College on Organization Science (COS, Division of INFORMS) announces the
winners of the 2005 Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition
From: Tina Dacin, Chair, Dissertation Proposal Competition
The Executive Committee of the College on Organization Science (COS,
Division of INFORMS), is pleased to announce the winners of the 2005
Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. This year we had
the highest number of submissions to date (66), so it was a very close
competition.
First Place: Susan Perkins, New York University for her proposal
titled Does Prior Experience Really Pay? Foreign Direct Investments,
Institutional Environments and Firm Performance
Co-Second Place: Donald A. Lange, University of Texas at Austin for his
proposal titled A Study of Controversial Organizational Action:
Organizational Action and Audience Reaction in the Context of Earnings
Restatement
Co-Second Place: Sharon James Wade, University of Minnesota for her
proposal titled When Do Firms Voluntarily Disclose Qualitative Information
About R & D Projects?
Please join us in congratulating the winners and our remaining finalists in
their accomplishments:
Jared D. Harris, University of Minnesota
Arik Lifschitz, Columbia University
Ilya Okhmatovskiy, University of Southern California
Ming Piao, Northwestern University
Kim-Chi Wakefield Trinh, Duke University
Id like to thank our panel of judges and our team of dedicated and timely
reviewers.
Many thanks to the following individuals for serving as judges this year:
Linda Argote - Carnegie Mellon University
Joe Broschak - University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Giovanni Gavetti -Harvard University
Arturs Kalnins - Cornell University
Andrew King - Dartmouth University
Mike Pratt - University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Thanks also to the our team of fabulous reviewers for helping with the
review process:
Paul Adler
Ruth Aguilera
Paul Almeida
Nick Argyres
Blake Ashforth
Steve Barley
Beth Bechky
Maura Belliveau
Heather Berry
Lyda Bigelow
Kim Boal
Brian Boyd
Joe Broschak
William Dougan
Deborah Dougherty
David Deephouse
Jerker Denrell
Janet Dukerich
Roger Dunbar
Kim Elsbach
Sendil Ethiraj
Jeff Furman
Elizabeth Goodrick
Henrich Greve
Terri Griffith
Bill Hesterly
Bob Hinings
Glenn Hoetker
David Hoopes
Jonathan Jaffee
Sanjay Jain
Prashant Kale
Sarah Kaplan
Riitta Katila
Andrew King
Matt Kraatz
Bruce Lamont
Mike Lenox
Michael Leiblein
Tammy Madsen
Sally Maitlis
Jeff Martin
Luis Martins
Sharon Matusik
Kyle Mayer
Bill Mckelvey
Anca Metiu
Alan Meyer
Minyuan Zhao
Yuri Mishina
Will Mitchell
Greg Northcraft
Christine Oliver
Fernando Olivera
JoAnne Oxley
Corey Phelps
Damon Phillips
Nelson Philips
Phanish Puranam
Davide Ravasi
Jeff Reuer
Rachelle Sampson
Gerry Sanders
Frank Schultz
Marc-David Seidel
Anju Seth
Nicolaj Siggelkow
Ann Terlaak
Mary Tripsas
Chris Tucci
Nick Turner
Freek Vermuelen
David Whetten
Gail Whiteman
Shaker Zahra
Best regards,
The COS Executive Committee:
Tina Dacin, Chair, Dissertation Proposal Competition
Mary Tripsas, Program Chair, 2005 Fall COS Conference
Tammy L. Madsen, Vice Chair of the Executive Committee, Convener, 2005 Fall
COS Conference
Andrew King, Chair, Chair of the Executive Committee