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Call for Book Chapter Contributions
Book Title: Management Development in Africa: Building Capabilities to Serve African Organizations
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Management Development in Africa: Building Capabilities to Serve African Organizations will examine how African management/business scholarship can serve African and multinational management and organizations operating in Africa. In a broader sense, this book within African context will (a) explore how human capital and intellectual capabilities can be organized at higher education level, (b) describes the cultural, social, and political influencers impacting management and organization, (c) conceptualize African management theories to address organizational effectiveness, and (d) address the current management and organizational practices in Africa in identifying challenges and provide guidance for more effective management and organizational operation. The book is an intimate exploration of how juxtaposition of African practices and realties and western theories of management can provide the necessary means for effective organizational strategies in Africa.
We would like to kindly invite African colleagues who are currently teaching or working in Africa to submit proposals, concerning, but not limited, to the following topics:
1. Public Policy & Higher Education
2. Overcoming the Challenges of Graduate Management Programs
3. Building the Next Generation of African Scholars and Practitioners
4. What Should an African Undergraduate Program Include?
5. African Management Theories, Practices, and Social Influencers
6. Culture and Management across African continent: Variations, Differences, Challenges, and the Role of Culture in Management
7. How Does Politics Dictate Management Practices in Africa? What Are the Regional Variations?
8. One-two case studies examining current country specific challenges
9. Conceptualizing African Management Knowledge for Action: An epistemological Inquiry
10. What Are the Limits of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Conducting African Management/Organizational Research
11. Social, Political, and Cultural Influences on African Management Theory Building
12. Differences and Similarities in African Management Theory Construction and the European and North American
13. Regional Variations and Their Impact on Management/Organization
14. How Does African Management Operation Differ from the Non-African?
15. How Should Organizations Create a Unique Africa Strategy to be successful?
16. Human Resources Practices: Application of Human Capital for Effective Performance, from North to Sub-Saharan, from West to East of Africa
Abstract Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts not exceeding one A4-sized page (which should include the title of the chapter, keywords, authors' names and affiliations) as word document to Dr. Hamid Kazeroony(hkazero@inverhills.edu), Professor Yvonne du Plessis (yvonne.duplessis@nwu.ac.za), and Bill Buenar Puplampu, PhD (bpuplampu@central.edu.gh). An author kit will be sent to the authors of the accepted proposals for the preparation of final manuscripts. Please contact us if you have any inquiry.
Important dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday, 31 October 2014
Acceptance/rejection notification of abstracts: Friday 14 November 2014
Deadline for full chapter submissions: Friday 27 March 2015
Acceptance/rejection notification of full chapters: Friday 24 April 2015
Submission of revised chapters: Friday, 29 May 2015
Tentative book publication date: August 2015
Editors
Dr. Hamid H Kazeroony,
Managing Editor, Transnational Journal of Business
Vice Chair, Gender & Diversity, European Academy of Management
Business Faculty, Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
Inver Grove, Minnesota, 55076, USA
hkazero@inverhills.edu
Professor Yvonne du Plessis
Graduate School of Business and Government Leadership
North-West University (Mafikeng Campus)
Private Bag X 2046, Mmabatho, South Africa, 2735
yvonne.duplessis@nwu.ac.za
Bill Buenar Puplampu, PhD.
C.Psychol, Associate Professor (OB, UGBS)
Department of OHRM, UGBS Box LG78, Legon, Ghana
bpuplampu@central.edu.gh
Regards-Hamid
Dr. Hamid H Kazeroony, SPHR
Business Faculty
hkazero@inverhills.edu
Managing Editor, Transnational Journal of Business
Incoming Chair, Membership Committee, Academy of Management
Vice-Chair, Gender & Diversity, European Academy of Management
Published June, 2014: Capitalism and the Social Relationship: An Organizational Perspective
Co-editor: The Routledge Companion to International Management Education
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