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Winners 2013 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition

Archive User09-05-2013 15:04

2013 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition It is my great pleasure ...

Archive User10-07-2013 14:42

Winner of the 2013 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition It is my ...

1. Winners 2013 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition

Archive User

Posted 09-05-2013 15:04

2013 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition

It is my great pleasure to announce this year's finalists in the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. We received 69 proposals. The competition was extremely fierce, with many innovative and high-quality proposals submitted. Eight finalists were selected based on evaluations by three reviewers and the 2013 INFORMS Executive Committee. If you know any of the finalists, please offer them your heartiest congratulations for this significant accomplishment. This year's finalists are:

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"

Sujin Jang, Harvard Business School

Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams

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

When and How Does Workplace Envy Promote Job Performance? A Study on the Conditions and Mechanisms for the Functional Role of Envy at Workplace.

Matthew Lee, Harvard Business School

Mission and Markets? Organizational Hybridity in Social Ventures

Chad Murphy, Penn State University

Facing the Void: Identity and Legitimacy in Emerging Professions

Jean-Nicholas Reyt, Paris Dauphine University/NYU

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Construal Level Analysis of Employees' Mobile Technology Use

These eight finalists will present their dissertation proposals at the INFORMS conference in Minneapolis, MN on October 5th to the following distinguished panel of judges who will select the winner and runner-up:

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 thank the 103 scholars who generously volunteered their time to provide reviews of the candidate proposals. This competition would be nothing without them, and I am grateful to them for their willingness to provide thoughtful and timely feedback.

In particular I would like to recognize Chris Marquis for being the fastest reviewer as well as Andreas Schwab and Joe Broschak for performing the greatest number of reviews!

The individuals who reviewed for this year's competition are:

Mathias	Arrfelt
Gary	Ballinger
Talya	Bauer
Christine	Beckman
Kristin	Behfar
Sekou	Bermiss
Lyda	Bigelow
Matt	Bloom
Vanessa	Bohns
Joe	Broschak
Brianna	Caza
David	Chandler
Ronnie	Chatterji
Prithviraj	Chattopadhyay
Adam	Cobb
Craig	Crossland
Erik	Dane
Katy	DeCelles
Justin	DeSimone
Sarah	Dodd
Lorna	Doucet
JP	Eggers
Laura	Erskine
Teppo	Felin
Ricardo	Flores
Flannery	Garnett
Scott	Graffin
Matt	Grimes
Isin	Guler
Shon	Haitt
Timothy	Hargrave
Wesley	Helms
Morela	Hernandez
Ivona	Hideg
Monica	Higgins
Aaron	Hill
Glenn	Hoetker
Jasmine	Hu
Mary	Hunter-Mcdonnell
Kaifeng	Jiang
Scott	Johnson
Amol	Joshi
Jessica	Kennedy
Olga	Khessina
Ted	Khoury
Gavin	Kilduff
Adam	Kleinbaum
Kevin	Kockmann
Tom	Lee
Kyle	Lewis
Aimin	Liu
Mary	Maloney
Michael	Mannor
Christopher	Marquis
Nydia	Mcgregor
Denisa	Mindruta
Yuri	Mishina
Thomas	Moliterno
Celia	Moore
Brian	Nagy
Eric	Neuman
Bidhan	Parmar
Jason	Pattit
Jennifer	Petriglieri
Mike	Pfarrer
Corey	Phelps
Laura	Poppo
Tim	Quigley
Greg	Reily
Jason	Ridge
Scott	Rockart
Naomi	Rothman
Jeffrey	Sanchez-Burks
Saras	Sarasvathy
Margaret	Schomaker
Andreas	Schwab
Kelly	Schwind Wilson
Robert	Seamans
Marc-David	Seidel
Pri	Shah
Christine	Shropshire
David	Sluss
Kristin	Smith-Crowe
Scott	Snell
Taryn	Stanko
Flannery	Stevens
Ann	Tenbrunsel
Ece	Tuncel
JP	Vergne
Heather	Vough
Lu	Wang
Danielle	Warren
Charlie	Williams
Anita	Wooley
Adam	Wowak
Amy	Wrzesniewski
Jeff	York
Jisun	Yu
Markus	Zabracki
Aks	Zaheer
Zhen	Zang
Anastasiya	Zavyalova
Mary	Zellmer-Bruhn

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

574 485 4021

2. Winners 2013 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition

Archive User

Posted 10-07-2013 14:42

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

When and How Does Workplace Envy Promote Job Performance? A Study on the Conditions and Mechanisms for the Functional Role of Envy at Workplace.

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.