Winner of the 2013 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition
It is my pleasure to announce the results of this year's INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. We received 69 proposals. Eight finalists were selected based on evaluations by three reviewers. This past weekend the eight finalists presented their dissertation proposals to a distinguished panel of judges at the INFORMS Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN. All of the finalists did an outstanding job of presenting their proposals.
The winner of the 2013 INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition is:
Sujin Jang
Harvard Business School
Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams
The runner-up is:
Chad Murphy
Penn State University
Facing the Void: Identity and Legitimacy in Emerging Professions
If you know Sujin or Chad, or any of the other six finalists, please congratulate them for this significant accomplishment. The other six finalists for the 2013 competition, listed in alphabetical order, were:
Jin-Hyun Bae, New York University
"The Impact of Institutional Differences on Immigrant Entrepreneurship"
Brad Fulton, Duke University
"Bridging and Bonding: How Social Diversity Influences Organizational Effectiveness"
Heeyon Kim, University of Michigan
Should Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Agglomeration by Nationality as a Constraint in International Expansion
KiYoung Lee, University of Minnesota
Matthew Lee, Harvard Business School
Mission and Markets? Organizational Hybridity in Social Ventures
Jean-Nicolas Reyt, Paris Dauphine University/NYU
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Construal Level Analysis of Employees' Mobile Technology Use
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the panel of judges who evaluated all of the proposals. Each judge generously volunteered his or her time and resources to attend the day-long competition in Minneapolis and provided the finalists with feedback on their dissertations. This year's panel of judges was:
Mary Benner, University of Minnesota |
Joseph Broschak, University of Ariona |
Ethan Burris, University of Texas at Austin |
Don Conlon, Michigan State University |
Karen Patterson, University of New Mexico |
Jo-Ellen Pozner, University of California at Berkeley |
David Souder, University of Connecticut |
Libby Weber, University of California at Irvine James Summers, Iowa State University (alternate) |
Finally, I would like to offer my thanks to the close to one-hundred reviewers who volunteered their time in helping select the 8 finalists, and I would especially like to thank Dan Levinthal, Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science, Kathleen Luckey, Managing Editor of Organization Science and Tracy Cahall, for the tremendous amount of help and support they provided in managing the proposal review process.
Emily S. Block, PhD
Chair, INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition
Assistant Professor
Department of Managment
University of Notre Dame
360A Mendoza College of Business
Notre Dame, IN 46617
eblock1@nd.edu
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