Management education has come a long way in India. With a modest beginning in early sixties of a handful management institutes, there are now well over two thousand institutes in the country. It is a case of from acute shortage to abundant supply of b-schools in India. This development has opened up many unforeseen educational opportunities for young men and women in the country. If one wants to get the much coveted "MBA", he/she can surely find a b-school to fulfill his/her dream. Moreover, it is no longer just one-size-fit-all vanilla type MBA. The b-schools have developed a huge variety of products which compete with traditional MBA.

   Undoubtedly not all is good with the scene in management education, partially due to unplanned growth due to greed of b-school promoters, and partly due to arbitrary government policies. Vast number of b-schools today offer programs that are of inferior quality. They lack basic resources such as qualified faculty. The focus often is on maximizing ROI, then on delivering quality education. Institutions with limited resources have been compelled to close down. The government policies keep changing causing migraine to b-school promoters. This situation has caused turbulence in the system and has created uncertainties in the management education. Where management education is heading is a million dollar question. Therefore the theme of AIMS-9 is, "Managing Turbulence and Uncertainties in Management Education: New Landscapes and Roadmaps."

   AIMS-9 will provide opportunity to discuss how b-schools and other stakeholders are responding to the turbulence and uncertainties in management education. Innovations in curriculum; research in the various traditional subjects or disciplines of management education which has implications for future teaching; research into emerging areas like entrepreneurship, corporate governance, technology management, telecom management, energy, operations, applications of information technology, strategy, and globalization; new explorations in pedagogy; reflections on the society-corporate sector-management school triangle; innovations in the world of practice that have educational implications; role of statutory bodies, national and international collaborations; and similar areas, are all appropriate themes that scholars may fruitfully explore.

   The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum that stimulates discussion on the conference theme and on topics related to the theme. The conference will also provide opportunities for networking and collaboration amongst scholars from academia, industry and government. In addition to papers on the conference theme and the emerging fields noted above, scholars may submit papers on any aspect of the traditional disciplines of management like accounting, marketing, finance, OB, HRM, MIS, entrepreneurship, quantitative methods, operations, economics, etc.