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Africa offers one of the most diverse and compelling contexts for understanding how individuals and groups think, feel, and behave within organizations. For scholars committed to advancing organizational behavior research and teaching, the continent provides rich opportunities to explore OB phenomena across cultural, institutional, and organizational settings.

The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) brings together a global community of researchers dedicated to rigorous, context‑grounded scholarship. Our mission aligns directly with the OB Division's purpose: to advance scholars and scholarship that positively influence management thought and practice.

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

• Individual‑level insights into beliefs, values, motivation, emotions, decision‑making, and identity shaped by diverse cultural and institutional environments.
• Interpersonal processes such as trust, justice, power, social exchange, and networks that operate differently across African organizational and societal contexts.
• Group and team dynamics, including leadership, cohesion, diversity, cooperation, conflict, and collective sensemaking in rapidly evolving workplaces.
• Organizational practices such as work design, communication, feedback, rewards, and socialization within public, private, nonprofit, and hybrid organizations.
• Contextual influences-national culture, organizational climate, institutional logics-that offer powerful comparative opportunities for OB theory development.
• Outcomes that matter, including performance, creativity, attachment, citizenship behaviors, stress, turnover, deviance, and ethical behavior.
• A vibrant scholarly community that supports research, teaching, and the development of early‑career scholars across the continent and beyond.

AFAM complements OB's mission by offering a platform where scholars can explore how individuals and groups behave in diverse organizational settings-generating insights that enrich global OB theory and inform management practice.

If your work seeks to understand people at work-how they think, feel, interact, and perform-AFAM offers a powerful space for collaboration, comparative research, and meaningful scholarly impact.

👉 Discover 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.

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Guy NJAMBONG
Communications Director
Africa Academy of Management | AFAM
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