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Africa is home to some of the most dynamic cross‑border business environments in the world - shaped by diverse institutional systems, rapidly evolving markets, digital globalization, and deep cultural complexity. For scholars committed to understanding management across borders, cultures, and institutional contexts, Africa offers an unparalleled terrain for theory development and empirical discovery.

The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) brings together a global community of researchers advancing rigorous, context‑grounded, and internationally relevant management scholarship. Our mission is to strengthen the visibility, credibility, and impact of African management research while fostering collaboration across continents and disciplines.

Why IM scholars will find African contexts - and AFAM's community - uniquely valuable

• Cross‑border strategy and multi‑unit management in environments where firms operate across diverse regulatory, cultural, and economic systems.
• Comparative institutional analysis, with Africa offering rich variation in political, technological, social, and economic forces shaping organizational forms and practices.
• Evolving models of international business, including digital platforms, virtual channels, and new forms of cross‑border collaboration.
• Entrepreneurial and national competitiveness in fast‑growing markets with global linkages.
• Comparative management research involving multiple countries, regions, and cultural systems - fully aligned with IM's scholarly mandate.
• Opportunities to study MNEs' societal impact, including contributions to social development, sustainability, and global challenges such as inequality and climate change.
• A vibrant scholarly community that connects Africa‑based researchers with international colleagues working on cross‑border management themes.

AFAM is not only a regional association - it is a global intellectual movement committed to advancing management knowledge that is both theoretically robust and globally relevant.

If your work explores how organizations operate across borders, cultures, and institutional systems, AFAM offers a powerful platform for collaboration, comparative research, and new theoretical insights.

👉 Explore more and start engaging with us:
https://africaacademyofmanagement.org

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Guy NJAMBONG
Communications Director
Africa Academy of Management | AFAM
https://africaacademyofmanagement.org
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📌AJOM Call for Papers: Pen the future of African modernities - meet the editors, see the clues. #PYKPOC opens in 24h⏳

✒️ Something is being rewritten at the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) - official journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM). 📅In less than 24h, AJOM will open a Call for Papers (CfP) that invites you to write from a place rarely given room on the page.

#PYKPOC - Pen Your Knowledge: Pen Our Conversation.

🎙️ The Guest Editors: A pluriversal circle. Six minds. Three continents, one continent at heart. One conversation.

• Natasha Winkler-Titus (PhD) - Stellenbosch Business School 🇿🇦 · Deputy Programme Chair, AFAM • Dr Emamdeen Fohim - University of Bern 🇨🇭 · co-founder, Centre for African Smart Public Value Governance (C4SP) • Prof. Rebecca Namatovu-Dawa - Copenhagen Business School 🇩🇰  • Prof. Thomas Anning-Dorson, PhD - Wits Business School 🇿🇦 • Prof. Renate E. Meyer - WU Vienna 🇦🇹 · Copenhagen Business School · Saïd Business School, Oxford • Prof. Joel Gehman - The George Washington University 🇺🇸

🤔 What could they be plotting together? A few clues to spark your imagination 👇

🔹 Which modernities - quietly born? [OMT, CMS, MH, MSR] 🔹 Which technologies - free or chain? [CTO, TIM, CMS, SIM] 🔹 Which cases - already alive? [ENT, ODC, BPS, PNP] 🔹 Which infrastructures - still owed? [TIM, OSCM, HCM, PNP] 🔹 Whose rules, minerals, code? [IM, BPS, ONE, SIM] 🔹 Whose time, whose tomorrow? [OMT, MOC, MSR, RM] 🔹 What is Gen Z already writing? [ENT, DEI, CAR, MED]

✒️ Many things will be questioned. And solutions will need your pen. Make your guesses. Tag a colleague who should be at this table.

🪶In the meantime, Pen Your Knowledge: Pen Our Conversation - #PYKPOC. Bring what only you can write. Together, we will hold the conversation.

#CfP #PYKPOC #AJOM #AFAM #CallForPapers #AfricanScholarship #AfricaJournalOfManagement #FutureMaking #DigitalTransformation #Africa #ManagementResearch #OrganizationStudies #Innovation #Pluriversality #AOM #IFSAM #RME #BAM #SpecialIssue

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Guy NJAMBONG
Communications Director
Africa Academy of Management | AFAM
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