Jill Bogie

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About Jill Bogie

I am a member of faculty at the Gordon Institute of Business Science and Director of GIBS Sustainability Initiatives for Africa. I am also lead faculty on the MPhil Corporate Strategy programme teaching strategy, strategic foresight sustainability and I am also responsible for the MPhil CS research programme.I teach and supervise Masters students on the following courses:Systems thinking and complexity; business purpose and the role of business in society, multi-stakeholder partnerships; the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the global challenges of climate change, clean energy, circular economy and others. I focus on process rather than subject content.Other experience: Facilitation of corporate strategy sessions; supervising student applied business projects; MBA research reports and MPhil research. PhD (STELLENBOSCH) in BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIONSubject: Applying a communicative approach to understanding multi-stakeholder cross-sector collaboration as an issue fieldCurrent areas of focus:PRME - Principles of Responsible Management EducationSustainable Development Goals (SDGs)Multi-stakeholder partnershipsCross-sector collaborationResearch interests:Business model innovation for sustainability; multi-stakeholder partnerships; cross-sector collaboration; collaboration as an issue field; collaboration theory with a focus on relational processes, interaction and communication; collective agency. Organising as a negotiated space through conversational interactions and collective narratives.Applying:Futures thinking; systems thinking and complexity; qualitative methods.Discursive/social constructionist research philosophy using narrative inquiry. Research may be desctibed as postmodern and respects various perspectives and recognising that all perspectives are partial, local and temporary.