History

NOBEM dissertation of the year prize 2006

The sixth Annual NOBEM dissertation of the year prize was awarded on November 10^th 2008 at the PREBEM conference in Amersfoort. Out of 10 nominated dissertations from different Universities in the Netherlands, Dr.ir. Paul W.L. Vlaar’s dissertation “Making Sense of Formalization in Interorganization Relationships. Beyond Coordination and Control” has been selected as the best. He was awarded a cheque of € 1000,-.

NOBEM dissertation of the year prize 2005

The fifth Annual NOBEM dissertation of the year prize was awarded on March 13, 2007 at the Annual SOM PhD conference at the University of Groningen. With dr. Ben Kuipers’ dissertation, “Team development and Team Performance”, he was judged as the best of the seven dissertations nominated by different Universities in the Netherlands.

For the first time the €1,000 prize will be awarded to a PhD student at the faculty of Management and Organization of the University of Groningen. Congratulations dr. Ben Kuipers!

NOBEM dissertation of the year prize 2004

The prize has been awarded to Onno Truijens from Amsterdam University(UvA) with his dissertation “ Towards a Theory of Information Strategy - exploiting market opaqueness in search for infoRent”

The jury was impressed with the way Onno combined theory and practice. His dissertation is written about a challenging subject, the advantages of non-transparancy for companies in a time that transparency a high priority has (see the code Tabaksbladt). The dissertation is theoretically interesting, but in the excellent research the practice shows the advantages of price non-transparancy for companies that offer internet vacations. As stated by one of the jury members, Prof.dr. S.W.F. Omta, “I advise can advise everyone to read this dissertation”. The jury handed the prize out at the NOBEM Methodology day in Amersfoort on January 31, 2006.

NOBEM Dissertation of the year prize 2003.

The jury came with 2 winners for this year, the winners were Dr. Nicole Torka from the University of Twente and Dr. Ad de Jong from the University of Eindhoven (Ad De Jong promoted at the University of Maastricht and is now working at the University of Eindhoven).

The first prize winning thesis is: "Flexible but committed" of Nicole Torka of the University of Twente. This thesis impressed the jury, because of its daring hypotheses, and the fine intertwinement of a qualitative and a quantitative approach to the research problem. The second awarded thesis is: "One for All, All for the Customer" of Ad de Jong of the University of Maastricht. The jury was especially impressed by the very rigid methodological approach, and the high response rate, which is often difficult to achieve.

NOBEM Dissertation of the year prize 2002

Dr. Silvia Rosetto from the University of Amsterdam is the winner this year. The title of her research is 'Optimal strategic timing of financial decisions' and was highly judged. Her research took place at the University of Amsterdam under supervision of Professor Enrico Perotti. The prize was handed out at the NOBEM/IFSAM Event that took place on 18th September 2003.

NOBEM dissertation of the year prize 2001

Dr. Erica van Herpen is the winner of the first NOBEM dissertation of the year prize.

Her dissertation is titled "Perceptions and evaluations of Assortment Variety". The promotion took place at the University of Tilburg, promotor was Prof.dr. F.G.M. Pieters. The prize was handed out at the Prebem Conference: Networking: Explorations and Exploitations which took place on 25th November 2002.