AIMC – sharing ideas and experiences on a wide range of topics relevant in business and management.

MUBS invites papers that address global, national and institutional answers occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.

IMPORTANT DATES

Date                           Expectation
January 10, 2023 – Issue of the Conference Call
January 13, 2023 – Follow up communication
January 24, 2023 – Submission of FULL papers
January 27, 2023 – Authors receive comments
February 03, 2023 – Receipt of revised papers
February 07, 2023 – Compilation of Conference papers
February 28 – March 02, 2023 – Conference

CONFERENCE CLOSED

CONFERENCE CONTACTS

For correspondence and enquiry, please contact the Conference Chair or Coordinator via;

Makerere University Business School,
Plot 21A, Portbell Road
P. O. Box, 1337,
Kampala, Uganda:
Tel:+256-414-338112; Fax: +256-414-505921
Email: 26aimc@mubs.ac.ug; vbagire@mubs.ac.ug; aserina@mubs.ac.ug

ACADEMIC CONFERENCE TRACKS

Track Director: – Dr. Rachel Mindra

  • Loan management during the lockdowns
  • Portfolio management after opening up
  • Risk management in the covid times
  • Financial Distress during and after covid
  • Financial perspectives for challenged firms
  • Corporate Governance distresses

Track Director – Dr. Sonny Nyeko

  • The Digital era – perspectives for firms in emerging economies
  • Business continuity in the digital era
  • Emerging ICTs, why we all care
  • How the Social Media world interacts
  • Trending – Business models
  • Novel marketing models to get and keep the customer
  • The warmth and coldness that shot the hospitality industry

Track Director – Prof. Joseph Ntayi

  • Do it or leave it: oil exploitation prospects versus the green economy
  • Covid survivors’ competitiveness economic models
  • Covid Victims and the resurrection economics
  • Renewable Energy verbal tic, exactly where are we?
  • Climate change talk- who is drumming, who is to dance?

Track Director – Dr. Ernest Abaho

• Is Social Entrepreneurship real?
• Entrepreneurial ecosystems that evaded Covid times
• Fall and Rise of business opportunities; OR the Rise and Fall?
• The paradox: Strategy Scholars were in Class as Managers were in Crisis
• The Crises of Covid-19: individual, group level, institutional and national
• Work from Home – the questions we can now ask.
• Is it Knowledge Management or thematic knowledge creation?
• The answers that we can now tell articulate.

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Submission Guidelines

Papers must not be more than 7,000 words, Posters and short presentations are also welcome. They should be prepared in accordance with APA formatting standards. Intending authors may seek templates from the Conference secretariat.

Publication in the Makerere Business Journal (MBJ) series

Best papers will be published in the MBJ after review by the Editorial Committee per guidelines.