Awards and Recognition

Each year, the Academy of Management (AOM) presents awards to members in recognition of outstanding contributions, professional accomplishments, and distinguished service at AOM’s Annual Meeting. Awards are distinguished by the breadth and length of the work.

All-Academy Awards are presented at AOM’s Annual Meeting. Most recently, awards were presented for the most outstanding journal articles (see Publication Awards for more information), lifetime achievement and contributions to the field of management (see Career Achievement Awards below), the George R. Terry Book Award as well as Division and Interest Group Awards (see Annual Annual Awards below), and Best Paper and Community Awards (see Program Awards below).

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Award Descriptions

Career Achievement Awards and Honorees

Distinguished Educator Award

The Distinguished Educator Award is one of four lifetime career achievement awards presented at AOM’s Annual Meeting. Over the course of a career, the Distinguished Educator has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

Developing doctoral students
Teaching effectively
Fostering pedagogical innovations
Developing effective methods, structure, and designs

Distinguished Educator Award Committee

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Distinguished Service Award

The Distinguished Service Award is one of four lifetime career achievement awards presented at AOM Annual Meeting. Over the course of a career, the Distinguished Service Award recipient has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

Enhancing a field of study
Founding or creatively editing a scholarly journal
Unusually effective service to a major professional institution

Distinguished Service Award Committee

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Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award

The Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award is one of four lifetime career achievement awards presented at the AOM Annual Meeting. Over the course of a career, the Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award recipient has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

Successful application of theory or research in practice and/or contributed to knowledge through extraction of learning from practice
Authored scholarly works which have substantially affected the practice of management
Integration of research and practice
Their work will be respected by peers (both practitioner and academic)

Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award Committee

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Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management Award

The Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management Award is one of four lifetime career achievement awards presented at the AOM Annual Meeting. Over the course of a career, the Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management Award recipient has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

Conceptual, empirical, or theoretical developments
Create and disseminate new knowledge
Advance management knowledge and practice

Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management Award Committee

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Annual Awards and Honorees

Annual Meeting Program Awards and Honorees

Past Honorees

William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation

The William H. Newman Award is presented to the best Annual Meeting paper based on a recent dissertation. The recipient of this award:

Addresses a significant organizational phenomenon
Shows appropriate consideration of relevant theoretical and empirical literature
Offers reasonable interpretations of the research results, draws appropriate inferences about the theoretical and applied implications of the results, and suggests promising directions for future research
Yields information that is both practically and theoretically relevant and important
Presented logically, succinctly, and clearly

Division program committees select one submission each year to nominate for this prestigious award.

William H. Newman Award Committee

Carolyn Dexter Award for Best International Paper

The Carolyn Dexter Award is presented to the annual meeting paper that best meets the objective of internationalizing AOM. This award is now overseen by an award selection committee.

Papers are considered for this prestigious award if they offer new insights, are rich in observation and employ creative methodologies. Papers receiving this honor typically reflect collaboration between scholars from different countries, topics that are not in the U.S. mainstream, but are important in other countries' research traditions, and whose theme and content reflect an awareness of business and management outside of domestic boundaries.

Carolyn Dexter Award Committee

Presentation of Awards

All-Academy awards are presented at the following venues during AOM Annual Meeting.

All-Academy General Session

George R. Terry Book Award
Career Achievement Awards
Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award
Distinguished Educator
Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner
Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management
Distinguished Service

Dexter Reception

New Doctoral Students Consortium (NDSC) Reception

William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation

Journal Business Meetings

Publication Awards

Decade Awards
Academy of Management Annals Best Article Award
Academy of Management Discoveries Best Article Award
Academy of Management Journal Best Article Award
Academy of Management Learning & Education Best Article Award
Academy of Management Perspectives Best Article Award
Academy of Management Review Best Article Award

Community Awards

Journal Awards

In addition to the journal Best Article awards, AOM journals recognize outstanding service and scholarly achievements through various journal-specific award programs. These awards are typically presented at the annual business meeting of each journal.

Division, Interest Group, and Committee Awards

Each division or interest group has responsibility for administering its awards program. Awards at this level are often presented at the business meeting of the division or interest group, or another venue considered appropriate by the unit initiating the award.