Research News

  • Dr Moos obtains grant to research sustainable small business development

    Posted on August 17, 2018

    Dr Menisha Moos, senior lecturer in the Department of Business Management, has obtained a new grant from the Research Development Programme (RDP) for a research project titled ‘Deconstructing relationships between policy awareness evaluation and the skills needed by small businesses’.

  • Mr Arno Meyer: A supply chain management trailblazer

    Posted on August 17, 2018

    Supply Chain Management lecturer Mr Arno Meyer has made history by being the first academic in the Department of Business Management to obtain the Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) designation.

  • Dr Bignotti’s social entrepreneurship project wins research fund award

    Posted on August 17, 2018

    Dr Alex Bignotti, a senior lecturer in the Department of Business Management, won the 2018 Emerald African Management Research Fund Award with a research project entitled ‘The role of social capital in the emergence of social entrepreneurship in previously disadvantaged communities’.

  • The South African SDG Hub: what you need to know

    Posted on July 05, 2018

    The South African SDG Hub is an online platform that aims to connect South African policy makers with the research and innovation they need to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given the breadth of the SDGs, and the key role that policy makers have in creating an enabling...

  • Prof Jordaan wins best paper award

    Posted on May 22, 2018

    Prof Yolanda Jordaan, Head of the Department of Marketing Management, attended the 382nd International Conferences on Economics and Social Sciences (ICESS) in London on 7 May 2018. This conference is hosted by the Institute of Research Engineers and Scientists, which is a nonprofit organisation...

  • MCom alumnus appointed as presidential special investment envoy

    Posted on May 17, 2018

    Phumzile Langeni, Executive Chairperson of Afropulse Group and an alumnus of UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, was selected and appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to be a member of the four-person team to assist in raising R1,4 trillion foreign direct investment for...

  • Transcultural Leadership Summit in Germany

    Posted on November 23, 2017

    Prof Derick de Jongh, Director of the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pretoria, participated in the Transcultural Leadership Summit that was hosted by the Zeppelin University Leadership Excellence Institute, on 16 and 17 November 2017.

  • Marketing lecturer shines at EMS Faculty Awards Function

    Posted on July 07, 2017

    On Wednesday evening, 21 June 2017, the annual EMS Faculty Awards Function took place. The EMS Faculty Awards Function is hosted to honour and celebrate the research and teaching achievements of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences staff members.

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