Industry Studies
Gail M. Pesyna, Program Director
Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award
The Industry Studies Program is invites submissions for its Annual Dissertation Award competition. The goal of the prize is to reward outstanding doctoral research in the area of industry studies. Industry studies research demonstrates significant personal investment in developing an understanding of the markets, firms and institutions that characterize a particular industry. Generally this involves the integration of direct observation with appropriate theory and analysis. The award is accompanied by a $1500 honorarium for first prize and a $750 honorarium for second prize.
To be eligible for the competition, candidates must have completed a doctoral dissertation in economics, management, engineering, political science, or in a related or interdisciplinary field in the previous academic year.
2007 Industry Studies Dissertation Award
FIRST PRIZE: INGRID M. NEMBHARD
Health Policy and Management, Harvard University, March 2007“
Organizational Learning in Health Care: A Multi-Method Study of Quality Improvement Collaboratives”
Nominated by Professor Amy C. Edmondson, Harvard Business School
SECOND PRIZE: ALBERTO DI MININ
City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley, December 2006
“Internationalization of Research and Development: Evidence from the Semiconductor and Wireless Telecommunications Industries”
Nominated by Professor Stephen S. Cohen, University of California at Berkeley
2006 Industry Studies Dissertation Award
FIRST PRIZE: JAEGUL LEE
Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, September 2005
“Innovation in Automotive Emission Control Technologies: Government Actions, Sources of Innovation, and Innovation Strategies”
Nominated by Professor David Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon University
SECOND PRIZE: VIRGINIA DOELLGAST
Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, January 2006
“Negotiating Flexibility: The Politics of Call Center Restructuring in the US and Germany”
Nominated by Professor Rosemary Batt, Cornell University
2005 Industry Studies Dissertation Award
FIRST PRIZE: ARI GOELMAN
Urban and Regional Studies, MIT June 2005
"A Spatial Structuring Approach to IT Use and Workplace Change: What’s space got to do with it?”
Nominated by Professor Frank Levy, MIT
SECOND PRIZE: DAN BREZNITZ
Political Science, MIT, June 2005
“Innovation and the State: Development Strategies for High Technology Industries in a World of Fragmented Production: Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan”
Nominated by Professor Richard Lester, MIT
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