Cum Laude). Dissertation title: Barriers and Motivators to Online Grocery Shopping in South Africa: A Supply Chain Perspective. Available from: https://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/18992?show=full
  • 2022: PhD in Management Sciences (University of South Africa). Thesis title: Internal Supply Chain Integration in Omnichannel Retailers: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective. Available from: https://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/29534

 

Currently teaching

  • Supply Chain Management

Fields of academic interests

Research

  • Supply chain management
  • Supply chain integration
  • E-commerce supply chain management

 

Tuition

  • Modern assessment practices
  • Capabilities development for Industry 4.0
  • Technology-enabled assessment and e-learning

Books

2020: Nuruzzaman, M. & Weber, A.N. 2020. Supply Chain in Cross-border E-Commerce, in Hoque, R. & Bashaw, R.E. (ed.) Chapter 13: Cross-Border E-Commerce Marketing and Management. IGI Global, pp. 54-77.

2022: Badenhorst-Weiss, J.A. & Weber, A.N. 2021. Supply Chain Management – a balanced approached (3rd ed), in Ambe, I.A, Badenhorst-Weiss, J.A, Van Biljon, E.H.B and Cilliers, J.O (ed.). Chapter 18: Retailing in a digital era. Van Schaik Publishers, pp. 387-407.

Journal articles

2016: Weber, A.N. & Badenhorst-Weiss, J.A. 2016. Time-based competition as a competitive strategy for online grocery retailers. Journal of Contemporary Management, 13:433-460. Available from: https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/EJC193358

2018: Weber, A.N. & Badenhorst-Weiss, J.A. 2018. The 'new' brick-and-mortar store: An evaluation of website quality of online grocery retailers in BRICS countries. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 10(1): 85-97. Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20421338.2017.1394957

2018: Weber, A.N. & Badenhorst-Weiss, J.A. 2018. The last mile logistical challenges of an omnichannel grocery retailer – a South African perspective. Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 12: 1-13. Available from: https://jtscm.co.za/index.php/jtscm/article/view/398

2021: Weber, A.N. 2021. Responding to supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: A Black Swan event for omnichannel retailers. Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 15: a628. Available from: https://jtscm.co.za/index.php/jtscm/article/view/628

 

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

2016: Unisa Council’s Excellence Award for The Top Performance in a Research-Based Master’s Dissertation

2020: Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Research

2023: IPSERA: Nominee for Best PhD Dissertation

Other

 (Research Profiles)