GLOGIFT21, a three-day international conference, held in IIM Shillong, Umsawli, finally came to an end yesterday.
The inaugural ceremony was held in the hybrid mode and witnessed the presence of esteemed keynote speakers like Prof Sushil, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi and the founder president of GIFT Society, Prof Sudhir K Jain, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi and President of GIFT, Prof Mayank Pareek, Professor of Practice from Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Prof DP Goyal, Director, IIM Shillong and Prof Neelam Rani, IIM Shillong. Prof Sofia Johan, Florida Atlantic University, graced the occasion via online mode.
The theme for this year’s conference was ‘Flexibility, Resilience and Sustainability’ and while elaborating on these themes the speakers shared knowledge, experiences and insight on them while qualifying the themes as multi-dimensional.
Prof Rani in her welcome address highlighted how after the Covid-19 pandemic, resilience and flexibility were qualities industries all around had to inculcate in order to stay in the race.
“The global pandemic has put resilience on the agenda of every company. The concept of flexibility and adaptation has been used in connection with resilience to support experimentation as well as to accommodate changes,” Prof Rani remarked.
The conference included six technical sessions where participants from all around the world presented their research papers in hybrid mode. A total of 101 research papers were presented during the course of the conference.
The conference also included three workshops on research writing, targeting quality journals, publishing ethics, editors’ and publishers’ perspectives to facilitate young research aspirants.
Workshop 1 and Workshop 2 being held on the same day, followed by Workshop 3 on April 22 Friday. The topic of Workshop 1, held on April 21, 2022, was ‘Editor’s Perspective on Scholarly Publication’ and the keynote speakers were Prof Sushil, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, Editor in Chief at Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Chief Editorial Advisor at International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness, Prof Kirankumar S Momaya, SJ Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay, Editor in Chief at International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness and Prof. Mousumi Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Management Shillong, Editor in Chief at IIMS Journal of Management Science.
Workshop 2, held on April 21, 2022, had the subject ‘Paper Development Workshop’ with Prof. Kirankumar S. Momaya, S. J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay, Editor in Chief at International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness and Prof. Neelam Rani, Indian Institute of Management Shillong, Associate Editor, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management as key speakers.
The third and the final workshop held on April 22, 2022 ,had the subject ‘Paper Development Including Publishing Ethics Workshop’ with a special focus on Springer’s SDG with Sagarika Ghosh, Executive Publisher (Journals), Asia Pacific Region, Springer Nature as the key speaker. The speaker addressed the gathering
