Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 1: The first-ever virtual ‘International Conference on Sustainable Finance, Economics & Accounting in The Pre- and Post- Pandemic Era’, jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Management Jammu, India, and the University of Bradford, UK, concluded today with a valedictory ceremony.
Prof B S Sahay, Director of IIM Jammu delivered the ‘Valedictory Address’ and presented awards to leading research scholars.
The ICMAI Best Paper Award was awarded on the theme of “Financial Management” to: “Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Financial Performance: A Moderating Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty” by Jadhav Chakradhar & Ritika Gupta, from Center for Economics & Social Studies, Hyderabad.
The ICSI Best Paper Award on the theme of “Sustainable Governance” was awarded to “Antecedents to Short-Term Migration of Labour: An Empirical Investigation” by Farah F Shah & D P Priyadarshi Joshi, from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University. This conference featured 118 research papers from five countries.
Prof B S Sahay urged participants to get their work published in reputed journals. In his speech, he shared his vision for the next international conference to be organized in collaboration with the University of Bradford, UK. He also gave a Call-To-Action to the Organising Committee to invite papers from 15-20 countries.
Prof Saeed Akbar from School of Management, University of Bradford, UK delivered the vote of thanks. Prof Jabir Ali shared a brief overview of the two days.
Earlier, the second and last day of the conference was kickstarted with high-profile keynote addresses.
The first keynote speaker was Prof Douglas Cumming, Finance & Entrepreneurship at College of Business, Florida Atlantic University. While speaking on ‘Death, Destruction & Manipulation’, he gave comprehensive perspectives on market manipulation and insider trading and its impacts.
Dr Mia Mikic, Faculty of Economics and Business, Zagreb University, explained why climate change has transformed from future risk to imminent risk and how trade can be made adequate to mitigate climate change.
CS Devendra V Deshpande, the Vice President at ICSI, explained the role of ESG in sustainability. The insights of the Journal Review process were highlighted by Prof Bruce Hearn, Professor of Accounting and Finance, School of Management, University of Bradford.
The keynote address session was concluded by Prof Hisham Farag, Professor of Finance at the University of Birmingham.
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