INDAM 2027 at IIM Sambalpur

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.