Lecturer: Dr Wouter Bam
Nations are becoming increasingly focussed on not only “inserting” themselves into global production networks, but also ensuring that they capture more value from the activities in which they are involved. As such, there is increasing emphasis on ensuring that economic activities do not only provide economic benefits to their host nations, but also enable social upliftment and ensure environmental sustainability.
Within this context, there exists a need for research to support the evaluation of how countries and regions capture value from their participation in global supply chains and how different policy options may affect this value.
To this end the research group focusses on various themes which include:
Completed Masters Projects:
To ensure greater impact and relevance of research, students are encouraged to build networks and collaborate with industry, government, NGO’s and other research organisations. As such, the beneficiation group has built a collaborative relationship with individuals within the following organisations:
1. Du Plessis, J.A. and Bam, W.G., 2017. Scoping phase comparison of development opportunities by making use of publicly available sustainability information. Procedia Manufacturing, 8, pp.207-214.
2. Bam, W. and De Bruyne, K., 2017. Location policy and downstream mineral processing: A research agenda. The Extractive Industries and Society, 4(3), pp.443-447.
3. Du Plessis, J. and Bam, W., 2018. Comparing the sustainable development potential of industries: a role for sustainability disclosures?. Sustainability, 10(3), p.878.
4. Van Zyl, H., Bam, W. and Steenkamp, J., 2016, October. Identifying barriers faced by key role players in the South African manganese industry. In Institute for Industrial Engineering Conference (p. 365).