IIM Shillong hosts GLOGIFT 21 international conference in hybrid mode

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Shillong is hosting GLOGIFT 21, a three-day international conference aimed at providing a global forum for practitioners, policymakers, teachers, researchers and students to share their research and experiential findings.

Themed ‘Flexibility, Resilience and Sustainability’, the ongoing conference allows participants to present their work through empirical study, qualitative modelling, case studies and new concepts, the B-school said in a statement.

Held in hybrid mode from April 21 to 23, the conference aims to facilitate the sharing of practical experiences and insight into the evolution, formulation, and implementation of strategies for a flexible management system that meets the challenging requirements of global business, it added.

The inaugural ceremony of the conference at IIM Shillong Umsawli campus was attended by various luminaries including Sushil Jain and Sudhir K Jain from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Mayank Pareek, a professor of practice from SJ Mehta School of Management at IIT Bombay; Neelam K Rani of IIM Shillong, and DP Goyal, the director of IIM Shillong also attended the inaugural events.

Sofia Johan, an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, attended the conference virtually. The speakers shared their knowledge, experiences and insights while vastly elaborating on the multi-dimensional themes of flexibility, resilience and sustainability.

GLOGIFT 21 will feature research papers and practice papers on a range of subtopics pertaining to the theme of the conference. Some of the subtopics were systematic flexibility, business agility, strategic flexibility, sustainable supply chain, information system flexibility, strategic alliances and eco-innovation. The full papers and their abstracts were being collected since last November.