Jay Horwitz Receives Prize at AOM Meeting in Boston
During the Academy of Management's Boston Meeting (August 3rd - 7th), the Best Dissertation Award of Technology & Innovation Management Division went to Jay Horwitz (Department of Management and Technology), for his doctoral dissertation Fighting Fires Together: Essays on Alliances Among Fire Departments, discussed at the end of his PhD at Rotman School of Management in Toronto.
"My dissertation", Horwitz explains, "examines the causes and consequences of using formal and/or informal structures for governing collaborations between separate organizations". "The study", he adds, "theorizes about and tests differences in the mechanisms for coordinating work supplied by these two modes in the context of alliances as a crisis response strategy - a circumstance with high demands for coordination. I exploit the transition from "handshake" agreements to a formal system of collaboration among fire departments in the period between 1999 and 2009 when this industry change occurred".
The process of selection took into account submissions based on doctoral dissertations completed during calendar years 2010 and 2011, from different disciplinary perspectives (management, economics, sociology, etc.) and relevant to the field of technology and innovation. The 10-member award committee was chaired by Kira Fabrizio (Boston University) and Sonali Shah (University of Washington).
Horwitz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Management and Technology of Università Bocconi, where he teaches Organization Theory and Applied Business Studies.