Giarratani Rising Star Award

The Industry Studies Association invites submissions for the annual Giarratani Rising Star award.This award includes a $1,000 honorarium for first prize and a $500 honorarium for the runner up. Papers not chosen as winners will still be considered for inclusion in the regular Industry Studies Association Annual Conference program. Paper submissions to any of the research streams are eligible for this award. Self-nominations are accepted. The submission deadline is January 16, 2026.

Eligibility

Junior scholars are invited to submit one paper to which they have made a significant contribution. The paper must have at least one co-author who is an early career scholar and must not have been accepted for publication at the time of submission. The junior scholar must not be more than six years from completion of their most recent Ph.D. A junior scholar cannot be on more than one submitted paper.

Submissions are evaluated on the following criteria:

  1. Significant personal investment in developing an understanding of the markets, firms and institutions of an industry or industries;
  2. Involvement of the integration of direct interaction and observation with appropriate theory and analysis.

Submission Process

To be considered for the award, each candidate must:

  1. Submit a conference paper proposal (click here). Submissions will be processed only through Microsoft's Academic Conference Management Toolkit (CMT), not your ISA account. Click here to create a new CMT account or login to your existing CMT account. 
  2. In your CMT submission form, upload an extended abstract, then scroll to the bottom of the form and select "Giarratani Rising Star Award" to be eligible.
  3. Register for the conference by early March and commit to attend.  

Failure to fulfill any of these steps will lead to disqualification. 

Submission deadline is January 16, 2026. 

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