College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2019 39 mentor prof Abejide Ade-ibijola garnered multiple awards at hackathons held around the country. one of the big wins was the overall Best innovation Award received at the #living4iRhack held at Vaal university of technology on 28 June under the sponsorship of the national department of Communications and digital technologies. Another big win was being the overall winners in the local government Category of the south african state information technology agency (sita) 2019 ndp hackathon held at durban Convention Centre in october 2019. uj mArketing, oFFiciAlly the most impActFul reseArchers in AFricA a recent analysis of uJ research publication output between 2013 and 2018 in the subject field of marketing, using all science journal classification codes, as well as scopus data analysis, revealed that uJ leads the continent in the marketing research field! students And FAculty reseArch, innovAtion, honours And AwArds student and faculty research in sCiis continues to attract special recognition. among the many research honours and awards that sCiis celebrated in 2019 are: • Best overall postdoctoral research fellow at the College of Business and Economics won by dr Kenneth ohei of the department of applied information systems working under the supervision of dr roelien Brink. (4) • Best Poster Presentation at the annual CBE honours Poster Competition won by Courteney stuart and Cameron sivalingam (BCom hons in marketing management students) for their poster entitled ‘useful chatbots revolutionise customer satisfaction’ prepared under the supervision of dr isolde lubbe. (5) • Best student Paper award received by dr Paul issock of the department of marketing management at the prestigious world social marketing Conference (wsmC), held in Edinburgh, scotland, for a paper titled ‘normative influence and effective recycling policy for household waste separation’. (6) • Best paper award received by Prof mornay Roberts-lombard together with his fellow co-authors dr olumide Jaiyeoba and dr douglas svotwa of Botswana for a paper titled ‘Predicting entrepreneurial intentions from entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurs’ personal characteristics: a Botswana perspective’, presented at the international Conference on Business and management dynamics, held in swakopmund, namibia. (7) outstanding paper in the 2019 Emerald literati awards won by Prof Jukka ojasalo, Visiting Professor from the laurea university of applied sciences in Espoo, finland, for an article titled ‘service logic business model canvas’, published in the Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. (8) the vice-Chancellor’s 2019 distinguished innovation of the Year award won by Prof abejide ade-ibijola and dr marius Wait for the ‘learn as you earn’ app, which they jointly developed. (9)
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