Sponsored by the Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth Foundation, the Sheth/AIB Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal is selected during the AIB Doctoral Consortium and the winner(s) receives a plaque and a cash award to assist his/her dissertation research. The Sheth Foundation began sponsoring the Doctoral Consortium and the Award in 2008. From 2005-2007, both the consortium and the award were sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS).

2012

Winner(s):Bi-Juan Zhong
Affiliation: Ohio State University
Dissertation:“Top Management Team Identification, Knowledge Creation, and International Join Venture Performance: The Role of National Diversity”

2011

Winner(s):Matthew Smith
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Dissertation:Doing It Under The Table: Hidden Sales In India’s Manufacturing Sector

2010

Winner(s):Dong Liu (University of Washington at Seattle)

2009

Winner(s):Prithwiraj Choudhury (Harvard University)
Dissertation:Innovation in Emerging Markets: Role of Individuals within Multinationals, Government Laboratories and Domestic Firms
Winner(s):Luis Dau (University of South Carolina)
Description:

Dissertation: Profiting from Globalization: Structural Reforms, Firm Internationalization Strategy, and Firm Profitability in Developing Countries

Winner(s):Jeannette Mena (Michigan State University)
Description:

Dissertation: A Strategic Marketing Examination of Multiple Stakeholders, Satisfaction, and Marketing Performance of Multinational Corporations Embedded in Multi-Entity Supply Chains in the Global Marketplace

2008

Winner(s):Andrea Martinez-Noya (Universidad de Oviedo)
Description:

Dissertation: R&D Services Outsourcing: Evidence from European and US firms

2007

Winner(s):Gundula Lücke (University of South Carolina)
Description:

Dissertation: Development of Biculturalism in Cross-Cultural Managers in Multinational Corporations: A Cultural Participation Approach

2006

Winner(s):Ajai Gaur (National University of Singapore) and Raveendra Chittoor (Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta)

2005

Winner(s):Catherine Thomas
Description:

Why do multinationals do different things in different countries? An empirical investigation of the laundry detergent industry in Western Europe

Runners-Up: James Costantini, In Hyeock (Ian) Lee, and Weiting Zheng


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