Conference Objectives

About PRISM 2023

     The constantly evolving Indian business landscape underlay leadership challenges and makes it crucial to revisit them and acquire the required skills and traits. One of the most significant challenges that leaders face, is managing change. Leaders need to be able to adapt to new situations quickly and effectively, whether it’s implementing new technologies or responding to shifts in the market. Consistent with this, the major leadership actions are dedicated to developing talent, effective communication, trust building, efficient decision-making, delegating responsibilities, and balancing short-term & long-term goals. Overall, effective leadership requires a combination of skills, including communication, delegation, decision-making, and adaptability, to address challenges like – focusing on emotional intelligence, adapting to changing times, attention to employee well-being, diversity & inclusion, focusing on ethics & values, and developing future leaders. By addressing these challenges, leaders can become more effective and help their organizations thrive in today’s fast-paced business landscape.
     In the last few years, India has seen a significant augmentation in the digitalization of the operationality of businesses thereby, leading to a number of challenges for organizations of all sizes. The integral challenges associated with the digitalization of organizations relate to security (to protect themselves against cyber threats), recruiting skilled digital talent, providing seamless & personalized customer experience, data management to drive decision-making & innovation, and providing agility and flexible approaches to business operations and decision-making. Consequently, the plethora of challenges related to leadership and digitalization has opened the black-box of issues concerning reimagining the future of business so  that every innovative action is  focused on  sustainable development goals and sustainability at large. While management education in particular and academics in general have made substantial contributions to the spectacular progress thus far, reimagining is necessary to address the aforementioned difficulties in a post-pandemic world. Put differently, to address the above-mentioned challenges, there must be an influential role of efficient leadership, and a strong organizational structure acquainted with the latest technological interventions for contributing towards sustainability.
     The 3rd Pritam Singh Memorial Conference will bring together important stakeholders from academia, business, regulators, policymakers, and multilateral agencies  to discuss “Reimagining the Future of Business:The Challenges of Leadership, Digitalization, and Sustainability.” The current corporate environment is turbulent and dynamic, necessitating innovation to keep up with the times. The corporate world, driven by huge organizations as well as small and medium-sized businesses, must transform and adapt to the new normal in the post-pandemic world. It would have to comprise not only innovative solutions to address complex problems, but will also require a high degree of empathy and ethical standards. Therefore, the 3rd edition of the PRISM Conference will, offer insights on future growth in a sustainable, technology-driven, and effectively led manner.
     We seek  high-quality research papers/ articles from scholars and industry practitioners on the non-exhaustive list of conference themes and tracks. Impactful articles on other related topics are also encouraged.

Program Schedule

Important dates

Themes

Reimagining the Future of Business: The Challenges of Leadership, Digitalization, and Sustainability

The constantly evolving business landscape underlay leadership challenges and makes it crucial to revisit them. The leaders are desired to acquire the required skills and traits for managing change. Leaders need to be able to adapt to new situations quickly and effectively, whether it’s implementing new technologies or responding to shifts in the market. Consistent with this, the significant leadership actions are dedicated towards developing talent, effective communication, trust building, efficient decision making, delegating responsibilities, and balancing short-term & long-term goals. Overall, effective leadership requires a combination of skills, including communication, delegation, decision-making, and adaptability to address challenges like – focusing on emotional intelligence, adapting to changing times, attention to employee well-being, lack of diversity & inclusion, focusing on ethics & values, and developing future leaders. By addressing these challenges, leaders can become more effective and help their organizations thrive in today’s fast-paced business landscape.

In the last few years, the world has seen a significant augmentation in the digitalization of the operationality of businesses thereby leading to several challenges for organizations of all sizes. The integral challenges associated with the digitalization of organizations relate to security (to protect themselves against cyber threats), recruiting skilled digital talent, providing seamless & personalized customer experience, data management to drive decision-making & innovation, and providing agility and flexible approaches to business operations and decision-making. Consequently, the plethora of challenges related to leadership and digitalization has opened the black-box of issues concerning reimagining the future of the business so that every innovative action must be focused on  sustainable development goals and sustainability at large. While management education, in particular and academics in general have made substantial contributions to the spectacular progress thus far, a reimagining is necessary to address the aforementioned difficulties in a post-pandemic world. Put differently, to address the above-mentioned challenges there must be an effective role of efficient leadership, and a robust organizational structure acquainted with the latest technological interventions for contributing towards sustainability.

