Sixth Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management

Call for Papers

ARCHITECTING INDIAN MANAGEMENT SCHOLARSHIP IN THE ERA OF

DISRUPTION
The management landscape world over is witnessing a complete transformation in view of the
increasing adoption of artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things, industry 4.0,
robotic process automation, fintech, blockchain, analytics and so forth. These recent developments
are making several existing management theories and frameworks relatively less relevant to
explain, understand and predict the real world practices. In tune with this, there is a need for
architecting management scholarship as well. With this context in mind, the Sixth Biennial
Conference of the Indian Academy of Management has set an objective of liberating the
management thought process and architecting management scholarship in this era of disruption.
The conference is being hosted by the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli in
association with the Indian Academy of Management.

CONFERENCE DATES: January 2-4, 2020

CONFERENCE VENUE: Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

CONFERENCE COORDINATORS:
Prof. Naresh Khatri
University of Missouri, Columbia
President, Indian Academy of Management
e-mail: khatrin@missouri.edu
Prof. Upam Pushpak Makhecha
Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli
Associate Professor (OB&HR Area)
e-mail: upam@iimtrichy.ac.in

Prof. Vishal Gupta Prof. Karthik Dhandapani

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli
President-Elect, Indian Academy of Management Associate Professor (Strategy Area)
e-mail: vishal@iima.ac.in e-mail: karthik@iimtrichy.ac.in

CONFERENCE TRACKS:
The Sixth Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (INDAM 2020) has 20 broad
research tracks for paper submissions as noted below. A brief description of each track and contact
details of the track chairs shall be soon available at https://iimtrichy.ac.in/INDAM2020 . If you have
any questions about paper submission to any track, feel free to contact either the concerned Track
Chair or any of the four Conference Coordinators via e-mail.

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Track 01: Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management
Track Chair: Prof. Sankalp Pratap, Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

Track 02: Diversity & Inclusion in Organizations

Track Chair: Prof. Lata Dayaram, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Track 03: Health Care Management

Track Chair: Prof. Rajesh Chandwani, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Track 04: Human Resources

Track Chair: Prof. Naresh Khatri, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

Track 05: Indian Culture, Philosophy & Spirituality

Track Chair: Prof. Dharam P S Bhawuk, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Track 06: International Management

Track Chair: Prof. Pawan Budhwar, Aston University, UK

Track 07: Leadership in Organizations

Track Chair: Prof. Nagaraj Sivasubramanian, Duquesne University, USA

Track 08: Organization & Management Theory

Track Chair: Prof. Abhoy Ojha, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Track 09: Organizational Behaviour

Track Chair: Prof. Vishal Gupta, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Track 10: Social issues in Management

Track Chair: Prof. Sushanta Kumar Mishra, Indian Institute of Management Indore

Track 11: Strategic Management

Track Chair: Prof. K S Manikandan, Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

Track 12: Information & Communication Technologies & organizations

Track Chair: Prof. Sujeet Kumar Sharma, Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

Track 13: Technology & Innovation Management

Track Chair: Prof. Amit Karna, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Track 14: Indian Family Businesses

Track Chair: Prof. Chitra Singla, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Track 15: Consumer Behavior & Retail Management

Track Chair: Prof. S K Pandey, Indian Institute of Management Rohtak

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Track 16: Behavioral Finance & Economics
Track Chair: Prof. K P Narwal, GJ University of Science and Technology, Hisar

Track 17: Operations & Supply Chain Management

Track Chair: Prof. Sirish Kumar Gouda, Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

Track 18: Critical Management Studies

Track Chair: Prof. Ashish Malik, University of New Castle, Australia

Track 19: Decision Sciences

Track Chair: Prof. Anand G, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Track 20: Public and Non-Profit Sector Management

Track Chair: Prof. Upasana Agarwal, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai

CONFERENCE PAPERS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

The conference will accept full papers only. Submissions in the form of abstracts or extended
abstracts will not be accepted. The length of the paper should not exceed 8,000 words. The word
count includes all tables, figures, and references. The submission should include an abstract of
about 150 words, which will be included in the conference proceedings.
The papers should follow strictly the Academy of Management Journal style guidelines (guidelines
may be downloaded from AMJ website or https://iimtrichy.ac.in/INDAM2020); the papers not
following the style guidelines will be rejected without any review. The names of authors should
not be identified in the header/footer or in the body of the paper. All papers should follow the
process of blind review. The reviewers’ comments will be shared with the authors.
All the papers received by the deadline should be final and no request for change of authors, order
of authors, titles, abstracts, or rewrites will be entertained after the papers have been submitted.
A maximum of three papers either as an author or co-author are permitted. The papers are to be
submitted electronically. The paper submission details will be made available when the online
submission system website opens.

The best paper in each track will be recognized and awarded the best paper certificate. In tracks
where the number of submissions is very large, more than one paper will be recognized as a best
paper.

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CONFERENCE FEE:
Nationality Category Early-bird Late
registration (Before registration(After
30th November 30th November
2019) 2019)

Delegate from Academician / INR 6500 INR 8500

India & other Industry
SAARC countries#
Research Scholar^ INR 3000 INR 4000

Delegate from Academician / USD 300 USD 350

other countries# Industry

Research Scholar^ USD 150 USD 200

* Registration Fee includes conference kit, admission to conference, technical sessions, plenary
sessions, workshops, lunch, networking breaks with refreshments, Dean’s dinner and Gala dinner
^ Only full-time doctoral students would be considered as research scholars
# Please note that the members of INDAM will receive discount on the registration fees. For
more details on membership visit INDAM website.

CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION WITH JOURNALS:

The Conference Coordinators and the Chief Editors of two journals (South Asian Journal of
Business Studies and South Asian Journal of HRM) have formally agreed to publish selected
papers submitted to the conference in a Special Issue devoted to the conference. Thus, high
quality submissions will have an opportunity to be published in a rather short time.

CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (TENTATIVE)

 Creating Learning Spaces Beyond Classroom
 Leveraging Behavioural Labs for Applied research such as Human Engineering Processes,
Neuro-Marketing, Behavioural economics etc.
 Leveraging Financial Labs around latest technologies like fintech, cryptocurrency, blockchain
 Faculty Consortium (both junior & senior faculty) – Using neuroscience research for
enhancing teaching-learning experiences
 Adding Rigor through Latest Research Methods – Using Machine Learning methods in
research

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CONFERENCE TIMELINES:
Paper Submission Window: May 1, 2019 – September 15, 2019
Notifications of Paper Acceptance Decisions: October 31, 2019
Early Registration Window: November 01, 2019 - November 30, 2019
Last Registration Deadline: December 15, 2019
INDAM 2020 Conference: January 2-4, 2020

For updates on various aspects of conference, workshops, panel discussions, roundtable

discussions and plenary sessions, visit https://iimtrichy.ac.in/INDAM2020 as we would keep
updating the details as and when speakers and other details get finalized. For any questions or
clarifications, please write to indam2020@iimtrichy.ac.in or the concerned Track Chair or any of
the four Conference Coordinators.
We look forward to an enthusiastic participation as together we take forward many interesting
conversations on architecting management scholarship in this era of disruption.

Warm regards,
Conference Coordinators

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