Launching: Network for Practice and Process Management Studies • Drawing on the African Empirical Setting

In person venue: Honeybush, Stellenbosch Business School • Time: 13:15 (UK) | 15:15 (SA) | 08:15 (Montreal, EDT)

Keynote: Emeritus Prof Ann Langley
“Learning from Practice Studies in the African Context”

The Network for Practice and Process Management Studies: Drawing on the African Empirical Setting, is a joint initiative led by Warwick Business School (WBS) and the University of Stellenbosch Business School (SBS). Our aim is to scope out current knowledge about African management practices, to develop relevant theoretical perspectives, to enable networking among scholars seeking to carry out practice-based studies on the African continent and to strengthen capacity towards qualitative empirical research in Africa.

We contend that such enabling activities are critical to unlocking future actionable opportunities for fruitful collaborations between qualitative researchers from the global North and South who are interested in understanding how management phenomena unfold in Africa.

Join us as we explore African management practices through insightful discussions and research as we unpack the limits of rationality in Africa and the future of management research on the continent.

SPEAKERS

Keynote Address: Emeritus Prof Ann Langley
Emerita Professor of Management at HEC Montreal; Distinguished Research Environment Professor at University of Warwick; Deputy Editor of Academy of Management Journal

Dr Jose Bento da Silva
Assistant Professor at Warwick Business School

Prof Mira Slavova
Assistant Professor at Warwick Business School

Prof Dan Branch
Professor of African History: University of Warwick

Dr Natasha Winkler-Titus
Senior Lecturer: Organisational Behaviour and Leadership at Stellenbosch Business School

Prof Andre Roux
Economist and Futures Expert at Stellenbosch Business School