1.1 School of Economic and Financial Sciences

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College of Economic and Management Sciences:
Research Focus Areas for Masters and Doctoral Studies

The number of M and D registrations should be informed by the availability of suitable supervisors to ensure that available supervisory capacity is not exceeded. This will maintain supervisor/student ratios that would be conducive to high-quality results.

1.1 School of Economic and Financial Sciences

Department name / Focus Area / Lead Researcher / Capacity
Department of Economics / Development Economics
/ Prof NM Odhiambo
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 9
Doctoral students: up to 6
History and Philosophy of Economics
/ Prof D Hodge
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 3
Doctoral students: up to 3
International Economics
/ Prof NM Odhiambo
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 6
Doctoral students: up to 4
Macroeconomics
/ Prof NM Odhiambo
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 8
Doctoral students: up to 6
Microeconomics
/ Prof B Moyo
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 7
Doctoral students: up to 5
Monetary Economics
/ Prof NM Odhiambo
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 8
Doctoral students: up to 3
Public Economics
/ Prof T van der Merwe
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 7
Doctoral students: up to 4
Department of Decision Sciences / Financial Modelling
/ Prof Petrus Potgieter
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 5
Doctoral students: up to 2
Heuristics, Optimisation and Statistical Modelling
/ Prof Monga Luhandjula
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 7
Doctoral students: up to 5
Computability, Complexity and Randomness in Decision Science (CCRDS)
/ Prof Willem Fouche
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 8
Doctoral students: up to 7
Department of Finance, Risk Management and Banking / Corporate Finance, Personal Finance, Banking, Investment and Markets, Risk Management and Governance
/ Prof Daniel Makina
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 27
Doctoral students: up to 7

1.2 School of Management Sciences

Department name / Focus Area / Lead Researcher / Capacity
Department of Business Management / Competitive Intelligence
/ Prof Nisha Sedwass
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 1
Doctoral students: up to 1
International Business
/ Prof Adewale Aregbeshola
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 0
Doctoral students: up to 2
South African Automotive Industry
/ Prof Johan Strydom
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 7
Doctoral students: up to 5
Application of management principles in South African small businesses
/ Prof Edmund Ferreira
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 4
Doctoral students: up to 4
Department of Human Resources Management / Conflict Management
Collective Bargaining
/ Ms Maggie Holtzhausen
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 5
Organisational Justice
Organisational commitment
Organisational citizenship behaviour
Retention of employees

/ Prof Mariette Coetzee
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 3
Doctoral students: up to 1
Employee health and well-being,
Work engagement,
Talent management,
Changing world of work of Open Distance Learning (ODL) academics
/ Mrs. Hanneli Diedericks
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 5
Work related well-being, work engagement and human capital development of academic staff members within changing distance, contact and blended higher education contexts
/ Prof Adéle Bezuidenhout
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 2
Adult learner self-directedness
/ Prof Melany Bushney
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 5
Collaborative working arrangements
Remuneration
/ Dr Anita de Bruyn
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 9
Doctoral students: up to 2
Adult learning principles in the workplace

/ Prof MJ Bushney
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 4
Employee and organisational health and wellness
Labour Relations in South Africa
Diversity & Diversity management
ODL
Remuneration Management
/ Prof Yvonne Joubert
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 10
Doctoral students: up to 2
Skills Development in the South African Context
/ Prof MC Mulaudzi
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 4
Doctoral students: up to 1
Social connectedness, psychosocial career preoccupations, retention related dispositions
/ Prof Ingrid Potgieter
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 6
Doctoral students: up to 2
Department of Marketing Management and Retail / Digital Marketing and Mobile Marketing
Customer Experience Management
Small Business Marketing
Retail Marketing and Merchandising
Consumer Behaviour, Branding & Marketing Communications
/ Mr Ricardo Machado
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 79
Doctoral students: up to 16
Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology / Organisational Psychology and change

