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2007 BPS DIVISION AWARD WINNERS
Glueck Best Paper Award
The 2007 winner of the of the Glueck Best Paper Award is Russell Coff and Richard Makadok (Emory University) for their paper titled: “Both Market and Hierarchy: A Multi-Tast Synergy Theory of Hybrid Organizational Forms.” The award is given annually in honor of the late William F. Glueck, and is funded through a memorial established by his former students. Glueck earned a Management Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1966. In 1979, he became the 35th president of the Academy of Management. During his career, he authored 20 books, as well as 175 articles, monographs, and cases. Respected by his peers and students alike, he was renowned for his intense drive to achieve and his close mentoring relationships with doctoral students. BPS Distinguished Paper Award
The BPS Division continued its tradition of recognizing the papers submitted to the Annual Meeting that were rated in the top 1 percent. The 2007 Distinguished Paper Award recipients were: Nick Argyres (Boston U.) and Lyda Bigelow (U. of Utah) for: Vertical Integration and the Industry Lifecycle: Evidence from the Early U.S. Auto Industry Harry Barkema and Mario Schijven (Tilburg U.) for: Towards Unlocking the Full Potential of Acquisitions: The Role of Organizational Restructuring Felipe Csaszar (Wharton, U. of Pennsylvania) for: An Efficient Frontier in Organization Design Dovev Lavie (Technion Israel Institute of Technology) for: Value Creation and Appropriation in Alliance Portfolios Tammy Madsen (Santa Clara U.) and Michael Leiblein (The Ohio State U.) for: Resource Stocks, Innovation & Persistent Heterogeneity Sumantra Ghoshal Research & Practice Award
The Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice award goes to a paper that advances research while deriving important implications for practice. The award honors the contributions to both research and practice made by Sumantra Ghoshal. This year’s winner is Gary Dushnitsky (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania) for: How Do Entrepreneurs Attract (High Valuation From) Outsiders? Robert J. Litschert Award
The 2007 Robert J. Litschert Best Paper by Doctoral Students Award was given to Olivier Chatain (INSEAD) for: Extracting Value from Client Relationships: Expertise and Cross-Selling in the UK Legal Market The award is given annually in honor of the late Robert Litschert. To be eligible, papers must be authored by students only. They cannot be co-authored by a non-student. Doctoral students should note their paper’s eligibility for the 2008 award during the submission process. BPS Distinguished Student Paper Award Winners
This year, the BPS continued its tradition of recognizing distinguished papers by doctoral students. The 2007 BPS Distinguished Student Paper Award Winners are: Benjamin Hallen (Stanford University) for: Origin of Network Positions Oliver Schilke (Stanford University) for: Organizational Routines as Alliance Capabilities: The Missing Link Alison Mackey Wins the Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award
The 2007 winner of the Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award was presented to Alison Mackey (Ph.D. The Ohio State University & Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University) for: Dynamics in Executive Labor Markets: CEO Effects, Executive-Firm Matching, Rent Sharing. This award is sponsored by Blackwell Publishing. The winner and six finalists presented their research at a special session designed to showcase cutting edge dissertation research. The 2007 finalists for the award were: Dries Faems (PhD Catholic U. Leuven) for: Collaboration for Innovation: Processes of Governance and Learning in R&D Alliances Jared Harris (PhD U. of Minnesota) for: Financial Misrepresentation: Antecedents & Performance Effects Robert Jensen (PhD Wharton, U. of Pennsylvania) for: Essays on the Replication of Organizational Routines: The Effect of Templates on Knowledge Transfer, the Mechanism Underlying Knowledge Transfer Methods, and Variation Through Replication Rekha Krishnan (PhD Tilburg U.) for: When is Trust Produced and When Does it Matter? Taking a Closer Look at Trust and International Alliance Performance Rajiv Nag (PhD The Pennsylvania State U.) for: From Common to Uncommon Knowledge: An Investigation into the Socio-Cognitive Foundations of Inter-Firm Heterogeneity in the Use of Knowledge as a Resource 2007 BPS Division Outstanding Reviewers
2007 BPS Expanded Consortia Opportunities
Doctoral students and faculty members alike participated in the various consortia offered at the 2007 Academy of Management meetings. In addition to the traditional BPS doctoral consortium co-chaired by Kyle Mayer and Tammy Madsen, a new BPS dissertation consortium was developed and co-chaired by Nick Argyres and Anne Marie Knott. Last year’s dissertation award winner, Govert Vroom, also chaired a doctoral workshop entitled “Managing your Dissertation”. In all, 116 doctoral students and 27 senior faculty, participated in these three pre-conference consortia. Plans are underway for next year’s consortia in Anaheim. Be on the lookout for announcements after the first of the year! |