Department of Marketing and Retail

Dr EC Wessels

College of Economic and Management Sciences
School of Management Sciences
Department: Marketing and Retail
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 012 429 2819
E-mail: nellec@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • DPhil in Management Studies specialising in Marketing (UNISA)
  • MCom Business management specialising in Marketing Management (Cum Laude) (UNISA)
  • BCom Honours Marketing Management (UP)
  • BsC Clothing: Retail Management (UP)

Currently teaching

  • Contemporary Issues in Marketing (MNM4801)

Fields of academic interests

  • Visual merchandising
  • Store atmospherics
  • Retail industry
  • Consumer behaviour
  • Marketing research
  • Social media

Field of Specialisation

  • Visual merchandising
  • Retail industry
  • Marketing research

Books

  • Contributing author: Public relations: Theory & Practice. 2014. Juta: Cape Town
  • Contributing author: Customer Service. 2nd ed. 2014. Juta: Cape Town

Paper presentations

  • Proceedings of the 2015 International Academic Business Conference Las Vegas & 2015 2015 International Education Conference Las Vega. 11-14 October 2015. Page 113. ISSN: 2157-9660 (online).
  • Proceedings of the International Symposium on Business and Management. Nagoya University. 2-4 April 2014. Page 251. ISSN 2226-6577.
  • Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on 2-Learning. SKEMA Business School, France. Vol 2: 30-31 October 2013. Page 511. ISSN: 2048-8645.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Excellence in Research Award present by Clute institute for the manuscript “Open Distance Learning Students’ Perception of the use of Social Networking Systems as an Educational Tool.”

Projects

  • SMME managerial and skills transfer project facilitator

Other

  • Departmental Research and Ethics chair