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Thursday , January 09,
2020 / 10:26 AM / Ottoabasi Abasiekong for WebTV / Header Image Credit:
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The Dean of Lagos
Business School Prof. Enase Okonedo yesterday tasked the African Academy of
Management to explore avenues of deepening Africa' regional economy, through
its management research studies.
She disclosed this at the
5th Biennial conference of the Academy hosted by the LBS, which
focused on the theme "Globalization, Pan-Africanism and African Business
Climate."
The event brought
together scholars across African Universities and the Diaspora in Management
studies.
Prof. Okonedo noted that
since the global financial crisis of 2008, Africa has become recognized as the
last frontier for economic transformation and industrialization.
She believed the theme of
the conference was apt and allowed scholars to discuss what it will take for
the African continent to get to the next level in regional economic
development.
Speaking on the Lagos
Business School, Okonedo said the school's focus was on developing talent and
skills that are globally competitive in the areas of business and management.
At the moment, she noted
that the LBS had shifted focus on training and equipping managers for the
African region and the global community.
She described Lagos, the
host city of the conference as a strategic economy in Africa, with a Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) size of eight neighbouring West African countries.
The Chairman of the LBS
Local Organizing Committee for the conference Professor Chris Ogbeche in his
remarks, assured the delegates that the 4-day conference would be impactful and
broaden the scope of management studies on the continent.
President of the African
Management Academy, Dr. David Zoogah, in his speech, believed that the
conference underscored the growing connection between management studies and
developing trends in integration, cross-border trade and regional cooperation
in Africa.
He said AFAM would
continue to work closely with the African Union and other relevant
international development agencies to deepen research studies, that can
transform the regional economy.
The 4-day conference will
feature various paper presentations from scholars in areas of management,
social entrepreneurship, governance & globalization, and developing
trends in Africa.
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