eBusiness Research Center Announces Competition Winners
The eBusiness Research Center at Penn State's Smeal College of Business has announced this year's winners of the Fifth Annual Doctoral Award Competition.
eBusiness Research Center Announces Competition Winners
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (November 28, 2005) – The eBusiness Research Center at Penn State's Smeal College of Business has announced this year's winners of the Fifth Annual Doctoral Award Competition.
The Outstanding Winner for 2005 is Dongwon Lee of the University of Minnesota for his proposal, "Understanding Price Rigidity in Internet-Based Selling: A Massive Quasi-Experimental Data Mining Approach."
Two Additional Winners were also awarded prizes. Smeal Ph.D. student Janine Spears won for her proposal, "User Participation in Identifying Information Security Risk: An Empirical Study," and Zhongming Ma of the University of Utah for his "Interest-Based Personalized Search" proposal.
The winning proposals were selected from about 30 submissions from doctoral students at universities in the United States and Europe. More than 60 leading scholars participated in the evaluation process.
The Outstanding Winner receives $10,000 to fund expenses connected with his research and the Additional Winners receive $7,500 each. Previous winners of the doctoral award competition have gone on to careers at the world's most prestigious universities.
Smeal established the eBusiness Research Center to guide businesses seeking to understand and stretch the impact and potential applications of electronic commerce. The center, which counts IBM, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, Xerox, and Cingular among its sponsors, is home to a network of researchers from universities around the world, as well as consultants, hardware and software suppliers, and other enablers of e-business. The eBRC has also developed knowledge partnerships around the deployment of information throughout service businesses.
The eBusiness Research Center started the Doctoral Award Competition to identify and support the best doctoral dissertations in the e-business area. It is supported by SAP AG. For more information on the competition, please visit www.ebrc.psu.edu/award.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
