GCMRM March 2014-17
Conference Tracks
You are invited to submit your paper on the following suggested tracks
(The below tracks are indicative and not exhaustive)
Accounting and Reporting for Stability
- Fair Value accounting
- Accounting for intangibles in internet era companies
- Accounting and Reporting for transparency including related party transactions
- Contingency reporting
- Role of auditors in recovering markets
- Management accounting and reporting for global companies
- Transfer pricing issues and transparency
- Earnings announcement and shareholder value in recovering markets
- Relevance of accounting information for start-ups and internet era companies
Finance for the 21st century markets
- Valuing new age businesses, venture capital backed start-ups
- Compensation structures and incentives for agents in recovering markets
- Structure and management of insurance for emerging needs
- Capital structure and dividend policies in recovering markets
- Changing complexion of private equity in recovering markets
- Emerging sources of finance for business
Banking post the financial meltdown
- The Basel framework and its efficacy
- Banks and their Capital structure
- Risk management in banks (Who bears the risks?)
- Role of the banking sector in a recovering economy
- Independence of the banking sector
- Shareholder value creation in the banking sector
- Regulations in banking – Need, extent, efficacy and impact
- Retail vs. commercial vs. investment banking businesses – Is there a need for Chinese walls?
- Role of the marketing function in the banking sector
- Role of state owned banks in a recovering economy
- Micro finance and financial inclusion
Investors and Investments in Recovering Markets
- Investing in volatile markets
- Role of technical analysis in recovering financial markets
- Pension structures and reforms
- Market microstructure and high frequency data analysis
- Financial markets – Role, responsibility and structure in recovering markets
- Mutual Funds – objective, structures and performance in recovering markets
- Structured investments, hedge funds and complex derivatives as investment avenues
- Investing in real assets vs. financial assets
- Investor education and protection in recovering markets
Risk Management for Recovering Markets
- International finance and managing exchange and business risks
- Vulnerability of new world order to risks
- Managing credit risk
- Credit rating for firms and individuals
- Role of credit rating agencies in recovering markets
- Structured products and exotic derivatives – need of the hour or untouchables?
Behavioural Finance
- Investor biases in recovering markets
- Asset pricing anomalies and their implications for investment strategy in recovering markets
- Behavioural explanations for real world bubbles
- Behavioural factors influencing market volatility
- Behavioural corporate finance: role of corporations in recovering markets
Role of fiscal and monetary policies in recovering markets
- Fiscal consolidation in recovering markets and: Issues and challenges
- Role of fiscal policy as a demand stimulus in recovering markets
- Subsidies or cash transfers – which is a better option as measure of social welfare?
- How independent should be the Central banks in recovering markets?
- Inflation targeting and role of central bank in recovering markets
International Macroeconomic issues in recovering markets
- Role of exchange rate system in the face of exchange rate volatility
- Federal Reserves tapering of QE and its impact on currency markets of recovering markets
- Foreign Direct Investment in recovering markets – enabler or disabler of domestic investment
- Diversification of exports in recovering markets
- Regional trade agreements and their impact on foreign trade in recovering markets
- Domestic savings or foreign capital flows – the option for recovering market
Regulatory issues in Finance and Infrastructure
- PPP in Infrastructure
- Balancing financial stability and growth
- Industrial policies
- Market reforms and deregulation in recovering economy
- Role of Infrastructural finance and development
Socio-economic issues and public policies in recovering markets
- Problem of unemployment and job creation in Recovering economy
- Social security safety net and Poverty eradication measures
- Role of Public policy for access to basic facilities
- Sustainable development and productivity issues
- Role of Corporate Social and Environmental responsibilities
Cross Cultural Management
- Growth of new management systems
- Leadership styles cp. East and West
- Managing for stakeholders - comparative studies
- Institutional norms and business ethics
- Managing expatriate employees
Operations Management and decision science
- Technology Management
- New Product Development
- Operations Management
- Purchasing and Procurement Management
- Sustainable Operations Management
- Manufacturing Policy
Strategy & Entrepreneurship
- Critical perspectives on strategy
- Strategic decision making
- Impact of environmental complexity and dynamism
- Family businesses
- Growth strategies
- Intrapreneurship
- International new ventures
- Social entrepreneurship
- Sustainable business models
Human Resource Management
- Employee-employer relationships
- Organizational fairness in HR practices
- Trust deficit
- Strategic human resource management
- Managing human capital
- High-skilled migration
- Managing expatriate employees
Building competitive advantage through international business
- The internationalization process
- Strategic alliances, JV, M & A activities
- Inclusive growth in foreign markets
- Globalization and its impact
- Innovation and Strategy
- Corporate governance in cross-border ventures
- Foreign Direct Investments (FDI)
- Head office and subsidiary relationships
Marketing in Recovering Markets
- Consumer behavior and Managing changing expectations
- Branding issues
- Consumer networks
- Technology for CRM
- International Marketing
- Social Media and Digital marketing
- E- retailing and virtual marketing
- Changing landscape of usage of technologies in recovering markets
- Innovation and sustainability
- Education and the workforce
- Tourist behavior and experiences
- Destination branding and marketing
- Emerging markets and transformation
- Resilient and adaptive organizations
- Environmental and technological change
- Investment led growth or consumption led growth in recovering economies?
- Role of State in infrastructure development in recovering economies
- Role of agriculture in recovering economies
- Retail sector growth
- Major Asian Powers in the Global System
- Neighborhood Policies of the Major Asian Powers
- RCEP and TPP and the Competing Models for Trade, Commerce and Security Partnerships.
- ASEAN's Foreign Relations between Bilateralism and Multilateralism
- Asian Regional Groupings and Extra-Regional Linkages
- Role of ICT in recovering markets
- Issues in relation to governance of ICT sector
- Impact of IT enabled services on Indian Economy
- Emergence of m-governance
- Challenges and Opportunities of ICT sector in India
- Issues of ICT usage and security
- Future Role ICT in Indian Economy
- Application of Analytics in Recovering Markets
- Analytics in Finance/Marketing/Retail/Insurance/Social Media
- Descriptive Analytics
- Predictive Analytics
- Big Data Analytics
- Prescriptive Analytics
- Creativity, Innovation, and Design Principles for Management
- Sustainable Practices and Methods
- Built Environments and Workspace Innovation
- Sustainable Urban Policies and Practices
- New Workplaces and New Work-Life Practices
- Urban Transformations in the Workforce
- Energy Efficiency & Demand Side Management
- Energy market reforms and pricing issues
- Cleaner Technologies
- Investment opportunities in Energy industry
- Geopolitics and import dependence
- Influence of Service sector on Indian Economy
- Position and Trajectory of India's Service sector
- Trends leisure industry
- Transport industry
- Travel tourism hostelry and catering
- Hospital management
- Housing and construction
- IT industry
- Financial industry.
- Transition in services in recovering markets
- Changing Role of Supply chain & Logistics in recovering markets
- Issues relation to infrastructure for supply chain and logistics
- Supply Chain Alignment with other sector of the economy
- Service Response Logistics
- Supply Chain Resiliency
- Green Logistics
- Spare Parts Management
- Store & Warehouse Management System
- Changing paradigm of Supply chain & logistics across the world for the next decade.
- Governance in public and nonprofit sector
- Corporate governance and independence of directorships
- Corporate governance in banks
- Women on Corporate Boards