The best working paper award is given out annually at the TIMES Business Meeting to the best working paper in technology management, product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development, and entrepreneurship. A call for this award is posted in the TIMES Connect forum in spring of the same year. You must be a TIMES member to be eligible for this award. Please refer to the call in this link for further information on deadlines and criteria of eligibility. Please contact the TIMES Chair Elect if you have any questions.
2023
First Place:
Evgeny Kagan, Maqbool Dada, Brett Hathaway. AI Chatbots in Customer Service: Adoption Hurdles and Simple Remedies
Second Place (tied in no particular order):
Alp Sungu, Ali Aouad, Kamalini Ramdas. Food Subsidies at the Base-of-the-Pyramid: Take-up, Substitution Effects and Nutrition
Christian Kaps, Serguei Netessine. Privately-Owned Battery Storage: Reshaping The Way We Do Energy
Finalists (tied in no particular order):
Jingxuan Geng, Guangwen Kong, Marco Shaojun Qin. When Less is More: An Analytical Analysis and Empirical Evidence of a Telemedicine Platform
Jane Yi Jiang, Ken Moon, Wedad Elmaghraby. Is Seeing Believing? The Impact of Blockchain-Driven Transparency on a Consumer Marketplace
2022
First Place:
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioana Popescu, Rowan Clarke. "Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis."
Second Place (tied in no particular order):
Kedong Chen, Xiaojin (Jim) Liu, Yuhong Li, Kevin Linderman. "Government Support and Cross-Border Innovation: How does China's Innovative City Policy affect Chinese Firms' Patenting in the U.S.?"
Wei Gu, Meng Li, Shujing Sun. "Tele-Follow-Up and Outpatient Care"
Finalists (tied in no particular order):
Konstantinos Stouras, Sanjiv Erat, Kenneth Lichtendahl Jr. "Dueling Contests and Platform’s Coordinating Role"
Luyi Yang, Chen Jin, and Zhen Shao "Help and Haggle: Boosting Social Reach Through Randomized, Adaptive, All-or-Nothing Discounts"
2021
First Place:
Jochen Schlapp and Gerrit Schumacher. Delegated Concept Testing in New Product Development
Second Place:
Park Sinchaisr, Hamsa Bastani and Osbert Bastani. Learning Best Practices: Can Machine Learning Improve Human Decision-Making?
Sidika Tunc Candogan, Philipp Cornelius, Bilal Gokpinar, Ersin Korpeoglu and Christopher S. Tang. Product Development in Crowdfunding: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Third Place:
Nil Karacaoglu and Keja Hu. WeStore or AppStore: Customer Behavior Differences in Mobile Apps and Social Commerce
2020
First Place:
Sidika Tunc Candogan, Gizem Korpeoglu, Chris Tang. Team Collaboration in Innovation Contests
Second Place:
Ming Hu, Yao Cui, Jingchen Liu. Values of Traceability in Supply Chains
2019
First Place:
Wang, X., S.-H. Cho, A. Scheller-Wolf Green. Technology Development and Adoption: Competition, Regulation, and Uncertainty-A Global Game Approach
Second Place:
Agrawal, V., B. Toktay, S. Yucel. Non-Ownership Business Models for Solar Energy
Finalists (tied in no particular order):
Singh, S., C. Kemerer, N. Ramasubbu. Dominant Design in Complex Assembled Digital Products: A Longitudinal Analysis of Television Components
Bhaskaran, S., S. Erzurumlu, K. Ramachandran. Sequential Product Development and Introduction by Cash-constrained Start-ups
van Angeren, J., A. Karunakaran. Impact of Platform Venture Capital Investments on the Introduction and Withdrawal of Complementary Products
2018
First Place:
Panos Markou, Stelios Kavadias and Nektarios Oraiopoulos. Project Selection and Success in the Drug Development Process
Second Place:
Ersin Korpeoglu, C. Gizem Korpeoglu and Isa Emin Hafalir. Contest among Contest Organizers
Finalists (tied in no particular order):
Tian Chan, Jurgen Mihm, Manuel Sosa. Revisiting the Role of Collaboration in Creating Breakthrough Inventions
Jiri Chod, Nikolaos Trichakis, Gerry Tsoukalas, Mark Weber. Blockchain and The Value of Operational Transparency for Supply Chain Finance
Morvarid Rahmani and Karthik Ramachandran. The Effect of Flexibility in Delegating Innovation