BEST PAPER AWARD WINNERS

2024 - Best Published Paper

1st place:

Jay Joseph, John E. Katsos And Harry J. Van Buren III (2023) Entrepreneurship And Peacebuilding: A Review And Synthesis Business & Society, 62(2), 322-362.

Equal Runner-ups:

Lauren Kaufmann and Robbin Derry (2023) On Valuing Women: Advancing an Intersectional Theory of Gender Diversity in Organizations, Academy of Management Review (In-Press).

Yi Zhao & Jegoo Lee, 2023. "How does board interlock network matter for sustainability? A social learning approach to corporate environmental performance," Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(8), 5889-5908.

2024 - Best conference Paper

1st place:

Judith Schrempf-Stirling and Harry J. Van Buren III. A Human Rights Approach to Business Responsibility

Runner up:

Annika Blomberg, Neha Neha, Riikka Tapaninaho, Johanna Kujala, And Lotta Sihvo Matikainen. Analyzing Biodiversity Communication Through Orders Of Worth

2023 - Best Published Paper

1st place:

Kujala, J., Sachs, S., Leinonen, H., Heikkinen, A., & Laude, D. (2022). Stakeholder engagement: Past, present, and future. Business & Society, 61(5), 1136-1196.

Crane, A., Soundararajan, V., Bloomfield, M. J., LeBaron, G., & Spence, L. J. (2022). Hybrid (un) freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains. Human Relations, 75(10), 1928-1960.

Runner up:

Lewis, B. W., & Carlos, W. C. (2022). Avoiding the appearance of virtue: Reactivity to corporate social responsibility ratings in an era of shareholder primacy. Administrative Science Quarterly, 67(4), 1093-1135.

3rd place:

Olsen, T., Rehbein, K., Snelson-Powell, A., & Westermann-Behaylo, M. (2022). Human rights in the oil and gas industry: When are policies and practices enough to prevent abuse?. Business & Society, 61(6), 1512-1557.

2023 - Best Conference Paper

1st place:

Jay Joseph, John Katsos & Samaneh Hassanli - Business and Refugee Crises: Advancing Peace and Stability through the Private Sector

Crane, A., Soundararajan, V., Bloomfield, M. J., LeBaron, G., & Spence, L. J. (2022). Hybrid (un) freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains. Human Relations, 75(10), 1928-1960.

Runner up:

Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Harry J. Van Buren III & Robert A. Phillips – Stakeholder Theory and Human Rights.

2022 - Best Published Paper

1st place:

Brown, J. A., Forster, W. R., & Wicks, A. C. (2021). The Fork in the Road for Social Enterprises: Leveraging Moral Imagination for Long-Term Stakeholder Support. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 10422587211041485

Runner up:

von Kriegstein, H. (2021). The Radical Behavioral Challenge and Wide-Scope Obligations in Business. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-11.

3rd place:

Chow, D. Y. L., & Calvard, T. (2021). Constrained morality in the professional work of corporate lawyers. Journal of Business Ethics, 170(2), 213-228.

2021 - Best Published Paper

1st place:

Dima Jamali, Tanusree Jain, Georges Samara, Edwina Zoghbi (2020) How institutions affect CSR practices in the Middle East and North Africa: A critical review, Journal of World Business, Volume 55, Issue 5

Runner up:

Fleming P, Zyglidopoulos S, Boura M, Lioukas S. (2020) How Corruption is Tolerated in the Greek Public Sector: Toward a Second-Order Theory of Normalization. Business & Society. DOI:10.1177/0007650320954860

3rd place:

Murcia MJ, Panwar R, Tarzijan J. (2020 ) Socially Responsible Firms Outsource Less. Business & Society. DOI:10.1177/0007650319898490

2019 - Best Conference Paper

Florencio Portocarrero and Vanessa Burbano – Examining the Causal Effect of CSR on Employee Outcomes: Field Experimental Evidence from a Latin American Bank

2018 - Best Published Paper

1st place:

Carlos, W. C., & Lewis, B. W. (2018). Strategic silence: Withholding certification status as a hypocrisy avoidance tactic. Administrative Science Quarterly, 63(1), 130-169.

2018 - Best Conference Paper

Tricia Olsen, Kathleen Rehbein, Michelle Westermann-Behaylo & Annie Snelson-Powell – Business and Human Rights: Decoupling Policy from Practice in the Oil and Gas Sector

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