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DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD COMPETITION FOR 2010

Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management

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 Sunday evening, August 8, at the Academy of Management conference in Montreal. During that session, the panel of 3 award finalists will present their work and discuss their insights for producing exemplary dissertation research. After the conference, a new feature to be inaugurated this year, the 3 award finalists will publish these insights, along with their dissertation abstracts, 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 1, 2008 and March 31, 2010; 2) It must be written in the English language; 3) It must focus on some aspect of the relationship between business and society (broadly construed); 4) It must not be submitted to any other Academy division in the same year; and 5) The application must be received by the committee chair on or before April 30, 2010. The primary criteria for selection are as follows:

Domain Relevance

Significance of contribution

Adequacy of literature review

Conceptual development

Methodological appropriateness

Presentation style

Application. To apply for the award, the following materials (3 electronic files) must be received, via email, by the SIM Dissertation Award Committee Chair on or before April 30, 2010:

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, in a single Adobe (.pdf) file, excluding identities of author, university, and advisors;

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

3)      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.

Finalists will be asked to submit an electronic copy of the complete dissertation by mid-May 2010. 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.

Jim Mattingly,

SIM Dissertation Award Committee Chair

250 Curris Business Building

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, Iowa  50614-0125

Email: jim.mattingly@uni.edu

Phone: 1-319-273-6143