Global Business Management and Information Technology

School of Commerce and Business Studies, Jiwaji University organized a two days National Seminar on “Changing Scenario of Global Business Management and Information Technology” and I take great pleasure in presenting the edited book of papers submitted and presented in the National Seminar which is essential in this new and changing Global Business Management and Information Technology which requires new approaches to Business Management and Information Technology. There is a need to analyse key management, global economy and information technology theories from human perspective and measure their impact. The seminar was an endeavour to provide platform to all the academicians and practicing managers to interact together and discuss the course of action that businesses and technology needs to take to combat the fast changing global business scenario.

The papers of t he participant s are arranged in four modules according to technical session’s schedule. In the first technical session the main to pics covered by there searchers were Environmental Management, Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics and Social Audit, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, Change Management and Work life Balance, HR Issues in Service Organizations, CRM and Retail Marketing Strategies, Green Marketing, Rural Marketing and International Market i ng and Knowledge Management.

In the second technical session the main topics covered were Business and Financial Globalization, Global Business Law and International Trade, Issues in Micro finance, Financial Risk Management in Banks and Insurance, International and Domestic Financial Markets, FDI- Issues and Challenges, Financial Inclusion and Financial Reporting.

In the third technical session the main topics covered were Business Information Systems, E-commerce and E-Banking, E-Business, Market expansion through social networking, Internet and web services, Role of ICT in communication, Ethical and Social Issues in IT, Software Computing Technology for Business Management, E-enterprises and Next Generation Computing.

In the fourth technical session the main topics covered were Total Quality Management, Current Issues and Trends in Higher Education, Investors Protection in India, Stress Management, Event Management, Tourism Management, Tourism Education and Tourism Research, Managing Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism and Emerging issues in Education.

I am sure that this edited book will be helpful and meaningful to the Business Management and Information Technology fraternity and I shall feel amply rewarded if the edited book proves helpful in the development of genuine research studies. Any suggestion by the readers to improve the edited book is genuinely looked forward in future.

Despite my best efforts, errors may have crept into this edited book which I regret in advance.

Prof. K. S. Thakur