1130: Africa’s Data in Management Scholarship (12402)

Organizer(s)

• IU

  Ikenna Uzuegbunam

  Howard U., United States
• VA

  Valentina Assenova

  The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania, United States

Presenter(s)

• NM

  Nnamdi Madichie

  Bloomsbury Institute London, United Kingdom

Participant(s)

• PI

  Paul Igwe

  Lincoln U.
• LA

  Luqman Afolabi

  U. of Kigali

Presenter(s)

• EP

  Ethan Poskanzer

  U. of Colorado, United States

This symposium has three related objectives. First, the symposium will highlight the innovative use of African data sources to study organizations. Considering some of the challenges associated with the availability, access, and sustainability of data from Africa, the symposium will feature empirical research studies that have undertaken innovative research approaches to identify and collect data for research. The papers collectively demonstrate viable approaches that researchers are taking toward discovering empirically grounded management insights in Africa. Second, the symposium will offer insight into novel methodologies in the curation and deployment of African sourced data in management research. For example, the symposium will help reveal how the diverse cultures (and languages) in Africa give rise to the development and deployment of novel methodologies in management and organizational settings. Finally, the symposium draws attention to how management and organizational research using African data and methodologies reveal new perspectives about organizations and the future of organizing that are relevant to other managerial contexts outside of Africa. Thus, the symposium offers opportunities to derive implications that challenge prevailing ideas in extant management research.

Presentations:

• 08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1130: Non-extractive Research and Data in Management Scholarship in Africa (12402)
  

  Author: Nnamdi Madichie – Bloomsbury Institute London

  Author: Paul Igwe – Lincoln U.

  Author: Luqman Afolabi – U. of Kigali
• 08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1130: City Entrepreneurs and Trade Credit: Empirical Insights from an Urbanizing Africa (12402)
  

  Author: Ikenna Stanley-Paschal Uzuegbunam – Howard U.
• 08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1130: Does Training Increase Technology Entrepreneurship and Employment in the Long Term? (12402)
  

  Author: Ethan Poskanzer – U. of Colorado

  Author: Valentina Assenova – The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania