S-Team 2022: SCMHRD- Technology, Economics, Analytics and Management Conference 2022 Virtual Pune, India, September 24-30, 2022 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=steam2022 |
Notification of Acceptance of Abstract (Start) | June 13, 2022 |
Registration Open | June 20, 2022 |
Abstract Submission | August 10, 2022 |
Notification of Acceptance of Abstract (End) | August 15, 2022 |
Registration Close | August 19, 2022 |
Full paper submission by | August 25, 2022 |
Notification of Decision by | September 10, 2022 |
Final paper submission based on reviewers’ feedback | September 15, 2022 |
Preconference Workshop | September 24, 2022 |
Guidelines for Abstract Submission
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- The acceptable word range for the abstract is 150-200 words.
- We encourage the author to send an informative and structured abstract as per the following template:
- [Article title]
- Author Details: Name, Designation, Email Address and Affiliation of all authors
- Structured Abstract:
- Purpose
- Proposed Design/Methodology/Approach
- Findings (If any)
- Practical/Theoretical implications
- Originality/value
- Keywords: Minimum 3 and Maximum 5
Guidelines for Full Paper Submission
- All manuscripts should be submitted in MS Word format only.
- The acceptable word range for the full paper is 6000 – 8000 words, excluding references. The manuscripts which do not meet this word limit will be sent back to the author(s) to be revised.
- The manuscript should be checked for grammar and language error
- All contributors included in your paper should be properly acknowledged with referencing and citations. APA referencing style is the accepted style of referencing
- Font should be Times New Roman, size 12, double spaced, and left-aligned.
- Tables, figures, and images should be properly named and of good quality.
- The paper should be submitted along with a plagiarism report and similarity index of not more than 10%
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
Benefits of Participation
- All registared authors will be awarded an E-certificate.
- All conference abstracts will be published in an E-Proceeding in the form of a Compendium
- Selected authors will be invited to elaborate on their research topic and submit the results to journals of high repute for review and potential publication.
- Participation in Pre-conference workshop
- Participation in Editorial Conclave
- Fast track publication opportunity with SCOPUS Indexed journals.
SCMHRD’s Double Blind Peer Review Process
- SCMHRD’s double-blind peer review process will be conducted by the Conference Scientific Committee who are established academicians with rich peer review experience.
- Notices of acceptance or rejection of the paper will be sent to the author with reviewer’s comments
Track 1: Urban Infrastructure and Smart Cities
The importance of urban infrastructure has seen a dramatic change from the 1950s till now. As per Census of India, the percentage of urban population increased from 17.28 % in 1951 to 35.4% in 2021 and expected to grow to 39% by 2036. Since last two decades, Due to consistent influx of population towards urban areas, urban infrastructure in India needs transformation. The rapid growth in urban population has put tremendous pressure on urban infrastructure. In most cities and smaller urban centres, infrastructure and services such as transport, energy systems, footpaths, open spaces, drainage, sewerage and sanitary systems are getting transformed. To revamp, urban infrastructure, Government of India (GoI) in 2015 launched Smart Cities mission with an objective to promote cities that provide core infrastructure, clean and sustainable environment and provide a better quality of life to their citizens through the application of “Smart Solutions”.Transportation infrastructure in urban areas . This track tries to bring together learning, concepts, smart solutions, policy guidelines, financing and management related aspects for urban infrastructure and smart cities. This track will collaborate innovations related to sustainable environment pertaining to smart infrastructure in urban areas. Papers are welcome from quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies. Papers invited should be previously unpublished and are original piece of work, on the following issues (but not limited to):
2. Use of EVs for public transportation: Barriers and challenges
3. Smart cities: financing and implementation challenges
4.Innovative solutions for smart cities
5. Innovations in PPP policy for Urban infrastructure
6. Green buildings and Health in urban centres
7. Climate change and Smart Cities
8. Infrastructure policy reforms & challenges
9. Construction challenges in urban areas
10. Citizens involvement in smart cities
11. Urban energy systems: Move from centralized to distributed energy systems
Track 2: Agility, Resilience and Well-Being during Business Transformation
Sustainable HR Practices are implied as ongoing adoption of the new technologies, strategies, practices and agile processes that enable the achievement of financial, social, and ecological goals, with a holistic impact of the organization and over a long-term time horizon while addressing the unintended side effects. Sustainable HR practices and organizational agility enhance both organizational performance and employee experience. HR can be instrumental in shifting an organization from a traditional hierarchy to a competitive business that provides talent and resources to a collection of empowered groups and supporting them to achieve the greater goals.
