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Call for Papers

5^th Biennial Conference of the Africa Academy of Management

Host: Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria

January 8-11, 2020

(Includes pre-conference sessions, conference activities, and excursions)

Conference Theme

Globalization, Pan Africanism, and the African Business Climate

KEY DATES

Paper and PDW/Symposia/Caucus Submission: 30^th January to 31^st May 2019

Notification of Acceptances: 1^st – 30^th July 2019

Conference Registration Deadline: 15^th October 2019

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.  

The submission website is: https://www.africaacademyofmanagement.org/conferences/index.php/afambc/bc2020

Submission Tracks

Track 1: Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Track 2: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Track 3: Public Policy, Administration and Non-Governmental Organizations

Track 4: Strategy and International Management

Track 5: Social Issues in Management

Track 6: Sustainability and Green Management

Track 7: PDW/Caucus/Symposia

Track 8: Management Practice

Track 9: Doctoral Consortium & Junior Faculty Consortium

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)