The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Taking stock and looking ahead for international business research

IF 5.9 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI:10.1016/j.intman.2024.101120

Yaw A. Debrah , Oluwaseun E. Olabode , Femi Olan , Richard B. Nyuur

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The establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has opened new avenues of research interest in International Business and International Management. However, scholarly work in this fledgling area of research has been disparate and often lacking in the assessment of core international business implications of the emergence of the AfCFTA on member states as well as non-member states. This is because, as yet, no systematic attempt has been made to explore the AfCFTA in the context of IB research, or project future IB research directions. Hence, in this paper, using the PRISMA method we have systematically identified the current published research and scholarly work on the AfCFTA and provided a robust picture of the current state of knowledge and available literature on the AfCFTA while at the same time outlining potential areas for future international business research.

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非洲大陆自由贸易区（AfCFTA）：国际商业研究的总结与展望

非洲大陆自由贸易区（AfCFTA）的建立为国际商务和国际管理领域的研究兴趣开辟了新的途径。然而，在这一刚刚起步的研究领域，学者们的研究成果参差不齐，往往缺乏对非洲自由贸易区的出现对成员国和非成员国的核心国际商业影响的评估。这是因为，迄今为止，还没有人系统地尝试在国际商业研究的背景下探讨非洲自由贸易区，或预测未来的国际商业研究方向。因此，在本文中，我们使用 PRISMA 方法系统地确定了当前已发表的有关非洲自由贸易区的研究和学术著作，并提供了有关非洲自由贸易区的知识现状和现有文献的有力描述，同时概述了未来国际商务研究的潜在领域。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of International Management is devoted to advancing an understanding of issues in the management of global enterprises, global management theory, and practice; and providing theoretical and managerial implications useful for the further development of research. It is designed to serve an audience of academic researchers and educators, as well as business professionals, by publishing both theoretical and empirical research relating to international management and strategy issues. JIM publishes theoretical and empirical research addressing international business strategy, comparative and cross-cultural management, risk management, organizational behavior, and human resource management, among others.