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IMRDC 202517 & 18 January
The IIMB Management Review (IMR) is committed to the promotion of research and ideas in management as part of its purpose. Prior to the crystallisation of IMRDC to its present form, the Student Essay Competition and the IMR Conference (IMRC) were part of the research and publication agenda of the journal, with both contributing to its content. The synergistic learnings from the Student Essay Competition and IMRC have evolved organically to the present-day dynamics of IMRDC.
The IMR Student Essay Competition was introduced in 1999 as an annual feature seeking to recognise and reward excellence in management research and writing. Instituted initially as a measure of encouraging internalisation of takeaways from summer project related work and learning, and to promote articulation of student observations and findings to a larger audience, by IMR and the PGP office, the competition was opened to all IIMB programmes -- PGP, FPM, PGSM and PGPPM. The essays were judged by a panel drawn from industry and IIMB faculty, and the award-winning essays were carried in the journal. The criteria for assessing the essays were originality in terms of defining a problem and applying a concept, clarity, logic, and methodological rigour. The three prizes, carrying citations and a cash award, were awarded by the Chief Guest on Foundation Day.
In 2003 – 2004, the fifth edition of the Student Essay Competition was opened to all IIMs, and the following year, 2004 – 2005, it was thrown open to postgraduate and doctoral students of all Indian management institutions for the first time.
Among the earliest winners of the student essay competition were Hari Natarajan of the FPM programme whose essay titled “The Merchant Power Plant: The Future of Power Generation” featured in Vol 12 No 4, December 2000 issue; Sanjiv Kumar Bhatia, PGP, whose essay “Going Places: ATM Services in India” featured in Vol 13 No 1, March 2001 issue, and Sourav Mukherji of the FPM programme, whose essay “Equilibrium Spells Death: Applying Chaos Theory to Organisations” was published in Vol 13 No 2 , June 2001 issue of the journal.
Of the following prize-winning essays from the competition held in the year 2007, the first two were published in the journal. “Retail Matrix: A Strategic Tool for Performance Analysis of Retail Formats”, by Jaideep Malhotra, ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad, winner of the first prize was published in Vol 19 No 4, December 2007; “Revisiting Dynamic Capability”, by Adwaita Govind Menon, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, winner of the second prize was published in Vol 20 No 1, March 2008 issue; the third prize went to “Bankruptcy Prediction Model”, by Karan Singal, Mayank Kumar and Megha Prakash, IIM Bangalore
The final edition of the Student Essay Competition was held in 2008. The competition received 45 entries from 26 colleges and management institutions across the country. Following were the prize winners: The first prize was awarded to “Alternative Livelihood Programmes for Village Forest Communities (Vana Samrakshana Samithis – VSS) through Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Rayalaseema Region of Andhra Pradesh”, by Sundar B, IIM Indore; second prize to “Conceptualisation of an Effective Indian Management Model: An Organisational Culture Perspective”, by Surya Prakash Pati, IIM Lucknow; the third prize went to “A Synthesis of Organisational Learning Using the 4I Framework” by Clare Kurian and Smita Chattopadhyay, IIM Bangalore.
IMRC was conceived as a biennial conference, with dedicated themes for each conference, with the objective of providing an opportunity to management practitioners, researchers and educators to share knowledge and to be informed of the key research trends and findings in the field of management; to identify and promote excellent research and writing talent, and to provide a channel through IMR for dissemination of knowledge that could potentially advance theory and practice of management.
The following editions of IMRC were held between 2004 and 2010.
The first IMR Doctoral Conference (IMRDC) was held on 27 November, 2009 at IIM Bangalore (IIMB). Conceived and organised by IIMB Management Review (IMR), the institute’s management quarterly, IMRDC aimed at recognising quality research being conducted in management in India by doctoral students. The conference was intended to provide doctoral students an opportunity to get valuable feedback on their work as well as gain recognition among management academicians in India. The inaugural IMR doctoral conference, IMRDC 2009, was opened to select institutes (IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA), IIMB, IIM Calcutta and the IITs) and it received a total of 24 drafts and 20 full papers from the doctoral students of these institutes. A faculty committee was constituted to review the submissions, select the finalists and provide feedback to the doctoral student presenters at the conference. The Committee selected 10 papers for presentation at IMRDC 2009. The Faculty Committee comprised Prof V Ravi Anshuman (IIMB), Prof Subir Bhattacharya (IIMC), Prof Raveendra Chitoor (ISB), Prof Errol D’ Souza (IIMA), Prof Rishikesha T Krishnan (IIMB), Prof Mukta Kulkarni (IIMB), Prof Srinivas Prakhya (IIMB), Prof Amar Sapra (IIMB), Prof Janat Shah (IIMB), and Prof Jayanth Varma (IIMA).
Among the 10 papers, three best papers were selected and awarded, the awards named after the eminent academicians Dipak C. Jain (Dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA), Pradip N. Khandwalla (former Director, IIMA, India, and the L&T Chair Professor of Organisational Behaviour), and Marti G. Subrahmanyam (Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance, Economics and International Business, Leonard N Stern School of Business, New York University, USA). The academicians after whom the prizes were named played an active role in the final selection of the prize-winning papers.
IMRDC 2009 was inaugurated by Dr K P Krishnan, Joint Secretary (Capital Markets), Govt of India.
IMRDC 2009 was intended to be the first of an annual series of conferences, and the subsequent editions have made good on the initial promise. Building on the strengths of the inaugural conference, IMRDC has now established itself as a milestone event in the research calendar, a pre-eminent doctoral colloquium for doctoral students to present select research work as also a forum where doctoral scholars, academics, and researchers from institutions in India and abroad can come together for mutual exchange and discussion in a research-oriented environment. IMRDC is commended for its thorough and constructive feedback, and its “one exclusive discussant per paper” format. Aiming at publication-oriented development of doctoral research work IMRDC, also provides select papers a publication opportunity in IMR. Several papers, first presented at an edition of IMRDC, have progressed, after due process of review, to publication in the journal.
Keynote addresses, panel discussions and research workshops by eminent researchers and practitioners form an integral part of the academic interaction at IMRDC.
As of 2013, the Office of the Doctoral Programme, IIMB, has joined hands with IMR to host the conference.
The Past Conferences have been encapsulated here: https://www.iimb.ac.in/iimb-management-review/past-imr-doctoral-conferences
For any queries contact the Conference Secretariat at imrc[at]iimb[dot]ac[dot]in
All email queries should bear the subject line: IMRDC 2025
IMRDC Secretariat / IIMB Management Review, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore - 560 076
