A co-authored paper of Professor Rejie George Pallathitta, faculty from the strategy area at IIM Bangalore, has been selected as one of the six finalists of the Carolyn B Dexter Award. The finalists were announced earlier this month at the Academy of Management Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
The paper, co-authored with Alexander Eapen (Senior Lecturer & Deputy Director – Research, ANU College of Business & Economics) and Jihye Yeo (PhD candidate, ANU College of Business & Economics), is titled ‘Business group affiliation and FDI spillovers’, and was submitted to the business policy and strategy division.
Selection process
The Carolyn B Dexter Award is an all-academy award given to the paper that best meets the objective of internationalising the Academy of Management. This serves the mission of the academy and the charge of the International Theme Committee, which sponsors the award. Each of the academy’s divisions and interest groups nominate one annual meeting submission for the award, and up to three of these nominations may be selected to receive it.
Awardees are selected by an inclusive nomination process and dedicated award committees. Each paper is self-nominated through the academy’s abstract submission entry portal to the division or interest group of their choice. Each of the 25 divisions or interest group programme Chairs then nominates one paper to be considered by the respective award committee. From this pool, the award committees formally review and select recipients for the awards.
Well-learned
Pallathitta, who is also IIM-B Chair of Excellence, is currently the chairperson of IIM-B’s doctoral programme, the Fellow Programme in Management, and chairperson of IIM-B’s Centre for Corporate Governance & Citizenship, which aims to bring, under a single umbrella, research, teaching and policy support related activities of the faculty in the field of corporate governance, ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
He also teaches courses in strategic management and corporate governance for the MBA programme and Executive Education Programmes at IIM-B.