In today's global environment and intense competition it is evident that the businesses and non - business organizations around the world must conduct their operations with utmost efficiency to achieve performance excellence in order to survive, let alone thrive. Hence, decision making, in all functional areas and at all levels of management, play a crucial role in achieving the desired excellence by making the best use of the available resources. There is a need for the decision makers to appreciate the various technical, cultural, behavioral, social, and environmental interdependences they have to deal with while making decisions and adapt and utilize various decision sciences tools and techniques for efficient and effective decisions.

In this context, the 6^th ISDSI International Conference on "Decision Sciences for Performance Excellence" offers a platform to promote interdisciplinary research at a global level.

The Indian Subcontinent Region Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) and IBS Hyderabad are organizing the 6th annual conference of ISDSI at Hyderabad, India from 27th to 29th December 2012. We invite all Academicians, Practitioners from Business and Industry and Research scholars to this international conference to share, discuss and deliberate on a variety of research agendas, ideas and findings in all disciplines relevant to decision making, decision processes and their impact on performance excellence.

The conference topics and themes include but not limited to:

• Global Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management and Operational Strategy
• Behavioral Aspects of Operations Management
• Risk and Disaster Management
• Innovative Applications in Modeling and Decision Techniques
• Financial Risk Management
• Issues in Global Banking
• Global Investment Decision Making and M&As
• Capital Markets, Trading & Portfolio Management
• Performance and Revenue Management
• Accounting, Auditing and Compliance
• Trends and Challenges in Family Business Management
• Innovations and Entrepreneurship
• Innovations in Information Technology Applications
• Decisions Sciences in Governmental and Social Sector Organizations
• Industry Sector-Specific Decision Making & Strategy Formulation
• Strategic HRM, Culture and Behavioral Impact on Performance
• Product, Services and Knowledge Management

The manuscripts will be subjected to a blind review process. The decision of the reviewers will be final and binding.

The best papers will be chosen in the following three categories by a panel of experts.

• Best Theoretical / Empirical Research paper
• Best Application paper
• Best Student paper

The decision of the panel will be final and binding. The best paper in each category will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/-. The awards for the best three papers will be announced during the valedictory function.

Selected papers will be published as refereed conference proceedings. Further, authors of these papers will be encouraged to submit their papers for favor of publication to the Decision Sciences Journal, The Journal of Accounting Ethics & Public Policy, International Journal of Emerging markets and other suitable international journals.

Note: Publication in Journals will be as per the respective publication norms and standards.