Strategic Management Forum - 18th Annual Convention

Dec - 17 19 , 2015

ABOUT THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT FORUM

The Forum organized its first conference at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow January 1997. The second conference was held in Indian
Institute of Management Bangalore in May 1999, the third conference at
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in May 2000, fourth at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in May 2001. The fifth annual convention
was held at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon in April 2002 and
the sixth at XLRI, Jamshedpur in April 2003. The seventh and eighth annual
conventions were held at Indian Institute of Management Indore and IIFM
Bhopal in May 2004 and 2005 respectively. The ninth convention was held
at IIMK during May 18-20, 2006. This was followed by Conventions at IIT
Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode
and IIM Calcutta in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively. The First International Conference was held at IIM, Ahmedabad in
December 2010. The Eighteenth Convention is being held at IIFT, New Delhi
in 2015.
The Forum also took a major initiative of launching week-long foundation
and elective courses for Faculty Development. These modular courses help
the faculty members in specializing in strategic management area. The
courses are conducted by IIFT, IIMA, IIMB, IIMI, IIMK, IIML, MDI and XLRI
with financial support from AICTE. Twenty foundation courses were conducted in March 2004 to December 2012. Forty Elective course have been
conducted so far. So far a total of 665 people have undergone foundation
courses. Further a total number of 1019 faculty members have attended
elective courses conducted so far. By June 2014, over 120 faculty members
had attended 4 or more courses, sixty eight among them having attended 6-9
courses.
For further details regarding the convention please contact:
Prof. K. Rangarajan
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade,

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT FORUM

In association

Announces

December 17th 19th ,2015

Thematic Conference on
Managing Challenges of
Protectionism in Global Business.

Presentation of Research Papers

based up on Independent Research being done in SM area.

Case Colloquium on Cases

Industry Seminar by Practitioners

on Opportunities and Challenges

written in SM area

Kolkata Campus,

for Indian MNCs

1583 ,MADURDAHA, WARD NO. 108, BOROUGH XII,

KOLKATA -700107
Email: [email protected]/ [email protected]

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Venue

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi Campus

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Continuing the sustained efforts to provide a platform to faculty members
and scholars of Strategic Management faculty and scholars to share their
research work, focused discussion on a topic of contemporary significance,
share and finalise case/ course material developed, benefit from highly experienced industry experts insights on a topic of critical significance, the
Strategic Management Forum along with the Indian Institute of Foreign
Trade is organizing its 18th Convention at Indian Institute of Foreign
Trade, New Delhi from December 17th 19th 2015.
The Convention will have four major components
1.

A Conference on Managing Challenges of Protectionism in Global

Business

The continuing raise of Asia in the past year, largely accounted by India and
China along with the problems of EU and US have started posing new challenges to the global business. The movement of capital from south to North
and also the huge growth in South-South transactions are heralding a new
era and halt the Hub-and-Spoke model of world economy with the OECD
countries as a hub and the emerging economies as the spokes. The World
Banks growth chart has already projected a growth rate of 7.5% this year
for India, to surpass Chinese growth. Growth in South Asia is expected to
continue around 7% this year. The raising problems in Arab and African
states are further increasing the importance of emerging economies in the
global business order. The emergence of multilateralism and regionalism has
started posing challenges of regionalised protection in various formats.
Though the global business is trying to address such challenges through
global value chains, the challenges of neo-protectionism remain.
Given such challenges in global business

The conference is expected to address such challenges of protectionism and

using such protectionism as an opportunity for global business in their
strategies, throwing new lights on (i) The capital and trade flows of south-south and south-north in shaping
the nature of business,
(ii) The changing roles of states, support institutions and other regulatory
bodies in shaping the industry landscape,
(iii) Participation through Global Value Chains and the business challenges
to the roles in the Global Value Chains.
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Visit www.smfi.org/guidelines for guidelines regarding final submission
style and format.

