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Winner of the OS Dissertation Proposal Competition

  • 1.  Winner of the OS Dissertation Proposal Competition

    Posted 11-07-2006 09:19
    The finals of the Organization Science Dissertation Proposal competition were held this past weekend at the INFORMS conference in Pittsburgh, PA. We had an outstanding group of finalists who presented on a diverse range of topics, and a distinguished panel of judges who evaluated the proposals. 

    This year's winner was:
     
    Celia Moore
    University of Toronto
    Moral Disengagement in Processes of Organizational Corruption: The Relationship Between the Propensity to Morally Disengage, Unethical Decision Making, and Organizational Advancement
     
    This year's runner-up was:
     
    Michael Ashworth
    Carnegie-Mellon University
    The Effects of Social and Knowledge Networks on Group Performance and Learning From Experience
     
    The other finalists were Ben Cole (University of Michigan), Laura Erskine (USC), Yan Gong (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ben Hallen, (Stanford), (Mike Pfarrer (University of Maryland) and Brian Wu (University of Pennsylvania).
     
    I would also like to offer my thanks to our outstanding judges, who gave of their time and resources to be there, and who provided the finalists with excellent feedback on their dissertations. They are:
     
    Rich Burton - Duke University
    Ted Baker - NC State University
    Tiziana Casciaro - Harvard University
    Anne Miner - University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Mike Pratt - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Gerry Sanders - Brigham Young University
    Mary Tripsas - Harvard University
    Mary Zellmer-Bruhn - University of Minnesota
     
    Finally, I would like to offer my thanks to Linda Argote, Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science, and Jennifer Kukuwa, Managing Editor of Organization Science, for all of their help in support in managing the proposal review process.
     


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