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IMR Doctoral Conference

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The IMR Doctoral Conference (IMRDC) aims to encourage research and scholarship among doctoral students in Management Science, with a special emphasis on issues related to India. To this end, IIMB Management Review (IMR) initiated and instituted the country's first annual Doctoral Students Conference for Management Scholars in 2009. IMR is uniquely positioned in this endeavour by virtue of its history of 30 years in promoting management research and its association with the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), the premier B-school of the country. The conference encourages participation from schools in India and international students in the Management discipline.

As of 2013, IMRDC has been co-organised by IMR and the Office of the Doctoral Programme, IIMB.

Objective
The IMR Doctoral Students Conference aims to bring together, every year, doctoral students affiliated to institutions across India and from international schools for an event of paper presentations, discussions with senior academics and researchers from industry, and publication-oriented development. The objectives of the IMRDC are:

  • to identify and encourage interesting and important research by doctoral students in Management across areas including Decision Sciences, Economics and Social Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Finance and Accounting, Information Systems, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources Management, Production and Operations Management, Public Policy, and Strategy.

  • to enable the authors of the identified papers to engage with leading academicians from institutions in India and abroad in a focussed manner and to gain developmental inputs for their research

  • to facilitate collaborative work amongst researchers from different institutions

  • to provide a platform of exchange between doctoral students, leading academicians and researchers from industry to identify new applications and avenues of research

  • to provide a publication outlet for promising research by inviting authors of the best papers to submit their work to IMR

To reflect the eclectic nature of Management research, we welcome a wide range of papers from the formal analytical, quantitative or qualitative streams, as well as conceptual papers.

Highlights of IMRDC

  • Paper presentations by doctoral students with one exclusive discussant per paper

  • Keynote sessions by eminent researchers 

  • Plenaries and Panel discussions on topics of interest

  • Research and writing workshops

  • Colloquia for future faculty

  • Perspectives on doctoral research 

Intended Participants
The conference is open to doctoral students in Management research, who have commenced research on their thesis. In addition to doctoral students of Indian schools, we want to encourage participation from students who are pursuing their PhD outside India and would like to receive feedback from stalwarts in their field. Since research is a collaborative venture, we encourage co-authorship as long as one of the authors fulfils the stipulated conditions.

Procedure

  1. After the initial announcement of the conference, doctoral students may be invited first to submit an extended abstract or the full paper. 

  2. A faculty committee would review the extended abstracts/ full papers and from among them, select a subset for presentation at the conference. The Conference may include a Poster session or a session of short presentations. The shortlisted papers would be adjudged on the basis of (a) clarity of research question, (b) novelty of insights, and (c) potential contribution to theory in the relevant field or sub-field.

  3. Faculty members at institutions in India and abroad would be invited as discussants for each of the shortlisted papers. Each paper invited for full-fledged presentation would be assigned a discussant.

  4. The conference is designed to ensure focussed discussions among the doctoral student participants, faculty discussants and other academician invitees on each paper.

  5. Authors of papers selected for presentation would be encouraged to improve their work further for the consideration of publication in IMR.