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Dear Colleagues, Due to several requests from colleagues (especially those from countries outside our core network and mailing lists, who only recently learnt about the CFP), we have decided to extend the submission deadline to June 24, 2016. For those that submitted before the deadline, we will start sending acceptance letters from June 1. We would appreciate it if you could circulate the attached call within your network. We especially look forward to welcoming doctoral candidates and faculty new to the field of international business/management. A special paper development workshop would be led by distinguished scholars: Prof. Elizabeth Rose I Professor & Associate Dean I University of Otago, New Zealand Prof Lilac Nachum I Professor I Baruch, City University of New York Prof. Yaw Debrah I Professor I Swansea University, UK Prof. Amon Chizema I Associate Editor, AJOM I University of Birmingham, UK Dr. Nathaniel Boso I Associate Editor, IMR I University of Leeds, UK We'll be providing registration fee waivers to several doctoral candidates and scholars from low-income African countries. For more information about this, please contact Michael at: [log in to unmask] Best regards, Ifedapo Adeleye Cc Prof. Abel Kinoti, Bcom, MBA, Dcom, FHEA-UK Dean, School of Business/Chair Academy of International Business, Sub Saharan Africa Riara University P.O. Box 49940-00100 Nairobi, Kenya Tel : +254-703 038 420/703 038 421/703 038 000 Fax: +254-20-252-5789 Cell: +254- 733-722-479 *Call for Papers **I** The AIB SSA 2016 Conference **I ** Lagos, Nigeria* *Extended Submission Deadline: June 24, 2016* The persisting global economic slowdown has posed several challenges for the Sub-Saharan Africa region. With plunging oil and commodity prices and China’s economic woes, there is a fierce debate on whether the robust economic growth recorded over the past decade is over. There is now a sense of urgency in diversifying economies, and advancing manufacturing and industrialization. Competitiveness in global markets is essential to achieving these goals. Unfortunately, Africa trails the rest of the world in competitiveness: 15 out of the 20 least competitive economies in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index are from the region. To increase our understanding of competitiveness in the African context, the 2016 conference welcomes conceptual and empirical papers and cases that shed light on product, firm, industry, city, national, sub-regional, and regional competitiveness. Submissions should offer insights and fresh perspectives on how firms in the region can offer quality products, enhance their capabilities to develop human capital, and improve their processes. *We also welcome submissions that address wider international business and management agendas and geographical contexts*. The conference will also consider original competitive papers, interactive papers, panels and teaching cases for the following tracks: § Location Competitiveness: Industry, City, National, Sub-regional & Regional § Public Policy (e.g., Innovation, Cluster Development, Regional Development) § Product & Firm Competitiveness § Entrepreneurship, SMEs & Informal Exporting § FDI, Global Value Chains & the Geography of IB § Human Resources, Culture & Language in International Business § Marketing & Consumers in International Business § Sustainability, Responsible Leadership & Governance of Natural Resources § Economic Diplomacy & Institutional & Political Environment of IB § Finance, Accounting & Economics § General Track: International Business & Management *JIBS Paper Development Workshop* *Teaching International Business Mini-Workshop* *Publication Opportunities!!!* — All accepted conference papers will be published as an abstract in the *2016 AIB-SSA Conference Proceedings (with ISBN)**.* — A selection of papers and cases that are aligned with the conference theme will be considered for inclusion in the *AIB Sub-Saharan Africa Book Series* published by Palgrave Macmillan. — Competitive papers will be considered for inclusion for a special issue of *Thunderbird International Business Review*: *Internationalization of African Firms*. A special PDW will be organized at the conference by the guest editors. — A collection of papers may be considered for a planned special issue in the *AIB Insights*, a quarterly publication of the AIB with a global readership. *Registration Waiver & Support* The chapter would provide registration fee waiver and some support to a limited number of delegates, with priority given to doctoral candidates and junior faculty from low-income countries. Please send an email to [log in to unmask] for more details. We look forward to seeing you in Lagos! Best wishes, Ifedapo Adeleye E: [log in to unmask] Disclaimer: The information transmitted via this email or any attachments thereto are intended for the named addressee(s) except where any addressee(s) was/were so named in error. The said information and/or attachments may contain confidential, privileged or copyright material and any amendment, dissemination, disclosure, transmission or distribution is hereby strictly prohibited. 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