Report of the Committee constituted to examine the practice on funding of international

conferences for faculty members

Director, IIM Indore had vide his mail dated March 24, 2013 constituted a committee
comprising Dean (Administration), Chair (FPM), Prof. Vikas Goyal, Prof. Kajari Mukherjee and
Prof. Subhasankar Chattopadhyay to review the existing policy of funding for international
conferences for faculty members.

The committee met on 2nd April and deliberated over the existing policy. The committee also
examined the policies of IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad and 11M Kozhikode.

The committee wrote a mail to all Area Chairpersons requesting them to discuss the issue in
their respective areas. The areas were requested to categorize the conferences related to
their domain as A, B and C / Other category respectively (with A category being the most
prestigious and so on).

Findings of the Committee

Subsequent to the discussions and deliberations the committee noted the following,

A. Existing policy and Comparison with some other Ms: The committee is of the view
that while funding for conferences is a privilege being accorded by the institute to
faculty members it cannot be treated as an entitlement. It appears that the policy of
IIM Indore is very similar to that of NM Calcutta. The existing policy of IIM Indore is
more liberal than the policies of IIM Ahmedabad and 11M Kozhikode.

B. Categorization of conferences: Based on the inputs received from the various areas
the conferences can be categorized as A, B and Other category respectively. The area-
wise categorization is in Annexure 1.

C. Overlaps among areas: It is likely that there will be some overlaps in the conference
listing provided by areas since several conferences are multi-disciplinary and hence
accept papers from different areas. For instance, the Annual Academy of Management
meeting is likely to appear in both OB as well as Strategic Management domain.

D. Nationally reputed conferences: In some areas nationally reputed conferences also

appear in the list. For instance certain areas chose to categorize conferences
organized by institutes of National importance like the Ilst, IlsM, ISB, MSc etc. as
International conferences.

Recommendations

Based on the findings the committee concludes and recommends the following,

I. The committee proposes the categorization of conferences as per Annexure - I.

 II. The institute may consider getting the Conference categorization vetted by a panel of
external experts representing all the academic areas.

III. Based on the categorization the committee proposes the following funding
a. Category A: Continue the existing policy of full funding for 1 international
conference a year.
b. Category B: Provide 75% of the funding for 1 international conference a year.
c. Other category: Provide 50% of the funding for 1 international conference a
year.

IV. Conferences organized by institutes of National importance: The committee

proposes to continue the existing practice of providing full funding for conferences
being organized by institutes of national importance, within India.

V. Multi-disciplinary conferences: Faculty members may send their papers to

conferences that are not from their own functional area. For instance, the British
Academy of Management is an A-rated conference in the SM area; however faculty
members from OB & HRM also send their papers to this conference. The committee
proposes that papers thus accepted may be considered based on their categorization,
irrespective of whether the faculty member is affiliated to the functional area or not.

VI. Special area conferences - not listed: It is possible that some faculty members may
send papers to special area conferences that are not listed by any area. In such cases,
the Director may take an appropriate decision about the categorization and funding.

VII. Director's discretion: Since conference funding is not an entitlement the committee
also proposes that the Director's should have the final discretion in approving funding
for conferences depending on the merits of the case.

Ra ambudiri N Ganesh Kumar Vikas Goyal

li\Mukherjee Subhasankar C attop

Submitted for consideration and approval.

Annexure 1: Area-wise categorization of conferences

AREA: ECONOMICS

Category A
1. American Economic Association Annual Meeting, AEA
2. Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, World Bank
3. Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, UNESCAP and Purdue University
4. Annual Meeting of Agricultural and Applied Economic Association
5. Annual Meeting of the French Economic Association
6. Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, World Bank
7. Australian Conference of Economists, Australia, Economic Society of Australia
8. Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE)
9. Eastern Economic Association International Annual Conference
10. Economic Geography and International Trade Research Meeting
11. European Association of Labour Economics (EALE) Annual Conference
12. Econometric Society European Meeting
13. European Economic Association Conference
14. European Regional Science Association (ERSA) Congress
15. International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium Annual Conference, IATRC
16. International Atlantic Economic Conference
17. International Conference of Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management
18. International Institute of Public Finance Annual Congress
19. Meeting of The Econometric Society
20. RES - Royal Economic Society Annual Conference
21. WEAI - Western Economic Association International Annual Conference

