Thesis Competition

 

EDAMBA DOCTORAL THESIS COMPETITION 2025

 

EDAMBA Thesis Competition 2025. 

 
 

    

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
  
The European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA) invites submissions for the EDAMBA Doctoral Thesis Award 2024

 

Prizes up to €2,500

Effective communication is a key skill for doctoral candidates in management and business administration. The EDAMBA Thesis Competition recognizes junior scholars who can demonstrate the importance and relevance of their research to a diverse audience with a 5,000 word summary of their doctoral thesis.

 

Who can apply?

Applications are invited from scholars who have successfully defended a doctoral thesis in the last academic year (1st September 2022– 31st August 2023) at an EDAMBA member institution.

 

Why was the EDAMBA Thesis Competition created?

The EDAMBA Thesis Competition was created because many doctoral students and graduates have to present their work to an audience who is not familiar with the theories or methods used. Yet the job market opportunities and career progression of doctoral students and graduates may depend on assessments or recommendations by academics from other fields.  In addition, funding and grant applications may also be assessed by experts from other disciplines - especially for inter-disciplinary research proposals – which is another reason why researchers need to be able to present their work to clearly and rigorously.

 

What are the criteria for success?

The EDAMBA Thesis Competition focuses on research in business and management. Candidates submit a 5,000 word summary of their doctoral thesis which is evaluated on its ability to present research clearly, rigorously and concisely to a diverse management research audience while answering the following questions:

·       What is the contribution of the work to its field?

·       How does the work contribute to understand and address important societal challenges?

·       How does the work contribute to understand and address important management challenges?

·       Is the methodology sound?

 

Key Dates

 

·       Submission opens: January 15, 2025

·       Submission closes: February 28, 2025

·       Decision: June 2025

·       Presentation and award ceremony: September 2, 2025

·       Publication: January 2026

 
 

Links

  • Call for Papers
  • Submission form
  • Guidelines
  • Submission link

 

 

Prizes

·       First prize: €2,500

·       Second prize: €1,500

·       Third prize: €750

·       Prizes also include a certificate and support for publication in the EDAMBA Online Journal.

 
 
 
 

Invitation to review the EDAMBA Thesis Competition 2025

 

EDAMBA will be recruiting a team of qualified scholars to review and select submissions to the Thesis Competition which satisfy the highest academic and scientific standards. We conduct a blind review process with two reviewers assigned to each paper. As a first step in the process, Thesis Competition Chair Daniel Havran would like to invite faculty from EDAMBA Member Institutions to register as a reviewer. 


If you are interested in participating in the review process, please send an email to info@edamba.eu indicating your affiliation, area of expertise and your title (Professor, Associate Professor ...).

EDAMBA will attribute public acknowledgments to the reviewers involved in the process. A list of reviewers with affiliation will be published in the online EDAMBA Journal. 

Expected timeline for reviewing as follows:
- Registration deadline March 1, 2025
- Allocation of papers April 1, 2025
- Deadline to submit reviews May 15, 2025

We would strongly appreciate your contribution to the enhancement of knowledge.

EDAMBA Doctoral Programmes Association
Thesis Competition Committee
Daniel Havran
Francois Collet
Jose Antonio Robles Flores
 

 

 

EDAMBA DOCTORAL THESIS COMPETITION 2024

Congratulations to winners - presented at EDAMBA Annual Meeting on September 2, 2024.

 
   

Hans Siggaard Jensen Memorial Prize awarded to the best paper:

Debajyoti Biswas (ESSEC, University College Dublin)

Four Essays in Healthcare Analytics, insurance Pricing and Home Services Optimisation


2nd Prize:

Miguel Morillas (Stockholm School of Economics, University of Copenhagen)

The terms of inclusion: how migrant professionals negotiate inclusion in organizations


 

3rd Prize (joint):

Laura Ilona Urrila (University of Vaasa)

Be(com)ing other-oriented: the value of mindfulness for leaders and leadership development

 
 

3rd Prize (joint):

Claudia Gomez (EGADE, Tecnologico de Monterrey)

Empowering women through femvertising

 
 

Thank you
 
Our thanks to the Committee and Team of Reviewers for their time and expertise in the important review process. 
 

1.Rima Al Hasan (University of Jordan)

2.Laurent Alfandari (Essec)

3.Sivakumar Alur (VIT University – Vellore institute of Technology)

4.Patrik Andersson (HHS Stockholm School of Economics)

5.Daniel Arenas (ESADE)

6.Pierre Batteau (Aix-Marseille University)

7.Helena Blažić (Faculty of Economics University of Rijeka)

8.Isabelle Bouty (Paris Dauphine University)

9.Jan Brinckmann (TU Berlin)

10.Francesca Cabiddu (University of Cagliari)

11.Denisa Ciderova (University of Economics Bratislava)

12.Sara Csillag (Budapest Business School)

13.Diego Cueto (ESAN Graduate School of Business)

14.Jose G. Dias (Lisbon University institute ISCTE)

15.Nicoletta Dimitrova (University of Greenwich)

