9th Annual Young Scholar Research (YSR) Competition
at the 2025 OFR Symposium (co-located with Winter AMA)
13-14 February 2025
Phoenix, AZ
Deadline: 2 December 2024
Organizational Frontlines Research (OFR) is broadly defined as the study of interactions and interfaces at the point-of-contact between an organization and its customers that promote, facilitate, or enable value creation and exchange (Singh, Brady, Arnold and Brown 2017). Topics of OF interest span several fields of inquiry and disciplines of research. Past winners include CB, OB, retail, sales, service, and strategy scholars.
We welcome submissions from any field or discipline if it tackles issues of organizational frontlines.
Submissions
– Address any topic of frontlines interest, as broadly defined above.
– Are authored or co-authored by a Doctoral Student or Assistant Professor (< 3 years from graduation) – if co-authored, Young Scholar must be lead researcher.
– 15 pages (maximum, all-inclusive), double spaced detailing research questions & significance, theory & hypotheses, research design/methodology, (expected) results and references. Please include a separate title (author) page with your submission (does not count as part of the 15-page submission).
– Papers accepted for publication or at advanced stages of review (2nd, 3rd round, etc.) are not eligible.
– Multiple Awards, Cash prize, and Recognition from OF community.
– Finalists honored in a recognition ceremony involving invited, prominent OF scholars. Presentation date February 14, 2025.
– Access to OFR network to support research. Priority invitation to future OFR Symposia.
– Deadline for submission: December 2, 2024 with winners notified by mid-January, 2025.
Submissions sent via email to Todd Arnold at Oklahoma State University.
Symposium Co-Chairs: Colleen Harmeling and Clay Voorhees
Supported by…Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University ● Center for Services Leadership (ASU) ● Center for Sales Excellence at the University of Nebraska ● Dr. Persis E. Rockwood School of Marketing, Florida State University ● Center for Business Analytics, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia ● Reynolds & Reynolds Sales Leadership Institute, Texas A&M University ● Center for Sales and Service Excellence, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University
