Congratulations to our Publication Award Recipients! |
Each year during the Annual Meeting, the Academy of Management recognizes authors of journal articles that were published in the previous year in each of the Academy's six journals. The selection process for the award committee for each journal is determined by the individual journal. In general, articles selected:
- Advance the mission of the individual publication;
- Bring forth core ideas that are original, important, and provocative;
- Have a clear and important contribution to the field of management
Editors create a separate advisory committee to determine and select the article(s) from the prior year as the "Best Article." Other years' awards have been archived here.
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Academy of Management Discoveries |
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AMD Best Article Award Committee: Mary Waller (chair), Paul Adler, and Adam Grant
The mission of Academy of Management Discoveries is to publish phenomenon-driven empirical research that theories of management and organizations neither adequately predict nor explain. Data on these poorly-understood phenomena can come from any source, including ethnographic observations, lab and field experiments, field surveys, meta-analyses, construct validation research, and replication studies. AMD welcomes exploratory research at the pre-theory stage of knowledge development, where it is premature to specify hypotheses, and which generates surprising findings likely to stimulate and guide further exploration and analysis. This research must be grounded in rigorous state-of-the-art methods, present strong and persuasive evidence, and offer interesting and important implications for management theory and practice.
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BEST ARTICLE |
"Organizing Refugee Camps: 'Respected Space' and 'Listening Posts' " |
Marlen de la Chaux University of Cambridge |
Helen Haugh University of Cambridge |
Royston Greenwood University of Alberta |
Finalists for AMD's Best Article Award |
"Is the Public Sector a Fairer Employer? Ethnic Employment Discrimination in the Public and Private Sectors" |
Anders R. Villadsen Aarhus University |
Jesper N. Wulff Aarhus University |
"How Observers Assess Women Who Cry in Professional Work Contexts" |
Kimberly D. Elsbach University of California - Davis |
Beth A. Bechky New York University |
Academy of Management Journal |
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AMJ Best Article Award Committee: Marc Gruber (chair), Reddi Kotha, Oliver Alexy, Wendy Smith, Riki Takeuchi, Michael Frese, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Keith Hmieleski, Brent Scott, Zeki Simsek, John Dencker, and Katherine DeCelles
The mission of the Academy of Management Journal is to publish empirical research that tests, extends, or builds management theory and contributes to management practice. The AMJ Best Article Award embodies this mission by recognizing outstanding articles that make strong empirical and theoretical contributions and highlight the significance of those contributions to the management field.
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BEST ARTICLE |
"We Ask Men to Win and Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding" Note: This article was accepted for publication during the term of AMJ’s previous Editor-in-Chief, Gerard George. |
Dana Kanze Columbia University |
Laura Huang Harvard University |
Mark A. Conley Columbia University |
E. Tory Higgins Columbia University |
Finalists for AMJ's Best Article Award |
"When the Dust Settles: The Consequences of Scandals for Organizational Competition" |
Alessandro Piazza Columbia University |
Julien Jourdan Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University |
"Disasters and Community Resilience: Spanish Flu and the Formation of Retail Cooperatives in Norway" |
Hayagreeva Rao Stanford University |
Henrich R. Greve INSEAD |
Academy of Management Learning & Education |
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AMLE Best Article Award Committee: Danna Greenberg, Megan Gerhardt, Damian O’Doherty
The mission of the Academy of Management Learning & Education journal is to advance the knowledge and practice of management learning and education by publishing theoretical models and reviews, qualitative and quantitative research, critiques, exchanges and retrospectives on any substantive topic that is conceived with, and draws implications for, how managers learn and the educational process and context.
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DECADE AWARD |
"When Knowledge Wins: Transcending the Sense and Nonsense of Academic Rankings" |
Nancy J. Adler McGill University |
Ann-Wil Harzing Middlesex University |
BEST ARTICLE |
" 'Why’d You Wanna Study That?' A Process Model of the Under-Legitimation of a Research Topic" |
Sophie Jané Case Western Reserve University |
Chantal Van Esch California State Polytechnic, Pomona |
Diana Bilimoria Case Western Reserve University |
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Finalists for AMLE's Best Article Award |
"Pushed beyond my comfort zone: MBA student experiences of conducting qualitative research" |
Catherine Cassell University of Birmingham |
"Can early-career scholars conduct impactful research? Playing 'small ball' versus 'swinging for the fences' " |
Philip M. Podsakoff University of Florida, Gainesville |
Nathan P. Podsakoff University of Arizona, Tucson |
Paresh Mishra Indiana University and Purdue University, Fort Wayne |
Carly Escue University of Florida, Gainesville |
Academy of Management Perspectives |
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AMP Best Article Award Committee: Hugh O’Neill (chair), Debra Shapiro, and Janet Marler
The mission of the Academy of Management Perspectives journal is to provide accessible articles about important issues concerning management and business. Articles published in AMP translate research findings for a non-expert audience and rely on evidence based research to advance understanding of management issues that are relevant to a broad audience.
