College of Business and Economics Annual Report 2017 55 • Achievement of a sales turnover of R2,95 million by students involved in the DSA project run by the Department of Marketing Management of which R750 000 went back to students in the form of commission on sales. • Receipt of the Outstanding Paper in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for an article co-authored in 2016 by Dr Beate Stiehler-Mulder, a lecturer in the Department of Marketing Management. The full citation of the paper is as follows: Stiehler, B.E., Caruana, A., & Vella, J. (2016). Using an aesthetics and ontology framework to investigate consumers’ attitudes toward luxury wine brands as a product category: Evidence from two countries. International Journal of Wine Business Research, 28(2):154-169. LOOKING TOWARDS 2018 – 2020 Looking towards 2018 - 2020, the School is working on strategic initiatives aimed at increasing enrolment and throughput at postgraduate levels, growing number of academic staff with PhDs, investing in staff capacity development particularly in the areas of research publication and supervision. The School also plans to introduce new full and short-learning programmes in response to skills needs off the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). In pursuit of global excellence and a Pan-African agenda, the SCiiS will be investing to strengthen its ties with leading universities and academics around the globe including Africa. Appointment of postdoctoral fellows, research associates and visiting professors will be prioritised. FINAL REMARKS Twenty seventeen was evidently a good year for the School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems in many respects. Kudos to all the academics and support staff in the School for what we were able to achieve collectively in the year. With our eyes set on being ‘the Pan-African epicentre of critical intellectual enquiry in consumer intelligence and information systems’ we will march on together as a team! Dr Beate Stiehler-Mulder
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