Diversity, inclusion, agility and resilience are essential capabilities to drive sustainable practices in today’s dynamic economy. Organizations must be in position to respond to the changing business needs and employee’s requirements. Drawing from a diverse and easily accessible workforce is a critical capability in meeting these demands. Therefore, leveraging the gig economy is a growing organisational trend. Gig workers are on the rise with new opportunities and better offerings for pursuing a part-time work schedule, as per their needs. According to an ASSOCHAM (2021) report ‘Emergence of India's Gig Economy’, , the gig-economy in India will grow to $455 billion by 2024. Papers invited should be previously unpublished and are original piece of work, on the following issues (but not limited to):
- Current Trends, HR Functions and Sustainable Practices
- Embracing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Gig workforce
- Organizational Agility and Resilience
- HR Technology and the Era of Digital Disruption
- The Future of HR and work with Gen Z
- Organizational Culture and Employees Experience
- Employees Psychological Health, Safety and Welfare Systems
Track 3: Economic Development and Business Resilience through SDGs Aligned Finance
Sustainable Economic Development and Climate change are connected significantly. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can attain sustainable development in the finance domain as prescribed by the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda (Lacobuţă et al., 2022). However, this attainment has been slow as the requirement of funds is an estimated US$ 5–7 trillion annually (UNCTAD, 2014) and which can be fulfilled only through SDG aligned climate and development finance (UNFCCC SCF, 2018, UN, 2020). The green finance markets, issuance of Green bonds, climate bonds, impact bonds, and well-regulated and governed financial markets for such innovative products across economies as the impact of the returns of the green bonds on Environmental and Social Responsibility at a global scale can eliminate the funding gap. A policy framework can implicate significantly through SDG objectives (Sinha et al., 2021).
SDG attainment requires the engagement of all stakeholders, whether it's government, financial institutions, financial markets, regulators, business houses, or management education institutions (Weybrecht, 2022). Financial institutions can play their role by issuing innovative products, regularizing markets, and developing markets for such products. Therefore, sustainable banking can lead the way for the financial sector by reducing income inequality and bringing borrowers and lenders together through SDGs aligned instruments (Úbeda, et al, 2022).
Therefore, based on the empirical shreds of evidence and open areas of literature, we see great potential for research in sustainable finance to address fundamental research questions by inviting original manuscripts. Which can be empirical, conceptual, surveys, reviews, or case studies on the following areas but not limited to:
- Role of Sustainable Financing to attain SDGs
- Sustainable Banking and its role in SDGs aligned finance
- Financial markets, institutions, and instruments to promote SDGs aligned with finance
- Climate finance and its linkage with Sustainable Economic Development
- Digital finance and Fin-tech and its role in sustainable finance
- Circular Economy to foster alignment of SDGs
- SDGs aligned Businesses and financing SDGs aligned businesses.
- Regulatory aspects and issues in SDGs aligned with finance
- Role of developing and emerging economies in SDGs alignment
- Socially responsible investing, Impact investing, ESG reporting, and Performance
- Emerging practices in sustainable finance
- The specific sustainability finance risks like green and sustainable washing etc.
- Obstacles in sustainable finance like legal restrictions, lack of reliable mechanisms & finance models limiting investment risk & return.
