Dear Scholars & Researchers,

Greetings from IIFT Kolkata!

We are excited to announce the Management Doctoral and Researcher's Colloquium (MDRC) 2024, hosted by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Kolkata Campus, on September 26th and 27th, 2024. The theme for this year’s Colloquium is: "Sustaining and Shaping Future: Management and Economic Perspectives."

This two-day event aims to provide a valuable platform for participants to receive constructive feedback from a panel of experts and to engage with eminent scholars and fellow researchers in the field.

We invite papers on a wide range of topics related to management studies, including but not limited to:

• International Business
• Economics
• Trade & Logistics
• Marketing Management
• Financial Management
• Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management
• Operations Management
• General Management
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Information Systems
• Strategic Management

We welcome submissions from all doctoral students and faculty members who have submitted their doctoral thesis or are currently pursuing Ph.D. programmes in the field of Management and Economics.

Submission Categories:

• Initial Stages of Ph.D. Research: Scholars who have completed coursework or made progress in research proposals may present their Research Design.
• Advanced Research: Scholars who have made significant progress in their Doctoral Thesis, are about to submit their thesis, or have submitted their thesis and are awaiting the doctoral defense seminar may present an Advanced Research Paper.

For more details on registration and paper submission, please visit www.iift.ac.in/mdrc2024/.

Participants intending to present their research at MDRC 2024 should fill out the registration form with their basic details and proceed to submission of registration fees upon receiving the acceptance of their submitted full paper/extended abstract. They can submit their paper/extended abstract directly to mdrc_iiftk@iift.edu or through EasyChair.

Submission Guidelines: Participants may submit an Extended Abstract (not exceeding 750 words) or a Full Paper (not exceeding 7000 words) in the following format:

1. Introduction and Motivation
2. Literature Review
3. Objectives
4. Data & Methodology
5. Results and Findings (for Advanced Research Papers)
6. Contribution & Conclusion

Key benefits of Attending MDRC 2024:

Interaction with Journal Editors:

1. Dr. G Balasubramanian, Senior Professor & Advisor (Finance, Accounting & Quantitative Finance), IFMR GSB - KreaUniversity and Managing Editor of Journal of Emerging Market Finance (Sage Journals)

2. Dr. Ranajoy Bhattacharyya, Professor, IIFT (Kolkata) and Editor of Foreign Trade Review (Sage Journals)

3. Dr. Meghna Chhabra, Professor, Delhi School of Business and Associate Editor of Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy (Emerald)

4.  Dr. Sudhir Rana, Associate Professor, Gulf Medical University and Editor, FIIB Business Review (Sage Journals), Co-Editor-in-Chief, South Asian Journal of Marketing (Emerald Insight), Series Editor, Review of Management Literature (Emerald Insight), and Series Editor, Advances in Emerging Markets and Business Operations (Routledge)

5. Dr. Subash Sasidharan, Professor, IIT (Chennai) and Associate Editor of Indian Economic Journal (Sage Journals) and Associate Editor of Asian Economic Journal (WILEY)

6. Dr. Abhijit Sengupta, Head of Department of Business Analytics and Operations, Associate Professor (Reader) in Business Analytics, and Editor, British Journal of Management

Research Methodology Workshops:

1. Structural Equation Modeling: Concepts and Practical Applications
2. Mastering Systematic Literature Reviews: A Step-by-Step Guide
3. Fundamentals of Forecasting: Techniques and Applications
4. Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM): Methodology and Practice