2009 Dennis E. Grawoig Distinguished Service Award
Gary L. Ragatz, Michigan State University

The Distinguished Service Award, named in honor and in memory of Dennis E. Grawoig, the Institute's founder, first president, and first executive director, is awarded to a member who has provided major service to the Institute over a significant period of years.

2009 Fellow
Cliff T. Ragsdale, Virginia Tech

The designation of Fellow is awarded to active supporters of the Institute for outstanding contributions in the field of decision sciences.

2009 Instructional Innovation Award
The Integration of Real-World Student Projects into a MBA Program
Robert P. Sroufe (Duquesne University)

The Instructional Innovation Award seeks to recognize outstanding contributions that advance instructional approaches within the decision sciences. The focus of this award is innovation in college- or university-level teaching.

2009 Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Competition
Socially Responsible Practices in Operations & Supply Chains
Amrou Awaysheh, Instituto de Empresa - IE Business School
Dissertation Advisor and Degree-granting Institution: Robert D. Klassen, University of Western Ontario

Honorable Mention
Causes and Effects of Supply Chain Disruptions
Christoph Bode, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)
Dissertation Advisor and Degree-granting Institution: Stephan M. Wagner, WHU - Otto, Beisheim School of Management, Germany

The Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award encourages and promotes outstanding dissertation research by selecting and recognizing the best dissertations written in the past year in the decision sciences.

2009 Best Application Paper Award
Decision Model for the Application of Just In Sequence
Stephan M. Wagner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Victor Silveira Camargos, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

2009 Best Theoretical/Empirical Research Paper Award
Does Quality Still Pay: A Reexamination of the Relationship between Effective Quality Management and Firm Performance
Peter G. Zhang, Georgia State University
Yusen Xia, Georgia State University

2009 Best Interdisciplinary Research Paper Award
The Impact of Cyber Terrorism on Investment for Information System Security
Jian Hua, University of the District of Columbia
Sanjay Bapna, Morgan State University

2009 Best Student Paper Award
Aligning Sources of External Knowledge in New Product Development with Choice of Generic Strategy
Anil Akpinar, Instituto de Empresa, Spain

2009 Best Case Studies Competition Award
Netflix.com: You've Got Mail
Brandy S. Cannon, Berry College
Louis A. Le Blanc, Berry College

The Best Case Studies Award is presented to cases that are either methodological in nature (i.e., crafted to support the learning of a specific technical skill) or integrative (i.e., designed to foster the integration of scientific approaches and analyses with real-world decision making).

2009 Decision Sciences Best Article Award

Winner
Shared Services Transformation: Conceptualization and Valuation from the Perspective of Real Options (40(3))
Ning Su, New York University
Rama T. Akkiraju, IBM Almaden Research Center
Nitin Nayak, IBM Watson Research Center
Richard Goodwin, IBM Watson Research Center

Finalists
A Design Theory Approach to Building Strategic Net-based Customer Service Systems (40(3))
M. Kathryn Brohman, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Gabriele Piccoli, Universitá di Sassari, Sassari, Italy, Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France
Patrick Martin, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Farhana Zulkernine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
A. Parasuraman, University of Miami
Richard T. Watson, University of Georgia

Seeking Closure: Competition in Complementary Markets (40(4))
Kyle Cattani and Hans Sebastian Heese, Indiana University

The Decision of the Supply Chain Executive to Support or Impede Supply Chain Integration: A Multidisciplinary Behavioral Agency Perspective (40(4))
Verónica H. Villena, Instituto de Empresa Business School, Madrid
Luis R. Gomez-Mejia, Texas A&M University
Elena Revilla, Instituto de Empresa Business School, Madrid

2009 Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education Best Papers' Awards

Outstanding Empirical Research Articles

Winner
Enhancing knowledge transfer in classroom versus online settings: the interplay among instructor, student, content, and context
Louise Nemanich, Arizona State University
Michael Banks, University of Houston
Dusya Vera, University of Houston

Runner-ups
Investigating business schools' intentions about offering e-commerce education using an extended theory of planned behavior
Jean Baptiste K. Dodor, Jackson State University
Dharam S. Rana, Jackson State University

An Evaluation of Factors Regarding Students' Assessment of Faculty in a Business School
Richard L. Peterson, Montclair State University
Mark L. Berenson, Montclair State University
Ram B. Misra, Montclair State University
David J. Radosevich, Montclair State University

Outstanding Teaching Briefs
An entrepreneurial approach of a geographic information system
Barbara K. Fuller, Winthrop University
David A. Bradbard, Winthrop University

The Art of War: Managing the Intricacies of Supply Chain Power and Trust
Stanley E. Fawcett, Brigham Young University
J. Bonner Ritchie
Cynthia Wallin
Scott C. Webb