Interorganisational - Supply Chain Management

There are lots of awards for supply chain excellence for corporations - as well as for research. As for the latter, the University of Arkansas just announced its 2008 SCMRC doctoral dissertation award. Dissertation proposals of 15 pages (plus CVs of the applicant and her/his supervisor, and a letter of application) should be submitted by Aug 31 ( 2008 ) to Jim Crowell who also answers questions about the award.

However, there are other awards as well, practically every SCM-related professional organisation has its own award. Some are for dissertation proposals, but more commonly, awards are given for people who have recently finished their doctorate (PhD / DBA / DSc). Mind you, most awards have some regional restrictions; LOGY in Finland only giving awards for people who finished their PhD at a Finnish university etc. Still, here are some to watch out for or to inspire as to where one could find similar awards “at home”:

- One of the awards for young PhDs (anyone who defended their doctoral thesis in logistics / SCM since Jun 1, 2007) is CILT UK’s dissertation award for which applications are due on May 16.

- CSCMP’s dissertation award is usually open for applications by the end of February (past for 2008, but doctoral students should keep this in mind for 2009). Again, this is for young PhDs.

And, apart from these, there are always best paper awards at conferences (LRN, Nofoma, POMS… you name it). Nofoma even gives a special best paper award to doctoral students - BUT, only those qualify who wrote a paper alone and/or with other doctoral students. This is to ensure that it’s not the supervisor’s work

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