Category Archives: GIBS research

Showcasing GIBS student and faculty research

New Gibs whitepaper: The Spinach King’s social enterprise scaling strategy during and post Covid-19 pandemic By Anastacia Mamabolo

Based in Gugulethu[1], Lufefe Nomjana established Espinaca[2] Innovations in 2011 anddue to the success of his enterprise, he was soon affectionally referred to as the SpinachKing. The purpose of his business venture was to raise awareness of healthy and affordablefood by offering nutritious bread and other food products made with spinach as a keyingredient. Nomjana […]
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New Gibs whitepaper: Exploring the process of transformative learning in executive coaching by Gloria Mbokota, Kerrin Myres and Sunny Stout-Rostron

A longitudinal multiple case study was adopted to examine how three key transformative learning elements—disorienting dilemma, critical reflection, and rational dialogue—occurred in an executive coaching engagement and the learning outcomes that emerged. A key finding was that, in addition to the three accepted elements, there is a fourth element (acceptance) that precedes the rational dialogue. […]
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New GIBS whitepaper: A modified Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE) ratio for stock market index valuation in a zero-interest rate environment by Roberto Catanho & Adrian Saville

The cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio (CAPE) is a tool that has become widely used to predict market returns. However, recently, deterioration in its forecast strength has surfaced. At the same time, global long-term interest rates have declined and are expected to remain at record lows, which the CAPE fails to consider. Omitting to fully examine […]
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New GIBS whitepaper: Catalysts that influence leaders’ value system development towards a prosocial value orientation by Charlene Bailey and Caren Scheepers

Unfortunately, in South Africa, poor leadership and unethical leadership behavior is at a high (van Zyl, 2014). Former President, Thabo Mbeki, was quoted in the press as saying, “Where you have this problem of a leadership that is self-centered, perpetuating itself in power, accumulating all the wealth and so on, then it’s not a policy issue, […]
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New GIBS whitepaper: Recasting trust and distrust in the boardroom By Prof Mthombeni and Prof Chizema

Definitions of distrust typically use trust as the reference point. Consider the distrust defined as “confident negative expectations regarding another’s conduct” (Lewicki et al., 1998, p. 439). As such, most researchers conceptualise trust and distrust as “antithetical” (Bigley and Pearce, 1998, p. 407), at mutually exclusive ends of a single, continuous construct (Migliore and Horton DeClouette, 2011). According to […]
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Responsible Business Education Awards: full shortlists. (FT) Two GIBS faculty members Amy Moore & Verity Hawarden won the teaching cases award.

The Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards showcase strong examples of work by business schools seeking to focus on people and planet alongside profit. The three award categories are designed to reflect business schools’ different roles. The academic research award goes to papers that address societal challenges, with evidence of impact on policy or practice; […]
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New Gibs whitepaper: Exploratory and exploitative innovation influenced by contextual leadership, environmental dynamism and innovation climate. by JD Visser & Caren Scheepers

The main remedy for this dilemma is to continually evolve as an organisation either continually(exploitative innovation), radically (exploratory innovation) or both. Innovation, therefore,remains a burgeoning avenue for research. Successful organisations innovate by improvingor exploiting their current offerings and developing radical new ones for the future. March(1991) originally defined this innovative capability for simultaneous exploration andexploitation […]
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Gibs new case study-Love books: sustained success amidst uncertainties by Verity Hawarden and Amy More.

The sub field of academia that the case is designed to teach is small business development, entrepreneurship, or women in business. This real-life case is based on interviews that took place with Kate Rogan, the co-founder of Love Books, and other stakeholders associated with the small bookselling business that is based in the suburb of […]
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New GIBS whitepaper – From the horse’s mouth: Advice from chairs on how to lead boards more effectively by Gavin Price, Kerrin Myres, Johann Redelinghuys and Karl Hofmeyr

Despite having one of the most applauded codes of corporate governance in the form of King IV, South Africa has a growing governance problem. Ample evidence of this is to be found in both the public and private sectors. Examples include the unethical conduct of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), such as Eskom, PIC and Transnet; EOH’s […]
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New GIBS whitepaper – South African whistleblowers: Tribulations and triumphs by Nicola Kleyn, Gideon Pogrund, Elme Vivier, Theresa Onaji-Benson and Mollie Painter

The act of whistle-blowing can create material benefits for organisations and society at large, but often at great cost to those who choose to report unethical or illegal behaviour. This white paper shares findings from a recent study investigating accounts ofwhistle-blowers as well as the views of those who frequently engage with whistle-blowers. To situate […]
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