Case Focus offers a journal publication outlet for high-quality, peer reviewed teaching cases, with a focus on management and business situations in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.
Issue 2 | August 2021
Issue 2 of Case Focus includes nine peer-reviewed cases:
- Charmaleena: Succeeding Against All Odds
- FalconViz: Financing and Scale-up Challenges and Strategies in Saudi Arabia
- Headhunters: SMEs and the Digital Disruption of the Recruitment Industry
- HedgeGuard LLC: A Growing Company Facing a Bottleneck
- Introducing a Sustainable Business Model in Africa: The Case of BioDrive in Morocco
- Powerjet: An Uncertainty of Legacy
- Safaricom: CEO Succession Planning
- Silulo Ulutho Technologies: Scaling a Social Enterprise in South Africa
- Syphax Airlines: Is it Best ‘to Raise’ or ‘to Fold’ the Bet?
Call for cases
Cases
Cases are welcomed on all areas of business, management and government that are set in the MEA region. Cases must have been written for teaching purposes and be accompanied by a teaching note.
Cases can be based on published sources or field research. Fictional cases, or those from generalised experience, are not accepted.
Authors
Cases and their accompanying teaching notes must be copyrighted to an organisation located in the MEA region.
Authors must be a business or management teacher. Cases can be written by a team of two or more authors. Students and research assistants can be part of a writing team, but it must be led by a faculty member.
Read our full submission requirements
Submit to Case Focus
We are currently accepting submissions for Issue 3.
Once you have checked that your case and teaching note meet our submission requirements it's quick and easy to submit via our online form.
Benefits of submitting
Peer-review: all cases that meet the submission requirements will be double-blind reviewed. Feedback from the reviewers will be provided to authors to improve the quality of their cases and teaching notes.
Worldwide distribution: cases accepted to the journal for publication will be distributed and promoted to a global audience.
Retain your copyright: unlike other journals Case Focus does not require the authors or authoring organisation to sign over the copyright of cases that are published.
Earn a royalty: cases accepted to the journal for publication will be eligible for a royalty payment on any sales. The authoring school must be a member of The Case Centre to be eligible to receive royalties.
Find out more about our submission process
Editorial and review boards
Editorial board
The Case Focus editorial board comprises a distinguished group of management and business educators and specialists. Find out about the editorial board
Review board
Cases that meet the submission requirements will be double-blind reviewed. We are looking for enthusiastic reviewers, who are passionate about cases. Find out how to become a reviewer
Key dates
| Issue 3 | Issue 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Submissions open | 2 November 2020 | 1 November 2021 |
| Submission deadline | 21 October 2021 | 20 October 2022 |
| Successful authors notified | January 2022 | January 2023 |
| Case Focus published | August 2022 | August 2023 |
