AFAM Newsletter

With the increasing Africa-China engagement particularly in light of China’s new ‘Belt and Road’ initiative, this special issue seeks papers that contribute to our understanding of the nature of this engagement with regard to, inter alia, the management, social-cultural, investment/industrial, and trade/business dimensions. This engagement has important implications for Africa’s industrial-economic rejuvenation, and as Chinese investors become significant players in what has come to be viewed as Africa’s renaissance, we see an important opportunity to debate this phenomenon, to identify appropriate theoretical lenses for an emergent and hence under-researched phenomenon, and to shed light on how the Chinese presence is impacting the African investment and business landscape, including business human resource practices. This call is consist with recent exhortations for researchers to develop new and ambitious inter-disciplinary approaches to African management research and managerial thinking (e.g. Amankwah-Amoah, 2016; Kamoche et al., 2012; Zoogah et al., 2015).

The global economy has significantly changed for the last few decades, driving many Developing Countries to engage an important socio-economic transformation for the purpose of alleviating poverty. In Africa, in particular, various socio-economic initiatives have been taken including revamping regional economic integrations, promoting entrepreneurship and SMEs creation, designing business incentive policies to attract foreign direct investments or promoting inclusive finance or diaspora socio-economic involvement. 

As part of Wharton Global Initiatives, in August 2019 we will be hosting the eighth year of a special annual initiative, the Wharton Global Faculty Development Program. This program aims to assist in the professional development of young scholars from outside the U.S., with a particular focus on learning to publish in the leading academic journals in Management and related areas.

ESP is a two-week intensive summer program designed by AUC School of Business for international students to delve into the world of entrepreneurship through interactive classes, field visits to companies and incubators, meetings with successful entrepreneurs and social and cultural visits in Egypt.

Call for Applicants

The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) would like to announce the 2019 Africa Journal of Management Junior Faculty Fellowship.

The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) would like to announce the 2019 Africa
Journal of Management Junior Faculty Fellowship.

Purpose

The societal presence and impact of the informal economy are inescapable. Around the world and especially in areas of widespread poverty, unregistered and unregulated organizational entities operate in the part of the economy that either fails to adhere to the established institutional rules or are denied their protection. Reports from the International Labor Organization find that 48% of the labor force works in the informal economy in North Africa, 72% in Sub-Saharan Africa, 51% in Latin America, and 65% in Asia.

The Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI) invites applications for a vacant position as post doc. The position is a full-time position for 2 years starting September 2019 or by mutual agreement. The post doc is part of the research project “The firm in the informal economy” funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and headed by Associate Professor Marcus M. Larsen.   

Edited by Stuart Allen, Kim Gower, and Danielle Allen

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