Awards & Competitions

Annual Awards 2023

Best Critical Paper

Each year the Division awards a prize for Best Paper from the main scholarly program. This prize is sponsored by the journal Organization. Here are the previous winners.

Anne Antoni (Grenoble Ecole de Management) and Heather Connolly (Grenoble Ecole de Management)

“We All Stand Together” (Or Do We?): Understanding the Emergence of Solidarity at Work

Best Doctoral Student Paper 

Each year an award is made by the Division for the Best Student Paper. Here are details of what counts as an eligible entry for this competition. This award is sponsored by the journal Organization.

Best International Business Paper 
The Division also makes an award for Best International Business Paper. The prize is sponsored by the journal Critical Perspectives on International Business and the Emerald Publishing Group. Here are the details of the previous winners.


Fahreen Alamgir (Monash University) and Saleem Saha (ARDHO)

Violence & Afghan Women: Invasions, Interventions, and Mobilization - A Call for Reflexive Engagement

Best Organization Studies Paper 

A new award is made for the Best Organization Studies Paper. The prize is sponsored by the journal of Organization Studies. 

Julie Wolfram Cox (Monash University) and John Hassard (Manchester Business School)

Relational Perspectivism and the Case for Slow Theorizing in Critical Temporal Studies

Best Paper in Critical Business Ethics

The Division award for Best Critical Business Ethics is sponsored by the Journal of Business Ethics.
Here are the details of past winners. 

Rashedur Chowdury (University of Essex) and Roya Derakhshan (Università Bocconi)

In the Name of the Law: A Study of Undocumented Immigrants’ Experiences of Legal Violence

Best Critical Gender, Work & Organization

The division award for Best Critical Gender, Work, and Organization is sponsored by the journal Gender, Work & Organization. Here are the details of past winners. 

Cat Spellman (Durham University Business School) and Jo McBride (Durham University Business School)

Gendering ‘The Hidden Injuries of Class’ and In-Work Poverty in Britain

Best Paper in Critical Leadership

A new award is made for the Best Critical Leadership Paper. The prize is sponsored by the journal Leadership.

Sverre Spoelstra (Lund University) and Nick Butler (Stockholm University)

Algorithmic Leadership and the Game of Business

Best Paper in Management Learning

The division award for Best Critical Management Learning Paper is sponsored by the journal Management Learning. Here are the details of past winners. 

Emily Cook-Lundgren (NEOMA Business School)

Social Entrepreneurship Education: Changing the World or Maintaining the Status Quo?

The Professor Anshuman Prasad Award

In memory of Professor Anshuman Prasad, a new award commemorating postcolonial/decolonial work in the field of organizations studies will be given in the Division. The prize is sponsored by the journal Organization.

Nandita Roy (Indian Institute of Management), Nurlykhan Aljanova (Nazarbayev University), Nazym Baskynbayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University), Paromita Chakravarti (Jadavpur University), and Anjan Ghosh (Narxoz University)

Decolonizing Feminist ‘Knowledge’: ‘The Modern Woman’ in Kazakh Influencer Culture

Most Promising Early Career Award

A new award is made for the Most Promising Early Career Paper. The prize is sponsored by the journal Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization.

Laura Kangas-Müller (Aalto University)

Fluid or Entrenched Inequalities? Dilemmas of Tackling Disadvantages in Migrant Support Work

Best Dark Side Case Competition

Each year the Division awards a prize for Best Critical Dark Side Case. This prize is sponsored by Routledge. Here are the previous winners.

Doctoral Dissertation/Thesis Award 

Each year we award a prize to an outstanding doctoral dissertation/thesis that draws on and contributes to CMS. If you have completed your doctoral dissertation/thesis in the specified time period in any of the fields associated with critical management studies, do consider entering this competition. The award is sponsored by the journal Organization. Here are the details of the competition and past winners.

Best CMS Reviewer

An award is also made each year for the Best Developmental Reviewer in the Division. Here are the previous winners.

There were 3 Best Developmental Reviewer Awards for 2023: 

• Jussara Pereira (FGV-EAESP)
• Belinda Zakrzewska (University of Sussex)
  
• Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais)