SAMS received a high number of submissions in total this year for the Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019, which led to strong competition for the Award.
We are delighted to announce the 10 applicants who have been shortlisted for this years Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019.
The shortlisted candidates listed below in alphabetical order by surname are:
1. Sumati Ahuja – University of Technology Sydney
“Professional Identity and Status: An Ethnography of Architects in Professional Service Firms” (PhD obtained at University of Technology Sydney)
2. Eliana Crosina – Babson College
“Start Me Up: On Becoming an Entrepreneur in a Shared Workspace” (PhD obtained at Boston college)
3. Kevin Curran – University of Oxford
“Exploring the antecedents and effects of celebrity in a business context” (PhD obtained at CASS Business School)
4. Catherine Faherty – Northwestern University
“Bound by Blood in the Family Firm? Examining the Effects of Trusting and Feeling Trusted in the Family Firm Top Management Team” (PhD obtained at Dublin City University)
5. Corinna Frey-Heger – Erasmus University
“Organizing in Times of Global Displacement and Refugee Crises” (PhD obtained at University of Cambridge)
6. Cheng Gao – University of Michigan
“Strategy and Entrepreneurship in Nascent Industries” (PhD obtained at Harvard University)
7. Zahira Jaser – University of Sussex
“The Intermediate Leader, Pulled in Two Directions: in Concert a Leader to Some and a Follower to Others” (PhD obtained at CASS Business School)
8. Linda Jakob Sadeh – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Bringing ‘Together’: Emotion, Space and Power in Organizational Responses to Institutional Complexity” (PhD obtained at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
9. Matthias Waldkirch – EBS University
“From Professional Interactions to Relational Work: Investigating Relationships around Non-Family CEOs in Family Firms” (PhD obtained at Jönköping International Business School)
10. Thijs Willems – Singapore University of Technology and Design
“‘Monsters’ and ‘Mess’ on the Railways: Coping with Complexity in Infrastructure Breakdowns” (PhD obtained at VU University Amsterdam)
Congratulations to you all. The 3 finalists, who will present their work at EGOS, will be announced next week.