The 9^th International Conference on Business and Management Dynamics (ICBMD) will be held AS A HYBRID CONFERENCE on 27-28 September 2023. The theme for the 9^th ICBMD Conference is:

Managing Higher Education and Business Enterprises in developing countries beyond COVID-19

Higher education institutions (HEI) and business enterprises (BEs) in developing countries are confronted with organisational challenges in relation to HEI funding, infrastructure, and improving graduates for employability and BEs seeking new markets and improving product and service quality. Although organisations are doing their best to survive the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, HEIs and enterprises are not different to remain relevant. Therefore, the commercial viability of HEIs and enterprises in the developing countries in the post COVID-19 pandemic require new internationalisation and marketisation context and content to respectively attract international students and improved market penetration.

The question Hybrid 9^th ICBMD-2023 must answer is “why prospective students from developing counties get attracted to HEIs in the developed countries and consumers in the developing countries always seeking products and services from the developed countries?” ICBMD-2023 is calling for a deeper understanding of these intrinsic difficulties and perhaps from new management and leadership approaches to address these issues.

The Hybrid 9^th ICBMD-2023 provides a platform for discussion, interaction, collaboration, networking and sharing, all for the sake of contributing to the existing bodies of knowledge related to the conference theme. As such, the Hybrid 9^th ICBMD-2023 invites scholarly work in the form of empirical research papers, conceptual research papers, rigorous case studies and technical research reports which address these intrinsic difficulties in all aspects of disciplines related to business management.

These fields include, among others:

• Financial Accounting
• Economics; Management
• Marketing; 4IR
• Digital Transformation
• Tourism
• Retail
• Human Resource Management
• Knowledge Management
• Social Enterprises
• Social Innovation
• Business Enterprises and SMMEs; Entrepreneurship
• Technopreneurship; Agripreneurship
• Corporate Social Investment
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Green/Circular Economy
• Information Technology
• Business Administration/Innovation
• Work Integrated Learning

The Hybrid 9^th ICBMD will provide a platform for discussion, interaction, collaboration, networking and sharing, all for the sake of contributing to the existing bodies of knowledge related to the conference theme.