Academy of Management

2025 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

DECADE AWARD

Teppo Felin, Nicolai J. Foss and Robert E. Ployhart
The Microfoundations Movement in Strategy and Organization Theory

Academy of Management Collections

BEST REVIEWERS

Matteo Cristofaro
Rian Drogendijk
Charles Stevens

Academy of Management Discoveries

BEST ARTICLE

Cowinners
Thomas Gillier, Victor P. Seidel, Akin Kazakci and Gerald Piat
Crafting Future Innovations: The Network Structure of Ideas for Visionary Product Concepts

Bernadeta Goštautaitė, Irina Liubertė, Sharon K. Parker and Ilona Bučiūnienė
Can You Outsmart the Robot? An Unexpected Path to Work Meaningfulness

Best Article Finalist

B. Sebastian Reiche and Mailys M. George
Plug in, Ponder, or Pause? How Global Professionals’ Prior Identity Tensions Affected Their Responses to Pandemic-Induced Disruptions

IMPACT AWARDS

The Most Impactful Article on Social and Alternative Media in the 10-Year History of Academy of Management Discoveries

Laura J. Kray, Jessica A. Kennedy and Margaret Lee
Now, Women Do Ask: A Call to Update Beliefs about the Gender Pay Gap

The Most Impactful Guidepost Essay in the 10-Year History of Academy of Management Discoveries

Georg von Krogh
Artificial Intelligence in Organizations: New Opportunities for Phenomenon-Based Theorizing

The Most Impactful Peer-Reviewed Article in the 10-Year History of Academy of Management Discoveries

Nuno Gil and Youngcheng Fu
Megaproject Performance, Value Creation, and Value Distribution: An Organizational Governance Perspective

BEST REVIEWERS

Sarah Doyle
Joris Ebbers
Lydia Hagtvedt
David R. Hannah
Brian Hilligoss

Mel Y. Hua
Jerry W. Kim
Lena Knappert
Glen Kreiner
Christine Q. Trank

Christian Vandenberghe
Dana Vashdi
Heather Vough
Christopher Wickert
Alan Zhang

Academy of Management Journal

BEST ARTICLE

Nan Jia, Xueming Luo, Zheng Fang and Chengcheng Liao
When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity

Best Article Finalists

Nina Sirola
Job Insecurity and Well-Being: Integrating Life History and Transactional Stress Theories

Lisa M. Leslie, Elinor Flynn, Olivia A. Foster-Gimbel and Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Happy Talk: Is Common Diversity Rhetoric Effective Diversity Rhetoric?

IMPACT AWARD

Priyanka Dwivedi, Aparna Joshi and Vilmos F. Misangyi
Gender-Inclusive Gatekeeping: How (Mostly Male) Predecessors Influence the Success of Female CEOs

Impact Award Finalists

Caroline Flammer
Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder Reaction: The Environmental Awareness of Investors

Amy J. Hillman, Christine Shropshire and Albert A. Cannella, Jr.
Organizational Predictors of Women on Corporate Boards

DEI AWARD

AMJ Networking Workshop for Women

AMJ METHODS EXPERTS

Emma Bell
Paul Bliese
Stefan Feuerriegel
Dietmar Harhoff
Curtis LeBaron

AMJ DIGITAL OUTREACH

Nettra D. Pan

BEST REVIEWERS

Oliver Alexy
John Busenbark
Charlotte Cloutier
Jason Colquitt
Joep Cornelissen
Sarah P. Doyle
Kathleen Eisenhardt
Allison Gabriel
Daniel Gamache

Wesley Helms
Aaron D. Hill
Amy Hillman
Inga Hoever
Michael Howard
Anthony Klotz
Fadel K. Matta
Abbie G. Oliver
Brent Scott

Abbie Shipp
Troy A. Smith
Jean-François Soublière
Charles Stevens
Karl Taeuscher
Christopher To
Manuel Vaulont
Heather Vough

Academy of Management Learning & Education

BEST ARTICLE

Micki Eisenman, Hamid Foroughi and William M. Foster
Addressing Economic Inequality Through Management Education: Disrupting Student Attraction to the Myth of Neoliberal Meritocracy

