Call for 2008 BPS Outstanding Dissertation Award Submissions

The BPS Division will sponsor the Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Business Policy and Strategy again in 2008. Any doctoral dissertation addressing the area of Business Policy and Strategic Management completed between February 1, 2007 and January 31, 2008, and not previously submitted for consideration may be entered. The completion date is defined as when the degree is completed and awarded. A dissertation can be submitted simultaneously to the BPS Division and to other divisions if it fits within each division's domain statement. The BPS domain statement can be found at: www.bpsdiv.org/html/domain_stmt.html. Interested persons should submit their entry electronically as follows:

Please provide the following personal information in the e-mail:

• Name:
• Current Affiliation:
• Street Address:
• City, State, Zip Code:
• Country:
• E-Mail:
• Phone:
   

Please provide the following information about the dissertation in the e-mail::

• School Attended:
• Final Defense Date:
• Date Degree Granted:
• Chair Person:
• Committee Members:
  
  Please provide a ten-page, double-spaced summary of the dissertation. In addition, you may also include a small number of tables within an appendix. Please remove any author-identifying information from the summary to facilitate the blind review process.
  
  Finally, please send both the e-mail attachment and the information requested above to:
  
  Joseph T. Mahoney
  Investors in Business Education Professor of Strategy
  College of Business
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  josephm@uiuc.edu

Submissions must be received by Monday, February 11, 2008. Submissions by fax will not be accepted. Entrants selected in the first round of evaluations will be requested to
 send a file with the completed dissertation in mid-March 2008.

For your reference (and a high-quality benchmark), here are the six finalists from the 2007 competition, presented in chronological order of submission. Congratulations to all six!

Robert Jensen (University of Pennsylvania)
Rajiv Nag (The Pennsylvania State University)
Dries Faems (Catholic University of Louven)
Rekha Krishnan (Tilburg University)
Jared Harris (University of Virginia)
Alison Mackey (Texas A&M University)

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