India Strategy Conference - 2025

Technology, Geopolitics, and Competitive Advantage: Strategy in the New Global Order

Global trade and supply chains are being fundamentally changed by increasing geopolitical risks, economic nationalism, and new technological trends. The increasing use of AI by firms, increases in the global competition for key resources, and policy-induced shifts in the geographic distribution of talent have created new challenges for firms and altered the industry and competitive dynamics. Consequently, companies need new capabilities to sense, seize, and reconfigure to sustain their competitive advantage amidst greater uncertainty. The convergence of alternative to traditional non-market strategies, reorganization of global value chains, and new institutional complexities, exacerbated by the spread of Artificial Intelligence and digital systems, requires a deeper insight into how firms can orchestrate internal and external resources across national and supranational borders to bolster their competitive advantage. Moreover, as AI modifies coordination methods, decision-making processes, and the allocation of strategic capabilities, businesses must reconsider how they blend technological, human, and other tangible and intangible resources and capabilities in a variety of institutional contexts.

The Indian School of Business (ISB), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) host the India Strategy Conference (ISC) annually at their respective campuses. ISC 2025, hosted at ISB, will focus on addressing critical challenges in strategic management and international business, particularly regarding these emerging issues. This event seeks to provide a platform for discussing the strategic implications associated with global supply chain management, trade policies, and the impact of nationalism on the trade of goods, services, and factors.

Submission Tracks

Track 1: Strategic Adaptation, dynamic capabilities, non-market, and technology strategies for a fragmented world

Track 2: AI, strategic decision-making, and strategic management

Track 3: Strategic Human Capital and Orchestrating talent and knowledge across borders

Track 4: Strategic management of platforms and ecosystems

Track 5: Strategic entrepreneurship in turbulent environments

Track 6: Strategic innovation for competitive advantage in a fragmented world

Track 7: Trust and Inter-Organizational Relationships in a new world

Track 8: Stakeholder Strategy, ESG, and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Track 9: Strategic Leadership and Corporate Governance in a Complex World

Track 10: Organization Design for Strategic Agility and Global Integration

Track 11: Competitive and Cooperative Strategy

Track 12: Corporate and International Strategy

Proposal Guidelines

Length: Maximum of 7 pages or 4000 words.
Formatting: Single spacing, minimum 10-point font, APA style references.
Content: Title (max 100 characters), abstract (max 125 words), and no author names for confidentiality.

Workshops and Panels:

• Paper Development Workshop: Scaling strategy scholarship in India
• Doctoral Consortium: From India to Abroad, and Abroad to India
• Deans’ Panel: Current agendas for advancing scholarship in India
• Industry Panel: Policy trade and doing business in the new global order
• Opening and Closing Keynotes

Important Timelines:

• Submission System Opens: July 15, 2025
• Proposal Submission Deadline: August 31, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: October 10, 2025
• Conference Dates: December 15-17, 2025

Awards

• Strategic Management (STR) a Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) awards STR Global Scholarships. These scholarships provide $600 to support travel to the AOM annual conference along with a registration waiver request to AOM.
• ISB sponsors Best Paper Award (and runners-up), Best Track submission, Best Doctoral Student, Best Emerging Scholar in Strategy. The awards include a certificate and cash prize in total of 5 lakhs.

Conference Administration:

Secretariat: isc2025@isb.edu

Professor Seung Hoon Lee, ISB

Email ID: seunghoon_lee@isb.edu

Professor Anand Nandkumar, ISB

Email ID: anand_nandkumar@isb.edu

Professor Chitra Singla, IIMA

Email ID: chitras@iima.ac.in

Proposal Submission

Registration Instructions for Delegates:

1. Create an Account: Please register on the website to create your account.
2. Receive Credentials: Upon successful registration, you will receive a username and password.
3. Track Submission Status: With your credentials, you can check the status of your submissions at any time.
4. Fee Payment: You can also pay the registration fee anytime before the conference, as per the specified timelines.

Registration:

Registration fees for the conference will be as follows:

+ Taxes (GST @ 18% + card charges if any)

Venue: Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India