Awards and Recognition
2021 Publication Awards
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:
- Advance the mission of the individual publication;
- Bring forth core ideas that are original, important, and provocative;
- Have a clear and important contribution to the field of management;
- Best reviewers provide timely, development reviews.
Editors create a separate advisory committee to determine and select the article(s) from the prior year as the “Best Article.”
Academy of Management Annals
BEST ARTICLE
Kelly A. Nault, Marko Pitesa, (l-r) and Stefan Thau (not pictured)
The Attractiveness Advantage at Work: A Cross-Disciplinary Integrative Review


Best Article Finalists
William Ocasio, Jo-Ellen Pozner, and Daniel Milner
Varieties of Political Capital and Power in Organizations: A Review and Integrative Framework
Hari Bapuji, Gokhan Ertug, and Jason D. Shaw
Organizations and Societal Economic Inequality: A Review and Way Forward
Katherine C. Kellogg, Melissa A. Valentine, and Angèle Christin
Sophie Leroy, Aaron M. Schmidt, and Nora Madjar
Interruptions and Task Transitions: Understanding Their Characteristics, Processes, and Consequences
DECADE AWARD
Royston Greenwood, Mia Raynard, Farah Kodeih (top, l-r), Evelyn R. Micelotta, and Michael Lounsbury (bottom, l-r)





Academy of Management Discoveries
BEST ARTICLE
Mason Ameri, Sean Edmund Rogers, Lisa Schur, and Douglas Kruse (l-r)
No Room at the Inn? Disability Access in the New Sharing Economy




Best Article Finalist
Kristin J. Behfar, Matthew A. Cronin, and Kimberly McCarthy
Realizing the Upside of Venting: The Role of the “Challenger Listener”
BEST REVIEWERS
- Bradford Bell
- Shiko Ben-Menahem
- Arik Cheshin
- Marc Gruber
- Donald Hambrick
- Josh Hsueh
- Gary Johns
- Lena Knappert
- Charlotta Kronblad
- Mario Le Glatin
- Donald Lessard
- Peter Martelli
- Belle Rose Ragins
- Stephan von Delft
- Le Zhou
Academy of Management Journal
BEST ARTICLE
Laura Claus and Paul Tracey (l-r)


Best Article Finalists
Julia Brennecke
Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin Reid
Relational Reconciliation: Socializing Others across Demographic Differences
IMPACT AWARD
Robin J. Ely (below)
The Power in Demography: Women’s Social Constructions of Gender Identity at Work

Impact Award Finalists
Steve Maguire, Cynthis Hardy, and Thomas B. Lawrence
Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Fields: HIV/AIDS Treatment Advocacy in Canada
BEST REVIEWERS
- John Amis
- Blake Ashforth
- Sekou Bermiss
- John Busenbark
- Bonnie Hayden Cheng
- Stephanie Creary
- Donal Crilly
- Paula Criscuolo
- Kathy Eisenhardt
- Trevor Foulk
- Derek Harmon
- Morela Hernandez
- Astrid Homan
- Sally Maitlis
- Luis Mulotte
- Nathan Podsakoff
- Richard Priem
- Winny Shen
- Tieying Yu
- Charlene Zietsma
Academy of Management Learning & Education

Best Article Finalists
Kathy Lund Dean, Sarah Wright, and Jeanie M. Forray
Experiential Learning and the Moral Duty of Business Schools
DECADE AWARD
Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra, and Deborah M. Kolb (l-r)
Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s Leadership Development Programs



BEST REVIEWERS
- Rafael Alcadipani
- Dianne Bolton
- Catherine Cassell
- Bill Harley
- Arun Kumar
- Marc-David L. Seidel
EMERGING REVIEWER
- Fernanda Tsujiguchi
Academy of Management Perspectives
BEST ARTICLE
Maja Graso, Tania Reynolds (not pictured), and Steven L. Grover (l-r)


