College of Business Administration

• Tarleton University Organized Research (ORG) Grants
  Objectives: develop the university's research efforts, improve its research accomplishments, and enhance the university's and faculty's visibility within the academic community. Funding is from September 1 through August 31 of the next year.
  2008 Application Deadline: not yet announced. Deadline usually is mid-July.
  
  
• NSF - Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)
  Funding Opportunity Number: 98-1321
  DRMS supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations and society. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and workshops are funded in areas of judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design. The program also supports small grants for exploratory research of a time-critical or high-risk, potentially transformative nature. Funded research must be relevant to an operational or applied context, grounded in theory, and generalizable.
  Application Deadlines: January 18, 2008 and August 18, 2008.
  
  
• NSF - Innovation and Organizational Sciences (IOS)
  Funding Opportunity Number: NSF 06-610                                         CFDA Number: 47.075
  IOC supports scientific research directed at advancing understanding of innovation and organizational phenomena. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups and/or institutional arrangements. Research may involve industrial, educational, service, government, not-for-profits, voluntary organizations or interorganizational arrangements. IOC-supported research should ordinarily combine theory with empirical validation. IOC research might draw on theories and findings from fields including, but not limited to, organization theory, organizational behavior, industrial engineering, industrial/organizational psychology, organizational sociology, risk management, public administration, computer science, information science, and management science. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including but not limited to archival analyses, surveys, simulation studies, comparative case studies, and network analyses.
  Application Deadline: February 2 annually
  
  
• Department of Health & Human Services - Retirement Economics (R03)
  Areas of research interest: (1) Determinants of retirement behavior including financial factors, mental and physical health, cognition, functional disability, family circumstances and dynamics, job quality, employer accommodation. (2) Variation in work patterns in later life including phased retirement, part-time work at older ages, changes in job settings or responsibilities, late life job displacement. (3) Evolution of individuals' health and economic circumstances including major life events and financial risks. (4) Time use and life satisfaction in retirement. (5) The implications of retirement trends such as the increasing number of years spent in retirement and the increasing concentration of retirees in the population. (5) Retirement expectations. (6) International comparisons of retirement. (7) Retirement modeling.
  Application Deadlines: February 16. June 16, October 16 (archive date April 1, 2009)
  
  
• NSF- Economics
  Funding Opportunity Number: NSF 98-1320
  The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. It supports research in almost every area of economics including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics and public finance. The Economics program welcomes proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, conferences, workshops, symposia, experimental research, data collection and dissemination, computer equipment and other instrumentation, and research experience for undergraduates. The program places a high priority on interdisciplinary research. Proposals from juniot faculty are encouraged.
  Application Deadlines: January 18 and August 18 yearly
  
  
• NSF - Operations Research (OR)
  CFDA Number: 47.041                                          Funding Opportunity Number: NSF PD-05-5514
  This program seeks to support research leading to fundamental advances in the science of models and algorithms arising in the study of operations of large scale systems. This program will support research in three main directions: optimization, simulation and stochastic models, and novel enterprise-wide models based on integrating OR methodology with advanced high-end computing. Overall emphasis of the program is on research that improves modeling and computational capabilities in OR. Proposals must also make the case for potential impact on relevant engineering, managerial and/or scientific applications.
  Application Deadlines: January 15 - February 15 and September 1 - October 1 annually