2012 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:

Zhijian Cui, Instituto de Empresa (IE) 

Dissertation title: "Management of Collaborations and Conflicts in New Product Development."
Dissertation completed in June 2011 at INSEAD.
Dissertation Advisor: Professor Christoph Loch 

The Runner-up:

Vivek Tandon, National University of Singapore
Dissertation title: "Make hay while the sun shines or be more loyal than the king? The impact of external labor markets on the technological search process within firms."
Dissertation completed in June 2011 at University of Michigan.
Dissertation Advisor: Professor Gautam Ahuja

Congratulations to the past winners!

2011 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:

Claudio Wolter, Carnegie Mellon University 
Dissertation title: "Technological Competences and Firm Boundaries: An Empirical and Conceptual Investigation of Diversification, Vertical Integration and Profitability."
Dissertation completed in May 2010 at Carnegie Mellon University.

The Runner-up:

Jianxi Luo, Industry Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of Technology Management, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Dissertation title: "Hierarchy in Industry Architecture:Transaction Strategy under Technological Constraints."
Dissertation completed in May 2010 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2010 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:

Anant Mishra, University of Minnesota
Dissertation title: "Essays on Global Sourcing of Technology Projects."
Dissertation completed in August 2009 at University of Minnesota.

The Runner-up:

Bradley R. Staats, Harvard Business School
Dissertation title: "Microfoundations of Organizational Capabilities: Empirical Evidence from Indian Software Services."
Dissertation completed in June 2009 at Harvard Business School.

2009 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:

Brian Fifarek, Engineering Supervisor, Cutler-Hammer Industrial Controls Division, Eaton Corporation, at Milwaukee, WI
Dissertation title: "Globalization, Offshoring, and the Location of Innovation: A Case Study of Rare Earth Technology,"
Dissertation completed at Carnegie Melon University.

The Runner-up:

Philipp Tuertscher, Researcher, E&I Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
Dissertation title: "The Emergence of Architecture in Modular Systems: Coordination Across Boundaries at Atlas, CERN."
Dissertation completed at University of St. Gallen.

2008 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:

Andrew Nelson, Lundquist School of Business, University of Oregon
Dissertation title: "Institutional Convergence and the Diffusion of University Versus Firm-Origin Technologies,"
Dissertation completed in June 2007 at the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.

The Runner-up:

Vareska van de Vrande, Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Dissertation title: "Not Invented here: Managing Corporate Innovation in a New Era,"
Dissertation completed in November 2007 at the the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

2007 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:

Lourdes Sosa, London Business School, United Kingdom
Dissertation title: "Decoupling Market Incumbency from Organizational Experience: A Study of Biotechnology's Impact on the Market for Anti-Cancer Drugs,"
Dissertation completed in June 2006 at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Runner-up:

Kenneth Huang, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
Dissertation title: "Innovation in the Life Sciences: the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Scientific Knowledge Diffusion, Accumulation and Utilization,"
Dissertation completed in Technology, Management and Policy in August 2006, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Pictures of INFORMS TMS, Seattle 2007

2006 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:

Claudia N. González Brambila, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Dissertation title: "Exploring Academic Scientific Productivity for the Design of Public Policies,"
Dissertation completed in December 2005 at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Engineering and Public Policy

Giovanni Valentini, ISEA - Bocconi University, Italy
Dissertation title: "Dynamic Competitive Advantage through Innovation: M&A, Cooperation, Contracting and Technological Performance,"
Dissertation completed in September 2005 at IESE Business School, Barcelona

Pictures of INFORMS TMS, Pittsburgh 2006

2005 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:

Dovev Lavie, University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation title: "The Interconnected Firm: Evolution, Strategy, and Performance,"
Dissertation completed in June 2004 at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

The Runner-ups:

Oana Branzei, York University
Dissertation title: "Product Innovation in Heterogeneous R&D Networks: Pathways to Exploration and Exploitation,"
Dissertation completed in December 2004 at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Marc Junkunc, University of Miami
Dissertation title: "Toward a Greater Economic Understanding of Entrepreneurial Activity: Examining the Nature and Importance of Specialized Knowledge"
Dissertation completed in April 2004 at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California - Los Angeles

2004 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:

Corinne Post, Lubin School of Business, PACE University,
Dissertation title: "Allocating Favorable Work Contexts in Industrial R&D: The Role of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Family Characteristics, and Organizational Setting."

Pictures of INFORMS TMS, Denver 2004

2003 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:

Arvids A. Ziedonis, University of California at Berkeley,
Dissertation title: "The Commercialization of University Technology: Implications for Firm Strategy and Public Policy."

The Runner-ups

Charles M. Weber, Sloan School of Management at MIT
Dissertation title: "Rapid Learning in High Velocity Environments."

Robert Lowe, University of California at Berkeley
Dissertation title: "Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: The Commercialization of University Research by Inventor-Founded Firms."

James M. Morgan, University of Michigan
Dissertation title: "A Systems Approach to a Lean Product Development Process."

Pictures of INFORMS TMS, Atlanta 2003

2002 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners:

C. Annique Un, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation title: "Organizational Capabilities, Knowledge, and Innovation: Strategies for Developing the Capability to Mobilize and Create Knowledge for Innovation."

Riitta Katila, Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin,
Dissertation title: "In Search of Innovation: Search Determinants of New Product Introductions."