Future of Management: Embracing Sustainability, Diversity, and Inclusivity

Koustubh Kanti Ray is a Professor of Finance at the School of Management, KIIT Deemed to be University. In a career spanning more than two decades, he has served in leading national level institutions in the country – Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal; Indian Institute of Management, Raipur, and Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai. Dr. Ray has a passion for teaching and taught business valuation, financial engineering, merger & acquisition, and corporate finance at one or more of the above institutions. He regularly conducts management training programs for corporate and government executives in finance and related subjects. His research interests are mainly in the areas of corporate finance and financial markets. Bhuwandeep is a management professional with over 6 years of experience in Plant Management, Quality Circle assessment, Supplier management, Project management Business Development, and Marketing – across Steel, E-commerce, Textiles, Cement, and Mining businesses. His expertise is in the domains of Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Project planning and execution, and Plant operations. He has worked with Global Indian conglomerates like TATA Group and Aditya Birla Group. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur where he was the recipient of the Merit Cum Means Scholarship. He has also done his PGDBM from IIM Bangalore in the areas of Marketing and Sales. He has also done specialization in Marketing from Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France as an exchange program.

1 Cross-country Connectedness of U.S. Sustainable and other Thematic
Indices on Indian and Chinese Equities
2 Investigation of green supply chain management practices in small scale
industries: applying analytic hierarchy process method and paired
correlation
3 The impact of eco-brand expansion strategy on brand engagement
concerning the fashion industry: a bibliometric review
4 Gamifying the shopping experience: a systematic literature review on
gamification in e-commerce apps
5 Corporate synergy: a trilateral harmony of financial transparency,
information disclosure, and financial performance of Indian corporations
6 Cognitive, affective, and demographic factors and their impact on human
behavior to adopt LLM-based generative artificial intelligence
7 Sustainable leadership and its effects on organizational change: a theory
development, context, characteristics, and methodology framework
based bibliometric analysis
8 Strategic research and development investments: analysing financial
success in the drugs and chemicals industry of India
9 Smart learning environments: an investigation of barriers to technology
enabled blended learning in higher education
10 Enabling sustainable progress in rural regions through an intelligent
management system for enhanced business profitability
11 Sustainable circular economy through waste to wealth initiative: a
study in smart city of Bhubaneswar
12 Urban sustainability: a multi-criteria analysis of AMRUT cities in
Odisha

13 Innovative business models and strategies for a sustainable future: an
empirical analysis
14 Consumer perception toward eco-friendly products: a comparative
study between rural and urban consumers in West Bengal
15 Corporate performance and sustainability: the role of audit committees,
board composition, and CEO duality