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Africa's rapidly evolving production systems, logistics networks, and service delivery models offer an extraordinary opportunity for OSCM scholars seeking to understand how products and services are created, moved, and delivered in diverse and complex environments. The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) brings together researchers and practitioners committed to advancing rigorous, context‑grounded, and globally relevant management scholarship across the continent.

AFAM's mission aligns naturally with OSCM's focus on the design, management, and improvement of processes that deliver value - whether through manufacturing, services, or hybrid systems. Africa's institutional diversity, infrastructural challenges, and innovation under constraints provide fertile ground for conceptual, empirical, and methodological contributions.

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

• End‑to‑end supply chain diversity, from raw material extraction to last‑mile delivery in both formal and informal markets.
• Service operations innovation, including health care delivery, public services, and digital platforms transforming access and efficiency.
• Unique logistics challenges and solutions, from cross‑border trade corridors to urban mobility and rural distribution networks.
• Opportunities for cross‑functional research, fully aligned with OSCM's encouragement of linkages with strategy, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and technology.
• Empirical settings for studying resilience, agility, and risk management in environments shaped by volatility, institutional complexity, and rapid growth.
• A global scholarly community that connects Africa‑based researchers with international OSCM experts for collaboration, co‑authorship, and methodological innovation.

AFAM complements OSCM's mission by offering a platform where scholars can explore how operations and supply chains function across diverse contexts - generating insights that enrich global theory and practice.

If your work examines how products and services are designed, produced, and delivered across complex systems, AFAM offers a powerful space for collaboration and 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.

#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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