Awards
Track 01: Unpacking the Indian Startup Story
Best Paper Award
Title:
Unlocking Firm Performance through Entrepreneurial Networks: The Mediating Role of Business Model Innovation in Agri-Tech Startups
Name:
Arun B S, Ranjith VK
Best Case Award
Title:
BluSmart: From Green Mobility to Governance Failure
Name:
Jinal Shah, Sejal Mishra, Swati Bapna
Title:
Suvidha Supermarket: Consolidate or Conquer?
Name:
Rakesh Kumar Meet, Ajit Yadav, Vijaya, Yog Mishra, Rahul Bodhi
Track 02: Management in Health Services
Best Paper Award
Title:
The Power of Autonomy: Self-Selected Goals Outperform Assigned Goals in Reducing Mobile Phone Usage
Name:
Ashish Sachdeva
Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)
Title:
Exploring the Thematic Evolution of Quality of Life in Non-Communicable Diseases: A Topic Modeling Analysis
Name:
Richa Jha
Track 03: Gold & Precious Metals: Business and Economic Policies
Best Paper Award
Title:
Safe Haven Properties of Gold and Gold ETFs Against Risk-Class Assets in the Indian Financial Market: A Wavelet Quantile Correlation Approach
Name:
Moni M, Sreeraj V, Anoop S Kumar
Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)
Title:
The role of Gold in Evolving World Order and Options for India
Name:
Chandan Satyarth
Track 04: Finance, Accounting, and Economics
Best Research Paper Award
Title:
Financial heterogeneity, NBFCs, and investment responses to monetary shocks in India
Name:
Ankit Kumar
Best Doctoral Research Paper Award
Title:
The Clockwork of Democracy: Welfare, Strategy and Electoral Temporality
Name:
Rahul Sinha
Title:
Timeliness in Loan Loss Provisions Under CECL: Evidence Using Deposit Rates
Name:
Manoj Devarala
Track 05: Behavioural Science in Management
Best Paper Award
Title:
When Every Rating is a Five: Extracting Signals of Expert Service Quality from Real Estate Agent Reviews
Name:
Sachin Sridhar
Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)
Title:
Using Dynamic Financial Incentives to Foster Walking Habit
Name:
Ashish Sachdeva
Track 06: Transportation and Logistics
Best Paper Award
Title:
Adaptive Coordination Of Human Pickers And Robots In Human-Centric Parts-To-Picker Warehouses
Name:
Suryakant Kumar, Tanmoy Kundu
Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)
Title:
Optimizing Throughput Performance of Dry Bulk Terminal Operations Using Integrated Queuing Network Models
Name:
Mitrabarun Ghosh
Track 07: Digital Transformation
Best Paper Award
Title:
Designing Consumer Service Systems in the Age of Yelp: Integrating Digital Reviews into Queueing Decisions
Name:
Sagnik Sarkar, Debjit Roy, Abhishek Roy
Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)
Title:
Bimodal Information Technology and Structural Transformation: the Case of a Consulting Firm
Name:
Siddharth Majhi, Proma Chowdhury, Arindam Mukherjee
Track 08: Corporate Sustainability and Corporate Governance (IRCC 2025)
Best Paper Award
Title:
Turning Adversity into Action: Enhancing Sustainability Oversight in Response to ESG Reputation Risk
Name:
Sushil Sainani, Chris Florackis, Omrane Guedhami, Jeffrey Pittman
Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)
Title:
Impact of Fintech on Clean Energy (SDG 7) and Global Partnerships (SDG 17)
Name:
Priya Choudhary, M. Thenmozhi
Title:
Green Game in Town: Intra-Industry Spillover Effects of Corporate Green Bond Announcements in the US
Name:
Varun Jindal, Sourav Prasad, Arun Upadhyay
Track 09: Leadership Research & Practice in the Context of Changes in the World of Work
Best Paper Award
Title:
Wired to Work, Wired to Waver: Understanding Employee Outcomes in the Algorithmic HRM Process
Name:
Vaishnavi Gautam, Utkarsh, Mridul Maheshwari
Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)
Title:
How Leaders can Strategically Cultivate Workspace Spirituality in MSMES
Name:
Reema Nayyar, Rupashree Baral
Track 10: Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
Best Paper Award
Title:
Data Driven Optimization of Patrol Vehicle Routes Using Predicted Crime Hotspots: A matrix based approach for Urban Safety
Name:
Abdurahiman K
Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)
Title:
A step towards automating manually created, thematic trays via LLMs
Name:
Akshay Sharma
Track 11: Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS)
Best Paper Award
Title:
Impact of Heat on Sleep: Evidence from India
Name:
Manas Nandan
Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)
Title:
Multiregional Input-Output Modelling of CBAM impacts: Implications for India’s LEDS Implementation
Name:
Usha Kiran T M
Track 12: India Marketing Conference
Best Paper Award
Title:
Distaste Engineering: Mapping the Cultural Logic of
Rejection
Name:
Meghna Rajeev
Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)
Title:
Development of an Entrepreneur’s Personal Branding Index(EPBI) Using Social Media Metrics and the Honeycomb Framework
Name:
Uneza Irshad and Rahela Farooqi
