The finals of the Organization Science Dissertation Proposal competition were held this past weekend at the INFORMS conference in Pittsburgh, PA. We had an outstanding group of finalists who presented on a diverse range of topics, and a distinguished panel of judges who evaluated the proposals.
This year's winner was:
Celia Moore
University of Toronto
Moral Disengagement in Processes of Organizational Corruption: The Relationship Between the Propensity to Morally Disengage, Unethical Decision Making, and Organizational Advancement
This year's runner-up was:
Michael Ashworth
Carnegie-Mellon University
The Effects of Social and Knowledge Networks on Group Performance and Learning From Experience
The other finalists were Ben Cole (University of Michigan), Laura Erskine (USC), Yan Gong (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ben Hallen, (Stanford), (Mike Pfarrer (University of Maryland) and Brian Wu (University of Pennsylvania).
I would also like to offer my thanks to our outstanding judges, who gave of their time and resources to be there, and who provided the finalists with excellent feedback on their dissertations. They are:
Rich Burton - Duke University
Ted Baker - NC State University
Tiziana Casciaro - Harvard University
Anne Miner - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mike Pratt - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gerry Sanders - Brigham Young University
Mary Tripsas - Harvard University
Mary Zellmer-Bruhn - University of Minnesota
Finally, I would like to offer my thanks to Linda Argote, Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science, and Jennifer Kukuwa, Managing Editor of Organization Science, for all of their help in support in managing the proposal review process.
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