S-TEAM 2021: SCMHRD - Technology, Economics, Analytics & Management Conference 2021 Virtual Pune, India, September 27-October 4, 2021 |
Conference website | https://scmhrdteam.scmhrd.edu/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=steam2021 |
Poster | download |
Abstract registration deadline | June 20, 2021 |
Submission deadline | June 20, 2021 |
Notification for acceptance of abstract: | June 30, 2021 |
Full paper submission: | August 16, 2021 |
Registration Deadline | August 16, 2021 |
Feedback from reviewers | September 10, 2021 |
Final paper submission based on reviewer feedback | September 12, 2021 |
Guidelines for Abstract Submission
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- The acceptable word range for the abstract is 150-200 words.
- We encourage the author to send an informative and structured abstract as per the following template:
- [Article title]
- Author Details: Name, Designation, Email Address and Affiliation of all authors
- Structured Abstract:
- Purpose
- Proposed Design/Methodology/Approach
- Findings (If any)
- Practical/Theoretical implications
- Originality/value
- Keywords: Minimum 3 and Maximum 5
Guidelines for Full Paper Submission
- All manuscripts should be submitted in MS Word format only.
- The acceptable word range for the full paper is 6000 – 8000 words, excluding references. The manuscripts which do not meet this word limit will be sent back to the author(s) to be revised.
- The manuscript should be checked for grammar and language error
- All contributors included in your paper should be properly acknowledged with referencing and citations. APA referencing style is the accepted style of referencing
- Font should be Times New Roman, size 12, double spaced, and left-aligned.
- Tables, figures, and images should be properly named and of good quality.
- The paper should be submitted along with a plagiarism report and similarity index of not more than 10%
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
Benefits of Participation
- First author/ Presenter will be awarded an E-certificate. All co-authors requiring an E-certificate will be charged an additional amount of Rs.3000 (per paper per author) as indicated in the Registration Fee section.
- All conference abstracts will be published in an E-Proceeding in the form of a Compendium
- Selected authors will be invited to elaborate on their research topic and submit the results to journals of high repute for review and potential publication.
- Two Best Paper Awards by International Journal of Emerging Markets
- Participation in Case development workshop
- Participation in Pre-conference workshop on Advanced Research Methods
- Participation in Editorial Conclave
- Fast track publication opportunity with International Journal of Emerging Markets (Emerald Publishing), FIIB Business Review (Sage Publications)
- Opportunity to publish articles or cases based on Business education in Journal of International Business Education (JIBE), Journal of Organizational Behaviour education (JOBE) and in the Journal of Business Ethics Education (JBEE) and Operations Management Education Review (OMER)
SCMHRD’s Double Blind Peer Review Process
- SCMHRD’s double-blind peer review process will be conducted by the Conference Scientific Committee who are established academicians with rich peer review experience.
- Notices of acceptance or rejection of the paper will be sent to the author with reviewer’s comments
Track 1: Renewable Energy, Circular Economy and Disruptive Innovation
Covid Pandemic has forced many nations to focus on boosting economy through increasing its spending, especially on infrastructure. Infrastructure due to its forward and backward linkages is expected to push the economy and circulate the resources amongst various sectors of the economy. In 2021 budget, to bring economy on a higher growth path, Govt of India has allocated substantial resources for infrastructure sector especially roads, airports and renewable energy sector. Additionally, government is also attempting to promote innovations such as electric vehicles, renewable energy etc.
This track amalgamates learning and concepts related infrastructure sectors and promote innovations in this sector. Papers are welcome on original piece of work on the following issues, but definitely not limited to
- Green hydrogen and future uses in electricity generation and transportation
- Use of renewable energy in Electric Vehicles: Barriers and challenges
- Battery Enabled Storage Systems in Renewable Energy: Upcoming solutions
- Changing policy paradigm for Renewal Energy in India.
