CARISCA 2026 Supply Chain Research Summit
Submissions are due by March 31, 2026
The 2026 Supply Chain Research Summit program committee is pleased to announce a call for papers for the best PhD dissertation proposal.
CARISCA will award a winner and two runner-ups at the 2026 summit in Accra, Ghana, “Transforming Supply Chains in Africa in the Age of AI,” July 6-8. The dissertation committee will also provide feedback on submissions upon request.
The PhD Dissertation Competition session at CARISCA’s Supply Chain Research Summit is intended to showcase the best logistics and supply chain management PhD research projects being carried out in African higher education institutions.
Eligibility:
The 2026 CARISCA Supply Chain Summit will bring together researchers, experts, practitioners, and policymakers in Africa and beyond to discuss the place of AI in Africa's supply chains. We welcome researchers to share theoretically and empirically grounded insights from African supply chains. Experts, practitioners, and policymakers are also welcome to offer experiences and perspectives to inform future research on AI-enabled supply chains in Africa.
The candidate must be the primary owner of the study.
The topic of the PhD research must be focused on logistics and supply chain management.
The candidate’s primary affiliation must be to a university or other higher education institution in Africa.
Abstracts-only submissions will not be accepted for the session.
If selected as a finalist, you must register for the summit and be ready to give a presentation of your research, in English, either in person or virtually.
Submissions must be made online as a single PDF file.
Submissions should be between 5-10 pages long (12-point font, single-spaced).
Submissions must include the candidate’s curriculum vitae (maximum of 2 pages of the 5-10 page limit).
Proposals should cover the overall motivation of the study, literature area, research questions, potential contributions, methodology, results (if available), and potential managerial and policy implications for Africa.
Candidates may also include related additional materials to accompany their submissions (e.g., conference papers, published papers, working papers).
In addition to the main summit, there will be Paper Development Workshop. Details on how the paper development session will be available soon on the CARISCA website: https://carisca.knust.edu.gh/
Deadline: February 16, 2026
Deadline: March 31, 2026
Details regarding accommodations, keynote speakers, experiential learning trips and the conference programme will be available later.
Questions ?
Contact Martin Agbodzi at mmagbodzi@carisca.knust.edu.gh