Camille Meyer
BIO
Camille is Associate Professor in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship and director of the Executive MBA at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, South Africa. His teaching and research adopt an interdisciplinary perspective to shed light on entrepreneurial, financial and ethical processes involved in the management of social innovations and natural resources. This perspective considers new approaches to business such as developing new financial models, social innovations, collaborative management and stakeholder partnerships for commons governance. His previous work in higher education includes academic roles at the Free University of Brussels (ULB, Belgium) and the University of Victoria (Canada). Prior to moving into higher education, he worked for the international training centre of the International Labour Organization in Turin (Italy).
At THE NEW INSTITUTE, Camille is involved in the "Africapitalism: Shared Entrepreneurship for Economic Development" program in the Academic Year 2024/25.
PUBLICATIONS
Collective intellectual property of Indigenous peoples and local communities: Exploring power asymmetries in the rooibos geographical indication and industry-wide benefit-sharing agreement, in: Meyer, C., & Naicker, K, Research Policy, 2023
Organizing for the smart African city: Leveraging the urban commons for exerting the right to the city, in: Peter, C., & Meyer, C.,Organization Studies, 2023
The impact of multinational enterprises on community informal institutions and rural poverty, in: Brandl, K., Moore, E., Meyer, C., & Doh, J., Journal of International Business Studies, 2022
The commons: A model for understanding collective action and entrepreneurship in communities, in: Meyer, C., Journal of Business Venturing, 2020