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INTEREST CATEGORY: DOCTORAL STUDENTS
POSTING TYPE: Awards

Posted by: Christopher Newman

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2024 SMA DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMPETITION

SMA is proud to sponsor the Annual Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition to recognize the best of emerging scholarship in marketing. The requirements and submission criteria are offered below:

Best Proposal Award

• $250 cash with no restrictions on use
• Complimentary conference registration
• Recognition and plaque at awards ceremony
• Presentation of the proposal in an Annual Conference Special Session

Runner-up Proposal Award��

• $150 cash with no restrictions on use
• Complimentary conference registration
• Recognition and plaque at awards ceremony
• Presentation of the proposal in an Annual Conference Special Session

Submission Criteria and Procedures:

Eligible entrants are doctoral candidates who are in any stage of their dissertation phase. Thus, eligible students must have completed all their coursework but not yet defended their dissertation at the time of submission. The candidate’s dissertation advisor may be asked to submit a letter stating that he/she meets this criteria. Each entry should be in the form of a dissertation proposal that includes the nature of the problem to be researched, relevant theory, hypotheses to be tested, method, analysis, and indicative references. The proposal must focus on some aspect of marketing.

Documents must be formatted in MS Word, double-spaced, using Times New Roman 12-point font with 1 inch margins all around and must use the style of the Journal of Marketing. Proposals are limited to 15 pages, including title page (see below), an abstract of 150 words or less, all figures, tables, and references. The submission must be solo-authored by the doctoral candidate. Proposals not complying with all of these guidelines will not be eligible for review.

The winner(s) MUST��attend the Society for Marketing Advances��Annual Conference and present their research in order��to receive their award. Students that do not win are still strongly encouraged to present their paper in a special doctoral dissertation session(s) at the conference.

Authors should avoid identifying themselves, their advisor(s), or their university in the text. Please include the following info on a separate title page: title, author’s name, institutional affiliation, postal mail address, e-mail address, telephone number, and name of primary dissertation advisor.

Proposals are evaluated through blind reviews, and reviewer comments will be provided to the author.

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS JULY 1, 2024.

��How do I submit? Submit your paper (with the abstract included) electronically through the SMA submission system just as you normally would at . Make sure to select the “Dissertation Proposal Competition” track when submitting. Then separately email the paper and abstract to BOTH Christopher Newman at cnewman@bus.olemiss.edu AND Lou Pelton at LouE.Pelton@unt.edu.��Please write “SMA Proposal Competition” in the subject line.

For questions please contact Dr. Christopher Newman at cnewman@bus.olemiss.edu or Dr. Lou Pelton at LouE.Pelton@unt.edu.