Africa offers one of the richest and most diverse organizational landscapes in the world - spanning formal and informal economies, hybrid organizational forms, complex institutional environments, and rapidly evolving markets and fields. For scholars committed to advancing robust theoretical understanding of organizations, organizing, and management, Africa represents an extraordinary source of insight.
The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) brings together a global community of researchers dedicated to producing rigorous, theoretically significant, and context‑grounded scholarship. Our mission aligns directly with OMT's commitment to building and testing theory across levels of analysis, methodological traditions, and organizational phenomena.
Why OMT scholars will find African contexts - and AFAM's community - uniquely valuable
- A natural laboratory for theory development, with organizational forms shaped by institutional pluralism, resource constraints, cultural diversity, and rapid change.
- Rich variation across analytical levels - from individuals and teams to organizations, industries, fields, and transnational systems.
- Opportunities to explore core OMT theories, including institutional theory, sensemaking, networks, practice theory, power and dependence, complexity, and evolutionary processes.
- Empirical settings for studying grand challenges, including inequality, sustainability, governance, and societal impact.
- Diverse methodological possibilities, from ethnography and qualitative comparative analysis to big data, archival work, and mixed methods.
- A vibrant scholarly community that connects Africa‑based researchers with global theorists to co‑develop new conceptual frameworks and refine existing ones.
AFAM complements OMT's mission by offering a platform where scholars can engage deeply with African organizational phenomena - generating insights that enrich global theory and expand the boundaries of management knowledge.
If your work seeks to understand how organizations emerge, adapt, interact, and transform across diverse contexts, AFAM offers a powerful intellectual home for collaboration and theoretical advancement.
👉 Discover more and start engaging with us:
https://africaacademyofmanagement.org
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Guy NJAMBONG
Communications Director
Africa Academy of Management | AFAM
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