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This is a FINAL REMINDER regarding the deadlines for nominations for our 2022 STR Irwin Outstanding Educator, 2022 STR Distinguished Scholarship, and 2022 STR Outstanding Dissertation Awards. These awards are our opportunity to highlight research and teaching activities at the core of the strategic management field. This process provides us all with an opportunity to ensure we elicit a diverse and highly qualified pool of nominations for these major awards. A summary of each award as well as the process for responding to these calls is outlined below. Please help us help the field by submitting your nominations. The deadline for responding to all three awards is Friday, January 28, 2002.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2022 STR IRWIN OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR AWARD

The STR division requests nominations for the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award, to be given at next year's annual meetings in Seattle (Washington). STR has recognized Outstanding Educators with an award since 1987. In 1991, the publishing company Richard D. Irwin established a $25,000 endowment for the award, thereafter named the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award. Since 2008, STR has presented this award on an annual basis.

This award is designed to recognize an established strategy scholar who has demonstrated a long-term commitment to and expertise in educating strategy students. Nominees should have at least 15 years of service since graduating from their own doctoral programs. In odd years, STR evaluates nominees with respect to their contributions to Ph.D. and doctoral education. In even years, STR evaluates nominees with respect to their contributions to MBA/executive education in strategic management.

Since our next meeting will be in 2022, we are now soliciting nominations for scholars who have made significant contributions to strategic management education in MBA and/or executive programs. Manifestations of outstanding educator contributions might include:

1. Evidence of outstanding teaching capabilities over an extended period. The nominee demonstrates mastery of the field and an ability to cultivate a strategic perspective in future business leaders. (For example, former students might provide testimonials as to the impact that this individual had on their growth and development as strategists or as business leaders). The nominee demonstrates either depth or breadth in teaching strategy-related topics to Master's (MBA) and/or Executive Education populations. The nominee creates learning environments that promote constructive and interactive class discussions in which students challenge assumptions and share their knowledge and experiences. It is likely that the nominee has been named for teaching awards.
2. Evidence of an important impact on strategy pedagogy though demonstrated expertise of by developing new and different teaching methods or materials that were subsequently widely adopted by others. (For example, the nominee may have produced for strategy courses high-quality simulations, textbooks, business cases, online material, or experiential exercises. Alternatively, the nominee may have been involved in administering a highly effective and innovative Master's (MBA)/executive program in strategic management).
3. Evidence of deep passion about the subject of strategic management, and about the intellectual development of the nominee's students.

Individuals interested in nominating a senior strategic management scholar for the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award should send an email to Michael Leiblein, STR Division Chair Elect (leiblein.1@osu.edu ) with the subject line heading "Irwin Outstanding Educator Award nomination." Nomination emails should include a note explaining your reasons for submitting the nomination and either attach the nominees CV or include a URL link(s). Well-documented nominations include descriptions of the above manifestations of outstanding contributions to strategic management education in MBA and/or executive programs in the body of the email or an attached file. Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations will be evaluated by a committed consisting of senior scholars and members of the STR Division Executive Committee.

Nominations will be accepted through January 28, 2022.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2022 STR DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

The STR Distinguished Scholarship Award is given in even-numbered years. This award recognizes an individual (or individuals) that have developed a core set of ideas that fundamentally advanced research and understanding in the field of strategic management. While these ideas may involve a specific theoretical or empirical discovery, priority is given to the discovery's importance to the field rather than the accumulation of disparate facts or findings. The intent is to recognize contributions that altered the development of the field. The recipients of the inaugural (2020) Distinguished Scholarship Award were Professors Jay Barney and Margaret Peteraf. 

This call invites the STR community to provide nominations for the STR Distinguished Scholarship Award.  Nominations will also be sought from the STR Award Committee, prior winners of the STR Distinguished Scholarship Award, the STR Executive Committee and Officers, as well as prior STR Chairs. No self-nominations are accepted.

Individuals interested in nominating a strategic management scholar for this most prestigious award should send an email to Michael Leiblein, STR Division Chair Elect (leiblein.1@osu.edu ) with the subject line heading "STR Distinguished Scholarship Award nomination." Nomination emails should include a note explaining your reasons for supporting the nomination along with relevant CV(s) or URL link(s). Well-documented nominations include a statement supporting how the individual(s) research contributed to intellectual development of the field of strategic management. Nominations will be evaluated by a committed consisting of senior scholars and members of the STR Division Executive Committee.

Nominations from the STR membership will be accepted through January 28, 2022.

2022 STR CALL FOR

OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD NOMINATIONS

The STR division will offer the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award in Strategic Management again in 2022. Any doctoral dissertation may be entered that satisfies the following criteria:

1. The dissertation addresses topics in the field of strategic management.
2. The dissertation was completed between February 1, 2021 and January 28, 2022, where the completion date is when the degree is completed and awarded.
3. The dissertation was not previously submitted for consideration for this award. A dissertation may be submitted to STR and other divisions simultaneously if it fits within each division's domain statement. The STR domain statement can be found at http://strdiv.org/ (under About).

Eligible graduates who are interested in being considered for this award should submit the following documents (preferably in Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word format) as attachments to an email addressed to Division Chair Elect Michael Leiblein (Leiblein.1@osu.edu), with the subject heading "STR Division Outstanding Dissertation Award submission":

1. A one-page abstract of the dissertation.
2. A ten-page, double-spaced summary of the dissertation.
3. A separate cover page listing your name, the dissertation's title, the completion date, the name of the university granting your degree, your current university affiliation as well as any intervening affiliation, a complete list of dissertation committee members (advisor, other committee members, any "defense opponent" etc.) and their affiliations.

In order to facilitate compliance with the STR conflict of interest policy and the blind review process, please remove any author-identifying information from your abstract and dissertation summary.

Initial submissions must be received by Friday January 28, 2022. Submissions will not be accepted by fax or regular mail. Members of the STR Research Committee will evaluate the dissertation summaries and invite a subset of entrants to submit their complete dissertations in March 2022 for further evaluation.

Michael J. Leiblein, PhD

Co-Founding Editor, Strategic Management Review | Co-Chair, Strategy Research Foundation | Officer, AoM Strategic Management Division | Academic Director, Integrated Business and Engineering Program | Co-Director, OSU Food Innovation Center

Ph: (614) 292-0071 | email: leiblein.1@osu.edu | http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-leiblein/0/b2/b14