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EBHA Dissertation Prize 2027, call for submissions
During the 27th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association (August 26-28, 2027, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany), the EBHA will award a prize for the best dissertation in business history submitted to a European university between 30 January 2024 and 30 January 2027. The dissertation can be written in English or in another European language.
Three finalists will be selected from the dissertations submitted for consideration, and the authors will be required to give a presentation based on their dissertations at a plenary session at the EBHA congress in Berlin. All three finalists will receive a certificate that they have been among the short-listed candidates and will be eligible for reimbursement of part of their travel costs. All three will also be eligible for a waiver of their registration fees for the conference. In addition, the prize winner will receive EUR 500 and a special certificate. The finalists are invited to publish their presentations in the EBHA Newsletter.
Members of the 2027 EBHA Dissertation Prize Committee:
Pierre-Yves Donzé (chair), The University of Osaka, Japan
Grace Ballor, Bocconi University, Italy
Rafael Castro, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Valentina Fava, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
The dissertation prize committee's decision is final, and it reserves the right not to award a prize in any given year.
Procedure for entry
All candidates wishing to enter the prize competition must meet the criteria indicated above and must attach a 1-2-page English summary of their dissertation to the application along with an electronic copy of the dissertation itself. If the thesis is not in English, the candidate should also submit an executive summary in English (up to 10 pages). The candidate must document that the thesis has been accepted. If possible, an assessment report from the PhD granting institution should be added to the application. Supervisors of candidates may also be invited by the candidate to write a 1-page recommendation outlining the strong points of the thesis. Recommendation and assessment reports are, however, optional, and absence of these documents will not count against the candidate in the competition.
The dissertation and accompanying documentation as specified above must be submitted by email to donze@econ.osaka-u.ac.jp
The deadline for application for the prize is January 30, 2027. Dissertations submitted after this date or submitted without a summary and a documentation of acceptance, will not be considered further.
For more information about the Dissertation prize (for example the prize committee’s evaluation criteria), we refer you to the EBHA website: https://www.ebha.org/events/prizes