About INDAM

Indian Academy of Management (INDAM) is an affiliate of the Academy of Management, USA, the premier body of management researchers and educators in the world. Established in 2007, INDAM to advance the creation and dissemination of knowledge on Indian businesses, organizations, and other institutions both within and outside India. It also seeks to influence management practices, business policy and education, and nurture the next generation of researchers and educators in India. To fulfil these objectives, INDAM provides a vibrant platform for scholars with an interest in India. It facilitates regular research conferences that enable academics to share ideas, exchange insights, and build collaborative networks. INDAM also serves as a bridge between Indian and international professional bodies and fosters meaningful engagement between scholars and practitioners. A key focus of INDAM is capacity building. The Academy organizes research development workshops, doctoral consortia, and professional training sessions designed to support early career researchers, including doctoral students and new faculty, in enhancing their research capabilities and publication skills.

About Conference Theme - Reimagining Management in the Era of Disruption

Amid a rapidly shifting global landscape, the very foundations of management are being challenged by waves of disruption mainly on three intertwined fronts geopolitical uncertainty, technological breakthroughs, and sustainability imperatives. The rise of artificial intelligence, digital ecosystems, and borderless commerce in a geopolitically fractured world is redrawing the rules of strategy and operations, while societal demands for sustainability, agility, and inclusion are reshaping leadership norms. Across the Global South, these disruptions are broadly similar but are amplified by disparities in resources, infrastructure, and governance necessitating innovative, locally adapted management approaches that can both leverage growth opportunities and build long-term resilience. To thrive in this environment, organizations must reimagine management by embracing these disruptions not as a threat but as opportunity to reinvent business for a complex, interconnected, yet geopolitically fragile world. The disruptions reshaping management globally have particularly profound effects on India. Disruptions ranging from rapid technological advances to economic vulnerabilities have exposed businesses and communities to heightened uncertainty. These tensions coupled with geopolitical turbulence have significantly increased the operational risks for Indian enterprises, particularly in technology, service, manufacturing, and export sectors. Reimagining management in these contexts calls for a shift from narrow technological adoption to holistic strategies that integrate social inclusion, sustainability, and systemic agility to navigate complex, interconnected challenges more effectively. Thus, INDAM 2027 conference seeks to engage scholars and practitioners in deliberating cutting-edge insights on these pressing issues from a managerial lens with a specific focus on how management theory and practice can respond to these transformations.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome - extended abstract for Doctoral track and full paper for other tracks.

List of Topics

TRACK 1: International Business

Reimagining global strategies in a world shaped by geopolitical flux, technological shifts, and fragmented markets. This track explores how firms rethink internationalization strategies, global value chains, cross-border governance, and digital international business models amid rising protectionism, regionalization, and institutional complexity.

TRACK 2: Human Resource Management

Reinventing people practices for a technologically augmented, diverse, and fluid workforce. This track examines how organizations redesign talent acquisition, development, performance management, and employee well-being strategies in response to automation, demographic transitions, remote work, and post-pandemic realities.

TRACK 3: Technology & Innovation Management

Harnessing emerging technologies to build resilient, responsible, and future-ready innovation ecosystems. This track focuses on how digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and platform-based innovation reshape industries, innovation processes, and organizational capabilities, demanding new approaches to innovation leadership and governance.

TRACK 4: 3D (Decarbonization, Democratization & Digitisation):

This track explores the transformative 3D paradigm shaping contemporary economic and public policy landscapes. It invites research on how sustainable decarbonization, inclusive democratization, and rapid digitisation interact to influence economic growth, governance structures, institutional resilience, and broader societal well-being.

TRACK 5: Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Operations

Building adaptive, digital, and sustainable operational systems to withstand continuous disruption. This track delves into supply chain resilience, risk management, sustainability transitions, and the integration of digital technologies to enhance agility, visibility, and robustness across global and domestic operations.

TRACK 6: Organisational Behaviour

Understanding evolving workplace behaviours, organizational cultures, and leadership norms in a disrupted world. This track explores how hybrid work arrangements, diversity and inclusion, digital collaboration, and technological mediation transform individual behaviour, team dynamics, and organizational effectiveness.

TRACK 7: Strategic Management

Reframing strategic thinking to navigate volatility, seize digital opportunities, and build long-term adaptability. This track encourages research on dynamic capabilities, strategic renewal, ecosystem strategies, and managerial cognition, focusing on how firms make sense of uncertainty and sustain competitive advantage in unpredictable contexts.

TRACK 8: Sustainability, Ethics & Governance

Embedding ESG principles as core drivers of resilience and long-term value creation in times of disruption. This track addresses how organizations respond to ethical dilemmas, regulatory pressures, stakeholder expectations, and governance challenges while aligning sustainability objectives with strategic and operational decision-making.

TRACK 9: Entrepreneurship

Exploring entrepreneurial responses to disruption and the emergence of new venture ecosystems in India and the Global South. This track focuses on how entrepreneurs identify opportunities, mobilize resources, leverage digital platforms, and innovate business models under conditions of uncertainty, institutional voids, and rapid change.

TRACK 10: Financial Markets

Examining financial markets as critical mechanisms for resilience amid global disruptions. This track invites research on market responses to shocks, risk management practices, regulatory innovation, and digital finance, with an emphasis on market stability, inclusiveness, sustainable investment, and long-term economic recovery.

TRACK 11: Marketing

Transforming marketing strategies in response to empowered consumers, digital ecosystems, and fluid market behaviours. This track examines how firms adapt branding, customer engagement, analytics, and omnichannel strategies to build trust, loyalty, and resilience in rapidly evolving markets.

Track 12: Sports Business & Management:

On the back of India hosting the 2030 Commonwealth Games and future bids to host the Asian Games and Olympics, this track focuses on the nexus between Sports and Business and its successful Management. It would include the management of sporting activities and events; controversies increasingly affect sporting organisations, sponsors, broadcasters, and athletes; bidding and hosting mega sporting events; sports as a soft power; the bright and dark side of sport and business, among other topics.

Pre- Conference Workshop & Doctoral:

At INDAM 2027, the Doctoral Colloquium is designed to encourage participation from doctoral scholars currently enrolled in various management disciplines at recognized institutes/universities. Scholars will have the opportunity to present their ongoing research aligned with the conference theme, focusing on the evolution and relevance of time-tested management concepts in a rapidly changing world.

Organizing Committee

Prof. Surender Munjal

Aston Business School

Prof. Shubhabrata Basu

IIM Indore

Prof. Dipti Ranjan Mahapatra

IIM Sambalpur

Prof. Shikha Bhardwaj

IIM Sambalpur

Venue

The conference will be held Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur Campus Basantpur, Goshala, Odisha, India.
 

Conference Highlights

Key activities and opportunities in INDAM 2027.

Best Paper Awards

C-Suite Panel

Doctoral Colloquium

Early-career Professional Development Workshop

Editor’s Meet

Paper Development Workshop and Doctoral Consortium

Paper Presentation

Plenary Sessions

Publication Opportunities

Research Methods Workshop

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to indam2027_coordinator@iimsambalpur.ac.in/ indam_2027@iimsambalpur.ac.in