COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS AND PRACTITIONERS

The purpose of the Community of Scholars and Practitioners is to build a robust body of knowledge articulating a faith-based understanding of the purpose and practice of business.  This will be accomplished by gathering business scholars, practitioners and theologians interested in this goal and supporting research in this vein.  This work will inform the content disseminated via the channels, venues and constituencies of CIB.

CIB’s RESEARCH AGENDA

The scientific method entails developing new ideas and testing/refining them.  To that end CIB will support both theoretical and empirical (qualitative and quantitative) scholarship.  Involving practitioners will help to keep our scholarship “grounded,” relevant and accessible.

RESEARCH GRANTS: COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS

CIB-funded Research process:

• We invite proposals of up to $5K for course-relief and/or direct-costs associated with scholarship.

• Research can be either theoretical or empirical, but projects more closely aligned with CIB’s research agenda will be given priority. 

• There is no pre-determined limit on the number of projects to be funded; awards will be based upon evaluation of submittals and available funding.  If there are ten good proposals, we’ll consider funding them all.  If there is only one, we’ll only fund one.

• This invitation is open-ended.  It is a standing invitation of the CIB.

• Recipients of CIB research funding will be expected to document their results and present their findings at a subsequent Community of Scholars and Practitioners gathering and/or CIB event.

• Grant decisions will be made by the CIB scholarship-review committee, comprised of CIB Director, 1 CIB Executive Committee member, and 3-4 Community of Scholars members.