Category B
22. Agricultural Economics Society Annual Conference
23. Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource
Economists (EAERE)
24. Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)
25. Annual Meeting of the Federation of ASEAN Economic Associations
26. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference
27. Chinese Economist Society 2012 Annual Conference
28. Conference of Eurasia Business and Economics Society
29. ESAM - The Econometric Society Australasian Meeting
30. European Association of Agricultural Economists Triennial Congress
31. European Public Choice Society Conference
32. European Regional Science Association Congress
33. International Association for Research in Income and Wealth General Conference
34. International Association of Agricultural Economics Triennial conference
35. International Industrial organization Conference, Industrial Organization society of USA
36. ISSE - The International Society for Ecological Economics Conference
 37. IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists
38. Jornadas de Economia Industrial, Spain
39. Journees Louis-Andr Gerard-Varet, Conference in public economics
40. Marketing and Public Policy Conference, American Marketing Association
41. MOOD - Doctoral Workshop in Economic Theory and Econometrics
42. Public Choice Society Conference
43. The International Society for Ecological Economics Conference
44. Workshop on Gender Economics (FEDEA-COSME)

Category C
45. World Finance a Banking Symposium - "Asian Finance a Banking"
46. International Finance Conference, Euro-Mediterranean Network for Studies and
Research in Economics and Management (REMEREG)
47. Vienna Workshop on High Dimensional Time Series in Macroeconomics and Finance
48. Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
49. Annual Conference of Islamic Economics Et Islamic Finance, Economics Et ECO-
Engineering Associate, Canada
50. Development Economics Conference, German Economic Association
51. European Research Conference on Microfinance, Centre for European Research in
Microfinance
52. Conference of Academy of Economics and Finance
AREA: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Category A:

1. Top Rated Conferences (Main as well as Special/Chapter) organized by Reputed

International Academic Societies like (a) SMS, (b) AoM, (c) AIB, (d) EGOS, (e)
BAM, (f) INFORMS, (g) ANZAM, (h) EURAM.
2. Any Special/Chapter Conferences organized by
SMS/AOM/ EGOS/AI / BAM/ INFORMS /ANZAM/ EURAM in collaboration with Reputed
Indian institutes like IlsM, IlsT, ISB, XLRI etc.
3. Such other conferences where the organizers of the conference are also
publishers of at least one in-house journal with a JCR (Reuter) Impact Factor of
1.50 and above.
4. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Entrepreneurship
Conference organized by USASBE
5. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research conferences

Category B:

1. Any International Conference pertaining to Strategic Management or

related areas organized by IIMA, IIMC, IIMB, IIML, IIMK, IIMI;
2. Conferences organized by Strategic Management Forum (SMF)
3. Chapter Conferences/Conventions like lAoM or similar Academic
associations/Societies\
4. European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB)
5. European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE)
6. Conferences in Entrepreneurship organized by top rated (top 10)
business/technological institutes/universities of North America, Europe
and Australia.

Category C:

Any other National Level Conferences or International Conferences but organized without the
collaboration of Internationally Reputed Academic Organizations/Societies or Institutes of
National Importance/Centres of Excellence/lIsM/IITs/ISB etc.
AREA: INFORMATION SYSTEMS
The Information Systems area will use the graded conferences listed in

http: / /core.edu. au /index. php/categories/ conference%2Orankings/ 1

Additional conferences that will be also considered are as follows:

Category A

1. Computer Science conferences listed

in http: / / academic. research. microsoft.com / ?SearchDomai n=2Etentitytype=3
2. IHP Conferences on eGovernance
3. Conferences sponsored by ACM, AIS or IEEE other than those held / sponsored by
their student bodies / student chapters.

Category B

1. Category B of http://core.edu.au/index.php/categories/conference%2Orankings/1
2. Other related academic societies like: OR Society, INFORMS, AOM
3. Conferences sponsored by IACSIT

Category C

1. IIM/ISB/IIT conferences and other conferences of other premier institutes /

universities
2. Conferences sponsored by IASTED
AREA: COMMUNICATIONS
Category A:

1. Top Rated Conferences (Main as well as Special/Chapter) organized by Reputed

International Academic Societies like

(a) IAICS (International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies)

(b) AoM (Academy of Management)

(c) IPrA (International Pragmatics Association)

(d) IABC (International Association of Business Communicators)

(e) ABC (Association for Business Communication)

(f) International Business Research Conferences

(g) IEEE (International Professional Communication Conference)

(h) Society for Business Ethics

2. International Conferences organized by reputed Universities / Institutions /

Bodies, for example ICoCCC (International conference on cross cultural
communication)
3. Such other conferences where the organizers of the conference are also
publishers of at least one in-house journal with a JCR (Reuter) Impact Factor of
1.50 and above.

