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Key theme: Cultural Change in Organisations Type: Concept development & research
Goal:
The competition will help draw attention to our initiative and help to grow the body of knowledge essential to the development of Globally Responsible Leadership.
1. Generate 20 submissions in the first year.
2. Fund and provide research site for first project
Description:
Dissertation Proposal Competition
The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), is hosting a dissertation proposal competition. The objective of the competition is to recognize and award Ph.D. candidates whose research will further our understanding of the Globally Responsible Leadership by individuals or firms. Candidates in all business disciplines—including accounting, finance, management and marketing—as well as other disciplines that speak to business issues, such as social psychology and sociology, are invited to submit proposals. The range of topics to be considered is broad, including but not limited to: relationships between corporate social responsibility and firm profitability, measures of globally responsible conduct, the connection between social responsiveness and corporate structure, ethical leadership, mainstreaming ethics and social responsibility within the firm, the international dimensions of ethics, the characteristics of leaders who have initiated globally responsible projects, privacy issues within the information systems sector, environmental policies or actions, empowerment of labour, reward systems which integrate metrics for global social responsibility, engagement of key stakeholders, the power of institutions to influence business conduct, management of conflicts of interests between home country and country of operations, the critical examination of the definition, role and responsibility of business, or the development of theories which address business and society issues.
Proposals will be blind reviewed by a panel consisting of both academics and business practitioners and judged on the contribution that they make to the understanding and practice of issues associated with global responsibility and leadership in business as well as on their scholarly, theoretical and methodological rigor. Winners will be provided assistance in finding research sites for data collection among our member firms, given a research stipend of $xxxxx, and provided funding to attend one of the two bi-annual meetings of the GRLI.
Submission Guidelines:
- All Ph.D. candidates who have defended (or are close to defending) their dissertation proposal by September 1 of the calendar year are eligible to apply.
- Ph.D. candidates of all business disciplines (accounting, finance, management, and marketing) as well as other disciplines that speak to business issues, such as social psychology and sociology, are eligible to apply.
- Proposals must be submitted by September 30th.
- A 12 page summary of the proposal is to be submitted. Five additional pages of references and exhibits may be appended. Proposals are to be written double spaced, in 12 point font using 1 or 2.5 cm margins.
- Proposals should be accompanied by an application form, available at http://www.xxxxxx
Proposals should be sent to Peggy Cunningham, Marie Shantz Teaching Associate Professor of Marketing, Queen's School of Business, Goodes Hall, 143 Union Street, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Champion:
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Co-conspirators:
Excellence in Social Responsible and Globally Responsible Leadership:
Deliverables with time frame:
Start date: 2007
Finish date: Re-evaluated in 2009 |
