Management: Welcome

"Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we're either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we're rejecting the idea of ambition entirely. But it doesn't have to be all or nothing. There is a way to create meaningful work as part of a balanced life, and it's called 'slow productivity'. Coined by Cal Newport, the bestselling author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, slow productivity is a revolutionary philosophy based on simple principles."

Contents Editorial: global trends in management, IT and governance in an e-world: E-MIG 2019 International Conference / Upasana G. Singh, Purshottama S. Reddy, Maxwell W. Phiri, Perienen Appavoo -- Data privacy in the cloud: the position of small, medium and micro enterprises engaged in mobile application development / Dusty-Lee Donnelly -- The adoption of information technology communication (ICTs) by the managers of spaza shops in rural South Africa / Mpho Mzingelwa -- E-citizenship and its role in promoting participatory governance in South Africa: a Durban Metropolitan Municipality case study / Paul Kariuki and Lizzy Ofusori -- The evaluation of municipal electronic government capacity and service delivery at Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality / Mylet Ursula Dlamini, Jan Meyer and Sam Lubbe -- Dimensional objectives of e-commerce in Africa: the case of Company Z / Lindiwe N. Kunene, Thokozani P. Mbhele and Portia S. Mthembu -- The relationship between career plateaus and the career stages of the University of KwaZulu Natal academics / Anisha Ramsaroop -- Socially responsive curriculum: powerful knowledge in the marketing curriculum in South Africa / Devika Pillay -- The COVID-19 effect on Mauritian higher education / Emerging issues in higher education leadership: results from round 1 of a global Delphi survey / Rob Elkington -- Cultivating socially responsible chartered accountant business leaders through education / Judith Terblanche and Yusef Waghid.

One of the weaknesses in both project and portfolio management has been the limited extent to which organizations have connected these activities to their key strategic needs. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez shows you how to address this shortcoming and how, as a consequence, fewer, more effectively elected and managed projects are the key to strategic and long-term success.