Dr McEdward Murimbika
Senior Lecturer: Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
Dr Murimbika is an entrepreneur and academic with more than 25 years’ experience as a business executive, management and a advisory consultant and an accomplished multi-discipline referenced scholar in the fields of entrepreneurship, small business management, enterprise development and Archaeology. Dr. Murimbika holds dual doctorates, one in the filed management and another in Archaeology. He is a published and referenced scholar with academic works and publications in organisational strategy and entrepreneurship, small business and management innovation. He is also an accomplished and globally rated archaeologist with international referenced works and publications in African archaeology, heritage resources management, ethnoarchaeology and palaeopathology including works on UNESCO African World Heritage Sites development and management. His current research interests are in enterprise development, small business growth and employment creation dynamics; emerging exponential technologies in context of the 4IR, strategic and management innovation, and archaeological resources management.
Dr Murimbika has demonstrated multi-discipline first-class research, training, analytical and applied problem-solving skills emanating from his work within the Emerging African Economies (EA) across the sub-Saharan Africa region. He also has international advisory, consultancy and executive training experience in the fields of Exponential & Emerging Technologies Convergence, Global Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial leadership and business advisory as well management innovation.
Dr Murimbika has a portfolio of entrepreneurial ventures created and developed over more than two decades, a period during which he occupied senior executive management and founding directorship positions in multiple ventures including a multidiscipline specialist management consultancy based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
In a career spanning more than two decades, Dr Murimbika has extensively travelled, worked and studied across the globe including the USA, South Africa, Norway, Kenya, Belgium, Zimbabwe, Spain, Tanzania, Germany, Namibia, France, etc. He has developed a portfolio of international institutions guest scholarships and lectureships including at the World Economic Forum, British Institute in East Africa; the World Bank (Washington, USA) as well as leading some African governments national business delegations and missions to the EU and the UNESCO.
Dr Murimbika graduated from the University of Zimbabwe with Bachelor and Honours degrees in Economic History and Archaeology. He holds an M.Phil. degree in palaeopathology from the University of Bergen in Norway; a Post-Graduate Certificate in African Archaeology from the University of Brussels in Belgium. Between 2006 and 2019, Dr Murimbika completed three post-graduate degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg beginning a PhD in Archaeology, a Masters in Management in the field of Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation 2012 and subsequently completed a second PhD. in Management in 2019 both from the Faculty CLM.
Referenced Publications – Business
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- Murimbika & B. Urban, (Forthcoming 2020). Systemic and local entrepreneurial intentions: Effects on employment creation and growth. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, Forthcoming.
- Murimbika, M. 2013. Strategic Management and Corporate Entrepreneurship: Influence of Strategic Management of Entrepreneurial Orientation of South Africa Financial and Business Service Sector. Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. [BOOK] ISBN 978-3-659-31317-2
- Murimbika, M. and Urban, B. (2013). Strategic management practices and corporate entrepreneurship: a cluster analysis of financial and business services. Journal of Business Management, 7(16), pp. 1522-1535.
- McEdward Murimbika and Boris Urban, (2014). Strategic Innovation at The Firm Level: The Impact of Strategic Management Practices On Entrepreneurial Orientation. International Journal of Innovation Management, 18, 1450016 [38 pages] DOI: 10.1142/S1363919614500169.
- Nhemachena C, & M Murimbika (2018). Motivations of sustainable entrepreneurship and their impact of enterprise performance in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Journal of Business Strategy and Development. Business Strategy & Development 1 (2), 115-127
Referenced Publications - Archaeology & Heritage Resources Management
- Murimbika, McE.. & B. Moyo. 2008. Archaeology and donor aid in the Developing World, Managing Archaeological Resources. Ed. F.P McManamon et. al. California: One World Archaeology 58.
- Murimbika, McE. 2013. Violated sepulchres? The quest for a proper space for disinterred indigenous dead and immortal remains in post-colonial South Africa. [Book Chapter]. Pp.: 213-232. In M. Manyanga & S Katsamudanga. Zimbabwean Archaeology in the post-independence era. Sapes Books, Harare.
- Murimbika, M. 2004. Communing with the dead: an Ethnoarchaeological interpretation of Shona mortuary practices. British Archaeological Reports International Series, 1210: 181 – 188. [MONOGRAPH]
- Murimbika, M. & Huffman, T.N. 2003. Shona ethnography and Late Iron Age burials. Journal of African Studies, Vol.1 (2): 237-246. [JOURNAL].
Contact details
+27 (11) 717 3658
mcedward.murimbika@wits.ac.za
