ahmedabad an elite group of management researchers from india and abroad have gathered at indian institute of management ahmedabad iima campus to deliberate on topics ranging from business policy to impact of yoga and meditation on troubleshooting capabilities this is part of the second doctoral colloquium being hosted in iima the twoday event was inaugurated on monday colloquium is being organised by students of fellowship programme in management fpm at the institutethis event brought together close to 50 doctoral students from across the country and abroad doing research work in various fields of management doctoral colloquium was launched by iima in 2008 the 50 participants have been chosen after screening initial 100 entries received by the institute paper presentations also include five international participants from institutes like kellogg university and london school of businessthis is the second year of the event last year we had kept the programmes open only for students of six iims but from this year on we have kept in open for all academic institutes where research on management is conducted so this year we have 50 participants from various iims iits and other national institutes said v venkata rao chairperson of fpmthe event has various panel discussions and paper presentations from participants working papers are under seven broad heads business policy economics finance marketing organisational behaviour production and quantitative methods and public systems are bring presented here said sabyasachi sinha a fpm student in the organising committeepapers presented cover diverse topics like indian real estate entrepreneurial firms to interrelationship of indias economic development with global carbon market customer relationship management in eservices impact of sahaja yoga meditation on problem solving capacity of managers and floods of sundervan