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Sametsi Ditshupo

Sametsi Ditshupo

Sametsi Ditshupo holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Accounting from the University of Botswana and a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in United States of America (USA). She has over twenty-five years’ experience working for Botswana government and government related institutions dealing with Investment Promotion, Private Sector Development Initiatives and Project Funding.

She also worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Botswana as the National Economist. Sametsi has been a Non-Executive Director and Chairperson of several companies in Botswana .  She is currently the Head of the Department of Business in the Faculty of Business and Accounting at Botho University.

About

Department: Business Management
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Accounting
Campus: Gaborone
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Email: sametsi.ditshupo@bothouniversity.ac.bw
Qualifications:
  • BA(Economics and Accounting) from University of Botswana
  • MSc (Economics) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Affiliations, Honours and Industry/Community Engagement:

Faculty Assessment Committee and Faculty Programme Committee

Research Interests:

Entrepreneurship, Business and economics

Research Publications:
  1. Gumbo, C. and Ditshupo, S. (2015). A Comparative Study of Home-based Versus Out-of-home Mumpreneurship Ventures Challenges in Botswana. International Journal of Advanced Research (2016), Volume 4, Issue 6, 894-913.
  2. Gumbo, C. and Ditshupo, S. (2017). Cross-culture and Entrepreneurial Venture Sustainability: A comparative study of Batswana and Indian Mumpreneurs in Botswana. 2017 International Conference on Transforming and Growing Economies Through Sustainable Business Innovation. Kasane, Botswana 11-13 July, 2017.
  3. Gumbo, C. and Ditshupo, S. (2015). Cross-culture Entrepreneurial Driving Forces Among Mumpreneurs in Botswana. Paper presented at the Botho University International Research Conference in Gaborone, Botswana, October 2012. Botho University: Botswana.
  4. Gumbo, C., Kgosietsile, V. and Ditshupo, S. (2017). Community-youth Compatible Collaborative Strategies for Entrepreneurship Education in Botswana. The 2017 Annual EEASA Conference, Maun, Botswana from 18th to 22nd September, 2017
  5. Black Friday rituals: Journey from social influence and convenience to customer value and loyalty among Generation Y customers in Botswana: A Stimulus-organism-response perspective. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Business and Management Dynamics; Book Publisher International, United Kingdom and India, 2021 Olumide Jaiyeoba1, Tendai Douglas Svotwa2, Robert Machera3, Sametsi Ditshupo4
  6. Gumbo, C. and Ditshupo, S. (2015). Outsourcing Performance Inhibiting Factors: Public versus private sector collaborations in Botswana. Baisago University 1st International Conference.

Teaching and Supervision

Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Business Mathematics and Statistics, Quantitative Methods