The Institute of Modern Management(IMM) is settled in the International Business School(IBS) of Nankai University. IMM is a research-oriented organization, and the academic research center of the IBS at Nankai University. IMM was founded in October 1997.

In this institute, there are several research centers and teams. IMM' research area is Corporate governace has two academic publishing, such as Nankai Business Review and IMM Working Paper. Since the foundation of the institute, IMM set the goal of itself as develop the management school which has Nankai University's own characteristics, and serve for the modernization theory of the Chinese management. By organizing the specialists and scholars of multiarea,putting up application research, transferring the fruit of the research and the techniques of management to the enterprises, the institute helps the enterprises to realize modernization.The basic scientific researches include: basic management theory research and application research,and the consulting service for the enterprises.
IMM has a rich power of scientific research ability. It has taken on many important project, such as "National Natural Science Fund", "International Social Science Fund". The institute has published many papers in the international core magazine, and published many monographs. Since the foundation of the institute, it has carried out international communication movement many times. Lots of specialists and scholars from USA,Japan,Korea, Finland and Hong Kong comes Nankai.And the members of the institute go to these countries for the academic communication, too.
In the future, our long-term goal is: by organizing and coordinating the research
ability of management and other related area, developing global research resources and academic network, make the institute of modern management as the best management research center of China, and be powerful in the world.