The purpose of the MSR Dissertation Proposal Award program is to honour and assist doctoral candidates working in the domain of Management, Spirituality, and Religion (MSR) to develop quality dissertations that can integrate management with spirituality and/or religion, and also reflect novel and/or significant evidence-based theoretical and/or applied contributions to the field. As an emerging discipline of scholarship within the Academy of Management (AOM), MSR seeks to encourage quality doctoral dissertations as a springboard to ongoing contributory research and inquiry.
2022 Award Winners
Jeannel King - Saybrook University, Pasadena, CA
The intersectionality of creativity and spirituality (“creato-spiritual” or CS) dynamics with the agency of organizational change practitioners.
Anita Mendiratta - Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Relationship between CSiR (Corporate Social Irresponsibility), CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), and firm performance.
2021 Award Winners
Antony Froggett - Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK
What can be learnt from Quaker leaders? How Quakers’ experience of leadership contributes to the theory and practice of ‘post-heroic’ models of leadership
Stacey Guenther - Antioch University, Asheville, NC, US
A Phenomenological Inquiry into Group Beingness
Raysa Geaquinto Rocha - University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal
Knowledge Management and Organizational Wisdom: The mediating role of Organizational Spirituality
2020 Award Winners
Aditya Agrawal - India Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Organizational Healing
Naama Katan - University of Haifa, School of Management, Israel
Living and Working Together: Team Mindfulness Practice to Foster Interpersonal Well-Being, Trust, and Compassion
Chararinchon (Rin) Satian - The National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Thailand
Spirituality Embedded in Organization Development
2019 Award Winners
Sang-won Byun - Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota
Ethical Leadership Development: An Examination of the Effects of Spiritual Practices and Intercultural Sensitivity
Daehyeon Kim - Washington University in St. Louis
Religion and Emotional Labor: Are Religious Employees Liabilities or Assets?
Haitao Yu - Ivey Business School, Western University
Indigenous knowledge and sustainable development: A place-based perspective