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ABOUT THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT FORUM

The Forum organized its first conference at the Indian Institute of Manage-

ment, 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 Insti-

tute 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 respec-

tively. 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 con-

ducted 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.

Strategic Management Forum - 18th Annual Convention

Dec - 17 – 19 , 2015

For further details regarding the convention please contact:

Prof. K. Rangarajan

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade,

Kolkata Campus,

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

KOLKATA -700107

Email: head_kol@iift.edu/ head_kol@iift.ac.in

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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT FORUM

In association

Announces

December 17th — 19th ,2015

Venue

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi Campus

Thematic Conference on

“Managing Challenges of

Protectionism in Global Busi-

ness”.

Case Colloquium on Cases

written in SM area Industry Seminar by Practitioners

on “Opportunities and Challenges

for Indian MNCs”

Presentation of Research Papers

based up on Independent Re-

search being done in SM area.

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Dec - 17 – 19 , 2015

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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 ex-

perienced 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 chal-

lenges 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

Bank’s 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 man-

agement 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 manage-

ment 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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The topic for this year’s Industry Seminar is “Opportunities and Chal-

lenges 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.

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 Protection-ism 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 Con-

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

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

(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 find-

ings 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 one’s case study,

obtain alternative perspectives on the use of the case study as a teach-ing 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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