The 3rd Pritam Singh Memorial Conference will bring important stakeholders from academia, business, regulators, policymakers, and multilateral agencies to discuss “Reimagining the Future of Business: The Challenges of Leadership, Digitalization, and Sustainability.” The current corporate environment is turbulent and dynamic, necessitating innovation to keep up with the times. The corporate world, driven by huge organizations as well as small and medium-sized businesses, must transform and adapt to the new normal in the post-pandemic world. It would have to comprise innovative solutions to address complex problems, and require empathy and ethical standards. Therefore, the 3rd edition of the PRISM Conference will, offer insights on future growth in a sustainable, technology-driven, and effectively led manner.

We seek high-quality research papers/ articles from scholars and industry practitioners on the following non-exhaustive list of research tracks and sub-themes. Impactful articles on other related topics are also encouraged.

Tracks and Related dimensions

The theme of the conference is “Reimagining the Future of Business: The Challenges of Leadership, Digitalization, and Sustainability”. The underlying sub-themes are indicative of the challenges of the organizations. However, functional sub-themes are not limited to the suggested topics. Please feel free to conceptualize your paper.

Track 1: Future of Business and Globalization

• Future models of business
• The age of the new commerce and technology ecosystem
• Globalization in new economic and geopolitical order
• Large vs many small corporations network
• New realities of doing business – digitalization and circular economy

• Application of Knightian uncertainty, and traditional theories to digital ventures and Public Policy
• Resourceful behaviors (bricolage, effectuation, and bootstrapping) for resource-scarce ventures
• Impact of leadership and technology in social entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship, and sustainable entrepreneurship
• Technology-based interventions for social and environmental value creation
• Business model innovation and disruptive innovation
• Future of digital entrepreneurship, issues and challenges in leadership and governance
• Decisive leadership in social transformation during and/or post Covid era

• Role of CSR in enhancing capabilities of NPOs, NGOs, and society-oriented organizations
• CSR initiatives for facilitating sustainability and contributing to sustainable development goals
• Agency theory and stewardship for CSR and business performance
• Strategic autonomy and resilience
• Waste management technology for achieving sustainability: Risk, safety, challenges
• Circularity and frugal innovation for creating social value and environmental value
• Ethical leadership and good governance for sustainable development

• Revisiting systems thinking through Indian texts, Vedas, and philosophy to re-orchestrate the business architecture
• Application of the principle of ‘wholeness’ to technology based ventures
• Systems thinking for businesses in tackling unprecedented and natural challenges
• Understanding systems thinking intention for developing effective leadership
• Building sustainable enterprises through systems thinking and holistic approaches

• Banking and financial sectors through the lens of digital transformation
• Fintech advancements and ecosystem
• AI-based solutions for enhancing banking and financial services
• Blockchain and digital currency: Trends, challenges, and futures
• E-business models and digital payment systems
• Social media platforms for banking and financial literacy
• Effective leadership for digital banking and fintech revolution
• Green Banking and Sustainability

• Global uncertainty and macro-economic variables
• Issues in the labor market
• Taxation, inequality, and Fiscal Policy
• Trade, investment, and sustainable development
• Governance institutional quality

• Effective leadership for managing natural challenges and disasters
• Role of leaders for enhancing organizational competitiveness
• Leadership challenges in augmenting new age digital ecosystem
• Harnessing human resources for enhancing organizational effectiveness
• Technology and human-based interventions for managing talent: Co-effectual approaches

• Digital marketing and social media marketing
• New horizons in services marketing and rural marketing
• Branding in new age digital ecosystem
• Consumer behavior and customer relationship management
• Retail scenario in post-covid era
• Dynamics in branding and advertising in the digital era

• Understanding digital supply chain and route optimization
• Retail supply chains and distribution design models
• E-commerce supply chain
• Supply chain resilience in disruptive contexts and times
• Green supply chain management
• Sustainability in Logistics and inventory management issues
• Humanitarian logistics and outsourcing in logistics
• Role of technology and big data in supply chain

• Data science, machine learning, and data management in business management
• AI and customer analytics
• Building Modular Business-Oriented Analytics
• Meta verse for a better digital world
• Data governance and pyramids

• Emerging digital technologies for an open world
• Future of work in open organizations
• Knowledge, systems and innovation
• Strategy process and dynamics of strategic elements
• Strategy practices in corporations
• Strategic leadership & governance

• Communication evolution, drivers and models
• Conflicts and communication
• Academic teaching, learning and globalization
• Inter-cultural Communication
• Diversity, inclusion and communication strategy
• Systemic, cybernetics or informatics support for academic globalization, inter-cultural communication.