- Green Transport and Aviation
- Green buildings and Health
- Climate change and Smart Cities
- Infrastructure policy reforms & challenges
- Construction challenges in infrastructure sector
Track 2: Agility, Resilience and Well-Being during Business Transformation
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic has given us the experience of surviving as well as sustaining amidst a major crisis of unparalleled proportions. The physical divide is bridged by the digital technologies thus instigating the need to create innovative communication environment. The traditional working methods need to be unlearned. There has to be revamp in policies to address issues of data security, employee needs, employer interests, etc. The work from home aspect, while served as boon for many was a burn out experience adversely impacting the growth of the organization. A stronger focus on the multicultural aspects of resilience, forbearance for ambiguity and curiosity of employees; collectively referred to as the cultural agility competency of organizations (Caligiuri et al., 2020) seems to be an ideal prescription to tide over times like these.
Our conference, addresses the emerging issues related to the changing façade of HRM functions, procedures and thought leadership. In consonance with the paradigm shifting consequences put forth by the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the likes of it that may emerge in the future. The antecedents and consequences of the changes along with the emerging issues pertaining (and not limited to) to their impact on general employee health, female employees in particular and the role of family and organisational support. Papers that are welcome include research studies and workplace case-studies (qualitative as well as quantitative), as well as theoretical or conceptual papers and literature reviews.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of suggestions for more specific themes. Contributions on any of these are welcome, as well as on any other issues that relate to managing changes in behaviour, thinking and experiences of people during a global crisis and how they adapt to the forthcoming changes with respect to their societal, organisational and personal lives. Possible research work is welcome on the following areas with an Human Resource Development focus, but not limited to:
- The recent paradigm shifts and disruptions in Human Resource domain
- Changes in the Leadership and organizational settings during business transformation
- HR transformations and Talent Management strategies
- Employee engagement in current times
- The changing trends in learning and development
- Addressing inequalities and biases at workplace
- Usage of HR analytics in HR practices to attain business goals
- HR innovations and Future of work
- Psychological health and Mental wellbeing of employees in adverse situations
- Effectiveness of Performance Management in adverse times
Track 3: Sustainable Accountability, Circular Economy and Corporate Financial Performance
Research practices and literature in the area of Accounting & Finance used to focus on profitability of the firm which further aids to the shareholder’s wealth creation. These practices have now given way and moved to sustainable finance, sustainable financial performance and reporting practices. This evolvement is due to the fact that the short-term financial performance does not contribute to corporate sustainability (Lo and Lio, 2021). The dual advantage of environmental and economic performance is leading its way towards the concept of circular economy with the core theme of extended usage of products, materials or resources (Gregson et al., 2015).
Circular economy leads to sustainable business management through impacting strategic planning, cost management, supply chain management, quality management, environmental management, process management, logistics and reverse logistics, service management, and research and development (Barros et al., 2021). However, there is dearth of studies connecting the aspects of circular economy and financial reporting or financial performance of firms (Gunarathne et al., 2021). This creates a room of opportunity to researchers to explore and observe empirical evidences in the niche area along with firms. Firms need to align their strategic plans around circular economy theme as many countries like China has announced it as a part of its Economic and Sustainable Plans (13th-five year plan, 2016–2020). Kuo and Chang (2021) found empirical evidences of higher sustainable growth rate and return on equity by firms which disclosed more circular economy information and aligned reporting to circular economy. Therefore, firms can achieve better returns to their shareholders through adaption of circular economy practices. However, this needs to be aligned with the reporting practices of firms too.
Based on the above empirical evidences and forthcoming areas of literature, we invite original manuscript which can be empirical, conceptual, surveys, reviews, case studies on following areas but not limited to:
- Sustainability accounting and reporting, International Financial Reporting Standards
- Environmental, Social and Governance Reporting
- Sustainable Corporate Financial Performance
- Circular Economy, reporting and financial performance
- Regulatory aspects of Circular Economy
- Role of financial markets in Circular Economy
- Capital Structure, Dividend policy through the lens of Sustainable performance
- Sustainability of Accounting reports - Green-washing, forensic accounting
- Digital finance and Fin-tech and its role in sustainable finance
- Green bonds, Sustainable financing
Track 4: Business Analytics, Innovation and Supply Chain Management
In this era of disruption across the world, technology has become central to the management of business operations, more than ever. Supply chain management, Information technology, and analytics are playing an ever more important role in understanding and managing businesses better. The emergence of new-age technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), generate vast amounts of data are stored on global storage data centers.
