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."
Amanda Sharkey, Balázs Kovács and Greta Hsu
Expert Critics, Rankings, and Review Aggregators: The Changing Nature of Intermediation and the Rise of Markets with Multiple Intermedia
Sally Maitlis and Marlys K. Christianson
Sensemaking in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Jori Pascal Kalkman
Radical and Swift Adaptive Organizing in Response to Unexpected Events: Military Relief Operations after Hurricane Dorian
Elizabeth Lauren Campbell, Brandy Aven, and Rosalind M. Chow
From Exception to Exceptional: How Gender and Tenure Impact Sponsor Effectiveness
Floor van den Born, Ajay Mehra, and Martin Kilduff
Network Leadership and Team Creativity: An Exploratory Study of New York City Jazz Bands
Timothy G. Kundro and Nancy P. Rothbard
Does Power Protect Female Moral Objectors? How and When Moral Objectors’ Gender, Power, and Use of Organizational Frames Influence Perceived Self-Control and Experienced Retaliation
Yonghoon G. Lee, Christy Zhou Koval, and S. Susie Lee
The Glass Wall and the Gendered Evaluation of Role Expansion in Freelancing Careers
Arijit Chatterjee, Anjan Ghosh, and Bernard Leca
Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges
Johanna Mair, Ignasi Martí, and Marc J. Ventresca
Building Inclusive Markets in Rural Bangladesh: How Intermediaries Work Institutional Voids
Anna Kim, Pratima Bansal, and Helen Haugh
No Time Like the Present: How a Present Time Perspective Can Foster Sustainable Development
Trenton A. Williams and Dean A. Shepherd
Building Resilience or Providing Sustenance: Different Paths of Emergent Ventures in the Aftermath of the Haiti Earthquake
Todd Bridgman and Stephen Cummings
How Ideology Shapes What We Teach about Authority: A Comparative Analysis of the Presentation of Milgram’s Experiments in Textbooks
Herman Aguinis, Debra L. Shapiro, Elena P. Antonacopoulou, and Thomas G. Cummings
Scholarly Impact: A Pluralist Conceptualization
Sandra Pereira
Elizabeth Huppert and Emma Levine
The Rise of Dishonest Leaders: Causes and Solutions
David J. Teece
Big Tech and Strategic Management: How Management Scholars Can Inform Competition Policy
Debra Z. Basil, Suzan Burton, Alena Soboleva and Paul Nesbit
Coercive Citation: Understanding the Problem and Working Toward a Solution
David J. Teece
The Foundations of Enterprise Performance: Dynamic and Ordinary Capabilities in an (Economic) Theory of Firms
Sharon A. Alvarez and Sybille Sachs
Where Do Stakeholders Come From?
Roy Suddaby, Trevor Israelsen, J. Robert Mitchell, and Dominic S.K. Lim
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment
Robert Nason and Joel Bothello
Far from Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies
Marya L. Besharov and Wendy K. Smith
Multiple Institutional Logics in Organizations: Explaining Their Varied Nature and Implications
Greg Fisher