visakhapatnam the indian institute of managementvisakhapatnam concluded its first annual management doctoral colloquium shodh samagam on friday addressing the inaugural gathering chair management doctoral colloquium dr amit shankar emphasised the value of the colloquium as a platform for research scholars to seek knowledge learn new techniques and receive feedback from eminent academiciansin the keynote address director centre for digital enterprise analytics and leadership deal ted rogers school of management ryerson university canada dr ravi vatrapu spoke about the best practices in the doctoral journey and takeaways from a career in academic researchthere were 207 research papers submitted to the mdc from different areas such as finance marketing human resource management strategic management operations and supply chain management only 50 papers were selected for the presentation in mdc through blind peer review done by various area faculty members of iim v these papers are authored by phd students and academicians from top institutes including many iims iits and other premier institutes across indiathe colloquium also had sessions on qualitative research by prof mukta kulkarni iim bangalore doctoral journey by prof vishal gupta iim ahmedabad case research by prof sanal kumar velayudhan ex dean iim kozhikodespeaking at the valedictory director iimvizag prof m chandrashekhar reinforced the need for building strong research culture through such colloquium and conferences he announced the three best research papers awarded in the colloquium velavan s iim bangalore nishi malhotra iim kozhikode and satender pal singh iim ranchi received the winner runnerup and second runnerup award respectively