Big data, characterized with high volume, variety, and velocity, increasingly drives decision-making and is changing the landscape of business intelligence, from governments, organizations, communities to individual decision making. Big data analytics that discover insights from evidence has a high demand for computing efficiency, knowledge discovery, problem solving, and event prediction/prescription. It also poses great challenges in terms of data, process, analytical modeling, and management for organizations to turn big data into big insight. Such a large amount of data can enable digital firms to develop data-driven innovations such as introducing new products or upgrading existing product lines or services (Ransbotham and Kiron, 2017). With the technical advancement, the sustainability aspects of the technology, including its impacts on the economic, social and environmental issues are lesser discussed. Risk assessment, mitigation, and detection of early warning signals needs more focus. In light of these circumstances, it becomes ever so more interesting to study and analyze as a part of this track, the latest trends, techniques, innovations, case studies, and real-world solutions and their application in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Analytics, Supply Chain Management, and Operations not forgetting their integrated applications in manufacturing, e-commerce, services, marketing, Human Resources, healthcare, etc.
Further we invite researchers to share their scholarly work concerning the development of advanced technologies and sustainability concerns, social issues, and economic benefits of the relevant technologies in smart cities, transportation, construction, mining, and civil engineering. Papers are welcome from quantitative as well as qualitative research methods domain along with Mixed-method studies. Provided, these are all previously unpublished, original piece of work on the following issues, but not limited to:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Business applications of Big data, Data analytics and Machine Learning
- Advanced methods and techniques in Data Analytics with IoT and/or AI
- Blockchain technologies and adoption
- Applications of Analytics in supply chain management, healthcare, finance, humanresources, and Marketing.
- The integration of AI, Data Analytics, and/or Blockchain for increased productivity
- Novel statistical methods to deal with increasing volumes of data.
- Qualitative aspects of data formulation.
- Supervised, Unsupervised, and Semi-Supervised approaches to Machine Learning across domains.
- Data and Privacy concerns
Track 5: Digital Marketing, Social Responsibility and Consumer Behaviour
Marketing seeks to develop an all-inclusive understanding about the behaviours and reactions of consumers to get a better share of wallet. Many of these activities occur at multiple levels of observation and analysis and are often deeply embedded in interlocking layers of differing social, cultural, political and economic contexts. The ongoing waves of the pandemic are slightly curbed with the introduction of the vaccines thus ushering a year which if not anything is the ‘Newest Normal’. The ‘New Normal’ ensued by the pandemic led to digitalization of many activities in daily life and also in the domain of Marketing. The digitization of firms has influenced the consumers in their product choices too. Additionally, the digitization and the data insights have paved the way for large firms to engage with small and medium firms and aid in their progress. It is at this juncture of digitization, the shifts in consumer behaviour and the need for companies to be socially responsible that the S-Team 2021 conference focuses on. The conference encourages submissions that embody the spirit of marketing as informing and contributing practical solutions to the important issues faced by the world. We invite interdisciplinary, multi-method and cutting-edge papers making theoretical, practical and conceptual contributions, provided, these are all previously unpublished, original piece of work on the following issues, but definitely not limited to:
- Digital & Social Media Marketing
- Marketing Analytics
- Service Marketing
- Advertising and Marketing
- Branding
- Sports and Entertainment Marketing
- Consumer behavior & Sustainable Consumption
- Retailing and E-commerce
- Rural Marketing
Track 6: Contemporary Cases in Management
This track is to enable the practitioners, social researchers and faculty and students working on live projects, to document their experiential learnings and to present the dilemmas they resolved in the ‘New Normal’ or amidst the New Normal. Cases may be application oriented or theoretical from any sector on any business discipline (such as Marketing, Information Systems, Operations Management, International Business, Business Ethics, just to name a few), or focus on any theme (such as Big Data Analytics, Sustainability, just to name a few). Irrespective of the nature of the case, application domain, and focus, a case must exemplify its connections to business.
