Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Prof C Koornhof, Dean
Telephone number: 012 420 3330
Fax number: 012 362 5194
E-mail address: carolina.koornhof@up.ac.za
Message from the Dean
Academics in the faculty are encouraged to participate in national and international conferences and to pursue their studies both at the University and at international universities with whom the faculty has collaboration agreements. At present five young staff members are pursuing Masters and Doctoral degrees abroad.
During 2006, five of our staff members obtained their Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University, 44 staff members presented papers at national conferences and 52 staff members presented papers at international conferences.
The faculty also produced 16 Doctoral graduates and 192 Masters graduates. A further three staff members obtained their NRF ratings with another four in the process of completing their applications.
Each year the faculty awards a research trophy to the department that had the highest number of accredited units in the preceding year. In 2006, the trophy was awarded to the School of Public Management and Administration.
Research awards were also made to the best individual researchers. Dr Fairer-Wessels, of the Department of Tourism Management received the award for the best junior researcher while Proff Jerry Kuye, David Fourie and Dr Gerda van Dijk received the award for best senior researchers. Several researchers in the faculty also received national and international acknowledgement for the excellence of their research.
The academic journals of the faculty, the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, Meditari Accountancy Journal and the Journal of Public Management and Administration were once again inundated with articles submitted for publication.
During the year the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences was accepted on the International Scientific Index (ISI) and the Journal of Public Management and Administration was accepted on the International Bibliography of the Social Science (IBSS).
The Research Committee of the faculty held a Research Forum during October 2006. At the forum academic staff identified the four research focus areas around which the majority of future research of the faculty will be clustered. The research focus areas are:
- Management, Transformation and Skills Development;
- Leadership, Governance and Ethics;
- Globalisation and Sustainable Growth and Development; and
- Business Processes and Modelling.
A number of research workshops were held during the year to develop the research and supervision capacity of academics in the faculty. Prof Johan Mouton presented two workshops on the supervision of Masters and Doctoral students, while Prof Chris Kapp presented a weeklong workshop on the writing of successful academic articles.
Numerous other research workshops are planned for 2007 and several departments have instituted “brown bag sessions” to discuss the research projects of their staff.
I would like to thank the members of the academic and administrative staff as well as our postgraduate students for their contributions in making 2006 a successful research year for the faculty.
The challenge now is to build research capacity, to improve continuously by raising our research output in 2007, both in terms of quality and quantity.
Prof C Koornhof
Dean
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