EIBA Fellows Award to a Promising Young Researcher - 2008-09
sponsored by the Wandel & Goltermann Foundation
The EIBA Fellows were established by the European International Business Academy (EIBA) Annual Meeting in Paris in December 2001. Fellowships recognize outstanding achievements in research and education in the field of international business, and the number of Fellows is restricted to no more than 20. The EIBA Fellows consist of a group of senior scholars that represent, between them, a distinctively European contribution to thinking in the field of international business studies. The Fellows are engaged in a number of initiatives in support of EIBA and its objectives.
The EIBA Fellows are pleased to announce the second EIBA Fellows Research Award for a Promising Young Scholar in International Business. The first Award was made in 2005, for the academic year 2005-06. The winner of the Young Scholar's award will receive Euros 15,000. The purpose of this award is to help to broaden the research programme of promising younger scholars in the international business field, to widen their network of research contacts and open a new research collaboration for them at an early stage of their academic careers, and to enhance the formation of international research exchange arrangements amongst international business scholars. The award is given for the conduct of some specified piece of original research in a new host institution, and not for the completion of any coursework requirements. Currently registered doctoral students who are working on an international business topic, or those that have successfully defended such theses within the last three years (since March 2005), are eligible to apply. The award represents a contribution towards the living expenses of the recipient, and is to be paid directly to the awardee.
Applications should be made by doctoral or recent post-doctoral candidates themselves, but they should be supported by a proposed supervisor (in the doctoral case) or local coordinator (in the post-doctoral case) of the intended research that holds a faculty appointment in a host institution that is located outside the country of the home institution with which the candidate is currently affiliated. The host institution cannot be the university at which the candidate is or was registered for a PhD. The host institution should further list the names of all its existing faculty that are likely to be involved in supporting the project locally. The host institution also needs to supply an assurance that they support the application, and if successful, that they will provide the necessary office, computing and library facilities to the candidate to enable the proposed research project to proceed, and the funding of any other such additional project-related support that they (the host institution) deem to be necessary. The supervisor/local coordinator will be responsible for ensuring that all the local research facilities listed are provided, and encouraging a positive interaction between the awardee and local faculty. Currently registered doctoral students should also have the support of their own PhD supervisor on behalf of the home institution at which they are registered for a PhD. Projects should be of up to one year's duration, for a period to be specified and to run during the academic year 2008-09 (or as close to that year as is feasible). The successful candidate will be expected to make reference to the support of the award in all publications that directly result from the visiting year abroad.
Candidates are asked to submit a research proposal on a form that will be provided upon request, which includes the outline of a project that can be reasonably undertaken within a year. The outline of the proposed project should be contained in a maximum of 5 pages (not including bibliography), and must include the following sections: (i) specific aims; (ii) theoretical and empirical relevance (the body of literature to which the project most relates); (iii) methodology; (iv) hypotheses or expected findings; (v) significance for your longer term objectives, and plans for dissemination; (vi) advantages of the proposed collaboration and host institution for the conduct of this project; and (vii) bibliography. The evaluation process will include an assessment of the value and feasibility of the project itself, as well as the capabilities of the candidate, and the capacity of the supervisor/local coordinator and host institution to support the proposed research. Therefore, applicants need to work together with the proposed supervisor/local coordinator at this early stage to devise a project that will be a good fit from both sides. At the conclusion of the award, the recipient is required to provide the Fellows with a report of the progress made on the project, the key findings, an evaluation of the collaboration and an indication of any unanticipated difficulties that were encountered. Proposals will be considered by a committee of the EIBA Fellows that will be established for this purpose. The committee expects to reach its decision by 1st May 2008. Proposals should be sent by the deadline to the Dean of the EIBA Fellows, Professor Klaus Macharzina (kmach3@aol.com), from whom an application form can be obtained.
The closing date for applications is: 31st March 2008.
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