Technology and Innovation Management TIM

Africa is one of the most dynamic frontiers of technological and innovation activity in the world - from digital platforms and fintech ecosystems to renewable energy, health tech, agricultural innovation, and community‑driven problem‑solving. For scholars committed to understanding innovation, technological change, and the management of technology‑based organizations, Africa offers a rich and rapidly evolving landscape.

The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) brings together a global community of researchers advancing rigorous, multidisciplinary, and context‑grounded scholarship. Our mission aligns directly with TIM's commitment to exploring the psychological, behavioral, operational, managerial, organizational, strategic, economic, and societal dimensions of innovation in an increasingly digital and interconnected world.

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

• A vibrant innovation ecosystem, including fintech, mobile money, digital health, ed‑tech, agritech, and renewable energy solutions emerging across the continent.
• Opportunities to study invention, R&D, and technological change in environments shaped by institutional diversity, resource constraints, and rapid adoption cycles.
• Rich empirical settings for research on platforms, ecosystems, and technological systems, including leapfrogging phenomena and bottom‑up innovation.
• A natural laboratory for emerging and transformative technologies, from AI and data‑driven services to climate technologies and community‑based innovation models.
• A strong fit for multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary inquiry, fully aligned with TIM's epistemological and methodological diversity.
• Opportunities to explore open innovation, user innovation, and crowdsourcing, which are central to Africa's innovation culture.
• A global scholarly community connecting Africa‑based researchers with international experts in technology, strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation management.

AFAM complements TIM's mission by offering a platform where scholars can explore how technological and innovation processes unfold across diverse contexts - generating insights that enrich global theory and inform practice for scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, managers, and policymakers.

If your work examines how innovation emerges, scales, and transforms organizations and societies, AFAM offers a powerful space for collaboration, comparative research, and theoretical advancement.

👉 Discover more and start engaging with us:
https://africaacademyofmanagement.org

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Guy NJAMBONG, PharmD, MBA, MSc
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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