Keynote Speakers

Venue

Past Conferences

Year 2022

2^nd Pritam Singh Memorial (PRISM) Conference

Leading the Business of the Future: Talent, Technology and Transformation in a Changing World

Hybrid Mode: 17th to 19th November 2022

Host Institute: Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur (IIMN)

https://www.iimnagpur.ac.in/prism2022/

Year 2021

OP Jindal University, India

1^st Pritam Singh Memorial (PRISM) Conference
Architecting the Future of Business: Leadership, Government & Technology

Online Mode: 17th to 19th November 2021

Host Institute: Jindal School of Banking & Finance

https://jgu.edu.in/jsbf/prism-conference/

Organisers

 

About Pritam Singh Memorial (PRISM)

 

	Dr. Pritam Singh has been a scholar, thinker, and academic leader par excellence. Dr. Singh's career in management education spanned over five decades, during which he served as the Director of several reputed business schools in India, including the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow, MDI Gurgaon, and IMI Delhi. Dr. Pritam Singh strived to bring world-class practices to Indian management education and took Indian philosophy to the world through the power of his compelling lectures delivered to various Indian and global audiences including Chambers of Commerce in various countries notably Holland, France, Germany, Greece, Russia, UK, USA, Thailand, Mauritius, and Egypt, raising the image and reputation of India and Indian thought.
Over his management education career spanning over five decades, Dr. Singh headed and was part of several government committees related to policies, corporate governance, and leadership development. He served as a member of almost a dozen government panels including the Banking Selection Board, the 10th Five Year Plan for Higher Education, and the search committee for the selection of non-official directors on boards of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs).
Dr. Pritam Singh Foundation is a registered trust, dedicated to groom and mentoring leaders in academia and industry. It has been founded to take forward the legacy and life lessons of Dr. Pritam Singh. The trustees include Mr. P Dwarakanath (Former Chairman, GSK), Mr. S Y Siddiqui (Executive Advisor, Maruti Suzuki), Dr. H Chaturvedi (Director, BIMTECH), Dr. Asha Bhandarker (Distinguished Prof, IMI-Delhi) and Dr. B A Metri (Director, IIM Nagpur). Dr. Pritam Singh Foundation proposes to build a body of knowledge and facilitate management practices in the corporate sector, based on the integration of Indian ethos with Global wisdom.      The flagship initiative of the foundation has been the annual conference first conducted 17-19th November 2021, in partnership with the Jindal Global University. The second annual conference was organized at Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur in 2022. The foundation also conducts the annual competitions for Young Leaders, for Faculty and for Management students. The unique initiative of Foundation to Coach young leaders of the industry to rise to the business leadership of the country and the globe is brining prestige from community.

 

For more details: https://www.drpritamsinghfoundation.com/

 

 

PRISM Foundation Members

Prof. H.Chaturvedi Director,  Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greter Noida, India

 

Prof. (Dr.) Subir Verma Director,  Institute of Management & Dean, Faculty of Management Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India

 

Mr. Dhananjay Singh Director General  National HRD Network (NHRDN)

 

Mr. K. S. Bakshi Group Head - Human Resources,  Inter Globe Enterprises

 

Mr. R. Anand Principal Consultant & Advisor HR HCL Technologies Ltd.

 

Mr. G. Mani COO,  Ashok Leyland

 

Dr. Subrat Kumar CEO,  People Labs

 

Prof. (Dr.) Sanjay Srivastava Managing Director,  Manav Rachna Educational Institutions, Haryana, India

 

Dr. Prashant Gupta Professor and Dean-Faculty, Academics, and Alumni Affairs, Indian Institute of Management Nagpur, India

 

Mr. P. Dwarakanath Former Chairman GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) &  President PRISM Foundation

 

Mr. S. Y. Siddiqui Executive Advisor  Maruti Suzuki

 

Dr. Asha Bhandarker Distinguished Professor of  Organizational Behaviour,  IMI Delhi, India

 

