Kshitij Awasthi’s paper makes it to Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings

The FPM student’s paper, titled ‘Effect of Political Connections on Profit Persistence: Evidence from India’, is among the top 10% of papers accepted in the prestigious global conference
05 APRIL 2016: A paper by Kshitij Awasthi, a student of the Fellow Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore, has been judged one of the best accepted papers for the annual meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM) Conference, to be held in Anaheim, USA, from August 5 to 9, 2016.
The paper, titled ‘Effect of Political Connections on Profit Persistence: Evidence from India’, is part of Kshitij’s doctoral thesis. It is a significant feat, considering that only the top 10% of the papers accepted in this conference are selected for the honour. The acceptance means that the abridged version of the paper will be published in the Conference proceedings.
Kshitij has co-authored the paper with three faculty members of IIMB – Prof. Sai Yayavaram, from the Corporate Strategy & Policy area, Prof. Trilochan Sastry, from the Decision Sciences and Information Systems area, and Prof. Rejie George Pallathitta, from the Corporate Strategy & Policy area.
The previous version of the paper has also received the IIMB prize at the seventh IMR Doctoral Conference, a two-day conference organized by IIM Bangalore’s IIMB Management Review (IMR) and the Office of the Fellow Programme in Management, held at the Institute in December 2015.
The AOM meeting is the premier annual global conference in business management, particularly in the Strategy and Organization Behaviour areas. Kshitij’s paper was submitted to its Business Policy and Strategy Division (BPS).
Founded in 1936, the AOM is the preeminent professional association for management and organization scholars. It is a nearly 20,000 member global community, spanning 115 countries, comprising professors, Ph.D. students of business schools at universities, academics in related social science and other fields, and practitioners.
Kshitij Awasthi’s paper makes it to Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
The FPM student’s paper, titled ‘Effect of Political Connections on Profit Persistence: Evidence from India’, is among the top 10% of papers accepted in the prestigious global conference
05 APRIL 2016: A paper by Kshitij Awasthi, a student of the Fellow Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore, has been judged one of the best accepted papers for the annual meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM) Conference, to be held in Anaheim, USA, from August 5 to 9, 2016.
The paper, titled ‘Effect of Political Connections on Profit Persistence: Evidence from India’, is part of Kshitij’s doctoral thesis. It is a significant feat, considering that only the top 10% of the papers accepted in this conference are selected for the honour. The acceptance means that the abridged version of the paper will be published in the Conference proceedings.
Kshitij has co-authored the paper with three faculty members of IIMB – Prof. Sai Yayavaram, from the Corporate Strategy & Policy area, Prof. Trilochan Sastry, from the Decision Sciences and Information Systems area, and Prof. Rejie George Pallathitta, from the Corporate Strategy & Policy area.
The previous version of the paper has also received the IIMB prize at the seventh IMR Doctoral Conference, a two-day conference organized by IIM Bangalore’s IIMB Management Review (IMR) and the Office of the Fellow Programme in Management, held at the Institute in December 2015.
The AOM meeting is the premier annual global conference in business management, particularly in the Strategy and Organization Behaviour areas. Kshitij’s paper was submitted to its Business Policy and Strategy Division (BPS).
Founded in 1936, the AOM is the preeminent professional association for management and organization scholars. It is a nearly 20,000 member global community, spanning 115 countries, comprising professors, Ph.D. students of business schools at universities, academics in related social science and other fields, and practitioners.