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Sheth Foundation Dissertation Award

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The ACR-Sheth Foundation Dissertation awards are intended for dissertations in the areas of public purpose or cross-cultural research. ACR’s Sheth Foundation liaison manages the process of soliciting nominations, reviewing the submissions, and determining the winners. Each winner receives a plaque and a financial award.

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Past Winners

2022 ACR/Sheth Foundation Dissertation Awards

2022

 Liang Shen University of Cincinnati
2022 Ghalia Shamayleh Concordia University
2022 Yeseul Kim University of South Florida
2022 Xiaohong Zhao Shanghai Jiaotong University

2021 ACR/Sheth Foundation Dissertation Awards

2021 Haiyue (Felix) Xu Penn State University
2021 Libby Chun Erasmus University Rotterdam
2021 Amanda Garrison University of Wyoming
2021 Jerry Grimes, Jr. Grenoble Ecole de Management
2021 Nurit Nobel Stockholm School of Economics

2020 ACR/Sheth Foundation Dissertation Awards

The ACR Public-Purpose Dissertation Award - Winners:
  • Yu Ding (Advisor: Gita Johar, Columbia University) “Increasing Trust in Science”
  • Jay Zenkić (Advisors: Kobe Millet, VU Amsterdam, and Nicole Mead, York University) “When Cash Costs You: The Pain of Holding”
  • Vivian (Jieru) Xie (Advisor: Rajesh Bagchi, Virginia Tech) "The Effect of Ownership on Consumers’ Disposition Decisions: Research on Food Wastage and Recycling Behaviors”
The ACR Public-Purpose Dissertation Award - Honorable Mentions:
  • Amy Errmann (Advisor: Yuri Seo, University of Auckland Business School) “Mindful Consumption: Exploring Operational Mechanisms from an Evolutionary Lens”
  • Helen van der Sluis (Advisor: Adriana Samper and Andrea Morales, Arizona State University) “Responses to Gender-Based Price Variation: Differences or Discrimination?”
  • Dallas Novakowski (Advisor: Mehdi Mourali, University of Calgary) “Examining the Determinants of Security Consumption”
  • Burcak Bas (Advisor: Joachim Vosgerau, Bocconi University) “Are People Averse to Experiments? Reconciliation of Opposing Findings"
The ACR Cross-Cultural Dissertation Award - Winners:
  • Xiaodong [Elva] Nie (Advisors: Narayanan Janakiraman, The University of Texas at Arlington, and Zhiyong Yang, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) ”How Global-Local Identity Affects Consumer Preference between Sharing and Purchase: The Role of Traveler-Settler Mindset”
The ACR Cross-Cultural Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention:
  • Hyeyoon Jung (Advisor: Peter Magnusson, University of Alabama) “Coping With Negative Emotions in Intercultural Service Encounters”
2018 Public-Purpose Track Yunqing Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “The Identified Donor Effect,” (Advisor – Leilei Gao) 2018 Public-Purpose Track Jessica Gamlin, Northwestern University, “Self-Sabotaging in Consumer Goal Pursuit,” (Advisor – Aparna Labroo) 2018 Cross-Cultural Track Tanvi Gupta, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, “Tightness for Control or Looseness for Autonomy? Using the Interplay of Cultural Values and Conceptual Metaphors in Logo Design,” (Advisor – Avinash Mulky)