Dr Gido Mapunda

Gido Mapunda is Program Director in the School of Management. He is responsible for the following programs: Bachelor of Management, Bachelor of Management (Logistics and Supply Chain Management) onshore and offshore, and Double degree in Management and International Studies. He has conducted research into entrepreneurship, small business development, economic development and social advancement, leadership and management in emerging markets or economies. His research is premised on real people with real challenges and is grounded on making a positive socio-economic difference.

Currently Dr Mapunda is involved in CRC Desert Knowledge research project, which explores, among other things, the sustainability of business enterprises in Desert Australia. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of Leadership and Management Studies of Sub-Sahara Africa (LMSSSA). The activities of this vital organisation culminate in an international conference once every two year. The last conference was held in Zanzibar in June 2006. The next one will be held in Accra, Ghana in July 2008. He is committed to small business organisations and community organisations at the grassroots level because this is where much assistance and support is needed. He is passionate about Community service (service learning!), is actively involved in the community at the grassroots level, and is a strong believer in giving something back to the community. He is a member of the newly formed Centrelink Multicultural Advisory Forum, an executive member of the African Communities Council Of South Australia (ACCSA), Chairperson of the Tanzanian Community Association of South Australia (TCASA), and president of Africa United Allstars Football Club (AUAFC).

In May 2007 Dr Mapunda was invited, and accepted, to join a group of global Academics/consultants of the International Indigenous Journal of Entrepreneurship by its editor, Jens Mueller. He is passionate about research that addresses real challenges faced by the marginalised and dispossed majority - research that makes a positive difference through economic development and social advancemnt or real people.

In January 2008 Dr Mapunda was invited by Dr Asta Pundziene, Editor of the Baltic Journal of Management to join the journal's referee/review panel. The Journal seeks to engender collaboration between different management research cultures. To that end, it acts as a forum to encourage dialogue between the East and the West.

In June 2008 Dr Mapunda was invited and accepted, to chair the SMEs session at the Leadership and Management Studies in Sub-Sahara Africa conference in Accra, Ghana 7-9 July, 2008.

Mapunda is an active member of the African Management Research Group (AMRG), a nascent affiliate of the Academy of Management (AOM). Membership is open to researchers interested in promoting African management research in the Academy of Management.

• My teaching interests include international/cross-cultural management, business management, organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship.

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

PhD (RMIT Uni); M.Admin (Monash Uni); Dip. Pub. Admin (Mzumbe University); Grad.Dip. Ed (Melbourne State College);

• Indigenous economic development and social advancement
• Cross-cultural/International management
• Capacity building and sustainable development for developing economies
• Indigenous business enterprises and entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial leadership
• Change management and leadership
• knowledge Management
• The human side of supply chain management

Talukder, M., Harris, H. and Mapunda, G. (2008) ‘ Adoption of Innovation by Individuals within Organisations: An Australian Study,’ Asia Pacific Management Review. Vol 13 No 2 pp. 483-480.

Mapunda, G. ‘Entrepreneurial Leadership and Enterprise Development: the Basis of Economic Development and Social Advancement in Sub-Sahara Africa,’ Refereed paper presented to Leadership and Management Studies in Sub-Sahara Africa Conference, Accra, Ghana 7 – 9 July 2008

Vemuri, R., Norris,G. and Mapunda, G. 'Creative ways of supporting livelihoods and businesses in the desert,' Refereed paper presented to 2008 Desert Knowledge Symposium, Alice Springs, Australia 3-6 November 2008

Lindsay, N J., Lindsay, W. A., Jordaan, A. and Mapunda, G. (2007) 'Indigenous nascent entrepreneur self-efficacy and perceived personal success,' International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol.4, No. 5, pp. 605-619.

Talukder, M., Harris, H and Mapunda, G. (2007). ‘Organizational innovation adoption: Determinants of the adoption of innovations by individuals within an organization.’ Sasin Journal of Management. 13(1).

Mapunda, G. ‘Entrepreneurial Leadership and Enterprise Development in Emerging Markets ( Traditional Societies)’ in the Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, July, 2007

Mapunda, G. ‘Entrepreneurial Leadership and Enterprise Development in Emerging Markets (Traditional Societies).’ refereed Paper presented to Academy for Global Business Advancement (AGBA) Annual World Conference, Penang, Malaysia, 21-25 May, 2007.

Talukder, M.,Harris, H., and Mapunda, G., 'Organizational Innovation Adoption: Determinants of the adoption of Innovations by Individuals within an Organisation', refereed paper to be presented to the Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December, 2006.

Mapunda, G., 'Trials and Tribulations of Management and Leadership in (Sub-Sahara) Africa', refereed paper presented to the Management and Leadership in Sub-Sahara Conference, Zanzibar, July 2006.

Lindsay, N J., Lindsay, W. A., Jordaan, A. and Mapunda, G. (2007) 'Indigenous nascent entrepreneur self-efficacy and perceived personal success,' refereed paper presented to the Fourth AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange conference, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2006.
Mapunda, G. 'Traditional Societies and Entrepreneurship: an analysis of Australian and Tanzanian Businesses', in the Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Vol.1, 2005.

Mapunda, G. 'Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Capacity Building for Developing Countries: The Role of Education in Personal and Social transformation. Is there an argument for a Grounded Theory Approach?', in International Journal of Learning, Vol. 11, 2005.

Mapunda, G. 'Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and capacity building in developing nations:the role of education and research in personal and social transformation. An argument for a grounded theory approach?', paper presented to the Eleventh International Learning Conference, Havana, Cuba, June 2004.

Mapunda, G. 'Challenges for Indigenous business: business education and the influence of kinships on the establishment of Indigenous business enterprises', paper presented to the Ninth International Learning Conference, Beijing, China, July 2002.

Mapunda, G. 'Indigenous small business enterprises as a strategy for community development', paper presented to the Eighth International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference, Spetses, Greece, July 2001.

Mapunda, G. 'Indigenous Tourism as a strategy for community development: An analysis of Indigenous business initiatives in South Australia', paper presented to the Eleventh Australian Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference (CAUTHE), Canberra, Australia, February 2001.

Mapunda, G. 'Aborigines and Business', paper presented to the Celebrating the Diversity of Research Learning, Service, Culture and Communication Conference, RMIT University, December 1999.

Mapunda, G. 'Managing a diverse workforce beyond rhetoric: A reflection on some of the major issues and concerns about Indigenous Employment', paper presented to the Seventh Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association, Lincoln university, Christchurch, NZ, July 1999.

Mapunda, G. 'Indigenous Tourism and Hospitality: Good business? Bad business? Who knows?', paper presented to the Ninth Australian Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference (CAUTHE), Adelaide, South Australia, February 1999.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Management

• I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:
• Managing diversity
• Change management
• Racism
• Race Relations