Track 4: Digital Transformation
The term Digital transformation has become so wide in its connotation that sometimes it becomes unhelpful in terms of understanding it’s immense latitude. However, it is widely recognized now that for people to work effectively and creatively, they must be able to interact with technology in a natural and fluid way. Digital transformation in Business is about customers on the one hand and automating internal processes on the other. It has the potential to reduce response time and cost of delivery and at the same time improve access and experience for customers. The implications are immense in terms of business and the macro economy in general. One cannot look at the phenomenon simply in terms of some piecemeal changes related to IT infrastructure. It is imperative to understand how the value chain is changing in every industry. In many cases, companies are interacting with the customers directly with the old structures of interaction losing it’s relevance. The products today are getting co created with the customers. With large volume and velocity of data, the concept of market segmentation has given way to segmentation in terms of each customer and their unique buying behavior. This at the same time warrants changes in organization structure and processes which are simple and does not retard the speed of execution of plans and policies. Companies are gaining advantage in terms of proprietary knowledge of the market and hence a shift in terms of formalizing the implicit and tacit knowledge in the organizations becomes important. The governments also are in need to restructuring their processes and governance in the light of these new developments. The monetary system of the world is witnessing shocks in terms of the advent of new forms of digital currencies. Technologies related to artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, drones, internet of things, robotics, 3 D printing and virtual reality have challenged the existing ways of business have added tremendously to volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The conference is looking to explore the actions of the business world in this context and the challenges and potential methods to deal with them. Accordingly, papers are invited on the following themes but not limited to ,
- Digital Transformation and Marketing
- Digital Transformation and Human Resource Management
- Digital Transformation and Wealth Management
- Digital Transformation and Fintech
- Digital Transformation and the Banking Industry
- Digital Transformation and Payment Systems
- Digital Transformation and Telecom Industry
- Digital Transformation and Governance
- Digital Transformation and Fiscal Management of Government
- Digital Transformation and Monetary Policy
- Any other area related to digital transformation.
Track 5: Responsible Marketing and Consumer Centricity
Responsible marketing is the idea of improving the ‘brand’ for better. It is grounded in the idea of putting customer at the center of the business and aligning all the activities to promote trust and build profitable relationship with the customers.
Creating a customer centric business environment requires businesses to optimize the use of customer’s data to provide them a personalized experience, thus demonstrating the brand’s knowledge of customer needs and wants. So, while the companies have an access to huge amounts of consumer data, it is equally important that the data is handled by the companies responsibly without breaching consumer’s trust.
Responsible Marketing is not just limited to protecting customer data, consumers expect brands to prove good citizenship and respect their privacy and values along with displaying concern for the environment in which they operate. Responsible Marketing enables in creating and sustaining the customer loyalty.
This track in the S-TEAM conference delves on understanding the various studies that are conducted in understanding the concept of Responsible Marketing and Customer Centricity both from the Consumer’s as well as the Brand’s perspective.
The submissions to the track on Responsible Marketing and Customer centricity will draw on various conceptual and theoretical perspectives, adopt diverse empirical approaches (both quantitative and qualitative), and investigate through multiple levels of analysis. We particularly welcome qualitative studies along with conceptual, theoretical, and quantitative papers that may address, but are not limited to, the following list of indicative research questions:
- The Role of 4Ps in Responsible Marketing
- The Responsible Marketing practices adopted by brands globally and regionally
- The nexus of climate change and responsible Marketing practices
- The role of circular consumption in responsible marketing
- Digitization and Responsible Marketing
- Responsible Marketing in driving circular economy
International Advisory Committee
- Dr. Sylvaine Castellano, Dean Research and Professor Strategy EM Normandie Business School France
- Dr. V G Venkatesh - Associate Professor, Supply Chain Management, EM Normandie Business School, France
- Dr. Brett Trusko - President and CEO at The International Association of Innovation Professionals, Data Scientist, Remote Working Expert, Executive Coach in Innovation
- Dr. Rameshwar Dubey -Reader, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Liverpool Business School, UK
- Dr. Abhishek Behl -Assistant Professor, AI and Gamification, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, INDIA
- Dr. Satish Kumar -Associate Professor Finance and Accounting, MNIT Jaipur, India; Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Business, Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia
Organizing Committee
Member |
Designation |
Dr. Netra Neelam |
Director and Professor- Human Resource Management |
Dr K Rajagopal |
Deputy Director and Associate Professor- Marketing & General Management |
Dr. Kedar Bhagwat |
Adjunct Faculty, Infrastructure Development And Management |
Dr. Manoj Hudnurkar |
Professor, Operations |
Dr Pankaj Sharma |
Associate Professor, Finance |
Dr. Sonali Bhattacharya |
Professor, General Management |
Dr. Vinita Sinha |
Professor, Human Resource Management |
Dr. Manish Sinha |
Associate Professor, Business Analytics |
Dr. Rahul Hiremath |
Assistant Professor, Infrastructure Development And Management |
Dr Dipasha Sharma |
Assistant Professor, Finance |
Dr. Gauri Joshi |
Assistant Professor, Marketing |
Dr Pooja Sharma |
Assistant Professor-Human Resource Management |
Ms Arati Vaidya |
Assistant Administrative Officer, SCMHRD |
Ms Anjali Bahutule |
Senior Network Administrator, SCMHRD |
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to s_team@scmhrd.edu