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DECADE AWARD |
"The Institution-Based View as a Third Leg for a Strategy Tripod" |
Mike W. Peng University of Texas at Dallas |
Sunny Li Sun University of Texas at Dallas |
Brian Pinkham University of Texas at Dallas |
Hao Chen University of Texas at Dallas |
BEST ARTICLE |
"Unicorns, Gazelles and Other Distractions on the Way to Understanding Real Entrepreneurship in the United States" |
Howard E. Aldrich University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Martin Ruef Duke University |
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Finalists for AMP's Best Article Award |
"Reflections on Scientific Misconduct in Management: Unfortunate Incidents or a Normative Crisis?" |
Benson Honig, editor McMaster University |
Joseph Lampel, editor University of Manchester |
"The Dynamics of Intuition and Analysis in Managerial and Organizational Decision Making" |
Gerard P. Hodgkinson University of Manchester |
Eugene Sadler-Smith University of Surrey |
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Academy of Management Review |
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AMR Best Article Award Committee: Sharon Alvarez (chair), Francisco Polidoro, Michelle Hammond, Eric Anicich, and Ryan Fehr
The mission of the Academy of Management Review journal is to publish new theoretical insights that advance the understanding of management and organizations. The AMR publishes novel, insightful and carefully crafted conceptual work that challenge conventional wisdom concerning all aspects of organizations and their roles in society.
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PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS AWARD |
Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search |
Allan Afuah University of Michigan |
Chris Tucci Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
DECADE AWARD |
"Organizational Path Dependence: Opening the Black Box" |
Joerg Sydow Freie Universität Berlin |
Georg Schreyoegg Freie Universität Berlin |
Jochen Koch European University Viadrina |
BEST ARTICLE |
"Lay Theories of Networking: How Laypeople’s Beliefs About Networks Affect Their Attitudes Toward and Engagement in Instrumental Networking" |
Ko Kuwabara INSEAD Singapore |
Claudius A. Hildebrand Boston Consulting Group |
Xi Zou Nanyang Technological University |
Finalists for AMR's Best Article Award |
"Hidden in Plain Sight: The Importance of Scale in Organizations’ Attention to Issues" |
Pratima Bansal Western University |
Anna Kim HEC Montreal |
Michael O. Wood University of Waterloo |
"The Geography of Strain: Organizational Resilience as a Function of Intergroup Relations" |
William A. Kahn Boston University |
Michelle A. Barton Boston University |
Colin M. Fisher University College London |
Emily D. Heaphy University of Rhode Island |
Erin M. Reid McMaster University |
Elizabeth D. Rouse Boston University |
"The Network Architecture of Human Capital: A Relational Identity Perspective" |
Jessica R. Methot Rutgers University |
Emily H. Rosado-Solomon Rutgers University |
David G. Allen Texas Christian University and University of Warwick |
Academy of Management Annals |
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Annals Best Article Award Committee: Kathleen Sutcliffe, James Westphal, Miriam Erez, and Alan Meyer
The mission of the Academy of Management Annals is to provide up-to-date, in-depth examinations of the latest advances in various management fields. Each yearly volume features critical and potentially provocative research reviews written by leading scholars exploring an assortment of research topics. Annals reviews summarize and/or challenge established assumptions and concepts, pinpoint problems and factual errors, inspire discussions, and illuminate possible avenues for further study. Research reviews published in the Annals are geared toward academic scholars in management and professionals in allied fields, such as sociology of organizations and organizational psychology.
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DECADE AWARD |
"How Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship" |
Julie Battilana Harvard Business School |
Bernard Leca Groupe ESC Rouen |
Eva Boxenbaum Copenhagen Business School |
BEST ARTICLE |
"A Matter of Life or Death: How Extreme Context Research Matters for Management and Organization Studies" |
Markus Hällgren UMEA University |
Linda Rouleau HEC Montreal |
Mark de Rond Cambridge University |