/ Prof Nico Martins
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 8
Doctoral students: up to 3
Systems psychodynamics
/ Prof Michelle May
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 4
Doctoral students:up to 1
Organisational neuroscience
/ Prof Dirk Geldenhuys
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 1
Psychology of career and human capacity development and retention
/ Prof Melinde Coetzee
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 3
Doctoral students: up to 2
Socio-analytic Methods
/ Prof MS May
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 3
Work-related sense of coherence
/ Prof AM Viviers
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 5
Doctoral students: up to 3
Qualitative studies in employee well-being and adjustment
/ Prof HA Barnard
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 1
Doctoral students: up to 2
Measurement of individual characteristics and organisational behaviour
/ Dr S Grobler
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 1
Bureau for Market Research / Socio Economic and Business Research

/ Prof Pierre Joubert
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 23
Doctoral students: up to 10
Institute for Corporate Citizenship / Socially Responsible Investment, Sustainable Investment, Ethical Investment
/ Prof Neil Eccles
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 2
Teaching Business Ethics
/ Prof Neil Eccles
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 2
Information Security as a Social Responsibility.
/ Prof Mariki Eloff
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 2
Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, Green Economy, Renewable Energy and Africa Agenda 2063
/ Prof Godwell Nhamo
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students:up to 2

1.3 School of Public and Operations Management

Department name / Focus Area / Lead Researcher / Capacity
Department of Operations Management / Sustainable administrative environment
/ Dr Sumei van Antwerpen
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 8
Doctoral students: up to 4
Production and Operations Management (POM) – Strategy and Improvement
/ Prof Louis P Krüger
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 10
Doctoral students: up to 8
Competitiveness/Well-being [Strategy, competitive advantage, performance gap, resources, human resources, talent management, engagement]
/ Prof Hester Nienaber
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 1
Project Management – Dynamics, The Managerial Process and Application
/ Prof Rigard J Steenkamp
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 4
Doctoral students: up to 3
Total Quality Management – Implementation-as-Practice perspective, Application to sustain and maintain

/ Prof Kosie Oschman
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to1
Department Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain, Transport, Tourism and Logistics Management / Entrepreneurship
/ Prof Nkoana Radipere
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 19
Doctoral students: up to 7
Supply chain
/ Prof Hannie Badenhorst
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 7
Doctoral students: up to 6
Inventory management
/ Prof C van Zyl
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Transport Economics and Transportation Planning and Development
/ Mr Matthew Townshend
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 3
Doctoral students: up to 2
Integrated logistics
/ Prof C van Zyl
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Business and Leisure Tourism and Events
/ Prof C van Zyl
E-mail:
Dr Nellie Swart
/ Master’s students: up to 6
Doctoral students: up to 5
Ecotourism

/ Ms Dorothy Queiros
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Ecotourism
/ Dr Elricke Botha
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Hospitality and Attractions Management
/ Dr Nellie Swart, CMP
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 3
Doctoral students: up to 2
Inclusive tourism (Tourism for people with disabilities)
/ Dr JA Snyman
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Marketing of Tourism Destinations and Tourism Businesses
/ Prof Marios Sotiriadis
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 4
Doctoral students: up to 3
Department of Public Administration and Management / Knowledge and Methods of Public Administration
/ Prof JS Wessels
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 5
Doctoral students: up to 3
Public Policy
/ Prof WN Webb
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 1
Public Financial Management and Administration

/ Prof SR Malefane
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 1
Public Human Resource and Organisational Studies
/ Prof EJ Van der Westhuizen
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 1
Public Service Delivery
/ Prof Sinval Kahn
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 1
Local Government
/ Prof EJ Nealer
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 1
Administrative Justice and Ethics
/ Prof M Van Heerden
E-mail: /
Prof DJ Brynard
/ Master’s students: up to 2
Doctoral students: up to 1
Human Settlements
/ Prof P Khumalo
E-mail: / Master’s students: up to 1
Doctoral students: up to 1

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