Disruption in business is a recurring phenomenon, which is evidenced as innovations spur in the society and economy. Companies often invest in resources to build distinctive capabilities to overpower the disruptive innovations in market. The theory of disruptive innovation has significantly influenced the industry and business circles as a powerful tool for estimating the success of business agglomerations within industries and for predicting the risk and business growth of companies in particular. The classic model of disruption emphasizes the penetration of a cheap, innovative substitute to a high-end product or service, and gradually move up the customer chain with gradual improvement in its quality to overpower the competition and lead the market. Disruption in market is driven by psychodynamics in its early stages, which succumbs to an entropy at the end of its lifecycle.

A disruptive innovation is a technology, product, or process that creeps up from the bottom-line in an existing business and threatens to displace it. Gradually, it evolves to the point where it displaces the conventional business players. Disruptions have moved from business operations to administration processes over time. Digital management, Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0 revolution support various types of disruptions in business and management processes. Some customer-centric companies are experimenting to harnesses the collective wisdom of the organization to measure the potential of a particular innovation to damage an incumbent's business. The disruptions thus need to be viewed from the point of view of both positive and negative perspectives. However, in dynamic business scenarios that exists today, the organizational model changes along with the customer expectations and preferences. However, defensive playbook for confronting disruptive innovation often falls short. Indeed, disruption has greater effect on the less known but vital foundations such as the design cube comprising design-to-market, design-to-value, and design-to-system. Therefore, disruption in business and management threatens the architecture of a company's very survival in a way that alters the overall operations and philosophy of business.

Existing and long-standing businesses usually consider innovation as a threat to be met with defensive measures. Disruptive technology-led business models have driven down many companies because of their temporary surge in the market and left the story behind the industry. Disruptive innovation is, therefore, considered by most businesses as destructive tool on its face value. Nevertheless, in broad sense, disruption is regarded as a change agent within the market, industry, and company that ensures the net effect of total market growth over time. The counter arguments on disruption offer a powerful growth avenue for frugal innovations and discovering new markets for the existing companies, incumbents, and start-ups. Disruption in business and management slow the process down but may emerge as radical innovation and thrust its consequences heavily on the established market. During the initial phase, disruptive products serve as a strong instruments to acquire new customers and to build an organization that is capable of standing as a new competitor within the industry. Studies analyzing the effects of disruption in business and management suggest that customer focus holds the key determinant to co-evolve with radical innovations.

Most companies run by deep, experienced management teams dominate almost every industry to develop a shield against disruptive innovation. How do upstarts create disruption? Is disruption a management process of evolving companies? This conference intends to document experience of firms, management process, and business systems that have faced disruption and succeeded of slack markets. Deliberation in the conference aims at discussing the causes and effects and challenged associated with the disruptions in business and management. Portraying disruption-resistant business designs and customer value propositions across the industries are some of the comprehensive objectives of this international academic meet.

Submission Guidelines

Conference organizers invite full papers, abstracts, and extended abstracts from the interested academics, professionals and researchers on the above stated topics. The important dates on submissions are as detailed below:

• Conference Announcement-Call for Papers: June 01, 2020
• Submission of abstracts: August 31, 2020
• Decision on submissions: September 30, 2020
• Submission of final papers: October 31, 2020
• Conference registration: November 01, 2020 onwards

All submissions must be typed double-spaced with 2.5 cm or one-inch margins using 12-point Times New Roman font in a single MS Word file. All submissions must include a Title, Authors (names, affiliations, e-mails of all authors and a notation (*) of the corresponding author), an Abstract (no more than 150 words) and 3-5 Keywords. Final paper should not exceed 30 pages, including the Abstract, body of the text (Introduction, Theory, Methods, Findings, Discussion, Conclusions and Implications), Tables, Figures and References. All paper submissions must include a discussion, which addresses the contribution of the author’s work to the advancement of business and business-related science and practice in the Conclusions and Implications section. All submissions must be entirely original, not previously published, and must not be under concurrent consideration or scheduled for presentation elsewhere.

All abstracts and full papers must be submitted online at Easy-Chair. The link for submission is:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imibegade2020

List of Topics

• Track 1: Innovation Management
• Track 2: Business Epistemologies
• Track 3: Business Systems and Governance
• Track 4: Analytics and Business Modelling
• Track 5: Disruptions in Business Operations
• Track 6: Human Resource Management and Innovation 
• Track 7: Operations and Financial Systems
• Track 8: Innovations for Sectoral Growths
• Track 9: Future of Marketing
• Track 10: Trade and Economy
• Track 11: Global Business
• Track 12: Creative Thinking and Innovation
• Track 13: Business in Emerging Economies
• Track 14: Case Studies on Disruptions and Innovation Management
• Track 15: Impact on Business in Post-COVID Scenario

Committees

Program Committee

• Prof. Ramesh Behl, Director, International Management Institute (IMI) Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Dr. Rajagopal, Professor, EGADE Business School, Mexico City, Mexico
• Dr. Raquel Castaño, Professor and Associate Dean (Faculty Development), EGADE Business School, Monterrey, Mexico, NL
• Dr. Fernando Moya, Professor and National Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, EGADE Business School, Santa Fe, Mexico City
• Dr. Sourabh Sharma, Associate Professor, International Management Institute (IMI), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Dr. Manit Mishra, Associate Professor, International Management Institute (IMI), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Organizing committee

• Dr. Sourabh Sharma, Associate Professor, International Management Institute (IMI), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Dr. Manit Mishra, Associate Professor, International Management Institute (IMI), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Mr. Umakant Bisht, Conference Executive, (IMI), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Publication

• IMIB-EGADE-2020 Anthology of selected papers will be published by an International publisher. The anthology of selected papers for previous editions of the Conference have been published as an edited book by Palgrave Macmillan, NY, USA and IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania. 
• The IMIB-EGADE-2017 Anthology entitled "BUSINESS GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETY" published by Palgrave Macmillan, NY, USA in 2018 is now SCOPUS INDEXED.  The IMIB-EGADE-2018 Anthology entitled "INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND MARKET ECOSYSTEMS - MANAGING INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IN EMERGING MARKETS" published by Palgrave Macmillan, NY, USA in 2019 is in the process of SCOPUS indexation and the IMIB-EGADE-2019 Anthology entitled "ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: ANALYZING GROWTH MODELS IN EMERGING MARKETS" is in the process of publication by Palgrave Macmillan, NY, USA in 2020.
• Shortlisted papers may also be considered for Global Business Review (A SAGE publication; SCOPUS indxed; categorized in ABDC journal rankings); International Journal of Business Competition and Growth (Inderscience Publication); and Emerging Economy Studies (SAGE Publications).

Venue

The conference will be held at International Management Institute (IMI) Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to conference@imibh.edu.in. For any query, you may also call up Mr. Umakant Bisht (+91 8178001348).

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