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Walter Baets
Director of the UCT GSB, Walter Baets.

Walter R.J. Baets (born 1955) is a Belgian-born author and academic.[1] and the previous director of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB).[2] Where he was the Chair of the Association of African Business Schools[3] as well as the Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership at the UCT GSB.[4] In 2015, the UCT GSB was crowned the top business school on the continent for the eighth year running.[5]

He is a former UNESCO Chair[6] in Education for Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship at Euromed Management, Marseille.[7] He is married to author and leadership and personal development specialist, Erna Oldenboom. They have three children.

Education

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He graduated in Econometrics and Operations Research at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and did postgraduate studies in Business Administration at Warwick Business School, UK. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Warwick in Industrial and Business Studies and a Habilitation of Paul Cézanne University, Aix-Marseille III, France. He has held academic positions in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Spain.[citation needed]

Career

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His academic research focus has been on business model innovation and knowledge management; complexity, chaos and change (with a focus on values-based leadership); a quantum interpretation of management, with a focus on consciousness as a corporate driver.[8] A further interest is in integrating art and business and he is experimenting with art forms like flamenco and photography as creative tools for business model innovation[9]

Selected publications

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  • Aligning information systems with business strategy. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems 1.4 (1992): 205–213
  • Galliers, Robert D., and Walter RJ Baets. Information technology and organizational transformation: innovation for the 21st century organization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.
  • Organizational learning and knowledge technologies in a dynamic environment. Springer Science & Business Media, 1999.
  • Some empirical evidence on IS strategy alignment in banking. Information & Management. 30.4 (1996): 155–177.
  • Baets, Walter RJ, ed. Knowledge Management and Management Learning: Extending the Horizons of Knowledge-Based Management. Vol. 9. Springer Science & Business Media, 2006.
  • Rethinking Growth: Social entrepreneurship for sustainable performance. Palgrave Macmillan 2009. (With E Oldenboom)
  • Complexity, learning and organisations: a quantum interpretation of business. Routledge 2006
  • Browaeys, Marie-Joëlle, and Walter Baets. Cultural complexity: a new epistemological perspective. The Learning Organization 10.6 (2003): 332–339.

References

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  1. ^ "SABSA – Members Directory". www.sabsa.co.za. Archived from the original on 7 February 2009.
  2. ^ "Walter Baets | Who's Who SA". whoswho.co.za. Archived from the original on 9 April 2014.
  3. ^ "AABS – AABS Board". www.aabschools.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008.
  4. ^ "Purpose before profit: An interview with Mr. Allan Gray by Dave Marrs | Allan Gray Orbis Foundation".
  5. ^ "Eduniversal announces UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) as leaders in Africa | BizNis Africa". www.biznisafrica.co.za. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  6. ^ "Walter Baets". SEED. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  7. ^ "SEED – Walter Baets". www.seed.uno. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016.
  8. ^ "UCT GSB". gsb.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 26 January 2023. [dead link]
  9. ^ "Home". walterbaets.com.
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