Convention Registration Fee

Residential

Non-Residential

Registration Fee

Rs. 7,500

Rs. 5000

Doctoral Students

Rs.. 5,000

Rs. 3,000

Convention fee includes the cost of Convention material, tea/ coffee and
lunch for the convention period. In the case of residential delegates it also
covers the cost of accommodation (twin sharing basis) and dinner.

ABOUT INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRADE

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was established in1963 as an
autonomous body under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry to contribute
in the skill building for the external trade sector of India. It has come a long
way to successfully develop into a unique institution involved in imparting
knowledge through research and training in international business and
trade. The Institute was granted Deemed University status in 2002. The
National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has recognized
IIFT as Grade A Institution in 2005 as well as in 2015. Over the years,
the IIFT has emerged as the national university with focus on International
Business Management and Strategy, and such focus is reflected in all three
major activities of the Institute: Research, Training and Education.

ABOUT THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT FORUM

Strategic Management Forum is an association of strategic management
professionals from industry, academic and public administration fields, to
propagate the concept and practice of strategic management in the country.
Registered as a non-profit making body in January 1997, it has leading management institutions / corporates and professionals as its institutional and
individual members. The Forum is one of the few virtual organisations in the
country. It has so far organised 29 events with the help of leading management institutions in which more than 800 people have participated so far,
without having any regular staff or physical asset of its own. It is a shining
example of collaboration spirit of leading institutions of the country.
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Strategic Management Forum - 18th Annual Convention

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The topic for this years Industry Seminar is Opportunities and Challenges for Indian MNCs. The presentations will cover large, medium and
small Indian MNCs, from different industry sectors. It will also have
presentations from policy makers in the area.

(iv) New forms of organisation, governance, management and leadership

emerging form the businesses of emerging economies, especially from India.

Faculty members and research scholars working on the subject are also
welcome to submit empirical/ field research based papers on the topic.

Tentative Schedule of the Convention

Day 1, Thursday, December 17, 2015

Thematic Research Conference on Managing Challenges of Protectionism in Global Business

Day 2, Friday, December 18, 2015

Case Colloquium

Presentation of other Research Papers in SM Area

Day 3, Saturday, December 18, 2015

Industry Seminar Opportunities and Challenges

for Indian MNCs

Detailed schedule will be sent to you/ posted on website of the Forum

www.smfi.org after the participants nominations and their contributions
are received.

Venue of the Convention

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi

Submission of Papers & Cases

The papers and cases to be presented in various sessions must be submitted
in advance. Abstracts of papers/ cases must reach the Co-ordinator of the
Convention by Sept. 10, 2015 and full text of papers/ cases by October 15,
2015. Please indicate the track of your submission.
All the research papers/ cases accepted for presentation will form part of Convention Proceedings. Selected papers/ cases may be published in a book for
which consent will be taken in due course, after the convention.
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(v) The role of values, genuine cooperation (than aggressive competition

alone) and embodiment of concept of symbiotic relationship for harmonious
equilibrium in world trade.
2. Presentation of Research Papers in Strategic Management area
The Convention provides an opportunity to research scholars to share findings of their empirical/ field based independent/ joint research work on
various topics/ themes in strategic management area. This will also help one
in identifying significant topics for future research and partners for joint
research, besides getting meaningful feedback to give finishing touches to
their research papers presented.
3. Case Colloquium,
Case study forms an integral part of management teaching. Representing
new contexts in the field of management would require development of new
case studies. To support the case study development process, this track
would provide the delegates an opportunity to

share with the larger audience original case studies written,

obtain experts / peer groups feedback at the prepublication stage, to

bring improvements in ones case study,

obtain alternative perspectives on the use of the case study as a teaching aid,

benefit from the experiences of other case writers.

This track solicits submission of original case studies based on real world
management situations/ problems and application of management concepts,
tools and techniques to address/ solve them. Selected case studies may be
published as a Case Book .
4.

Industry Seminar on Opportunities and Challenges for Indian

MNCs

To provide an opportunity to faculty members and research scholars to have

practical, first hand experience based insights from industry experts, the
Forum organises an Industry Seminar every year.
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