Specialist in research methods and entrepreneurship.
Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2025.
Recipient of the South African Women in Science Award for Distinguished Young Researcher – 2023.
Recipient of the Best Paper Award for religion as an institution – Journal of World Business, 2022.
Anastacia Mamabolo specialises in research methods and entrepreneurship. Her research identity is the role of faith and human capital in management and entrepreneurial activities. With a focus on South Africa as a developing market, Anastacia’s work has helped to identify the entrepreneurship management skills required in emerging economies. She was involved in the GIBS Project Orbit that explored business and management in Africa and was part of a research team that interviewed more than 100 C-level executives in Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Nigeria.
An associate professor at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), Anastacia qualified as an optometrist, which she practised for a few years before joining academia. During her doctoral studies at GIBS, Anastacia was appointed as the school’s project manager for the AACSB accreditation. She teaches on the MBA, MPhil, and doctoral programs in the areas of entrepreneurship and applied research design. She also supervises master’s and doctoral students.
‘Entrepreneurial activity trends’ (chapter contribution in Women entrepreneuship in South Africa: What does the future hold, pp. 43-56, by N. Meyere, M. Samsani, A. Bowmaker-Falconer, 2024); ‘Management and leadership development needs: The case of South Africa’ (chapter contribution in Business and society: Making management education relevant for the 21st century, pp. 229-249, by D. Purg, A. Bracek Lalic & J. A. Pope, 2018). Anastacia has presented at international conferences and published articles in peer-reviewed journals.
“Important research on the nature of entrepreneurship and the specific management skills required in emerging economies.”
Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50
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