We are pleased to announce that the fifth biennial conference of the African Academy of Management (AFAM) will take place from January 8-11, 2020 at Lagos Business School in Lagos, Nigeria. Our conference theme is designed to look at two aspects of the ‘new’ emerging business environment in Africa: 1) how external actors invest, relocate, and interact with indigenous African businesses and 2) how internal African businesses move across national boundaries and explore the Pan-African environment.
Our conference theme is meant to encourage dialogue and debate regarding one of the most pressing issues that face the continent: As African economies grow, how are resources and business opportunities best marshalled and shepherded for the benefit of Africans in a way that facilitates sustainability and access to better life for citizens? What is the role of foreign direct investment, regional trade associations, and regulatory frameworks in ensuring and maximizing resources? How can the public and not-for-profit ‘third sector’ help to manage and to benefit from the inevitable challenges and changes? What are the responsibilities of investors, both those in Africa and those from outside Africa, in ensuring a sustainable and healthy environmental footprint in African businesses and economies?
Our location, Lagos, Nigeria, is ideal for exploring these issues. Nigeria is not only the largest economy in Africa but also the largest oil producer in Africa, the 11th largest in the world, and has a long history of FDI. As new oil deposits continue to be discovered throughout the continent, we may ask ourselves if oil (and the other critical resources so prevalent in Africa) are a cure or a curse? How might African countries rich in natural resources best manage this wealth for the benefit of their populations?
Prospective contributors are encouraged to submit conceptual or empirical papers, symposia and professional development workshops that explore the issues relevant to the conference theme and beyond. Topics relevant to the theme include, but are not limited to the following:
- How can foreign direct investment be best managed in the African context?
- How can African regional actors compete with international firms?
- How can local firms be encouraged to globalize, and/or expand across the African continent?
- What frameworks might be employed to manage natural resources on the continent?
- What formal institutional factors facilitate or impede the creation of African organizations that can compete in the global economy?
- How might resources be better managed for the benefit of Africans?
- How might entrepreneurship be promoted to encourage indigenous resource development?
- What are effective incentives and frameworks for CSR and social entrepreneurship?
- What strategies should African businesses implement in their local markets to enable them to prosper both at home and in the competitive global environment?
- What factors could facilitate (or impede) the emergence of African multinationals?
- What is the role of African indigenous knowledge systems in contributing to management theory development?
- To what extent can informal institutional factors, such as culture, ubuntu, and the role of the extended family system facilitate or impede the creation of entrepreneurial businesses in Africa?
- What human resources management practices can facilitate the creation of high-performing organizations?
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Author Guidelines
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Proceedings Editor(s): Dorothy Mpabanga, University of Botswana, Botswana(dorothym366@gmail.com)
Accepted papers may be published in the Best Paper Proceedings of the Conference. There will be a best paper award for each track. Winners will receive a certificate and the paper will be highlighted in the conference program. Best papers will also be considered for publication in the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) subject to the journal’s blind review process.
Please check the AJOM website at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rajm20/current
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please follow these guidelines and formatting instructions to prepare your paper.
- Each paper can only be submitted to ONE track. If a proposed idea does not seem to fit any of the tracks described above, authors should contact the Program Co-Chairs: Samuel Aryee (s.aryee@surrey.ac.uk) and Lilian Otaye-Ebede, University of Liverpool Management School (email: L.E.Otaye@liverpool.ac.uk). Your submission will be directed to the most appropriate track.
- All papers and proposals should be submitted electronically via the conference website at www.africaacademyofmanagement.org.
- Submitted papers must NOT have been previously published and if under review, must NOT appear in print before the AFAM 2022 Conference.
- Paper submissions will be blind reviewed. Authors should therefore remove all author-identifying information, including acknowledgements from the text, and document properties.
- The paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in one document created in a PDF format.
- The maximum length of a paper must be 40 pages (including tables, appendices and references). The paper format should follow the Africa Journal of Management’s style guide (APA Style Guide 6th Edition (https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=rajm20).
- Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double spaced, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.
- Number all the pages of the paper.
- No changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, and actual paper can occur after the submission deadline.
- Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly and ensure that the file is virus-free.
- Submissions will be done on-line on the AFAM 2022 conference website, from January 30, 2021 - April 30, 2021. All submissions must be submitted by the deadline of April 30, 2021.
- Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review.
- Once a submission is accepted, all panelists in a PDW/Caucus and Symposia, and at least one author of each co-authored paper must register for the conference by September 30, 2021. If authors/panelists do not register by the deadline, their submissions will not be included in the Conference Program or Proceedings.
- RULE OF 3: A participants may be listed as an author or co-author on up to 3 submitted papers.
- Those submitting work to the conference are expected to serve as reviewers and are invited to register as both an author and reviewer on the conference website.
NOTE: Papers that do not follow these formatting instructions WILL NOT be sent out for review.
ENQUIRIES
If you have questions, you may contact any of the Program Co-Chairs or the Local Organizing Committee (Lagos Business School):
Program Co-Chairs:
Professor Benson Honig (McMaster University/Canada; email: bhonig@mcmaster.ca)
Professor Moses Acquaah (University of North Carolina at Greensboro/USA, e-mail: acquaah@uncg.edu)
Local Organizing Committee (Lagos Business School):
Professor Chris Ogbechie (email: cogbechie@lbs.edu.ng)
Mr. Omotayo Muritala (omuritala@lbs.edu.ng)
Submissions for this conference were closed on 2019-09-17.