India Strategy Conference - 2025
India Strategy Conference - 2025
- Overview
- Submission Tracks
- Proposal Guidelines
- Workshops and Panels
- Important Timelines
- Awards
- Conference Administration
- Registration
- Venue
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: June 23, 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
Registration:
Registration fees for the conference will be as follows:
| Participant Type | Early Bird (Before Nov 10, 2025) |
Regular (Before December 10, 2025) |
Onsite (December 15-17, 2025) |
|
Full-time Academics |
INR 25,000 |
INR 30,000 |
INR 35,000 |
|
Full-time Doctoral Students |
INR 10,000 |
INR 15,000 |
INR 20,000 |
+ Taxes (GST @ 18% + card charges if any)