DECADE AWARD

Andreas Rauch and Willem Hulsink
Putting Entrepreneurship Education Where the Intention to Act Lies: An Investigation into the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Behavior

BEST REVIEWERS

Alex Bolinger
Dianne Bolton
Lisa Callagher
Cody Chullen
Judith Clair

John Cullen
Paul Hibbert
Sam Horner
Kathy Lund Dean
Gianpiero Petriglieri

Gernot Pruschak
Jukka Rintamäki
Marc-David Seidel
Joep Cornelissen

EMERGING REVIEWERS

Rikke Albertsen
Carolin Waldner

Academy of Management Perspectives

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BEST ARTICLE

Jordi Vives-Gabriel, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Diego M. Coraiola
Dealing With Organizational Legacies of Irresponsibility

Best Article Finalists

Denise Fletcher and Alexander Trautrims
Recruitment Deception and the Organization of labor for Exploitation: A Policy-Theory Synthesis

Aki Harima and Jan Harima
Unintended Dependence Creation? The Nesting Effect of University Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

DECADE AWARD

Garry D. Bruton, Mike W. Peng, David Ahlstrom, Ciprian Stan and Kehan Xu
State-Owned Enterprises around the WORLD as Hybrid Organizations

BEST REVIEWERS

Per Bylund
Juan Francisco Chavez R.
Veroniek Collewaert
Tom Dean
Anil Doshi
Jonathan Eckhardt
Maritza Espina
Kenneth Fox
Tatevik Harutyunyan
Ioannis Ioannou
Trevor Israelsen

Alexander Kier
Maya Kumar
Thomas Lawton
Seungah Sarah Lee
Benyamin Lichtenstein
Mark Mizruchi
Ambre Nicolle
Won-Yong Oh
Seth Oranburg
Mark Packard
Chris Quinn Trank

Dennis Schoeneborn
Paurav Shukla
Andrew Smith
Andrew Spicer
Arati Srinivasan
Roy Suddaby
Ben Waterhouse
Batia Wiesenfeld
Nick Williams
Nicholas Wong
Joy Wu

Academy of Management Review

BEST ARTICLE

Alessandro Piazza, Patrick Bergemann and Wesley Helms
Getting Away with It (Or Not): The Social Control of Organizational Deviance

Best Article Finalist

Lauren Kaufmann and Robbin Derry
On Valuing Women: Advancing an Intersectional Theory of Gender Diversity in Organizations

DECADE AWARD

Frederick P. Morgeson, Terence R. Mitchell and Dong Liu
Event System Theory: An Event-Oriented Approach to the Organizational Sciences

OUTSTANDING REVIEWERS

Salvatore Affinito
John Amis
Andac Arikan
Mary J. Benner
Lyda Bigelow
Alex Bitektine
Brent Clark
Charlotte Cloutier
Cecily Cooper
Sandra Corredor
Joep Cornelissen
Johnathan Cromwell
Jesper Edman
Greg Fisher
Daniel Gamache

Michael Gill
Laura M. Giurge
Vern Glaser
Adam Grant
Tobias Hahn
Ravi Kudesia
Don Lange
Keith Leavitt
Jeffrey Lovelace
Margaret Luciano
Fadel Matta
Sébastien Mena
Kris Mikel-Hong
Alex Murray
Robert S. Nason

Leandro Nardi
Kate Odziemkowska
Jennifer Petriglieri
Belle Rose Ragins
Hettie Richardson
Donald Schepker
Beth Schinoff
Jens Schmidt
Jean-François Soublière
Stella Seyb
J.W. Stoelhorst
Matthew Wood
Mike Zundel

OUTSTANDING BRIDGE REVIEWER MENTORS

Oliver Alexy
Akhil Bardwaj
Katerina Bezrukova
Matthew Caulfield
Charlotte Cloutier
Johnathan Cromwell

David Kryscynski
Emilio Marti
Fadel Matta
Yuri Mishina
Renate Meyer
Christopher Myers

Ferran Torres Nadal
Jennifer Nahrgang
François Neville
Jean-François Soublière
Dana Sumpter
Maxim Voronov

OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD

Blake Ashforth
Hossam Zeitoun