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 5 | June 2024
Issue 5 of Case Focus includes five peer-reviewed cases:
- Can an Africa Firm Expand Globally in the Face of International Giants? The Case of Capital Consulting Group in Morocco
- Dr Ahmed Abdel Wahab: Developing Egypt’s Automotive Industry
- Family Business Dilemmas in a Saudi Date Farming Company
- Navigating Change: Transformational Leadership at Federal Medical Centre, Ebute-Metta
- Yara - Action Africa: A Sustainable Platform for Smallholder Farmers
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 now accepting submissions for Issue 7 of Case Focus.
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.
The submission deadline is 5 September 2025.
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 6 | Issue 7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Submissions open | 2 January 2024 | 2 January 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 6 September 2024 | 5 September 2025 |
| Successful authors notified | November 2024 | November 2025 |
| Case Focus published | 30 June 2025 | 30 June 2026 |
