Research Papers should be submitted only in Microsoft Word 2007 format (*.docx)

The text font should be ‘Times New Roman’, Font size 12 pt., Spacing 1, No border and margin 1” on all sides. The text should be justified throughout the research paper.

Page size should be A4.

The research paper must abide by the framework specified below:

• Abstract (Not more than 300 words)

• Introduction to subject of study

• Methodology/Approach adopted by the author/authors

• Requisite sub-sections

• Conclusion

• References

Kindly note that the author can make use of appropriate graphs, tables, figures and flow charts to clarify/substantiate/strengthen a particular line of reasoning within requisite page limit of research paper.

The research paper submission should not be more than 15 pages (excluding COVER PAGE).

COVER PAGE:

• The COVER PAGE (attached at the end of this document) must be duly filled by the participant/participants in Sentence Case and it must be copied as  the first page of the research paper.

• The format of the COVER PAGE should be extended to entire research paper i.e. header, footer and watermark.

• No text/figure/number other than that specified in the cover page must be inserted in both header and footer section of the research paper.

• The sub themes are assigned specific codes for ease of reference. Kindly fill up the appropriate code while entering the details in the COVER PAGE.      The codes are:

Finance                                         -           FN

Marketing                                     -           MK

General Management                    -           GM                

The last date for submitting the full research paper is January 31^st, 2014 to: conf2014@jbims.edu

The subject line of the email must be ‘< First Name>_<Last Name>_IRC 2014’.

The word document file must be named as ‘<First Name>_<Last Name>_<Topic>,.docx’.

In case of any ambiguities related to document submission, kindly route your queries/doubts to: enq_conf2014@jbims.edu