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Winner of the 2009 OS/INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition

It is my pleasure to announce the results of this year's Organization Science/INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition.  We received 65 proposals from doctoral students at 51 universities.  Eight finalists were chosen from the pool of innovative and high quality proposals based on the evaluations of three reviewers in a double blind review process.  This past weekend the eight finalists presented their dissertation proposals to a distinguished panel of judges at the INFORMS Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.  All of the finalists did an outstanding job of presenting their proposals. 

The winner of the 2009 INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition is:

Renee Rottner

University of California - Irvine

"The Life of a Project: Accomplishing Legitimacy in Sustained Innovation"

The runner-up is:

Jason Greenberg

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Lifeblood or Liability? Schumpeter, Stinchcombe, and

the Double-edged Sword of Strangers in the Startup Process"

If you know Renee or Jason, or any of the other six finalists, please congratulate them for this significant accomplishment.  The other six finalists for the 2009 competition, listed in alphabetical order, were:

Andrew Cohen (Wharton) - "Bridging the Gap: Managers' External Relationships and Their Effects on Subordinates' Performance and Work Attitudes"

Shon Hiatt (Cornell University) – "The Impact of Institutional Actors as Attention Structures on Entrepreneurial Activity in the U.S. Biodiesel Industry"

Ana Elisa Iglesias (Georgia State University) - "To Forbear or Not To Forbear?  A Behavioral Perspective of Multimarket Competition"

Shimul Melwani (Wharton) - "A Little Bird Told Me...: Emotions, Reputations and Relationships as Consequences of Workplace Gossip"

Otilia Obodaru (INSEAD) - "The Selves We Could Have Been: Introducing the Construct of Alternative Professional Identity"

Lori Qingyuan Yue (Columbia University) - "Self-governance, Community Structures, and the Survival of Commercial Banks in Manhattan, 1840-1980"

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 San Diego and provided the finalists with excellent feedback on their dissertations.  This year's panel of judges was:

Christine Beckman (University of California, Irvine)

Glenn Dowell (Cornell University)

Terri Griffith (Santa Clara University)

Peggy Lee (University of Texas - Austin)

Tom Lee (University of Washington)

Steve Mezias (INSEAD)

Tim Pollock (Penn State University)

Andreas Schwab (Iowa State University)

Finally, I would like to offer my thanks the 80 reviewers who volunteered their time in helping select the 8 finalists, and I would especially like to thank Linda Argote, Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science, and Jennifer Kukawa, Managing Editor of Organization Science, for the tremendous amount of help and support they provided in managing the proposal review process.

Joseph P. Broschak

2009 INFORMS / Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition Chair

Associate Professor

University of Arizona, Eller College of Management

Department of Management & Organizations

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Tucson, AZ  85721

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