4th IMI Bhubaneswar & EGADE Business School Conference

An International Conference on Global Business Environment was organised by IMI Bhubaneswar in collaboration with EGADE Business School, Mexico City on 7th and 8th December, 2018. After the conference got over an interview was taken and few questions were asked which had these answers.The key conveners were Prof. Manit Mishra and Prof.Sourabh Sharma.


Question1. What challenges did you face while conducting such cross country conference?

Answer: The main intention of such conference was to provide platform to research scholars for presenting their research work and disseminate the information across the borders at global level. So the challenge for us was to find a cutting edge theme that would be relevant to the prevailing business environment. The running theme of the conference is Global Business Environment, so under that for this year we had decided the theme of “Industry 4.0: Business beyond Boundaries” because according to current business scenario it is the most relevant topic.


Question 2. How this conference will be beneficial for our college?

Answer: This conference will increase the awareness about our college internationally as we will be able to communicate to 100 times more people. Many times it may happen that colleges start these kinds of conferences but do not regularly conduct them over the years or conduct them only once in a while, but we have been conducting this conference in a very systematic way since 2015 & this was our 4th edition of the EGADE Conference. This conference brought researchers from across the border at the same platform and turned out to be beneficial for our college as it will result in recognition of our institution.

Question 3. What had been your expectations from the EGADE Conference this year?

Answer: From the conference this year we had expected many positive deliberations, participation of many good researchers and dissemination of research information across countries & we have successfully achieved this.

Question 4. Which all countries had participated in the conference this year?

Answer: Since it is an international conference we had been open to researchers from all over the world. This is year we had received research papers from countries like Mexico, Spain, Nepal and India as well.

Question 5.  How many participants had been involved in this conference?

Answer:  This year we had received 150 research papers out of which we had finalized 85 papers for final presentation. We had a footfall of 160-180 people out of which 48 delegates were from Nepal.

Additional Info:
EGADE Conference is Co-chaired by Professor Ramesh Behl of IMI Bhubaneswar and Professor Rajagopal from EGADE Business School, Mexico City. This conference is chaired by many reputed chairpersons from India & abroad. This year also we had 12 professors from India & abroad together. In the conference we had participants from the top IIMs & IITs. These kinds of conference generate buzz which leads to recognition of the institute.

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