Objetive of the prize:

The companies and its environs have experienced unprecedented changes from the last half century. In fact, new forms of competition and cooperation, models and revolutionary business practices or changes in the design of organizations that have rethought their processes and information systems, are recurring themes in the most innovative business forums.

In parallel, these profound business changes have unleashed huge expectations in value creation, but also some concerns about the impacts that may occur in industrial sectors, firms and society.

Therefore, study and reflection are opened to a very varied range of issues of corporate policy, which may lead to the XXI century society toward dynamics of vicious or virtuous circle. For this reason, the Foundation finds the importance of fostering the discussion of these subjects and disseminating their findings.

Place and date to submitted the proposal:

The work will be submitted to the registered office of the everis foundation (Avenida Manoteras 52, 28050 Madrid, Spain), before 20.00 hours on June 1, 2010. In order to be accepted, manuscripts sent by post must carry a postmark before the competition closing date.

Works delivery must comprise two sealed envelopes: in both of them "Essay Prize everis foundation" must be clearly written as well as the title of the essay and the author´s pseudonym.

One the envelopes must contain the original essay and four copies bound or sewn:  only the title of the essay and the pseudonym must be written on the cover page of these four copies. Additionally, it must also be included an excerpt of the essay no longer than two pages.

 The other envelope should contain personal data of the author (name, address, phone, e-mail address and professional status) and a letter signed by the author or authors stating that the work is unpublished, has not been submitted to any other contest, that the rights have not been previously assigned and all involved accepted the rules of this competition. This second envelope must also contain a copy of the original in electronic form.

The competition is open to:

Participation is open to any nationality authors. The essay must be written in Spanish or English language. Participation can be individual or as a team.