Winter Business School Conference

The Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon, is hosting its second International Research Conference ‘Winter Business School Conference,’ under the aegis of The Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development, at the Gurgaon campus on 20^th-21^st December 2023.

The theme for the conference is ‘Managing Businesses for a Sustainable Future: G-20 and Beyond'. The WBSC aims to bring together academicians, policymakers, practitioners, and other experts to promote sustainability in G20 countries and beyond. Additionally, the conference will provide a forum for researchers to interact with editors of leading journals in the conference's relevant fields.

Conference Advisory Committee

Debasish Sanyal

Director - Great Lakes, Gurgaon

Muhammad Ali Nasir

University of Leeds, UK

Leila Dagher

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Olatunji Shobande

Teesside University, UK

Anurag Danda

World Wildlife Fund, India

Aviral Tiwari

Indian Institute of Management, Bodh Gaya, India

Organizing Team

Samiran Baral

Great Lakes, Gurgaon

Jones Mathew

Great Lakes, Gurgaon

Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya

Great Lakes, Gurgaon
Director, Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development

Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay

Great Lakes, Gurgaon
Managing Editor, Journal of Infrastructure and Development

Poornima Gupta

Great Lakes, Gurgaon

Surya Prakash

Great Lakes, Gurgaon

Harish Kumar

Great Lakes, Gurgaon

Simarjeet Singh

Great Lakes, Gurgaon

Industry Panel Discussion

Industry experts from across Industry will discuss about sustainability initiatives taken by them in their organisations, working with their customers to help them become sustainable. They will also talk about possible industry-academia interfacing and how they can contribute to that. Join us for the discussion at Great Lakes Gurgaon on 20^th December, 2023, 5.30PM.

Ratna Sekhar Adika

Chairman and Managing Director
Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd

Karthik Sathyanarayana

Global Commercial Leader
Schneider Electric

Bandana Jha

Executive Director
Philanthropy & Community Impact

Tania Banerjee

Project Leader
Boston Consulting Group

We invite extended abstracts of theoretical and empirical papers (in PDF files) relating to issues, challenges, and opportunities related to sustainability in the following management areas (but not limited to) Strategy, Finance & Accounting, Marketing, Operations Research, Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources, Economics, Analytics & Data Science.

Conference Tracks

• Higher Education approaches for creating environmentally responsible decision-makers
• Water and Sanitation
• Circular economy practices for net zero
• Sustainable Production and Consumption
• Industry 4.0 and Sustainability
• Climate Change
• Sustainable Cities and Urban Planning
• DEI practices for sustainability

Maximum word limit for extended abstracts: 2000 words (including references)

• Font style: Times New Roman
• Font size: 12
• Document type: Microsoft Word
• The extended abstract must include the following:
  • Research objective
  • Research gap
  • Data
  • Research methodology
  • Expected results
  • Policy implication

Note: Selected abstracts will be invited to present the full paper in person on the day of the conference.

• Abstract Submission Opens: 1^st August, 2023
• Abstract Submission Closes: 9^th October, 2023
• Final Communication of Selected Abstracts: 31^st October, 2023
• Full-Paper Submission (for selected abstracts only): 10^th December, 2023
• Early Bird Registration with 10% Fee Discount Opens: 16^th - 31^st October, 2023
• Last Date for Registration for the Conference: 1^st - 30^th November, 2023
• Days of the Conference: 20^th - 21^st December, 2023

The top 25% of the selected papers will be considered for a peer review process, if accepted by the reviewers after the journal's blind review process then they will be published in a regular issue of the Web of Science (WOS) and SCOPUS, EBSCO Indexed Journals i.e., Frontiers in Environmental Sciences and International Journal of Agriculture and Statistical Sciences.