Advisory Board​s

Global Advisory Board

Prof. Gregory Prastacos Dean of the School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology, Business School, USA

Prof. A. Sahay Professor and Dean (Research),  BIMTECH, India

Prof. Léon Laulusa Executive Vice-President, Dean, Warsaw campus at  ESC Business School, Poland

Dr. Lucienne Abrahams  Director and Senior Lecturer,  LINK Centre, University of Witwatersrand,  Johannesburg, South Africa

Dr. Jyoti Gupta Emeritus Professor, ESCP Business School, Europe

Dr. Bhavish Jugurnath University of Mauritius, Mauritius

Prof. (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar Vice Chancellor, O. P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India

Prof. (Dr.) Sunil Mithas Professor,  Muma College of Business, University of South Florida, USA

Dr. Asha Bhandarker Distinguished Professor,  Organizational Behaviour,  IMI, Delhi, India

Prof. (Dr.) Alfredo Behrens Professor Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal

Prof. (Dr.) Davide Sola Professor of strategy ESCP, London, United Kingdom

Prof. D. K. Malhotra Professor of Finance,  Nydick Family Term Chair,  MBA Program Director, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA

Prof. Rashmi Malhotra Professor of Decision and System Sciences, Saint Joseph's University, USA

Industry Advisory Board

Mr. Prem Singh President,  Group HR,  JK Organization

Mr. K.S. Shetty Executive Director,  HR, HPCL

Dr. Vipul Singh Senior VP and Head HR, ADP

Mr. Ayush Gupta Director,  HR Gail

Mr. Amit Malik President, Wadzpay, Japan,  Asia Pacific, and Australia

Dr. Rahul Sindhwani Assistant Professor, Operation and  Management, BIMTECH, India

Mr. Yuvraj Srivastava CHRO, Make My trip

Mrs. Veena Swarup Former Director,  HR, Engineers India Ltd.

Mr. Sandeep Girotra ED and CHRO, DCM Shriram

Technical Advisory Board

Dr. Ravi Jain Director, Sparsh Global Business School, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Mr. Alok Kumar Singh Production & Operations Management, IIM Nagpur, India

Prof. Satish Kumar Professor, Finance and Accounting, IIM Nagpur, India

Prof. Sujeet Kumar Sharma Professor,  Decision Science & Information Systems, IIM Nagpur, India

Prof. Nripendra P. Rana Professor of Marketing, College of Business and Economics, Qatar University

Conference Partner

 

 

Journal Press India

Journal Press India is a publishing house devoted to the publication of high-quality research journals in the areas of commerce, management, finance, accounting, Indian economy, international business, taxation and law. It aims to publish research findings and critical perspectives of academicians, scholars, and professionals to advance and refine the understanding of the above disciplines.

All the journals are peer-reviewed and invite innovative research from experts, addressing topical issues in their respective areas. The scope of the journals is interdisciplinary and promotes integration across disciplines. Journal Press India intends to serve the interests of academicians, professionals, managers, scholars and policymakers by disseminating information on pertinent issues in the above areas to facilitate decision-making.

 

 

 

 

Scientific & Organizing Committees

Scientific Committee & Track Chairs

Prof (Dr.) Raj K Kovid Professor and Head– Research, Area Chair of Strategy & Entrepreneurship,  Sharda University, India

Dr. Arvind Shukla Chairperson, Doctoral Programmes, Professor of Marketing, BIMTECH, India

Dr. Abhijit K. Chattoraj Professor, Insurance Business Management, BIMTECH, India

Prof. Pankaj Priya Area Head - Marketing & Retail,  Professor of Marketing, BIMTECH, India

Dr. Manosi Chaudhuri Professor of OB & HR, BIMTECH, India

Prof. Meena Bhatia Accreditations & Rankings Committee, Professor of Finance, BIMTECH, India

Dr. Archana Shrivastava Area Head - Business Communication,  Associate Professor of Business Communication, BIMTECH, India

Prof. Venkata Ramana Thanikella Area Head - Finance, Associate Professor, Finance, BIMTECH, India

Prof. Khanindra Ch. Das Assistant Professor of Economics, BIMTECH, India

Prof. Reeti Kulshrestha Assistant Professor of Strategy,  Innovation, Entrepreneurship & CSR, BIMTECH, India

