- IIM Sambalpur Strengthens India’s Position In Global Management Research Through IMPeC 2025
IIM Sambalpur, hosted the much-awaited annual flagship conference titled, “International Management Perspectives Conference (IMPeC) 2025” with the theme “Digitalisation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability” at its campus. Aligning with the vision of the Viksit Bharat@2047 – Transforming the nation’s future, IIM Sambalpur through IMPeC 2025 served as a platform for thought leadership and knowledge exchange researchers, eminent academicians, research scholars and students to exchange ideas and to communicate and discuss research findings leading to new advances in Management Science. While reinforcing the country’s commitment towards digitalisation, sustainability and entrepreneurship, the three-day conference aims to shape the future of management education, research and policy-making in the nation by facilitating the production of high-quality research that specifically addresses emerging topics in these areas. Moreover, the event also created opportunities for participants to disseminate research ideas and explore possible scholarly collaborations and networking. More than 500 papers were presented during the conference both online and offline.
Keshav Rao, Director (Personnel), Mahanadi Coalfield graced the occasion as the Chief Guest while Pankaj K Verma, Chief Sustainability Officer, Adani Green Energy was present as the keynote speaker, Praveen Kumar Verma, CEO, TATA Power Western Odisha and Mrinal Chatterjee, Regional Director, IIMC were present as the guests of honour; and during the inauguration ceremony. Mahadeo Jaiswal, Director, IIM Sambalpur, along with Arvind Sahay, Director, MDI Gurgaon; Shreepad Karmalkar, Director, IIT Bhubaneswar and Pawan Kumar Singh, Director, IIM Tiruchirappalli were present in the panel discussions.
The conference also featured various plenary sessions, panel discussions and paper presentations across various domains including Challenges and opportunities in the future of work, Strategies for climate resilience and stakeholder engagement, Leveraging India’s demographic dividend for economic growth and guiding scholars on publishing and academic research excellence.
A special JMP Workshop on Statistical Discovery was also conducted by Muralidhara Anandamurthy, Head – Global Academic Ambassador, JMP (SAS).
The event witnessed participation from IITs, IIMs, regional colleges and international institutions across online and offline modes. Among IITs, four institutions, including IIT Indore, IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Bombay, participated online, while three, including IIT Dhanbad, IIT Roorkee, and IIT Delhi, took part offline. Similarly, four IIMs—Indore, Nagpur, Sambalpur and Raipur—joined online, while IIM Sambalpur, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Calcutta and IIM Ranchi participated offline. Regional colleges had significant involvement, with 119 participating online and 129 offline. Internationally, three institutions, including researchers from Bremen (Germany), Twilio (USA) and Fatima College of Health Sciences (UAE), contributed online, while the Ministry of Manpower (Indonesia) participated offline.
