Each year during the Annual Meeting, the Academy of Management recognizes authors and reviewers 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 and reviewers selected:
Editors create a separate advisory committee to determine and select the article(s) from the prior year as the "Best Article."
Best Article Finalists
Best Article Finalist
The Hidden Cost of Prayer: Religiosity and the Gender Wage Gap
Best Article Finalists
Orlando C. Richard, María del Carmen Triana and Mingxiang Li
The Effects of Racial Diversity Congruence between Upper Management and Lower Management on Firm Productivity
Janina Klein and John M. Amis
The Dynamics of Framing: Image, Emotion, and the European Migration Crisis
Keyvan Vakili and Anita M. McGahan
Health Care’s Grand Challenge: Stimulating Basic Science on Diseases that Primarily Afflict the Poor
Impact Award Finalists
Pratima Bansal and Kendall Roth
Why Companies Go Green: A Model of Ecological Responsiveness
Sandra L. Robinson and Rebecca J. Bennett
A Typology of Deviant Workplace Behaviors: A Multidimensional Scaling Study
Ghazal Zulfiqar and Ajnesh Prasad
Challenging Social Inequality in the Global South: Class, Privilege, and Consciousness-Raising Through Critical Management Education
Best Article Finalists
Power, Powerlessness, and Journal Ranking Lists: The Marginalization of Fields of Practice
Gernot Pruschak
Best Article Finalists
David McIntyre, Arati Srinivasan, Allan Afuah, Annabelle Gawer Tobias Kretschmer
Multisided Platforms as New Organizational Forms
Shad S. Morris, Sharon A. Alvarez, and Jay B. Barney
Dancing with the Stars: The Practical Value of Theory in Managing Star Employees
Best Article Finalists
Corporate Strategy and Network Change
Jens Mazei, Alfred Zerres and Joachim Hüffmeier
Masculinity at the Negotiation Table: A Theory of Men’s Negotiation Behaviors and Outcomes
Aparna Joshi, Donald C. Hambrick and Jiyeon KangThe Generativity Mindsets of Chief Executive Officers: A New Perspective on Succession Outcomes
Anthony C. Klotz and Mark C. Bolino
Bringing the Great Outdoors into the Workplace: The Energizing Effect of Biophilic Work Design
Paolo V. Leone, Saku Mantere and Samer Faraj
Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies
Santi Furnari, Donal Crilly, Vilmos F. Misangyi, Thomas Greckhamer, Peer C. Fiss and Ruth V. Aguilera
Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing
Jill E. Perry-Smith and Pier Vittorio Mannucci
From Creativity to Innovation: The Social Network Drivers of the Four Phases of the Idea Journey
Managerial Practice Award Finalists
Organizational Decline and Innovation: Turnarounds and Downward Spirals
Emilio Marti and Andreas George Scherer
Financial Regulation and Social Welfare: The Critical Contribution of Management Theory
Jonathan Bundy and Michael D. Pfarrer
A Burden of Responsibility: The Role of Social Approval at the Onset of a Crisis
Arijit Chatterjee and Timothy G. Pollock
Master of Puppets: How Narcissistic CEOs Construct Their Professional Worlds
Debra L. Shapiro, Peter Hom, Wei Shen and Rajshree Agarwal
How Do Leader Departures Affect Subordinates Organizational Attachment?