Best Article Finalists
Herman Aguinis, Chailin Cummings, Ravi S. Ramini, and Thomas G. Cummings
“An A is an A”: The New Bottom Line for Valuing Academic Research
Oksana Gerwe and Rosario Silva
Clarifying the Sharing Economy: Conceptualization, Typology, Antecedents, and Effects
Andreas Georg Scherer and Christian Voegtlin
BEST REVIEWERS
- Nathan Bennett
- James Fowler
- Mirjam Knockaert
- Chris Provis
- Linda Trevino
Academy of Management Review
BEST ARTICLE
Kathleen R. Keeler (pictured below) and Jose M. Cortina
Working to the Beat: A Self-Regulatory Framework Linking Music Characteristics to Job Performance

Best Article Finalists
Jasmien Khattab, Daan Van Knippenberg, Anne Nederveen Pieterse, and Morela Hernandez
A Network Utilization Perspective on the Leadership Advancement of Minorities
Jade Y. Lo, Peer C. Fiss, Eunice Y. Rhee, and Mark T. Kennedy
Category Viability: Balanced Levels of Coherence and Distinctiveness
Brent A. Scott, Nikhil Awasty, Russell E. Johnson, Fadel K. Matta, and John R. Hollenbeck
Marjike Verbruggen and Ans De Vos
When People Don’t Realize Their Career Desires: Toward a Theory of Career Inaction
Sergio G. Lazzarini
Omar N. Solinger, Paul G. W. Jansen, and Joep P. Cornelissen
Katherine A. DeCelles and Karl Aquino
Dark Knights: When and Why an Employee Becomes a Workplace Vigilante
Mark D. Packard and Brent B. Clark
On the Mitigability of Uncertainty and the Choice between Predictive and Nonpredictive Strategy
Mark A. Griffin and Gudela Grote
When Is More Uncertainty Better? A Model of Uncertainty Regulation and Effectiveness
MANAGERIAL PRACTICE AWARD
Sarah Harvey
Creative Synthesis: Exploring the Process of Extraordinary Group Creativity
Managerial Practice Award Finalists
Donald C. Hambrick, Vilmos F. Misangyi and Chuljin A. Park
William McKinley, Scott Latham, and Michael Braun
Organizational Decline and Innovation: Turnarounds and Downward Spirals
Amanda P. Cowen, Adelaide Wilcox King, and Jeremy J. Marcel
CEO Severance Agreements: A Theoretical Examination and Research Agenda
Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Guido Palazzo, and Robert A. Phillips
Murray R. Barrick, Michael K. Mount, and Ning Li
Peter Cappelli and JR Keller
Ryan Fehr, Kai Chi (Sam) Yam, and Carolyn Dang
Moralized Leadership: The Construction and Consequences of Ethical Leader Perceptions
DECADE AWARD
Wendy K. Smith and Marianne W. Lewis (l-r)
Toward a Theory of Paradox: A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Organizing


BEST DEVELOPMENTAL REVIEWERS
- Martha Maznevski
- Aaron McKenny
- Jessica Methot
- Alex Murray
- Chad Navis
- Mandy O’Neill
- Abbie Oliver
- Bertrand Quelin
- Taco Reus
- Hettie Richardson
- Gavin Schwarz
- Christopher Steele
- Mike Zundel
BEST REVIEWERS
- Oliver Alexy
- Philip Anderson
- Blake Ashforth
- Jean Bartunek
- Jeffrey Bednar
- Uta Bindl
- Flore Bridoux
- Melissa Cardon
- Prithviraj Chattopadhyay
- Daniel Chng
- Martin Ganco
- Derek Harmon
- Paula Jarzabkowski
- Nadine Kammerlander
- Ravi Kudesia
- Matthew Lee
- Lisa Leslie
- Lakshmi Ramarajan
- Debra Shapiro
- J. W. Stoelhorst
- Paul Tracey
- Libby Weber
- Ned Wellman
- Matthew Wood