We are pleased to announce the winner of the SAMS Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016:
Doug Lepisto (Western Michigan University) for his dissertation ‘Reason For Being: Exploring the Emergence and Members’ Responses to Organizational Purpose in an Athletic Footwear and Apparel Company’.
Photo: Finalists Evelyn Micelotta, Doug Lepisto, and Isabella Krysa at EGOS 2016
We would also like to recognise the two other finalists:
Isabella Krysa (St Mary’s University) for her dissertation ‘The Construction of the ‘Immigrant’ in Canada’s Immigration Discourse – A Foucauldian Critical Discourse Analysis through Postcolonial Lense’
Evelyn Micelotta (University of New Mexico) for her dissertation ‘When Institutions Bend But Do Not Break: The Institutional Accommodation of Open Access in Scientific Publishing’
You can find further details about the award and a list of all of the previous winners and finalists here: http://www.socadms.org.uk/the-grigor-mcclelland-doctoral-dissertation-award/.
The call for applications for the 2017 award will open later this year.