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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">The Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chains – Africa (CARISCA) annual summit 2021 program team is
pleased to announce a call for papers for the award of a $500 award to the best PhD dissertation proposal and $250 award each to two finalists at the virtual
<b>CARISCA Supply Chain Summit July 21-22, 2021</b>. The summit is organized under CARISCA, a project and partnership between Arizona State University (ASU) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">The PhD dissertation competition session is intended to showcase the best logistics and supply chain management PhD
research projects being carried out in African higher education institutions. We invite submissions from doctoral researchers whose primary affiliation is from universities or higher education institutions in Africa and whose research is in logistics and supply
chain management.</span><span class="break-words"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="break-words"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Read more about the submission guidelines here:
<a href="https://research.wpcarey.asu.edu/carisca/summit/dissertation-competition/">
https://research.wpcarey.asu.edu/carisca/summit/dissertation-competition/</a><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="break-words"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">For further questions about the PhD dissertation award session, please contact the session chair Prof. Erik Hofmann (<a href="mailto:erik.hofmann@unisg.ch">erik.hofmann@unisg.ch</a>)
or any member of the Dissertation Competition Committee listed below.<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<li><span class="break-words"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Prof. Godfrey Mugurusi (<a href="mailto:godfrey.mugurusi@ntnu.no">godfrey.mugurusi@ntnu.no</a>)<o:p> </o:p></span></span></li><li><span class="break-words"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:NO-NYN" lang="NO-NYN">Prof. Obinna Muogboh (<a href="mailto:omuogboh@lbs.edu.ng">omuogboh@lbs.edu.ng</a>)<o:p> </o:p></span></span></li><li><span class="break-words"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Prof. David Asamoah (<a href="mailto:dasamoah.ksb@knust.edu">dasamoah.ksb@knust.edu</a>).<o:p> </o:p></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Thank you,<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Godfrey Mugurusi<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Associate professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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