India Management Research Conference: IIM Ahmedabad (IMRC 2024)

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About IIM Ahmedabad

Established in 1961, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) is a premier, global institution that spearheads advancements in management education. For over six decades, the institute has garnered enduring recognition for its contributions to knowledge creation, professional practice, and policy formulation. This acclaim is a testament to its exceptional pedagogy, groundbreaking research, and unwavering commitment to cultivating visionary leaders. IIMA fosters a dynamic ecosystem of collaboration, actively engaging with industry, government, and social enterprises to generate a progressive societal impact. The institute prioritises research as the cornerstone of its academic excellence. Our faculty's diverse intellectual pursuits fuel a robust research environment, fostering exploration of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary themes. True to our mission, IIMA's research not only expands the frontiers of knowledge but also translates directly into actionable insights for the business world.

Key Developments in India

Ten years ago, India was placed amidst the ‘Fragile Five’— a set of vulnerable nations, dependent on foreign investments to drive growth. Today, India is the fifth largest economy in the world with a GDP worth USD 4.1 trillion. From ‘Fragile Five’ to ‘Top Five’ in less than a decade—India has challenged stereotypes, rewired perceptions, and reframed policy narratives.

Of the many initiatives aimed at creating a pool of opportunities in India, some of the most striking include Make in India, Start-up India, Digital India, the Smart City Mission, and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. From launching a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to promote digital transactions to the implementation of the ‘one nation-one tax’ Goods & Services Tax (GST); from carefully curating a much-needed National Education Policy (NEP) to introducing a new foreign direct investment policy and from developing a new 25,000 km highway network worth ₹ 20,000 crore under the PM Gati Shakti Master Plan to launching a comprehensive National Logistics Policy (NLP); —India has come a long way from being the 10th largest economy in the world back in 2014.

Amidst numerous reforms, a major reform over the last ten years has been the government’s conscious entrustment of the private sector as a co-partner in furthering the nation’s development agenda. It is here that academia bridges the gap by conducting research in management that can help analyze policy effectiveness, identify opportunity with policy interventions and formulate strategies for scaling development among others.

Centres of Excellence @ IIMA

The institute hosts 10 Centres of Research Excellence that are committed to engaging with the GoI and the industry at large to solve pressing national and international challenges of the country and beyond, and solving management problems with cutting-edge tools. As researchers, IIMA faculty are pioneers who enable new and exciting interdisciplinary collaborations; they take a solid grounding in theory and run it through a mill of questions and conjectures until future-oriented insights emerge.

IIMA's Centres of Research Excellence act as intellectual engines, each one driving groundbreaking insights across a vast landscape of fields including but not limited to financial markets, artificial intelligence, behavioral science, digital transformation, health services, transportation and logistics, leadership, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and gold policy. Here, researchers don their interdisciplinary thinking caps, examining business challenges through multifaceted lenses. This collaborative spirit fuels rigorous research, leading to the publication of seminal papers and reports that push the frontiers of knowledge. The centres actively engage with industry practitioners and tackle contemporary problems together, fostering lively discourse through panel discussions and roundtables. This vital exchange acts as a two-way bridge, disseminating research findings while simultaneously informing future research directions.

Spearheaded by the institute’s Centres of Research Excellence, IIMA is happy to announce its inaugural India Management Research Conference: IIM Ahmedabad (IMRC) —a three-day mega event that presents research scholars, academics, and industry practitioners with an opportunity to network, explore diverse research themes, and gain valuable insights into IIMA's cutting-edge research. Besides increasing the visibility of the institute's research, another core objective of the IMRC is to serve as a recruitment forum for exceptional Ph.D. students. Over the years, IMRC hopes to evolve as a premium management conference in India.

With 11 tracks spread across three days, the theme for this year’s conference is Confluence of Growth, Sustainability, and Resilience. This dynamic exchange of ideas promises to shape the future of management research, while also serving as a recruitment forum for exceptional Ph.D. students. Join us at IMRC 2024 to be part of this momentous occasion!

Organizing Committee

Conference Patron: Prof. Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIM Ahmedabad

Sr. No.	Centres & Tracks	Organizing Committee
1	Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE)	Prof. Sunil Sharma



2	Centre for Management of Health Services (CMHS)	Prof. Viswanath Pingali Prof. Rajesh Chandwani



3	India Gold Policy Centre (IGPC)	Prof. Sundaravalli Narayanaswami



4a	Misra Centre for Financial Markets and Economy (MCFME) (FAE Track)	Prof. Sanket Mohapatra



4b	Misra Centre for Financial Markets and Economy (MCFME) (Real Estate Track)	Prof. Prashant Das Prof. Abhiman Das



5	NSE Centre for Behavioral Science in Finance, Economics and Marketing (NSE-CBS)	Prof. Joshy Jacob Prof. Pritha Dev



6	Centre for Transportation and Logistics (CTL)	Prof. Debjit Roy Prof. Sandip Chakrabarti



7	Centre for Digital Transformation (CDT)	Prof. Pankaj Setia Prof. Swanand Deodhar



8	Centre for Sustainability and Corporate Governance Research (CSCG)	Prof. Anish Sugathan Prof. Neerav Nagar



9	Ashank Desai Centre for Leadership and Organisational Development (ADCLOD)	Prof. Neharika Vohra



10	Brij Disa Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (CDSA)	Prof. Ankur Sinha Prof. Sriram Sankaranarayanan



11	Network Science in Management	Prof. Anindya Chakrabarti Prof. Pritha Dev Prof. Amit Nandkeolyar Prof. Sourav Borah Prof. Sandip Chakrabarti

IMRC 2024 Mentor Committee

Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan - Director, IIM Bangalore
Prof. Debashis Chatterjee - Director, IIM Kozhikode
Prof. Archana Shukla - Director, IIM Lucknow
Prof. Manoj Kumar Tiwari - Director, IIM Mumbai
Prof. Pawan Kumar Singh - Director, IIM Tiruchirappalli
Prof. Bhimaraya Metri - Director, IIM Nagpur
Prof. Arvind Sahay - Director, MDI