Prof. Somonnoy Ghosh Area Head-Operations & Decision Sciences  Professor of Operations, Decision Science and IT, BIMTECH, India

Prof. Monika Jain Programme Coordinator-PGDM,  Assistant Professor of Economics, BIMTECH, India

Dr. Rahul Sindhwani Assistant Professor, Operation and  Management, BIMTECH, India

Mr. Alok Kumar Singh Production and Operations Management, IIM Nagpur, India

Mr. Bhavesh Sarna School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Organizing Committee

Prof. D. K. Malhotra Professor of Finance,  Nydick Family Term Chair,  MBA Program Director, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA

Prof. Rashmi Malhotra Professor of Decision and System Sciences, Saint Joseph's University, USA

Mr. Rohit Bhardwaj Post-doctoral Fellow, Strategy,  Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Ms. Maya Pandey Research Scholar, Insurance

Ms. Nivedita Jha Research Scholar, OB & HR

Ms. Suman Research Scholar, Strategy,  Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Ms. Sheetal Gupta Research Scholar, Finance

Ms. Riya Bindra Research Scholar, Economics

Mr. Sachin Tyagi Research Scholar, OB & HR

Ms. Lagna Nayak Research Scholar, OB & HR

Mr. Ashish Awasthi Research Scholar, Marketing

Ms. Neha Sharma Manager, Ranking and Accreditation

Call for Papers

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Guidelines

The Conference invites submissions in any of the following Categories

• A. Research Paper
• B. Practitioner Paper / Article
• C. Case Study

STEP 1- Submission of Abstract (for each category listed above)

• You are invited to submit your ABSTRACT in any  category by  20 August, 2023.  
• The abstract should not be more than 500 words.
• Mention 3-5 keywords.
• Abstracts must be submitted in a Word file with a font size of 12 in Times New Roman and must be double-spaced.
• The acceptance of the abstract will be notified within 2 weeks of submission. All accepted Abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

STEP 2-  Guidelines for Submission of full paper

A. Research papers

Research papers describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, experimental, applied and theoretical work or research. Submission of a manuscript implies that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

• All contributions must adhere to the APA 7th edition referencing style, with a font size of 12 in Times New Roman and must be double-spaced in a Word file.
• Full paper submissions must be no less than 3,000 words and no more than  5,000 words, excluding references.
• All manuscripts will be subject to double-blind peer-review and are expected to meet the scientific criteria.
• The text should be in English. American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of both.
• Tables, figures, and appendices should be placed at the end of the document after references. In the text indicate the places for tables and figures (e.g., Insert Table 1 here).
• All submissions should report original and previously unpublished research results no matter the type of research paper you are presenting.
• A Paper should be submitted in a Word file. All papers will be tested for plagiarism through a plagiarism software.
• Suggestive Paper Structure – Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology/ Approach, Findings/Results, Conclusion/Implications/ Recommendations, Acknowledgements (when appropriate), References, Tables / Figures, Appendices (where appropriate).

• All submissions must be made in a Word file with a font size of 12 in Times New Roman and must be double-spaced.
• Full paper submissions must be no less than 1000 words and no more than 3500 words.
• Paper should use the APA style or footnote method to cite research and data.
• All submissions should report original and previously unpublished research results no matter the type of research paper you are presenting.
• Tables, figures, and appendices should be placed at the end of the document after references. In the text, indicate the places for tables and figures (e.g., Insert Table 1 here).
• Paper should be submitted in DOC file to help run in the plagiarism software.
• The text should be in English. American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of both.

• All submissions must be made in a Word file with a font size of 12 in Times New Roman and must be double-spaced.
• Full manuscript submissions must be no less than 2000 words and no more than 5000 words.
• All submissions should report original and previously unpublished research results no matter the type of research paper you are presenting.
• Tables, figures, and appendices should be placed at the end of the document after references. In the text indicate the places for tables and figures (e.g., Insert Table 1 here)
• Paper should use APA style or footnote method to cite researches and data.
• Paper should be submitted in a DOC file to help run in the plagiarism software.
• The text should be in English. American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of both.

For All Selected Abstracts
Conference Proceedings are to be released on the day of the conference.

For Research Papers
Research  papers selected by  Review Committee  will be recommended for publication in regular/special issue of the following referred journals:

• Business Perspective (Sage)
• Edited book for Full papers (All accepted peer-reviewed papers only

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