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Their products will not only have to be technically well
prepared and competent but also better able to
deal with the global canvas on which management
and management education are coming to be played out:
changing demographics, information technology and
distributed services, issues of corporate governance and
responsibility which are no longer confined to national
boundaries, the environmental bottom-line in addition to
the more traditional measures of performance—all these
factors are shaping the emerging goal of management
education and the responses of management education
institutes. What will a new model of education look like
in 2020? In evolving such a reformulated model of
education, management education institutes have to (a)
deal appropriately with their own need to grow and
become sustainable, (b) align their curricula with
future corporate and societal needs, (c) find and retain
teaching resources, (d) respond to the quality assurance
imperative that is being increasingly stressed by
various stakeholders, and (e) provide the thought
leadership that industry, governments and other policy
professionals demand.
AIMS-8 will provide an
opportunity to scholars to illustrate the ways in which
institutes are responding to these emerging goals and
contours of management education. Innovations in
curriculum; research in the various traditional subjects
or disciplines of management education which has
implications for future teaching; research into emerging
areas like entrepreneurship, corporate governance,
technology management, telecom management, energy,
operations, applications of information technology,
strategy, and globalization; new explorations in
pedagogy; reflections on the society-corporate
sector-management school triangle; innovations in the
world of practice that have educational implications;
and similar areas, are all appropriate themes that
scholars may fruitfully explore. These explorations
would help AIMS-8 arrive at a research and reflection
based understanding of “Management
Education in 2020: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities.”
The purpose of the conference is to
provide a forum that stimulates discussion on the
conference theme and on topics related to the theme. The
conference will also provide opportunities for
networking and collaboration amongst scholars from
academia, industry and government. In addition to papers
on the conference theme and the emerging fields noted
above, scholars may submit papers on any aspect of the
traditional disciplines of management like accounting,
marketing, finance, OB, HRM, MIS,
entrepreneurship,
quantitative
methods, operations, economics, etc.
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