Nabendu Paul, a scholar of IIM Bangalore’s doctoral programme — the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) — in finance and accounting, and Kalpana Tokas, who is pursuing doctoral studies at IIM-B in the Economics and social sciences area, have been awarded the Best Paper Certificate at COSMAR 2017, which was held on November 20 and 21.
Nabendu Paul’s paper is titled, ‘Determinants of Ownership Concentration: Evidence from the Cross Section Sample of Indian firms’, while Kalpana’s paper is titled, ‘New Age Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs): Implications for Value Added Trade’.
This year, out of approximately 110 papers, IISc selected 66 papers to be presented. Of these papers, four received the award on November 21. The award includes a cash prize of ₹5000 each. Two of the four papers chosen were by IIM-B’s doctoral scholars.
Professor Rejie George Pallathitta, Chairperson, Fellow Programme in Management, IIM-B and faculty from the Strategy area, congratulated Nabendu and Kalpana and said that such efforts make an invaluable contribution in the field of research.
COSMAR or the Consortium of Students in Management Research is an annual research consortium organized by the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The consortium is a forum for interaction between research scholars who specialize in different areas of management and related disciplines.