Venue : IBS Hyderabad, The IFHE University, Dontanpally, Shankarpally Road, Hyderabad,

Andhra Pradesh, India

IBS Hyderabad : IBS Hyderabad, a constituent of the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE), a Deemed to be University under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956. Over a period of years, IBS has shown impressive growth and received widespread recognition from business and industry, academic circles, and professional bodies. IBS offers high quality programs in different areas of management to a wide cross-section of students, executives and professionals across India. It endeavors to provide a high quality learning experience in an adaptive environment, with a focus on relevance, rigor, and research. The mission of IBS is to develop ethically grounded, professional managers who can add value to the organizations and communities to which they belong. IBS-Hyderabad has been consistently ranked among the top B-School surveys every year.

The 1^st, 2^nd 3^rd and 4^th Doctoral Theses Conferences, which were held, during last three years received encouraging response in terms of research theses contributed by researchers from various universities and business schools from across the globe. We have also brought out a volume of the proceedings each year. We would like to continue conducting the conference to provide a platform for the research scholars from all over the country to present their Doctoral work in the area of Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, Operations Research, Marketing, Accounting, insurance, Real-Estate and General Management. All those scholars (may be a Full time/part-time research scholars/practitioners working for Ph.D.) who are pursuing their Ph.D. program or nearing completion of their work or have just submitted and awaiting for  viva voce examination or have recently completed, are eligible to participate. The aspirants are requested to submit papers from their ongoing/completed Ph.D. work. The scholars who are going to complete or already completed their Ph.D. work are requested to submit full paper. The selected best full length papers will be published in the ICFAI University journals after due review process of the respective journal.

Objective of the conference: To give feedback for the research scholars who are in the process of submitting their thesis and to identify the gap between theory and practice and to fill the gap with suitable suggestions.

For full time Research Scholars: No registration fee is charged for the full time research scholars. Accommodation and other hospitality will be provided for the paper presenters. Sleeper class fare (non-ac to and fro) will be reimbursed. (For exemption of registration fee ? the research scholar has to submit a certificate of bonafide candidature as a full-time research scholar duly signed by the Dean/Head of the respective department).  

For Part time Research Scholars: Rs.1000/- will be charged towards registration fee for the Part time research scholars who are selected to present their doctoral thesis.

For Foreign Research Scholars: No registration fee is charged for the full time foreign research scholars who are selected to present their doctoral thesis. Accommodation & other hospitality will be only provided for the paper presenters. No travel reimbursement will be made by the university.

For Delegates: A nominal registration fee of Rs.1000 will be charged for other than paper presenters and the university will not provide any accommodation, travel or conveyance to them.

The registration fees for the required candidates have to be paid through a DD drawn in favor of IBS Hyderabad, payable at Hyderabad. The registration fee covers conference materials, proceedings on CD, breakfast, lunch, and dinner during conference sessions/days, and accommodation at IBS, Hyderabad campus. Once paid, the fee will not be refunded. However, another candidate can be nominated against the same fee. The filled-in registration form along with the DD should be sent by addressing to conference chair (by register post only).

Important dates:

Date of the Conference                                : March 2-3, 2012

Last Date for abstract submission             : 31^st January, 2012

Last Date for full paper submission          : 17^th February, 2012

Date of receiving Registration forms       : 24^th February, 2012

Conference Conveners:

Dr IRS Sarma                                      (Phone Number: +91-9948098104)

Dr CS Shylajan                                   (Phone Number: +91-9440070524)

Conference Committee Members:

Dr. T Koti Reddy                       (Phone Number: +91-9866605139)
Dr. Debajani Sahu                     (Phone Number: +91-9951398958)
Dr. Manas Ranjan Tripathy         (Phone Number: +91-9951606472)

All communications should be sent to [email protected] (or) [email protected]

Weblink : http://www.ibshyderabad.org/DTC-V.htm

Thank You Dr Saumya Chakrabarty 

Visvabharati University

For disseminating this information