Academy of Business & Retail Management

The Academy of Business & Retail Management seeks to promote academic research and scholarship. It is committed to 'Progress and Prosperity through Managerial Excellence'. The ABRM offers a range of membership levels and services that is intended to cater for the needs of individuals and institutions.

Membership levels are divided into 4 categories. This is intended to accommodate the needs of individuals and institutions from different backgrounds.

Individual membership Category

Full Members

This membership level is open to individuals who have extensive industrial and management experience in responsible capacity. Candidates must have successfully completed a degree level qualifications or having 3 years of relevant management and industrial experience. Also individuals, who qualified by way of being professionals and having long-term work experience, can apply to become a full member of the academy. Full Members can use the letters MABRM after their name to reveal their level of attainment.

Fellow Members

This is awarded to persons whose contribution to The ABRM and the wider business community is deemed exceptional. It will include individuals who ascribe to the ethos of ABRM and whose active participation in its activities contributes to ABRM’s overall effectiveness. The letters FABRM can be used after their name to reveal their level of attainment.

Other requirements include :

• Any recognised university degree

• Other recognised professional qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years management and industrial experience

• Published scholarly articles

• Clear commitment to the ABRM

Honorary Members

From time to time the Academy will honour deserving members (academicians and non-academicians) and other persons from the wider community who have contributed extensively to the field of Business and Retail Management and/or to the community and society at large. Such individuals are awarded by the ABRM for contributions deemed exceptional that are acknowledged locally or throughout the world. Members can recommend individuals for such membership with relevant and supporting argument. Two (2) honorary memberships will be awarded by the Academy each year.

Institutional Membership

ABRM accepts applications from organizations with an interest in furthering the mission and objectives of the Academy for Institutional membership. They can be: Universities, Departments, faculties,, Schools and Institute of Universities, Further and Higher Educational Colleges, Independent Colleges, Independent schools, Specialists training providers, Government and non-governmental organisations, Private and public limited organisations with special interests in retailing and any other organisations with similar interests.

Benefits of Individual Membership :

• The principal benefit amongst all categories is the opportunity to meet and interact with successful and experienced professionals, thus creating the potential for personal improvement and potential contacts.

• All members will be constantly updated through the ABRM’s regular journal and website bulletins regarding meetings and special events, and actively encouraged to participate (at discounted rates if a fee is charged).

• Individual members receive an official Certificate of Membership.

• Individual members gain professional recognition and make valuable personal and professional contacts.

• Individual members gain professional recognition by participation international conferences.

• Members of the Academy will be entitled to a 20% reduction on the registration fee for conferences organised by the Academy.

• All members will get free copy of the Journal of the Business & Retail Management Research

• All members will enjoy discounted rates for our various management training courses

• Institutional members are listed as Institutional Sponsors in our conference programmes and proceedings during each 12-month membership period.

• Post-graduate students studying at Institutional members will be entitled to a 20% reduction on the registration fee for academic conferences organised by the Academy.

• Institutional members will have their name listed as such on the Academy's website.

• Institutional members will benefit from discounted access to any conferences / seminars organised by ABRM and a range of potential opportunities by virtue of the contact with the executives of other businesses and organisations.

• Institutional members will get 50% discounts when they subscribe the Journal of the Business & Retail Management Research.

• Institutional members will enjoy discounted rates for our various management training courses

Become an Academy Member
The Academy of Business & Retail Management membership fees are as follows:

• £75 for Individual membership

• £100 for Institutional membership