Every year the program chair and executive committee nominate the best student paper. There is a prize sponsored by the journal Organization awarded at the Academy of Management meeting.
Winners:
- 2023 Poonam Barhoi (Indian Institute of Management), Ranjeet Nambudiri (Indian Institute of Management) and Nobin Thomas (Indian Institute of Management) Gender-Based Violence in India and Feminist Organizing of Women’s Court’s Work for Its Prevention
- 2022 Elise Lobbedez (EMLYON Business School)
“Liberté, Egalité, Flashball”. Resisting Work to Absorb Violent Protests
- 2021 Michel Majdalani (Lebanese American University/ Grenoble Ecole de Management), Michelle Mielly (Grenoble Ecole de Management) and Gazi Islam (Grenoble Ecole de Management)
Recasting Sustainable Collaborations through Postcolonial Perspectives: Diaspora Induced Organizing and Epistemic Reconfiguration
- 2020 Vivek Nair (IIM Calcutta, India) and Devi Vijay (IIM Calcutta, India)
The Facade of Neoliberal Merit: Empty Work and Unethical Subjects at a Business School
- 2019 Shalini (Indian Institute of Management)
Entrepreneurship Discourse as a Cultural Tool to Gain Legitimacy: The Case of Uber and Ola in India
- 2018 Ng Kong Man Joey (The Open University of Hong Kong)
Insignificance of Well-Being in a Chinese Context: An Anthropological Examination
- 2017 Seray Ergene (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Organization Theorizing for Sustainability: Un-making People and Nature Exploitable
- 2016 Carma Claw Nez (New Mexico State University)
Without Reservation: The Commodification of Native Americans
- 2015 Kamalika Chakraborty (IIM Calcutta, India)
An Investigation into Silent Coping by NGOs in Third World Countries
- 2014 Lauren McCarthy (University of Nottingham, UK)
Resistance to Institutional Work: Power and Gender in the Fair Trade Cocoa Value Chain
- 2013 Fahreen Alamgir (RMIT University, Australia)
Conflicting Regimes, Legitimacy of the State: Exploring Rights-Centric Management
- 2012 Joint winners
-Toby Paltridge & Susan Mayson (Monash University, Australia)
Inequalities in international education and the role of print media: A critical discourse analysis
-Emma Avetisyan (SKEMA Business School, France) & Michel Ferrary (CERAM, France)
The institutionalization of CSR field in France and the United States
- 2011 Stratos E Ramoglou (Cambridge University, UK)
Demystifying the "Entrepreneurial Mind": A Wittgensteinian Approach
- 2010 Marc Idelson (HEC Paris, France)
Undo the math! organizational implications of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary semiotic gaps
- 2009 Daphne Berry (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Expatriates, Migrants, Gender, Race and Class
- 2008 Ajnesh Prasad (York U).
Beyond Analytical Categories of Difference: Or, the Case for 'Strategic Essentialism'
- 2007 Jason Myrowitz
Anti-Authoritarian Television Programming
- 2006 Marcos Pereira Fernandes de Barros (HEC Montreal)
Emancipatory Management: The Contradiction between Practice and Discourse
- 2005 Mikelle Calhoun (Valpairiso University)
Challenging Distinctions: Illusions of Precision Assessing Risks of Doing Business in Host Countries