The Submission guidelines for Case Studies are as follows-
- A Full-Length case study 5-20 pages or more excluding the figures, tables and charts
- Each Case study should be accompanied by a case teaching note (Minimum1000 words) explaining the case summary, the immediate learning objective, keywords, the targeted audience for the case and suggested assignment questions for the case.
- The case study should be submitted in .doc/.docx format. There has to be a separate file accompanying teaching note
- The names and email addresses of all the case authors along with the No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the organization on which the case has been based.
Track 7: Changing Paradigms of Learning in Education and Organizations
The pandemic redefined the mode of learning and pedagogical approaches. The learning shifted from face-to-face learning, to blended learning and finally to complete online asynchronous and synchronous mode of learning. Several effective methodologies (Lapitan et al. 2021) are being attempted to make learning more engaging and interactive such as Discover, Learn, Practice, Collaborate and Assess (DLPCA). Virtual learning is effective if it self-regulated, interactive project-based and collaborative. Courses that stimulates critical thinking ability, imbibes data analytics skills and facilitates simulated work based learning are most preferred in virtual learning platform (Patlow and Gibbs, 2003). The question to ponder is whether online or blended learning is going to be the preferred learning medium in the new normal? What are the challenges and facilitators of online learning from the perspectives of both learners and instructors? How significant is the role of technological & infrastructural support, and instructors’ pedagogical and technical competencies? What pedagogical tools may be imbibed to make learning most effective?
Broad topics under consideration are:
- Enablers and Challenges to Virtual Learning
- Motivational Factors Determining Virtual Learning Experience
- Online Laboratories and Virtual Experimentation
- Curriculum Development and Pedagogical Approaches to MOOCs
- Antecedents & consequences of Virtual Internship Experiences
In addition to submissions addressing the conference theme, we also welcome submissions pertaining to any aspect of the very broad field of business: Human Resource, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Infrastructure Development & Management and Business Analytics.
Committees
International Advisory Committee
- Dr. V G Venkatesh - Associate Professor, Supply Chain Management, EM Normandie Business School, France
- Dr. Sylvaine Castellano, Dean Research and Professor Strategy EM Normandie Business School France
- Dr. Brett Trusko - President and CEO at The International Association of Innovation Professionals, Data Scientist, Remote Working Expert, Executive Coach in Innovation
- Dr. Rameshwar Dubey -Reader, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Liverpool Business School, UK
- Dr. Abhishek Behl -Assistant Professor, AI and Gamification, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India
- Dr. Satish Kumar -Associate ProfessorFinance and Accounting, MNIT Jaipur, India; Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Business, Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia
- Dr. Sudhir Rana, Associate Professor, FortuneInstituteof International Business, Editor, FIIB Business Review (Sage Publications)
Organizing Committee
Member | Designation |
Dr. Pratima Sheorey | Director and Professor, Marketing |
Dr. Netra Neelam | Deputy Director and Professor- Human Resource Management |
Dr. Aradhana Gandhi | Professor, Marketing |
Dr. Manoj Hudnurkar | Professor, Operations |
Dr. Sonali Bhattacharya | Professor, General Management |
Dr. Vinita Sinha | Professor, HR |
Dr. Manish Sinha | Associate Professor, Business Analytics |
Dr. Rahul Hiremath | Assistant Professor, Infrastructure Development And Management |
Dr Dipasha Sharma | Assistant Professor, Finance |
Dr. Gauri Joshi | Assistant Professor, Marketing |
Dr Pooja Sharma | Assistant Professor-Human Resource Management |
Ms Arati Vaidya | Information Officer, SCMHRD |
Ms Anjali Bahutule | Senior Network Administrator, SCMHRD |
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to s_team@scmhrd.edu