Call for Submissions

Submission Deadline: FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We invite submissions for the INFORMS Technology Management Section (TMS) Doctoral Dissertation Award. Dissertations defended no more than two years prior to February 1, 2012, and all research topics germane to the domain of technology management are eligible.

The winner of the TMS Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive a monetary award and a plaque and present her/his work at the annual INFORMS meeting. The 2012 INFORMS meeting is scheduled for October 14-17, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Submissions must include two documents:

1. A dissertation summary of no more than 10 pages,
2. A full, completed dissertation.

Both documents should be emailed in Word or PDF format to Cheryl Druehl at cdruehl@gmu.edu. Please use filenames reflecting the author's last name. Both documents should contain author-identifying information (see below), but only on the cover page. If you submit your documents in PDF format, please make sure the documents are not protected, so the cover page with author-identifying information may be removed when sending the documents to dissertation competition committee members for review.

Author-identifying information on the cover page of each document must include:

• Dissertation title,
• Author's name,
• Dissertation completion date,
• Degree-granting school,
• Names of dissertation chair and dissertation committee members, and
• Author's current contact information (affiliation, address, phone and e-mail).

The dissertation summary must meet the following specifications:

• No more than ten 8.5" x 11" pages (excluding the cover page, and excluding the list of references),
• All pages after the cover page must be double-spaced with 12 point font and 1" margins all around,
• A complete list of references should be provided at the end of the report,
• Focus on explaining the main contributions of the research and the relevance and importance of the contributions.

Cheryl Druehl

2012 Committee Chair
George Mason University
School of Management
4400 University Blvd MS 5F4
Fairfax, VA 22030
email: cdruehl@gmu.edu