Role of Strategic Management for Building and Sustaining
Businesses in a Disruptive World
Dec 27-30, 2021 (Hybrid)
Host Institute
Indian Institute of Management Nagpur (IIMN)
Welcome to SMF-2021 (strategic Management
Forum - 2021)
For many years, we have used various descriptors like dynamic, disruptive, VUCA, fluid, uncertain, etc. to describe the business environment. However, the impact of such a disruptive state of our macro and global business environment has probably never been felt to the extent as we are witnessing now. Post the onset of the Covid pandemic in early 2020, we are seeing changes in various economic indicators and business performance parameters like never before. There have been large scale disruptions in business revenues, cost uncertainties, demand & supply irregularities, jobs, incomes, and physical & knowledge infrastructure across sectors, economies and continents.
Given the current scenario of businesses, it has become even more imperative that strategists, i.e. the key decision-makers of each business, make additional efforts to cope up with the impact of the pandemic as well as the post-pandemic future of businesses. With this in mind, the 23rd Annual Convention of the Strategic Management Forum (SMF), to be hosted by IIM Nagpur (virtually) in December 2021, seeks to engage academicians, research scholars and industry practitioners in this very pertinent and contemporary theme – Role of Strategies for Building and Sustaining Businesses in a Disruptive World.
Conference Highlights
The key highlights and components of the 23rd SMF India Annual Convention are:
Technical sessions (presentation of the research papers across the various tracks)
Teaching Cases forum
Doctoral Colloquium for research scholars
Professional / Management Development Workshops
B-school Directors’ Panel / Conclave
A panel discussion by senior strategy academics on “Strategy Curriculum: Present & Future”
A panel discussion by industry experts on “Impact of Industry 4.0 on Strategy Practice”
Conference Tracks
Competitive strategies in resource constrained environments
Corporate strategies of conglomerates, business groups and family business firms
International business and strategies in a disruptive world
Tailoring strategies for managing growth in specific industries / sectors
Business ethics and Indian ethos
Corporate social responsibility
Industry 4.0 and impact on strategies
Strategy as Practice
New economy business models
Behavioural strategy
Strategic partnerships & alliances
Strategic leadership and role of leaders in shaping and growing businesses
General Track
Strategic engagement on Social Media
Strategies in the post-pandemic world
Leveraging organizational learning, routines & memory for firm performance
Digital strategies: Leveraging AI, Business Analytics & Data Science
Non-market strategies
Strategic change management
Role of corporate governance in building and sustaining businesses
Knowledge management strategies
Strategic communication in the digital world
Sustainability strategies and triple bottom line approach
International expansion of emerging economy firms
Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystem in emerging economies
Strategic inertia, turnaround and renewal strategies
Strategic investments in human resource development
Innovation as a strategy
Inorganic growth through mergers & acquisitions
Strategies for Sales Management
Conference Patron
Dr. Bhimaraya Metri
Director, IIM Nagpur,
Conference Patron
Dr. Bhimaraya Metri is a distinguished academician, renowned teacher, researcher and an astute administrator. An outstanding leader of management education, he has performed key leadership roles at many premier management institutes and corporates such as Director, IIM Tiruchirappalli, Dean, L& T Institute of Project Management Vadodara, IMI New Delhi, MDI Gurgaon and leading research programmes at BITS Pilani.
A renowned expert in the area of Project Management & Infrastructure, Quality Management and Supply Chain Management, he has numerous research papers and books to his credit apart from being on the editorial advisory boards of several national and international journals.
Conference Leadership
Dr. Saurabh Pandya Faculty, IIM Nagpur Conference Chairperson
Dr. Atul Arun Pathak Faculty, IIM Nagpur Conference Chairperson
Dr. Neerpal Rathi Faculty, IIM Nagpur
Dr. Shiva Kakkar Faculty, IIM Nagpur
Dr. Monika Dhochak Faculty, IIM Nagpur
Sponsors & Exhibitors
