Competition information

The Competition is open to research active academic staff currently employed in any of the eight business schools in New Zealand with a minimum appointment of 0.2 FTE. This includes Professional Teaching Fellows.

Register and submit your translated paper (750 words max.) aimed at a non-academic audience by no later than 5pm on 31 July 2023. The Preparation Guide below may be of help. The indicative maximum of 750 words includes text in tables, graphs, images, etc. Please remove any details of your translated paper that could reveal your identity as only anonymised entries will be presented to the judging panel.

Your selected journal article must have been published on or after 1 January 2020 and not yet have had extensive media exposure. If your journal article has more than one author, then please make sure that your co-author(s) is/are aware that you are entering the Competition.

A judging panel comprising business people and policymakers will review the submissions, focusing primarily on the entries’ appeal and usefulness to external stakeholders.

Entry papers submitted to the Competition will be assessed based on the following criteria:

1. The likely interest and value of the findings to the business/policy community: 60%
   - Does it address a significant issue? (20%)
   - How easily can a non-specialist understand the research? (20%)
   - How easily can the research be applied to add value to a business or policymaker community? (20%)
   
   
2. Quality of the non-academic writing (40%)

The following questions that might assist you in writing your brief paper are taken from the Harvard Business Review Guidelines for Contributors.

1. What is the central message of your article (the "aha")? What is important, useful, new, or counterintuitive about your idea? Why do practitioners need to know about it?
2. How can your idea be applied in business today (the "so what")?
3. For which kinds of companies/organisations would it work especially well? Why?
4. What research have you conducted to support the argument in your article?
5. On what previous work (either of your own or of others) does this idea build?

The winners of the Competition will be announced at the awards celebration on Friday 13 October 2023 in Auckland.

Research conducted by:

• Mid-Career Researcher (Lecturers, Senior Lecturers and Associate Professors who earned their PhD over eight years ago)
• Early Career Researcher (PhD earned no longer than eight years ago)
• Māori or Pacific Researcher
• Senior/Established Researcher

In each category the winner award is $1,500 and the
runner-up award is $750.