IMR Doctoral Conference
Introduction
With a view to alert and sensitise young scholars to the pursuit of the rich research opportunities in the Indian context and to encourage them to pursue these opportunities, IIMB Management Review (IMR) initiated and instituted the country's first annual Doctoral Students Conference for Management Scholars in 2009. IIMB Management Review is uniquely positioned in this endeavour by virtue of its history of over 20 years in promoting management research and its association with the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, the premier B-school in the country.
The IMR Doctoral Conference has now been established as one of the signalling events in management research and research in associated disciplines among management schools in the country. The conference has now been opened to social science research as well as research in management, and to international participation.
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 IMRDC are:
- to identify and encourage the most interesting and important research being done by doctoral students in management and the social sciences
- to enable the authors of the identified papers to engage with leading academicians in India and abroad in a focused 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 in India and abroad, 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 shortlisted work to IMR
Intended Participants
The conference is open to doctoral students in management and social science research, who have commenced research on their thesis. To ensure the quality of papers being submitted, we stipulate that final papers should be accompanied by a nomination letter from the concerned advisor/guide/ commenting on the quality and contribution of the paper to the student's research agenda, especially in the case of those who may not be at an advanced stage. Since research is a collaborative venture, we encourage co-authorship as long as one of the authors fulfils the stipulated conditions.
Procedure
1. Notification of the conference would be sent to the respective heads of the doctoral programme of institutes whose doctoral students will be invited to submit papers for consideration for presentation at the conference.
2. Reflecting the eclectic nature of management and social science research, we welcome a wide range of papers ranging from formal analytical, quantitative or qualitative streams to purely conceptual papers.
3. The papers submitted to the conference would be reviewed by a faculty committee which will finally select a maximum of 12 papers for presentation and discussion at the conference. The shortlisted papers would be adjudged on the basis on (a) clarity of research question, (b) novelty of insights, and (c) potential contribution to theory in the relevant field or sub-field.
4. Faculty members at institutions in India and abroad will then be invited as discussants for each of the shortlisted papers. Each paper would be assigned a discussant.
5. The conference is designed to be small and selective in order to ensure focussed, extensive discussions among the doctoral student participants, faculty discussants and other academician invitees on each paper.
6. Awards would be given to the three best papers presented in the conference. Authors of the award-winning papers would be invited to publish their work in IMR. Authors of other shortlisted papers would be encouraged to improve their work further for the consideration of publishing in IMR.