Call for submissions to 2014 BPS Division Outstanding Dissertation Award
The BPS Division will sponsor the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award in Business Policy
and Strategy again in 2014. Any doctoral dissertation may be entered that satisfies the following
criteria: (1) The dissertation addresses topics in the area of business policy and strategic
management. (2) The dissertation was completed between February 1, 2013 and January 31, 2014,
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 BPS and
other divisions simultaneously if it fits within each divisions domain statement. The BPS domain
statement and those of other divisions can be found at
www.aomonline.org.
Interested persons should submit electronically (via email) the following Word documents as
attachments to an email to Christoph Zott (
czott@iese.edu), with the subject heading: BPS Division
Outstanding Dissertation Award:
1. A one-page abstract of the dissertation
2. A ten-page, double-spaced summary of the dissertation
Members of the BPS Division research committee will evaluate these dissertation summaries and invite
a subset of entrants to submit their complete dissertations in March 2014 for further evaluation.
Submissions must be received by Monday February 10, 2014. Submissions will not be accepted by
fax or regular mail. In order to facilitate compliance with the BPS conflict of interest policy and the
blind review process, please remove any author identifying information from your dissertation
summary. In addition, please indicate in the body of your email your current university affiliation, the
name of the university granting your degree, a list of your dissertation committee members, and the
affiliations of any external dissertation committee members.