CALL FOR 2010 BPS OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD SUBMISSIONS
Submission deadline: February 12, 2010 (midnight PST)
The BPS Division will sponsor the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award in Business Policy and Strategy again in 2010. Any doctoral dissertation addressing the area of business policy and strategic management completed between February 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010 not previously submitted for consideration may be entered. Completion date is defined as when the degree is completed and awarded. A dissertation can be submitted to BPS and other divisions simultaneously 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 electronically (by e-mail) their entry to the competition with two attached Word documents: (a) a one-page abstract of the dissertation and (b) a ten-page, double-spaced summary of the dissertation. This should be double spaced, with an appendix containing a small number of tables beyond the 10 page summary if so desired. Please send the e-mail to:
Tammy L. Madsen
BPS Division Chair-Elect
Chair, Management Department
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tmadsen@scu.edu
Submissions must be received by Friday, February 12, 2010 (by midnight PST). Submissions by fax will not be accepted. In order to facilitate compliance with the BPS conflict of interest policy and the blind review process, please remove any author identification from your dissertation summary and indicate in your e-mail your current university affiliation, the name of the university granting your degree, the month & year your degree was granted, a list of your dissertation committee members, and the affiliation of any outside dissertation committee members. Entrants who make it through the first round of evaluations will be invited to submit their complete dissertation around the middle of March 2010.