Inaugural Lectures: Recent submissions
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Sustainable business intelligence systems : Modelling for the future / Roelien Goede
(North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2019)Business intelligence systems are used in support of strategic decision-making in organisations. Strategic decisions in support of the sustainable development goals require accurate and accessible data. Of equal importance ... -
Professing presence / Emmerentia du Plessis
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)I agree with the view of Noll (1997) and Clasquin-Johnson (2014) on what it means to be a professor, namely that being a professor is a call to action. The professor focuses on understanding, gaining insight, reflecting ... -
Power Electronics - View of the Past and Illumination of the Future / Gouws, Rupert
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)The developments in the power electronics industry has over the years hinged on the progress of the semiconductor device industry. The semiconductor device industry could be said to be on the edge of a turn into a new era, ... -
The immediate living environment : impressions of house, home, and social functioning / E.H. Ryke
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)The overarching purpose of this address is to revisit the immediate living environment from a person-in-environment social work perspective and approach. My thesis is that without a solid and nuanced conceptual framework ... -
Evidence and compassion in Maternity care / C.S.Minnie
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)Maternity care is the care of the mother-baby dyad during pregnancy, childbirth and the first few months thereafter. Various members of the multidisciplinary team can offer maternity care, and the focus of my research is ... -
Models in risk management : wrong but useful / Helgard Raubenheimer
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)Financial institutions include a wide range of business operations within the financial sector, including banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, and investment companies. Society relies on the smooth functioning of ... -
The Battleground of the SME accountant / DF (Danie) Schutte
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Deciphering the black box : shedding light on consumer behaviour within tourism events contexts / Karin Botha
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Integrated Logistics Support Management for Systems Life Cycle Support / J.A. Meyer
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Die lewende verlede van die letterkunde / Phil van Schalkwyk
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)My aim is to carry out an exploration of our relationship with the past, specifically in a literary-artistic context. In the background of this lies an anti-patriarchal discourse in which I myself participated in my research, ... -
Nostalgia, dialogue and silence : on the ethics of curriculum studies / Petro du Preez
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2019)Ecological crises, advances in biogenetic research, imbalances within the economic systems, and an exponential growth of social divisions and exclusions have led to a global capitalist system that is approaching an apocalyptic ... -
South Africa’s Youth : A Deficit or Dividend? / Yaw Amoateng
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The nexus of poverty and housing insecurity : Developing a Household Housing Insecurity Index (HHII) / Steven Henry Dunga
(North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2021)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognise poverty as one of the biggest challenges to the achievement of global development. Poverty is featured among the top challenges of the 21stcentury, which include ecological ... -
The sustainability of arts festivals in South Africa : the show must go on / Pierre-André Viviers
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)South African theatre, and more specifically Afrikaans theatre at art festivals, was on a rocky and struggling road long before the global pandemic struck. This inaugural lecture zooms in on the research that Prof Pierre-André ... -
The future of accounting : will we be replaced by robots? / Nico van der Merwe
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)The world is experiencing a period of exponential technological change, characterised by unprecedented disruption to business. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), ... -
The world through the eyes of a preterm baby / Welma Lubbe
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)Coming into the world too early may result in a lot of stress for the preterm baby. However, if we understand this world better we can support these early arrivals to develop optimally and ensure that they have the best ... -
Monsters of the universe : the build-up of the most massive galaxies / Ilani Loubser
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Fungi, Frogs and Fomite / Ché Weldon
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Organic chemical pollutants and bio-assays : matrimony between chemistry and biology / Rialet Pieters
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)Knowing the concentration of a pollutant in the environment, i.e. sediment, soil, water, and air, and comparing it to a guideline level to know whether it occurs at an ‘acceptable’ level, is not adequate anymore. Biota in ... -
Under (blood) pressure! / Ruan Kruger
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)