Proceedings of the International Conference on Business and Management Dynamics 2016: Sustainable economies in the information economy is an open-access book published by AOSIS.

This proceeding shares the academic papers presented at the International Conference on Business and Management Dynamics held from the 07 to 08 September 2016 at African Pride Crystal Hotel and Spa in Cape Town.

Copyright (c) 2016 M. Twum-Darko

It was with great pleasure that I welcomed you to the 2016 International Conference on Business and Management Dynamics (ICBMD). The 2016 conference continued with its tradition of being the premier forum for the presentation of research results and experience reports on contemporary issues of finance, accounting, entrepreneurship, business innovation, big data, e-Government, public management, development economics and information systems, including models, systems, applications and theory. The theme of the conference, which was ‘Sustainable economies in the information economy’ required a formidable collaboration of different multidisciplinary actors who seek to share their continuous and collaborative research outputs in reviewing existing strategies. Papers presented sought and proposed mechanisms for the likely achievement of a sustainable economy in the information economy of this world. The ICBMD conference gave researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of business, finance and digitisation. The conference attracted papers, which were double-blind peer-reviewed by the scientific committee, from Asia, Europe, and Africa.

I strongly believe that delegates to all the technical sessions and the keynote addresses by Professor Emeritus Ron Weber (Monash University, Australia) and Professor Extraordinary Douglas Boateng (UNISA School of Business Leadership) enjoyed these valuable and insightful presentations, many of which will guide us to a better understanding of the information economy. Having the Premier of the Western Cape represented as the Guest of Honour and her support for academic excellence, was very encouraging.

On behalf of the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences (FBMS), I thank the authors for providing the content of the programme. We are very grateful to the organising and the scientific committee, who worked very hard in reviewing papers and providing feedback to authors. Finally, I thank FBMS and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) as the hosting University and the main sponsor, our partners: HP-GSB of Namibia University of Science and Technology, SAP University Alliance and the Graduate School of Business Management of CPUT. We hope that delegates found the ICBMD-2016 interesting and thought-provoking and that the technical sessions provided everyone with a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world.

Willem Lotter
Acting Dean of Faculty: Business and Management Sciences
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa