INFORMS

 

 

Most Recent Competition Winners:

2007

first place:

Heidi Gardner, London Business School, "Expertise Utilization in Project Teams: A Status-Based Account of Process and Performance"
 

second place:

J.P. Eggers, University of Pennsylvania, "Organizational Experience and the Creation of New Products for New Markets"
 

finalists:

Marla Baskerville, Tulane University, "Sexuality as a Double-Edged Sword: The Relationship between Women’s Expressions of Sexuality, Positive Mood, Interpersonal Relationships with Men, and their Objective Work Outcomes"
    Sekou Bermiss, Northwestern University, "The Emergence & Evolution of Professional Service Industries"
    Denisa Mindruta, University of Illinois at Urbana Chamgaign, "Markets for Research: A Matching Approach to University-Firm Research Collaborations"
    Chris Rider, University of California, Berkeley, "The Economic Value of Social Capital: A Study in the U.S. Private Equity Fundraising Market"
    Mario Schijven, Tilburg University, "Towards Unlocking the Full Potential of Acquisitions: Behavioral and Cognitive Learning Perspectives"
    Karl Wennburg, Stockholm School of Economics, "Entrepreneurial Exit: A Longitudinal Study of Boundedly Rational Entrepreneurs"
     
2006

first place:

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"
 

second place:

Michael Ashworth, Carnegie-Mellon University, "The Effects of Social and Knowledge Networks on Group Performance and Learning From Experience"
 

finalists:

Ben Cole, University of Michigan, "Assessing the Efficacy and Value of Regulatory Action: Sanctions, Signals and Status"
    Laura Erskine, University of Southern California, "Examining the Boundaries of Leadership: A Multidimensional Understanding of Relational Distance in Organizations"
    Yan Gong, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Dancing Around Improvisation: Advisor Network and Improvisation Migration in New Firms"
    Ben Hallen, Stanford University, "The Formation of Inter-Organizational Partnerships: How Entrepreneurs Successfully Receive Investments from Venture Capitalists and Corporate Investors"
    Mike Pfarrer, University of Maryland, "Information in the Marketplace: Three Essays on Firm Strategies, Media Influences and Stakeholder Evaluations"
    Brian Wu, University of Pennsylvania, "Capacity-Constrained Capabilities, Market Maturity and Corporate Diversification: Theory and Evidence from the Cardiovascular Medical Device Industry, 1976-2004"
     

2005

first place:

Susan Perkins, New York University, "Does Prior Experience Really Pay?: Foreign Direct Investments, Institutional Environments and Firm Performance"

 

second place:

Donald A. Lange, University of Texas at Austin, "A Study of Controversial Organizational Action: Organizational Action and Audience Reaction in the Context of Earnings Restatement" 

Sharon James Wade, University of Minnesota,  "When Do Firms Voluntarily Disclose Qualitative Information About R & D Projects?"

 

finalists:

Jared D. Harris, University of Minnesota,  "Financial Misrepresentation: Antecedents and Performance Effects"

 

 

Arik Lifschitz, Columbia University, "Nets at Sea: Horizontal and Vertical Networks in the Clyde River Maritime Economy"

 

 

Ilya Okhmatovskiy, University of Southern California, "Content, Structure, and Performance Implications of Intercorporate Ties: The Role of Institutional Contingencies"

 

 

Ming Piao, Northwestern University, "A Dynamic View of Exploitation and Exploration: An Empirical Study in the Hard Disk Drive Industry"

 

 

Kim-Chee Wakefield Trinh, Duke University, "Factors Affecting the Performance Impact of Organizational Memory: Integrative Framework and Empirical Validation at Individual and Group Levels"

 

 

 

2004

first place:

Micki Eisenman, Columbia, "Aesthetic-Based Differentiation in Commoditized Technological Industries"

Kate Kellogg, Sloan School of Management, MIT "The Iron Men Go To War: Changing Institutional Identities, Practices, and Logics in the Profession of Surgery"

 

second place:

Govert Vroom, INSEAD, "Strategic Incentive Systems: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Managerial Incentives and Competitive Interaction"

 

finalists:

Scott Johnson, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota,"Decision-Making Influences of Trade Association Membership"

June-Young Kim, University of Wisconsin, "Market Experience on Institutional Innovation: Creation of the Competitive Wholesale Power Market in the U.S. Electric Power Industry, 1994-2003"

