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DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD COMPETITION FOR 2014

Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management

Submission due to April 30, 2014

The membership of the Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division of the Academy of Management recognizes completion of doctoral study through the annual Doctoral Dissertation Award competition. This year's award, sponsored by the Beard Center for Leadership in Ethics at Duquesne University, will be announced during a panel session, to be held at the 2014 Academy of Management conference in Philadelphia. During that session, the panel of three award finalists will present their work and discuss their insights for producing exemplary dissertation research. After the conference, both the dissertation abstracts of the three finalists and the insights of the finalists regarding producing exemplary dissertation research, will be published in a special forum of the journal, Business & Society.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for the award, the dissertation must meet 5 requirements:

1)      It must have been successfully defended between March 1st, 2012 and March 31th, 2014

2)      It must be written in the English language

3)      It must focus on some aspect of the relationship between business and society (see http://sim.aomonline.org/aboutsim.html for more details on the SIM division's mission)

4)      It must not be submitted to any other Academy division in the same year

5)      The application must be received by the committee chair on or before April 30th, 2014.

Criteria:

The primary criteria for selection are as follows:

1)      Domain relevance

2)      Innovativeness of research question

3)      Significance of contribution

4)      Adequacy of literature review

5)      Conceptual development

6)      Methodological appropriateness

7)      Presentation style

Application:

To apply for the award, the following materials (4 electronic files) must be received, via email, by the SIM Dissertation Award Committee Chair on or before April 30, 2014:

1)      An abstract of not more than 10 double-spaced pages, 1" margins throughout, 12-point Times New Roman font, paginated at the center-bottom of each page, no appendix, in a single Adobe (.pdf) file, excluding identities of author, university, and advisors;

2)      Electronic copy (PDF file) of the complete dissertation thesis, excluding identities of author, university, and advisors;

3)      A copy of the signature page, with university name, signatures, and date of defense, in a separate file from the abstract;

4)      A title page with the author's current mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email address, in a separate file from the abstract and signature page.

Please note that you may submit an award application to only 1 Academy division per year, but your dissertation is eligible for an award for 2 years after completion. Therefore, you may submit your dissertation to SIM 2 years in a row, or you may submit to SIM 1 year and to a different division another year.

Please sent your application to:

miriam.muethel@whu.edu

Miriam Muethel

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Prof. Dr. Miriam Müthel

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Lehrstuhl für Organizational Behavior/ Chair of Organizational Behavior

Campus Vallendar, Burgplatz 2, 56179 Vallendar, Germany

Tel.: +49 261 6509-310; Fax: +49 261 6509-319

miriam.muethel@whu.edu; www.whu.edu/orgbeh

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