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Dr Gustave Mungeni Kankisingi

Department: Marketing and Strategy

Office/Location: O2.55d

Telephone: 07552953769

Email: GKankisingi@cardiffmet.ac.uk

Staff Overview

​​​​I am Dr Gustave Kankisingi, I am a lecturer in strategic project management at Cardiff School of Management.

I hold a Ph.D. in Management Sciences specialised in Business Administration with focus on Project Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management.

My career path combines teaching and research, while maintaining my interest in consulting and public engagements. Prior to joining the Cardiff Met University, I was a lecturer at the Durban University of Technology in Durban/ South Africa lecturing and supervising in the undergraduate and post graduate programmes.

I have more than 10 years’ experience in lecturing and consulting. In addition to my lecturing and consulting experience, I have worked as a member of organising committee of various international engagement projects such as COPE17 (United nations) conference, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit, and African Cup of Nations (AFCON) hosted by South Africa.

Teaching

​​Modules taught for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes:

  • Retail Operations Management
  • Production and Purchasing Management
  • Management Principles and Practice.
  • Management Skills for Non-management students.
  • Project Management
  • Process and Project Management
  • Business Management, 1, 2 and 3
  • Strategic Management
  • Advanced strategic Management
  • Applied Strategic management
  • Innovation and Change Management
  • Leadership
  • International Entrepreneurship

Modules current lecturing for MSc IBM Programme

  • Business in a Global Economy
  • Globalisation and Contemporary Issues in Business and Management
  • Capstones supervision.

Research

​​Research Interests

  • Strategic management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • Leadership, Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
  • Project Management

Key Publications

​​Peer-reviewed articles:

Kankisingi, G.M. 2022. The Roles of Organisational and Entrepreneurial Orientations in the Innovation Performance of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law (IJEBL)

Kankisingi, G.M., & Dhliwayo, S. 2022. Reward Systems and Innovation Performance in Manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Sustainability Journal

Kankisingi, G.M. 2022. Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Orientation in the Product Innovation of Manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises, International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS), 8(12): 70-76

Kankisingi, G.M., & Dhliwayo, S. 2019. Differences in innovation performance between family and non-family owned manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Alternation Journal: Interdisciplinary Journal for the study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa.


Book Chapters

Kankisingi, G.M. & Isheloke, B.E. 2020. ‘A Trajectory of Innovation Outputs among the BRICS Countries: Critical Perspectives of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa’. In Isheloke, B.E (ed.) BRICS and Economic Development: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. New Delhi: IOR International Press.


Conference Papers Presented:

Kankisingi, G.M., & Dhliwayo, S. 2018. ‘Differences in innovation performance between family and non-family owned manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kwa-Zulu Natal’, 3rd Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation Conference, Durban, 18-20 September

Kankisingi, G.M., & Dhliwayo, S. 2016. ‘The impact of educational level on behaviour during knowledge transfer in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)’. Society for Global Business and Economic Development: Global Connectivity, Knowledge and Innovation for Sustainability and Growth: New Paradigms of Theory and Practice, New Jersey, 21-24 June. Won the award for the best conference paper under the category of Ph.D. Candidates.

Kankisingi, G.M., & Dhliwayo, S. 2014. ‘The effect of gender on behaviour during knowledge transfer in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)’. Southern Africa Institute of Management Scientists (SAIMS: Contemporary Management in Theory and Practice, Johannesburg, 14 -17 September

Kankisingi, G.M., & Dhliwayo, S. 2014. The relationship between individual knowledge transfer and behaviour in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Southern Africa Institute of Management Scientists (SAIMS: Contemporary Management in Theory and Practice, Johannesburg, 14 -17 September​

Other Projects and activities

  • ​​Reviewer for African Journal of Inter/Multidisciplinary Studies (AJIMS): Durban University of Technology
  • Reviewer for African Journal of Rhetoric
  • Reviewer: Masters and Ph.D. Research Proposals.
  • External Moderator: University of Johannesburg/ South Africa
  • Member of Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
  • Member of Southern African Institute for Business Accountants


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