Dissertations and Theses in Business and Management

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Awards, grants, and prizes for doctoral proposals and dissertations in business-related areas are offered by many professional associations. Fellowships and grants offered by government agencies are listed at the bottom of this box.

Academy of International Business
• AIB/Sheth Dissertation Proposal Award
• Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award

Academy of Management
• Ralph Alexander Best Dissertation Award (Human Resources Division)
• Best Dissertation Award (Public and Nonprofit Sector Division)
• D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University Award for the Best Dissertation in International Management (International Management Division)
• Doctoral Consortium (Technology and Innovation Management Division)
• Heizer Doctoral Dissertation Award in New Enterprise Development
• NFIB Doctoral Dissertation Award in Entrepreneurship and Independent Business
• Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award (Organization and Management Theory Division)
• SIM Best Dissertation Award (Social Issues in Management Division)

American Accounting Association
• AAA Section Awards including:
  • ATA/PricewaterhouseCoopers Outstanding Tax Dissertation Award
  • Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Section Outstanding Dissertation Award
  • Auditing Section Outstanding Auditing Dissertation Award
  • Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Dissertation Award
  • Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section KPMG Outstanding Dissertation Award
  • Information Systems Section Outstanding Dissertation Award
  • Management Accounting Dissertation Competition
  • Outstanding International Accounting Dissertation Award

American Marketing Association
• Doctoral Dissertation Award (Selling and Sales Management Special Interest Group)
• Liam Glynn Research Scholarship Award (Services Special Interest Group)
• John A. Howard/AMA Doctoral Dissertation Award (American Marketing Association Foundation)
• Valuing Diversity Ph.D. Scholarships (American Marketing Association Foundation)

Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Check both INFORMS Prizes & Awards
• and INFORMS Community Prizes and Awards

Other organizations:
• ACR/Sheth Foundation Dissertation Grant (Association for Consumer Research)
• AICPA Fellowship for Minority Doctoral Students (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)
• ATD Dissertation Award (Association for Talent Development)
• American Fellowships (American Association of University Women)
• Awards in business education (Delta Pi Epsilon)
• Michael J. Barrett Doctoral Dissertation Grant (Institute of Internal Auditors)
• Business Marketing Doctoral Support Award (Institute for the Study of Business Markets, Penn State University)
• Clayton Dissertation Proposal Competition (Marketing Science Institute)
• Deloitte Doctoral Fellowships (Deloitte Foundation)
• Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad (Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange)
• Dissertation Proposal Competition (Society for Consumer Psychology)
• Doctoral Awards Competition (Institute for the Study of Business Markets, Penn State University)
• Doctoral Colloquia (Business History Conference)
• Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition (Society for Marketing Advances)
• Fellowship Awards (Spencer Foundation)
• Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs (National Research Council of the National Academies)
• Fordham University Pricing Center Doctoral Dissertation Competition
• Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
• Gunnar Hedlund Award (Stockholm School of Economics and European International Business Academy)
• C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
• International Dissertation Research Fellowships (Social Science Research Council)
• ISA Dissertation Award (Industry Studies Association)
• ISM Dissertation Research Grant Program (Institute for Supply Management)
• Juran Research Center Fellowships (Juran Center for Research in Supply Chain, Operations, and Quality, University of Minnesota)
• K C Mahindra Trust Scholarships
• KPMG Foundation Minority Accounting Doctoral Scholarships
• Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program (Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation)
• Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History (Business History Conference)
• Marketing Dissertation Award (EMAC and McKinsey & Company)
• Dr. Hope Richardson Memorial Dissertation Award (International Mentoring Association)
• Schoenfeld Scholarship in Accounting History (Academy of Accounting Historians)
• Shankar-Spiegel Award for the Best Dissertation Proposal in Direct/Interactive Marketing (Marketing EDGE, formerly the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation)
• W. E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award on employment-related issues
• Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics (American Statistical Association)

The National Science Foundation provides some Specialized Information for Graduate Students in terms of funding and research opportunities. Specific program areas include:

• DRMS Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program)
• Economics Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
• Law & Social Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
• Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

Some individual government agencies also offer financial assistance for graduate studies e.g.

• CES Dissertation Mentorship Program and Census Bureau Dissertation Fellowship (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
• Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration)
• National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship (NNF) Grants Program (U.S. Department of Agriculture)