OBJECTIVE
Accounting and Finance
Sub-Themes:
- Accounting for GST
- Mandatory IFRS adoption improving Information Environment
- Companies Act 2013 vs. Accounting Standards
Finance
Sub-themes:
- Financial Institutions & Regulation
- Financial Reporting Analysis
- Financial Risk Management
- International Business/Finance
- Capital/Derivatives/Securities Market
- Corporate Finance
- Theoretical and empirical asset pricing
- Corporate finance, capital structure and dividend policy
- Asset allocation and investment management
- Financial crises, systemic risk and macro-finance
- Quality of financial reporting and adoption of IFRS
- Corporate governance, executive compensation and ownership structure
- Computational finance and financial econometrics
- Financial risk analytics and management
- Market microstructure and algorithmic trading
- Financial policy choice, institutions and regulation
- Financial literacy and financial education
- Financial Analytics
Economics
- Micro Fundamentals of Macro Growth
- Institutional Framework for Inclusive Economic Growth
- Environment & Sustainability
- Emerging Challenges of Growth
- Policy Framework for Growth
Micro Fundamentals of Macro Growth:
- Role of Physical Capital & Human Capital in Long-term Growth
- Growth Implications of Savings & Investment
- Rural Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth
- Infrastructure and Creation of New Opportunities
- Childhood Development, Education & Skill Development, and Transition to Work
- Universal Health and Sanitation for Human Development
- Gender and Development
- Agriculture and Agri-Business and Rural Change in India
- Informality and Labour Market
- Social Capital
Institutional Framework for Inclusive Economic Growth:
- Banking & Financial Inclusion
- Small Finance Banks & Payment Banks
- Micro Finance Institutions and Inclusive Growth
- Self Help Groups and Empowerment
- Non-Government Organisations as Growth Drivers
- Legal Systems, Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Prosperity
- Digital Platforms for Growth, Environment & Sustainability
- Green energy, Green Economy, Green Business and Green Computing
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security
- Industrialisation vs. Environment
- Sustainable Business
- Renewable Energy for Sustainability
Emerging Challenges of Growth:
- Gender and Regional Disparities in Growth
- Instabilities & Economic Volatilities - Inflation & Recession
- Shadow Economy
- Rising NPAs, Banking Crisis and Growth Impact
- Jobless Growth
- Climate Change & Challenges of Sustainability
- Marginalisation and Policy
Policy Framework for Growth:
- Fiscal Policy for Growth Stabilization
- Tax reforms and ease of doing business
- Growth Implication of Goods & Services Tax
- Demonetization and growth impediments
- Budget and Growth
- Make in India, Skill India, Digital India, Smart Cities Initiatives
- Monetary Policy & Economic Stability
- CSR for Sustainability
Global Dimension of Growth & Sustainability:
- International Trade and Economic Growth
- Global Inclusion Practices: Lessons from Countries in Asia and Africa
- FDI and FII: National Growth Perspective
- Global Economic Volatilities and Impact on National Economies
- Export-led growth & sustainability
- Global/Regional Financial Organisations and Growth
Management
Human Resource Management:
- Digital HRM
- Employer Branding
- Engaging & Maintaining Human Resources
- Green HRM
- HR Analytics
- HRM & Entrepreneurship
- HRM & Corporate Ethics
- Strategic Human Resource Planning/ Strategic Staffing
- Industrial Relations
- Training & Development
- Leadership, with focus on self-leadership
- Managing People and Performance
- Human Resource Information System
- HRM in Creating Sustainable Organizations
- HRM in Small Business
- Employment relations and its relevance in the age of globalization
- Work life balance
Marketing Management:
- New age Marketing Strategy
- Role of Social Media in Marketing
- Changing Notions of Brand Meanings
- Marketing & Sales Automation
- Product Marketing
- Content Marketing
- New Product & Services development
- Customer Relationship Management
- Brand Co-creation
- Service Marketing Strategies
- Supply Chain Management
- Rural Marketing
- Analyzing Marketing Opportunities & Strategy
Exploring Values, Ethics and Spirituality:
- Understanding and exploring workplace spirituality and its impacts
- Contribution of spirituality to contemporary CSR
- Influence of spirituality on the internal culture of responsibility and ethics within an organization
- Exploring the shift from ‘business ethics and responsibility’ to ‘business spirituality’
- The role of mindfulness in contemporary business
- Analysis of the impact of spirituality on uncertainties and disruptions in business.
- Case studies examining organizations demonstrating a spiritual focus
- Role of Spirituality in Sustainability and Responsible Businesses
- Human Values, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Environment and Sustainability:
- Inclusive and Equitable Economic Growth
- Green Marketing and Responsible Consumerism
- Solar and other sustainable Energies for future
- Managing water crises in future
- Sustainability Development Agenda 2030
- Managing forest and other natural resources
- Climate Change Management
- Disaster and Crisis Management
- Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
- Education on Sustainability, Climate Change, Society, and Inclusiveness
- Sustainability and Smart Cities
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Global Reporting Initiatives and Corporate Sustainability
- Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Governance Issues and Challenges
- Managing Indigenous Cultures and Livelihood
- Social Businesses, Sustainable Innovation and Ecopreneurship
- Rio+20 and the Way Forward
Management challenges in a turbulent Economy:
- Strategy, entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Leveraging Information to deal with the future
- Supply chain Management
- E-governance and E-Business
- Managing start-up Ventures
AI in Finance and Digital Economy
- AI-Driven Industry 5.0
- AI for Sustainability
- ESG and Green Innovation
- Human–AI Collaboration and Workforce Transformation
- AI-Driven Marketing
- AI-First Organizations: The New Management Paradigm
- AI Governance, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
Well-Being and Mental Health
- Leveraging AI to Mitigate Workplace Burnout and Optimize Workforce Productivity.
- Scaling AI-Driven Mental Health Infrastructure for India's Labour Force.
- Real-Time AI Detection and Intervention Strategies for Online Bullying and Emotional Distress for college students.
- Emotional well-being and human AI interaction for higher education faculty.
- Deploying AI-Powered Wellness Ecosystems to Mitigate Burnout among Higher Education Faculty and Students.
- Youth, social media and emerging mental health challenges among college students.
- Integrating Conversational AI into Campus Ecosystems to Provide Anonymous, Real-Time Interventions for Academic Distress.
- Time Interventions for Academic Distress.