ANNOUNCE: AMA EM SIG Invitation: Nominations for 2013 Gerald E. Hills Best Paper Award

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From: Omura, Glenn [mailto:Omura at bus.msu.edu]
Date: Thu 31 Jan 2013 17:05

AMA Entrepreneurial Marketing SIG invites nominations for The 2013 Gerald E. Hills Best Paper Award

Gerald (Gerry) E. Hills is widely recognized for his research and expertise in entrepreneurial marketing, especially for his work on opportunity recognition. In addition, Gerry initiated and continues to organize a symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship (www.marketing-entrepreneurship.org) since the eighties. In fact, Gerry was one of the AMA leaders who initiated the Special Interest Group concept. The Entrepreneurial Marketing SIG is pleased to continue to present a best paper award in recognition of Gerry's lifetime contributions to the field.

Award Criteria:
The Gerald E. Hills Award Best Paper on Entrepreneurial Marketing award is presented annually (usually during the Summer AMA) to the author(s) of the "best paper" who have made a significant impact on the marketing/entrepreneurship interface research. The domain of nominated articles would be papers published in the previous 10 years in any refereed publication.

Previous winners:
Inaugural 2009 award: Saras Sarasvathy (University of Virginia) for "Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency," Academy of Management Review, 2001, (2), 243-263.

2010: Helena Yli-Renko (University of Southern California), Erkko Autio (Imperial College), and Harry J. Sapienza (University of Minnesota) for "Social Capital, Knowledge Acquisition, and Knowledge Exploitation in Young Technology-Based Firms," Strategic Management Journal, 2001, (22), 587-613. 

2011: Ken Matsuno (Babson College), Tom Mentzer (University of Tennessee), and Aysegul Ozsomer (Koc University) for "The Effects of Entrepreneurial Proclivity and Market Orientation on Business Performance," Journal of Marketing, 2002, 66(3), 18-33.

2012: Michael H. Morris (Oklahoma State University), Minet Schindehutte (Syracuse University), and Raymond W. Laforge (University of Louisville) for "Entrepreneurial Marketing: A Construct for Integrating Emerging Entrepreneurship and Marketing Perspectives," Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, (2002), Fall, 1-18. 

Nomination Deadline:
Please email your nomination with a one-page statement of endorsement to Can Uslay (Hills Award Committee Chair; AMA EMSIG Vice-Chair for Research) by May 18, 2013. Self-nominations (for up to two articles) are also acceptable. E-mail: can.uslay at business.rutgers.edu

Glenn Omura
Immediate Past Chair
AMA EM SIG

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