Category B:

Any International Conference pertaining to Business Communication /

Business Ethics / Cross-cultural Communication / Linguistics / Literature or
related areas organized by IIMs and IITs.
2. Chapter Conferences/Conventions involving Communication and allied areas
organized by Academic associations/Societies like ABC' (Association of
Business Communicators of India)

Category C:

Any other National Level Conferences or International Conferences but organized without the
collaboration of Internationally Reputed Academic Organizations/Societies or Institutes of
National Importance/Centres of Excellence/IIMs/IITs/ISB etc.
Area: OB E HRM

Category A
Conferences organized by Reputed International Academic Societies such as
1. Academy of Management Annual Meeting
2. European Group of Organizational Studies Colloquium
3. Southern Management Association meetings
4. Society of Industrial Organization Psychology
5. Annual Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics
6. Strategic Management Society Meetings
7. Eastern Academy of Management
8. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
9. EURAM
10. AAoM
11. ANZAM
Focused Conferences such as
1. International Conference on Emotion and Worklife
2. International Society for Research on Emotions

Category B

Any International peer reviewed conference

Category C

Any international conference (non peer reviewed)

 Area: Marketing
Sr. No. Conference Title (Category A)
1 Academy of Marketing Conference
2 Winter Marketing Educators Conference
3 Summer Marketing Educators Conference
4 ISMS Marketing Science Conference
5 European Marketing Academy Conference
6 Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference
7 ACR North American Conference
8 ACR Asia-Pacific Conference
9 ACR European Conference
10 ICMM 2013: International Conference on Marketing Management
11 La Londe Conference
12 ANZMAC
13 Annual Frontiers in Service Conference
14 Marketing a Public Policy Conference
15 Marketing Dynamics
16 Customer insights Conference
17 International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA)
18 Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference(ANZMAC)
19 Annual International Conference on Enterprise Marketing and Globalization EMG
20 Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Conference
21 Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress
22 AMAServsig International Service Research Conference
23 Academy of Marketing Conference
24 Academy of management
25 Academy of International Business
26 Academy of International Business South-West Chapter
27 ANZAM
28 European Group of Organizational Studies
29 European Marketing Academy Annual Conference(EMAC)
30 EMAC Doctoral Colloquium
31 EMAC Regional Conference
32 Academy of International Business - Latin America Chapter (AIB-LAT), Annual Conference
33 Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA)
The International Academy Of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (labpad)
34 Conference
35 Global Business, Marketing, Finance Et Economics Research Conference
36 Global Business, Marketing and Tourism Conference
37 NACRA Case Conference
38 Inbound Marketing Summit
39 AMA Non-Profit Marketing Conference
Category B: Any International conference (peer reviewed)

Category C
Any international conference (non peer reviewed)
Area: OM Et QT

Category A:

1. Top Rated Conferences (Main as well as Special/Chapter) organized by Reputed

International Academic Societies like

(a) INFORMS,
(b) INFORS
(c) APORS
(d) EURO
(e) EURO-INFORMS
(f) EurOMA

2. Any Special/Chapter Conferences organized by the following societies in collaboration with

Reputed Indian institutes like IIM, IlsM, IlsT, ISB, XLRI etc.

(a) INFORMS

(b) INFORS

(c) APORS

(d) EURO

(e)EURO-INFORMS

(f) EurOMA

3. Such other conferences where the organizers of the conference are also publishers of at
least one in-house journal with a JCR (Reuter) Impact Factor of 1.50 and above.

Category B:

1. Any International Conference pertaining to Operations Et Quantitative Management or

related areas organized by IIMA, IIMC,IIMB, IIML, IIMK, IIMI;
2. Conferences organized by ORSI, SOM

Category C:

Any other National Level Conferences or International Conferences but organized without the
collaboration of Internationally Reputed Academic Organizations/Societies or Institutes of
National Importance/Centres of Excellence/lIsM/IITs/ISB etc.