Submission Deadline: January 31, 2004
The "Richard N. Farmer Award" for the best dissertation in international business is open to all Ph.D. and D.B.A. students who will successfully defend their dissertations between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2003. Any topic that contributes to basic or applied knowledge in international business broadly defined is eligible to compete for this award, even if the dissertation has been to other competitions. All finalists will receive a $500 travel stipend to allow them to present their research at the annual meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. The winner will receive a plaque and an additional US$1000 cash award.
Richard N. Farmer was President of the AIB from 1977-78 and a professor at Indiana University from 1964-1987, where he died at the age of 58. During that period he played a leading role in the development of the field of IB. Over 50 doctoral students earned their degrees with him at IU, many of whom became influential in the AIB as "Farmeršs Crop". The IU CIBER is proud to sponsor the AIB Farmeršs Award in his honor.
The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2004. The nomination packet should include: (1) a letter of nomination from the student's supervising professor and (2) five copies of an abstract, not exceeding 3,750 words (approximately 15 pages at 250 words per page), of the successfully defended dissertation. The abstract should describe the dissertation's objective, theoretical foundation, relation to previous research, methodology, findings, limitations, and contributions to the field of international business.
The 2004 selection committee consists of Bernard Simonin (Chair), Tufts University; Eleanor Westney, MIT; Cristina Gibson, University of California, Irvine; and Elizabeth Rose, University of Hawaii at Manoa and University of Auckland. The committee will select the finalists, who then will be asked to submit their complete dissertations for review and will be expected to make presentations at the AIB annual meeting in Stockholm, Sweden from July 10-13, 2004.
Letters of nomination and the 15-page abstracts (as well as an email confirming that the nomination packet has been forwarded) should be sent before January 31, 2004 to:
Bernard Simonin
Chair, Farmer Award Selection Committee
The Fletcher School
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
USA
Email: bernard.simonin@tufts.edu
Tel: 617-627-5255
Fax: 617-627-3712
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