Empowering Emerging Economies through Innovation, Resilience, and Sustainability

The conference was convened under the theme: Empowering Emerging Economies through Innovation, Resilience, and Sustainability, highlighting the critical role of innovative and sustainable business practices in addressing the complex economic, social, and environmental challenges faced by emerging economies. The volume brings together rigorously peer-reviewed research papers that offer rich theoretical insights, robust empirical evidence, and practical perspectives across diverse domains of business and management.

It is structured around six interrelated themes that reflect contemporary challenges and opportunities in emerging economies. Social Entrepreneurship emphasizes innovative enterprise models, impact-driven financing, and technology-enabled solutions to address social and developmental issues. Decent Work and Productivity focus on inclusive employment, leadership, policy frameworks, and the role of digital technologies in enhancing workforce well-being and performance. Service Science explores service innovation, digitalization, and the application of AI to improve efficiency, personalization, and customer experience. Business Transformation for Sustainability highlights strategies for embedding sustainability into core business practices through digital and organizational change. Sustainability through the Circular Economy examines circular business models, resource efficiency, and waste reduction for long-term value creation. Finally, Resilient Supply Chains address agility, risk management, ethical sourcing, and technology adoption to ensure continuity and sustainability in uncertain environments.

Organized for academicians, researchers, scholars, industry professionals, entrepreneurs, and policymakers worldwide, it offers a platform to share research, practical insights, and policy perspectives on innovation, sustainability, and resilience in emerging economies, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange for inclusive and sustainable business development.

Sunil Kumar completed his Ph.D. in Social Enterprise (NGO Management) from Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University, in 2018. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration with dual specialization in Human Resource Management and Marketing from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Allahabad, also a Central University. He additionally earned a Diploma in Computer Applications. Dr. Kumar has enhanced his academic expertise through several professional development programs, including a Quality Improvement Program at IIT Roorkee (2018) and a Faculty Development Program at the UGC Academic Staff College, Aligarh Muslim University. With over ten years of teaching experience, he is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship at GITAM School of Business, GITAM (Deemed to be University), since February 2022. His previous academic engagements include OP Jindal University, RDIAS, and Invertis University. Dr. Kumar has conducted numerous workshops and corporate training programs on soft skills, research methods, and outcome-based education, and has published research in reputed academic journals.

Rama Krishna Gupta Potnuru holds a PhD from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela. His areas of research are Time pressure, Strategic HR, well-being, organizational change, and industrial psychology. He has published several research manuscripts in Scopus, ABDC, Q1 and Q2 journals and presented his research at National and International conferences. He received the Emerald Literati Award 2020 for his paper “Employee Engagement for Millennials: Considering Technology as an Enabler”.