Closing Keynote Address: 2023 Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) Conference

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1080/23322373.2023.2235936

K. Hassanein

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As I am sure you have come to appreciate over the past few days, there is no place like this on earth. For four and a half millennia, Egypt has been the home of the most dramatic and enduring monuments to the power of our collective imagination, ingenuity, and effort as humans – the Pyramids of Giza. Now, as we gather here in Cairo, Egypt is again building something amazing in the middle of the desert – the New Administrative Capital. We have spent a few days together on this land of momentous building, a land that is clearly about enduring history, yet is also forging a path towards change and the future. Collectively we should begin asking ourselves a series of questions. What is the Africa Academy of Management building? What are we building and changing at our home institutions? What are we – as scholars and practitioners of management, each with roles, roots, or interests in Africa – building and transforming? The answer to these questions can be found in the welcome letter in our conference programs. I quote our colleagues Samuel Aryee and Lilian Otaye-Ebede who write, “The primary purpose of AFAM is the development and improvement of members’ capabilities for research and teaching of management in organizations in Africa.” That is a valuable and worthwhile purpose. Our collective pursuit of that purpose has, in a relatively short time, created a powerful, Africa-focused community of scholars, academics and practitioners that is truly global – just take a look at the representation here in Cairo. This community is inspiring, enabling and providing a platform for discourse, dialogue, research, and advocacy. We are advancing the very field of management itself and we are nurturing future generations of colleagues and leaders in our field. And we are doing it all with a focus on this continent, Africa. This continent where there is so much potential and where we – as AFAM and as individuals – can have so much impact. Below my name in the conference program, it says “McMaster University, Canada.” Canada has been my home for decades. It is where I built my career. It is where I completed most of my university-level education. But I was born in Africa, in Egypt, right here in Cairo. The issues, ambitions, and goals we are discussing at this conference are

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闭幕主题演讲:2023年非洲管理学院(AFAM)会议

我相信在过去的几天里，你已经开始欣赏到，地球上没有这样的地方。4500年来，埃及一直是我们人类集体想象力、创造力和努力的最具戏剧性和最持久的纪念碑的所在地——吉萨金字塔。现在，当我们聚集在开罗的时候，埃及又在沙漠中建造了令人惊叹的东西——新行政首都。我们在这片有着重要建筑的土地上度过了几天，这片土地显然有着悠久的历史，但也正在开辟一条通往变革和未来的道路。作为一个整体，我们应该开始问自己一系列问题。非洲管理学院的大楼是什么?在我们的家庭机构中，我们正在建立和改变什么?作为管理的学者和实践者，我们每个人都在非洲有自己的角色、根基和利益，我们在建设和变革什么?这些问题的答案可以在我们会议节目单的欢迎信中找到。我引用我们的同事Samuel Aryee和Lilian Otaye-Ebede的话:“AFAM的主要目的是发展和提高成员在非洲组织管理研究和教学方面的能力。”这是一个有价值和值得的目标。我们对这一目标的共同追求在相对较短的时间内创造了一个强大的、以非洲为重点的真正全球性的学者、学者和实践者社区——只要看看在开罗这里的代表就知道了。这个社区鼓舞人心，提供了一个讨论、对话、研究和倡导的平台。我们正在推动管理领域本身的发展，我们正在培养我们领域的下一代同事和领导者。我们所做的一切都集中在这个大陆，非洲。这片大陆蕴藏着巨大的潜力，我们AFAM和我们个人都可以发挥巨大的影响力。会议节目单上我的名字下面写着“加拿大麦克马斯特大学”。几十年来，加拿大一直是我的家。我的事业就是在那里建立起来的。这是我完成大部分大学教育的地方。但我出生在非洲，在埃及，就在开罗。我们在这次会议上讨论的问题、抱负和目标是

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.