Management Consulting Division MC

In a world where consulting increasingly shapes organizational transformation, Africa offers a living laboratory for rethinking how management science bridges theory and practice. The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) invites members of the Management Consulting Division (MC) to engage with a continent whose diversity, innovation, and institutional complexity generate insights that enrich global consulting scholarship.

AFAM's mission is to advance rigorous, relevant, and high‑impact management research rooted in African realities while connecting scholars and practitioners worldwide. This aligns directly with MC's vision to elevate knowledge and practice standards, bridge theory and practice, and uphold global interdisciplinary perspectives.

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

• Cross‑sector consulting opportunities (public, private, and nonprofit) that reveal new models of organizational change and advisory practice.
• Empirical settings for testing management theories in emerging markets, social enterprises, and multinational networks.
• Collaborative potential with African SMEs, consulting firms, and academic institutions - echoing MC's strategic axis on strengthening collaboration and global reach.
• Societal impact through research that informs sustainable consulting practices, governance, and ethical advisory standards.
• Pedagogical innovation, mentoring, and doctoral engagement aligned with MC's focus on teaching excellence and capacity building.
• Exploration of AI and digital transformation in consulting - a fast‑growing frontier across African industries.

AFAM's work complements MC's 2025–2028 strategic priorities: ensuring long‑term stability, fostering collaboration, amplifying research impact, supporting pedagogical innovation, engaging with AI, and mentoring doctoral scholars. Together, these goals create fertile ground for joint initiatives that advance both scholarship and practice.

If your research or consulting practice seeks to understand how management science transforms organizations across borders and cultures, AFAM offers a vibrant platform for collaboration and intellectual growth.

👉 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, MC] 🔹 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? [MC, 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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