Purpose

The ABC Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation on Business Communication encourages excellence in graduate education. The award honors an outstanding doctoral dissertation or thesis in the area of business communication

The award recipient will be announced at the ABC annual international convention and will receive a plaque, a monetary award, and a one-year membership in the association. In addition, the recipient will be encouraged to submit an article based on the dissertation to one of the association’s journals: the Journal of Business Communication or Business Communication Quarterly.

Selection Criteria

• Contributes significantly to scholarship, research, and/or pedagogy of business communication
• Demonstrates originality of thought and careful investigation
• Uses an accepted research technique for business communication research
• Is successfully defended within the two calendar years preceding the annual convention at which the award is presented. For example, dissertations eligible for the 2011 award are those defended successfully in 2009, 2010, or up to June 15 of 2011.
  
  

Nomination Procedures

Nominations should consist of (1) a letter from a faculty member on the doctoral dissertation committee or from a degree-granting institution describing the dissertation and showing how it meets the award criteria and (2) the nominee's detailed curriculum vitae. Electronic submissions are preferred. If the full-text dissertation is not yet available on ProQuest, the nominator should also send an electronic copy, including the abstract or summary.

Send materials by June 15 to:

Daphne Jameson
daj2@cornell.edu

350 Statler Hall, Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14850

607-255-8372

Previous winners

2009: Elizabeth de Groot, Radboud University Nijmegen

"English Annual Report in Europe: A Study on the Identification and Reception for Genre Characteristics in Multimodal Annual Reports Originating in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom"

2008:   Linda Burak Gretton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"The Rhetorical Helix of the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries: Strategies of Transformation through Definition, Description, and Ingratiation"

2007:   Rebecca Pope Ruark   Iowa State University

"Challenging the Necessity of Organizational Community for Rhetorical Genre Use: Community and Genre in the Work of Integrated Marketing Communication Agency Writers"