FINAL CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2012 DEDICATION TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD
Dear ENT Division member:
Nominations are being accepted for the 2012 Career Service Awards sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. The Division's Career Service Awards are meant to recognize a small number of individuals and organizations each year who have made extraordinary, long-term contributions that advance the mission and interests of the Division. Please consider submitting a nomination for the Dedication to Entrepreneurship Award. Previous winners are listed at the end of this email message.
THE DEDICATION TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD
Given to individuals or organizations for activities that have significantly advanced the field of entrepreneurship. (Up to 3 awards are given per year.)
This award honors individuals and organizations that have exhibited a long-term pattern of exceptional activities that have significantly advanced the development and/or visibility of the field of entrepreneurship. Nominees need not be members of the Academy of Management. The award may recognize activities that advance the research, teaching or practice of entrepreneurship as well as activities that advance the growth, visibility, and effectiveness of the Entrepreneurship Division. This award is not meant to recognize research accomplishments on their own (e.g., by recognizing individuals for the number or quality of their research publications), nor is it meant to recognize mentoring-related accomplishments. However, the award may be given to individuals or organizations for activities that have advanced entrepreneurship research in broader, more indirect ways than through publication or mentoring. People who have made mentoring contributions, in particular, may be eligible for the Mentoring Award instead.
Selection criteria for the Dedication to Entrepreneurship Award
Those eligible for the Award shall be either individuals or organizations that have significantly advanced one or more of the following goals:
i. Developed or enhanced the professionalism, impact or effectiveness of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management; OR
ii. Increased the visibility and development of entrepreneurship in the broader society; OR
iii. Improved effective communication and collaboration among entrepreneurship researchers, public policy makers and/or practitioners.
Individuals must be living (and organizations must be extant) at the time they are nominated to be eligible for this award. Candidates for the Award will be evaluated according to the relative degree to which they have, throughout their careers or to an exceptional scale, engaged in one or more of the activities described above.
Selection process
Nominations for the award will be reviewed in accordance with the above criteria by a special committee convened by the Past Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. Winners will be announced in May and awards will be presented with a plaque in August at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston. As in all award categories, the Division reserves the right to not confer an award if adjudicators determine that no award is warranted in a given year. Nominations received in a given year that do not result in an award will automatically be considered for an award during the following year's review cycle as well. However, nominations that do not result in an award for two consecutive years must be re-nominated to be considered further. Such re-nominations are welcome, provided they are accompanied by up-to-date documentation.
How to nominate someone for the Dedication to Entrepreneurship Award:
To nominate an individual (or organization) for the Dedication to Entrepreneurship Award, a complete packet of supporting documentation should be submitted to Prof. Per Davidsson, Past Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, no later than April 10, 2012. The complete packet will include:
- A letter of nomination that identifies the candidate, the individual(s) making the nomination, and lists the supporting documentation included,
- A copy of the candidate's Curriculum Vita, if the nominee is an individual,
- A detailed listing of the candidate's activities that are relevant to the award criteria.
The entire packet should be sent electronically to Prof. Davidsson at per.davidsson@qut.edu.au. Whether or not the packet materials are obtained directly from the candidate, it is the responsibility of the person(s) writing the nomination letter to ensure that the nomination package is complete.
Previous winners:
In 2012, the Division consolidated several pre-existing service awards into a single award, the "Dedication to Entrepreneurship Award". Those listed below were awarded the "Advocate Award", unless otherwise noted.
2007 Donald Kuratko
Charles Hofer*
Timothy Reed*
Kelly Shaver*
2006 Denny Dennis
2005 Max Wortman
2001 George Solomon
2000 Kauffman Center
1999 Charles Hofer
1998 Gerald Hills
1997 Donald Sexton
1996 Elizabeth Gatewood
1995 Coleman Foundation
Jerome Katz**
1994 Price-Babson Fellows
1993 Karl Vesper
1992 Ned Heizer
1989 Charles Hofer**
* Awarded the "Extraordinary Service Award"
**Awarded the "Outstanding Contributions Award"
Best Regards,
Per
Per Davidsson | Professor | Director & Talbot Family Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE) | QUT Business School (Management) | Room Z757 | Phone: +61 7 3138 2051 | Fax: +61 7 3138 5250 | Mobile: you wish... | Email: per.davidsson@qut.edu.au | website: www.qut.edu.au/business/ace |CRICOS No. 00213J | Postal address: Queensland University of Technology |GP Room Z757 |2 George Street, GPO Box 2434 | Brisbane Qld 4001 |Australia