Submit your application at latest 19 January 2021, 2:00 pm, Belgian Time.

In order to submit a formally valid application, provide the following four documents in pdf-format:  

1. Your CV.
2. A Letter of Motivation
3. A letter of recommendation written on the stationery paper officially used by your university and signed by your main supervisor (including all contact info) (Max 2 pages).
4. A single authored text (= written by yourself only) on maximum 25 pages named EURAM_DC_2021_[YOUR LAST NAME]_[YOUR FIRST NAME]_TEXT-TYPE_4x. The text should neither be published nor submitted for publication in any form. The text cannot in any version or variant also be submitted to EURAM 2021 Main Conference. [NOTE]

[NOTE] Further detail instructions: 1) The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document. 2) The maximum length of the paper is 25 pages (including all tables, appendices and references). 3) Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, 1,5 space, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around. 4) Number all of the pages. 5) Check that all your submitted documents print correctly and ensure that the files are virus-free. 6) Only submissions in English done via the EURAM 2021 on-line website shall be considered for acceptance. 7) If experiencing technical problems when submitting, contact EURAM asap. 8) NO CHANGES in your text and accompanying documents can occur between submission deadline and registration/payment. 9) IF accepted and WHEN your Mentor starts to organise your group, an UPDATED version of THE VERY SAME MAIN TEXT YOU HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED UPON can be circulated within your group.

A picture of you (JPEG format) is also requested.

Dependent on the type of dissertation you are doing and on how far gone you are, you shall provide one of these three text-types:

a. A research proposal regardless of what kind of dissertation you are doing (mainly if you are not that far gone in your PhD process yet).

b. A summary of your conventional monograph dissertation.

c. A summary of each paper done/planned in your compilation dissertation + a summary of your compilation dissertation as a whole.

Regardless if you choose text-type 4a, 4b or 4c, your text must include the following elements and sections:

• What text-type you are submitting (either 4a, 4b or 4c, see above)
• Particular questions/issues that you are encountering on which you would like to get feedback/ advice at the Doctoral Colloquium.
• Short abstract (max. 300 words)
• Up to 6 keywords
• The following outline/headlines of your main text:
  • Introduction (including research gap and associated research questions)
  • Relevance of your dissertation; theoretically, empirically, practically
  • Theoretical framework/Key literature you are building on
  • Methodological approach/es and method/s used
  • Empirical findings (if you write a research proposal, please present expected/intended empirical findings)
  • Discussion and conclusions (not applicable for text-type 4a)
  • (Potential) contributions of your study (theoretical, methodological, practical)
  • References
• Choose one topic area from the list below that best matches the positioning of your PhD dissertation (these topic areas are identical with the SIGs of EURAM, except for the last one ‘General Management’, which is no SIG in EURAM):
  • Business for Society
  • Corporate Governance
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Family Business Research
  • Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations
  • Innovation
  • International Management
  • Managing Sport
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Project Organising
  • Public Management and Non-Profit Management
  • Research Methods and Research Practice
  • Strategic Management
  • General Management (If you work in an area not covered by any of the 13 EURAM SIGs above).