Core values
- Unity in diversity
- Practice high academic integrity
- Respect and promote African Identity
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About AFAM
Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) is a premier association for academics focused on management in Africa, fostering collaboration among scholars in Africa and the Diaspora. AFAM's activities include providing a platform for building relationships and equipping African entrepreneurs, scholars and professionals with tools and training to succeed. AFAM delivers learning programs and solutions to support these goals.
Mission and vision
Mission
To foster the general advancement of knowledge and scholarship in the theory and practice of management among African scholars and/or academics interested in management and organization issues in Africa.
Vision
To perform and support educational activities that contribute to intellectual and operational leadership in the field of management within the African context.
What guides us
Four pillars shape everything AFAM does: the values we hold, what we set out to do, how we get there, and where we are heading.
Objectives
- To grow our membership 1% annually
- To organize a faculty development workshop every odd year
- To organize a conference biennially
Strategies
- Advance African Management Scholarship
- Build global connections
- Empower the next generation
Goals
- Diffusion within all educational institutions in Africa
- Increased high impact management education
- A unified front in growth and scholarship
- Increase epistemic density of Africa
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The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) is a premier association for academics focused on management in Africa, fostering collaboration among scholars in Africa and the Diaspora.
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