Chris Marquis, University of Michigan, "History, Geography and the Institutional Transformation of US Banking Since 1896"

Thomas Moliterno, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine, "Behavioral Antecedents of Firm-Level Resource Replacement and Acquisition"

2003

first place:

Minyuan Zhao, New York University, "Essays on Multinational R&D, Intellectual Property Rights, and Knowledge Spillover"

 

second place:

Gina Dokko, University of Pennsylvania, "What you know or who you know? Human capital and social capital networks as determinants of individual performance"

 

finalists:

Gino Cattani, University of Pennsylvania, "Essays on Technological Evolution"
Mary Dunn, Boston College, "Socialization for Innovation: How Organizational Context and Developmental Relationships Shape Scientific and Technological Innovation"
Sarah Kaplan, MIT, "Making technology strategy under uncertainty: A study of the role of cognition in firm response to discontinuity in the communications equipment industry"
Taco H. Reus, Florida State University, "A Knowledge-based View of International Acquisition Performance"
Nina Shah , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Antecedents and Consequences of Change in Hiring Conventions: "A Longitudinal Analysis of Corporate Law Firms, 1976-1990"
Andrew V. Shipilov, University of Toronto, "Investment Banks' Network Strategies in the International M&A Advisory Industry"
Tim Simcoe, University of California, Berkeley, "Design by Committee? The Organization of Technical Standards Development"

2002

first place:

Anne Parmigiani, University of Michigan, "Concurrent Sourcing: When Do Firms Both Make and Buy?"

 

second place:

Myeong-Gu Seo, Boston College, "The Role of Affective Experience in Work Motivation"

 

finalists:

Ben Bryant, London Business School, "The Symbolic Roles of Senior and Middle Managers in Strategic Change: An Exploration, Framework and Process Model"
Dania A. Dialdin, Northwestern University, "Multifirm Alliances: Perspectives on Formation and Governance Structure"
Seok-Woo Kwon, University of Southern California, "Does Procedural Fairness Matter in Standardization? An Examination of a Drug Standardization Process in Hospitals and its Impact on Hospital Effectiveness"
Klaus Weber, University of Michigan, "Does Globalization Lead to Convergence? The Evolution of Organizations' Cultural Repertoires in the Biomedical Industry"
Beiging (Emery) Yao, University of Pittsburgh, "Knowledge Flow and Value Creation: Integrating Structural Embeddedness and Knowledge Embeddedness in Alliance Networks"
Sai Yayavaram, University of Texas - Austin, "Structure of a Firm's Knowledge Base and the Effectiveness of Technological Search"

2001

first place:

Ann Terlaak, University of California - Santa Barbara

 

second place:

Alexandra Kalev, Princeton University
Robert Salomon, NYU

 

 

finalists:

Michael DeVaughn, Patrick L. Schultz, Charles Williams, Samina Z. Karim, Karen Page

 

2000

first place:

Daniel Byrd, University of Michigan

 

 

second place:

Phanish Puranum, Wharton
Markus Vodesek, University of Michigan

 

1999

first place:

Jay Kim, University of Wisconsin

 

 

second place:

Riitta Katila, University of Texas
Galit Ailon-Souday, Tel Aviv University

 

1998

first place:

Lyda Bigelow, University of California - Berkeley

 

 

second place:

Andreas Schwab
Shawn Marie Lofstrom

 

1997

first place:

Timothy Pollock, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

 

second place:

Deborah Balser, Cornell University
Pek-Hooi Soh, MIT

 

1996

first place:

Nancy Staudenmayer, MIT

 

 

second place:

Constance James, UCLA

 

1995

first place:

Gautam Ahuja, University of Michigan

 

 

co-second place:

Anne Cummings, University of Illinois
Tammy Madsen, UCLA

 

1994

first place:

Mary Tripsas, MIT

 

 

second place:

Anne Marie Knott, UCLA

 

1993

first place:

Eric Darr, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

second place:

Tina Diekmann, Northwestern University

 

1992

first place:

Mark Suchman, Stanford University
Jeff Dyer, UCLA

 

1991

first place:

Pam Haunschild, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

second place:

Brian Uzzi, SUNY Stonybrook and Northwestern University