Call for Submissions
INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section
2018 INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Award Competition
The Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES) of INFORMS invites submissions for its inaugural 2018 INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Award Competition Sponsored by Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business. The goal of this competition is to promote the most recent advances in the area of technology management, product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development, and entrepreneurship.
The award winner will receive a monetary award and be presented with a plaque at the TIMES business meeting, which will take place at the INFORMS annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 04-07, 2018. Thanks to the generous sponsorship by the Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business, the following cash prize will be offered to the award winners:
- First Prize: $1,000
- Second Prize: $500
Each submission will be judged by a panel of domain experts, based on the novelty and innovativeness of the paper's contribution and its potential impact on the theory and practice of technology management, innovation management and entrepreneurship. The award committee is chaired jointly by Zhijian Cui (TIMES Chair) and Jochen Schlapp (TIMES Board Member).
Eligibility Criteria:
- A submission must be broadly related to the subject of technology management, product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development or entrepreneurship.
- As of the date of submission the paper must not be accepted for publication.
- The format of the submission must follow closely the manuscript preparation guidelines of M&SOM journal as detailed at https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/msom/submission-guidelines.
- The submitting author must be a member of the INFORMS TIMES section. If unsure how to join, please see http://connect.informs.org/times/home. An author can serve as the submitting author for only one working paper.
- The submitted paper must be presented at the 2018 INFORMS Annual meeting in either the Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship cluster or the New Product Development cluster.
Submission Procedure:
Please send your submission in a single email to Professor Jochen Schlapp at WPAward2018Times@gmail.com with the subject heading "Submitting author, title of the working paper". A complete submission must include the following two documents:
- A cover page in PDF format with author identifying information including (a) the title of the working paper, (b) the names of all authors, their email addresses and affiliations, and (c) a statement that the submitted paper has not been accepted for publication in an academic journal.
- A blinded PDF copy of the working paper with all Appendices, Tables, Figures, etc. closely adhering to the manuscript preparation guidelines of M&SOM journal.
Please use filenames reflecting the short title of the paper.
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2018.
Any question(s) related to the competition should be sent by email to Jochen Schlapp at jschlapp@bwl.uni-mannheim.de.
Zhijian Cui & Jochen Schlapp
Chairs, 2018 INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Award Competition
TIMES @ INFORMS
Zhijian Cui: Graduate School of Business, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Jochen Schlapp: University of Mannheim, Business School, Germany
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Zhijian Cui, PhD
Chair, INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section
Associate Professor of Operations Management
Graduate School of Business, Nazarbayev University
Astana, Kazakhstan
Visiting Full Professor of Research
School of Management University of Science and Technology of China
Heifei, China
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