By: Prof. Joseph Johnson, Associate Professor of Marketing, Miami Business School, Florida & Visiting Fellow, IIM Kozhikode Abstract of the Talks: Text mining Research in Business:–Methods and Insights The availability of large volumes of virtually free data such as social media posts and advances in computer algorithms have made it possible today to analyze unstructured text data to solve business …Read more »

Conference dates: March 21 – 22, 2019. Venue: Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bengaluru Conference Themes: Disruptive Innovations, Start-ups in Agribusiness, Artificial Intelligence in Agribusiness, Climate Smart Farming, Innovations in Food Processing & Value Addition, Agri Trade & Risk Management. Important Dates: Last date for submission of Abstract: January 4th, 2019 Confirmation for acceptance of abstract:  January 15th, 2019 Submission of Full paper:  February  15th, …Read more »

By: Prof. Rajaram Veliyath –  Professor, Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Programs, Kennesaw State University. Abstract of the Talk: Prof Rajaram discussed some of the major theories like Agency Theory, Institutional Theory, Resource Dependence Theory, The Resource-based View, Stewardship Theory, and Information Processing Theory, that have been used in SM research. He touched upon the major streams of SM research that …Read more »

  Abstract of the seminar Recent experimental studies have illustrated the influence of price-path, particularly the‘non-straight’ price-path on several aspects of investor behaviour. The paper computes a proxy for price-path based on Cumulative Prospect Theory and with investor-level high-frequency trade data from the commodities futures market, we demonstrate that the nature of price-path significantly impacts the degree of disposition bias, …Read more »

By:  Prof. Praveen Sugathan, Assistant Professor, IIM Kozhikode After trying a host of writing tools such as word (Microsoft as well as open source versions), LaTeX and Lyx, He had settled on Scrivener as his default writing tool. He had shaped his entire thesis (three complete essays) as well as other 5-6 papers using Scrivener. It works on the principle …Read more »

By: Prof. Pradip Sadarangani, Associate Professor, IIM Shillong. Abstract of the talk:  Power is an important construct in retailing and channel management. The paper focused on the interrelation dynamics among sources of social power as well as the relationship among behavior of channel members and sources of social power. Trust, agent dependence, affective commitment and environmental munificence behavior of channel members …Read more »

By: Prof. Praveen Sugathan, Assistant Professor, IIM Kozhikode. Abstract Of the Talk: “Enlisting unpaid workers to co-produce the products and services, which are converted to money in the market often by selling to the same people whose labor helped to produce them, corresponds to the expropriation of surplus value from consumer labor. From a Marxian perspective, therefore, co-creation also signifies the exploitation …Read more »

Conference dates: January 3-5, 2019 Venue: SIMS (Pune campus). Conference Theme:  Management Challenges in Uncertain Environment. Important Dates Abstract Submission       :      October 31, 2018 Early Registration           :      October 31, 2018 Full Paper Submission    :      November 15, 2018 For more details please visit  : www.aims-international.org/aims16 E Mail                                                : aims16@aims-international.org ***