Opening keynote address from the 2023 AFAM Conference: Sustainability and Green Management

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1080/23322373.2023.2235935

M. Abdelkarim

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Allow me to begin by expressing what a great pleasure it is to be with you today at the German University in Cairo as we are gathered to discuss “Sustainability and Green Management,” a subject that is one of the most pressing worldwide priorities, with a special focus on preserving the environment and reducing GHG emissions to mitigate the hazardous impacts of climate change. Although we have made incredible and exponential advancements in all economic sectors, such as transportation, energy, industry, and agriculture; yet, in our hurriedness to adopt such technologies that have undoubtedly made our lives better, we failed to foresee the long-term consequences of such advancements. Now we are paying the price as high-carbon and resource-intensive economic models are warming the planet, which is why we all need to address what we intend to do to change and transform to more sustainable business models that can operate in harmony with nature. In addition, since we are hosted today by one of Egypt’s finest academic establishments, I would like to discuss how the innovation ecosystem can contribute to “Sustainability and Green Management” by enhancing and strengthening the collaboration between industry and academia. First, let us address the challenges in university-industry collaborations, and though I will be approaching this from Egypt’s perspective, I trust you will find many commonalities in the challenges that we all share as African nations. In 2018, Egypt ratified law no. 23 of 2018 on the “Provision of Incentives to Science, Technology and Innovation.” The law aims to support research, innovation and development carried out at small and micro-technology enterprises to raise their competitiveness and encourage young innovators. However, there are still several challenges that hinder Egypt’s innovation ecosystem such as:

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2023 AFAM会议开幕主题演讲:可持续发展和绿色管理

首先，请允许我表示，今天非常高兴与大家相聚在开罗德国大学，讨论“可持续发展与绿色管理”，这是世界范围内最紧迫的优先事项之一，特别注重保护环境和减少温室气体排放，以减轻气候变化的有害影响。尽管我们在交通、能源、工业和农业等所有经济领域都取得了令人难以置信的指数级进步;然而，在我们匆忙采用这些毫无疑问使我们的生活更美好的技术时，我们未能预见到这些进步的长期后果。现在，我们正在付出代价，因为高碳和资源密集型的经济模式正在使地球变暖，这就是为什么我们都需要解决我们打算做些什么来改变和转变为更可持续的商业模式，从而与自然和谐相处。此外，由于我们今天由埃及最好的学术机构之一主办，我想讨论创新生态系统如何通过加强和加强工业界和学术界之间的合作，为“可持续发展和绿色管理”做出贡献。首先，让我们来解决大学与产业合作中的挑战。虽然我将从埃及的角度来探讨这个问题，但我相信你们会发现我们作为非洲国家共同面临的挑战有许多共同点。2018年，埃及批准了《埃及法》。关于“为科学、技术和创新提供激励”的2018年第23号决议。该法旨在支持小微科技企业进行研究、创新和开发，以提高其竞争力，并鼓励年轻创新者。然而，仍有一些挑战阻碍了埃及的创新生态系统，例如:

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Africa Journal of Management Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

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2.80

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15.40%

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期刊介绍： The beginning of the Twenty First Century has witnessed Africa’s rise and progress as one of the fastest growing and most promising regions of the world. At the same time, serious challenges remain. To sustain and speed up momentum, avoid reversal, and deal effectively with emerging challenges and opportunities, Africa needs better management scholarship, education and practice. The purpose of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) is to advance management theory, research, education, practice and service in Africa by promoting the production and dissemination of high quality and relevant manuscripts. AJOM is committed to publishing original, rigorous, scholarly empirical and theoretical research papers, which demonstrate clear understanding of the management literature and draw on Africa’s local indigenous knowledge, wisdom and current realities. As the first scholarly journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), AJOM gives voice to all those who are committed to advancing management scholarship, education and practice in or about Africa, for the benefit of all of Africa. AJOM welcomes manuscripts that develop, test, replicate or validate management theories, tools and methods with Africa as the starting point. The journal is open to a wide range of quality, evidence-based methodological approaches and methods that “link” “Western” management theories with Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems, methods and practice. We are particularly interested in manuscripts which address Africa’s most important development needs, challenges and opportunities as well as the big management questions of the day. We are interested in research papers which address issues of ethical conduct in different African settings.