16.Jasmina Dlacic (Faculty of Economics University of Rijeka)

17.Dorota Dobija (Kozminski University)

18.Gabriella Erdos (Corvinus University)

19.Kirsten Foss (Copenhagen Business School)

20.Andrea Gelei (Corvinus University)

21.Ana Maria Gomez-Trujillo (EAFIT University)

22.Sven A. Haugland (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)

23.Daniel Havran (Corvinus University)

24.Sandra Jankovic (Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, University of Rijeka)

25.Anne Jeny-Cazavan (IESEG)

26.Zsófia Kenesei (Corvinus University)

27.Tamara Keszey (Corvinus University)

28.Delphine Lacaze (Aix-Marseille University)

29.Katarina Lagerström (Uppsala University)

30.Sara Le Roux (Oxford Brookes Business School)

31.Miklós Losoncz (Budapest Business School)

32.Liisa Mäkelä (University of Vaasa)

33.Juliana Malagón (University of the andes)

34.Jane Mckenzie (Henley Business School at University of Reading)

35.Davide Nicolini (University of Warwick)

36.Martina Pocchiari (NUS Business School)

37.Henriett Primecz (Corvinus University)

38.Sarah Quinton (Oxford Brookes Business School)

39.Hatem Rjiba (Paris School of Business)

40.José Antonio Robles-Flores (ESAN University)

41.Janice Rudkowski (Ted Rogers School of Management)

42.Carolina Serrano Archimi (Aix-Marseille University)

43.Miha Skerlavaj (University of Ljubljana)

44.Viktória Szente (MATE institute of Agriculture and Food Economics Kaposvár Campus)

45.Roland Szilas (Corvinus University)

46.Enrique Ter Horst (University of the andes)

47.Costas Theodoridis (Manchester Metropolitan University)

48.John Parm Ulhøi (Aarhus University)

49.Szergej Vinogradov (Budapest Metropolitan University)

50.Rene Wiedner (Warwick Business School)

51.Vesna Zabkar (University of Ljubljana)

52.Ninghua Zhong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

53.Agnes Zsoka (Corvinus University)


 
Selection process 
  • 2 stage Review Process
  • First round of reviews with all submitted papers are checked to verify that all papers comply with the guidelines.
  • 40 submissions from 15 countries and 24 member schools
  • Blind review process with 2 reviewers are assigned to each paper
  • Short list of 12

Runners Up - congratulations to the short list

 

  • Demirci, Ozge (University of Warwick, Harvard Business School)
  • Den Outer, Birgit (Oxford Brookes University)
  • Harmat, Vanda (Budapest Business School)
  • Pletneva, Lidiia (ESSEC Business School)
  • Sadaric, Antonio (University of Ljublijana)
  • Schmuck, Alice (Uppsala University)
  • Sker, Irena (University of Rijeka)
  • Touaiti, Balsam (Aix-Marseille III / IAE Graduate Management School)

 

 
 
EDAMBA DOCTORAL THESIS COMPETITION 2023

 
Congratulations to winners - presented at EDAMBA Annual Meeting on September 5, 2023. 
 

1st Prize - Dr Martina P. (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Paper: “Managing Successful and Resilient Shared-interest Communities: The Role of Digitization Technologies and Disruptive Events”

2nd Prize - Dr Tatevik Harutyunyan, PhD (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH))
Paper: “Alignment Between Firms and Board Directors: Implications For New Ventures” 

3rd Prize - Dr Ana Maria Gomez-Trujillo (Universidad EAFIT) 
Paper: “The Interrelationship Between Internationalization and Sustainability: Analysis of an Emerging Market Multinational”
 
 
3 Winners posted on the EDAMBA Website and presented their research at the EDAMBA Annual Meeting on Tuesday September 5, 2023
 

 

 

 
  
 

The EDAMBA  Thesis Competition is designed to test Doctoral Students' ability to provide an overview of their Management Thesis in 5000 words (MT5000) to a community that comprises scholars management coming from different disciplines who use a variety of methods.


EDAMBA focuses on research in business and management and the following criteria:
  • What is the contribution of the work to their field? Does the work contribute to understand and address important social challenges? Does the work contribute to understand and address important management challenges?
  • Is the methodology sound?
  • Are they able to present your work clearly, rigorously and concisely to a diverse management research audience?
 
The Thesis Competition was first launched in 2003. It aims at distinguishing high-quality doctoral dissertations which have significantly contributed to new knowledge in all areas of business studies and management. The top-3 peer reviewed abstracts are given prizes and the short-list of selected abstracts is published in this EDAMBA journal. With this publication, we hope to contribute to the dissemination of distinguished doctoral dissertations from throughout our network in Europe and worldwide.
 
Contact the EDAMBA Executive Secretary for information about future Thesis Competitions.
 

EDAMBA aims to achieve its mission through three pillars of activity:
1. The Annual Meeting
2. The Summer Research Academy
3. The EDAMBA-EIASM Consortium of Doctoral Supervision

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EDAMBA engages in global collaboration across networks
1. European Code of Practice
2. EQUAL
3. AACSB

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