Management education and training have become highly popular. Yet, there is not a systematic body of management knowledge to explain how Indian firms operate and why some have achieved phenomenal results. Existing evidence shows that management practices imported from outside have not been effective in India. How Indian companies and the Indian workforce in aggregate are able to sustain the levels of performance over the past several years remains a puzzle.

This conference will provide a forum for intellectual exchange, mutual learning, and collective pursuit of questions about firm behavior and individual behavior within firms in the rapidly changing Indian landscape. Papers on the theme and other areas of business and management like Finance, Human Resource, Marketing, Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, and Strategy would be presented. Keynote speakers include faculty from various business schools across the world like Kellogg, Stanford, Yale and IIM-Ahmedabad. Fifty five papers were received out of which thirty papers have been selected for presentation.