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EGOS Best Paper Awards

Since the 23rd EGOS Colloquium in Vienna in 2007, EGOS has granted two annual prizes for outstanding papers:

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  • the EGOS Best Paper Award?- sponsored by the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland, amounting to ¬ 2,000.
  • the EGOS Best Student Paper Award?- sponsored by Grenoble Ecole de Management, France, amounting to ¬ 2,000. The paper must have a PhD student as its first author.

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The winning papers must display methodological rigor, theoretical relevance, innovativeness, and new insights into organizational phenomena.

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Please note:

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1.Only full papers which have been uploaded electronically to the EGOS Colloquium website can be con­sidered for the awards!

2.When submitting the full paper via the EGOS website, author(s) should indicate whether they would like his/her/their paper to compete for either or both of the two prizes.

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Both prizes are awarded at the following EGOS Colloquium.

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EGOS Best Paper Award 2009
Nina Granqvist, Stine Grodal and Jennifer L. Woolley:
Executives' Labeling Strategies in Emerging Domains of Activity: Constructing and Using Nascent Market Labels

Selection process, rules and time schedule

  • The selection committee for both prizes comprises of six members: the Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies (OS), one of the co-editors of OS, two members of the local organizing committee and two members of the EGOS Board. The selection committee is chaired by an EGOS Board member.
  • After the EGOS Colloquium in July, the sub-theme convenors nominate not more than one paper for the EGOS Best Paper Award and not more than one for the EGOS Best Student Paper Award out of the full papers submitted to their sub-theme via the EGOS website by August 31 that year.
  • Sub-theme convenors can decide not to nominate a paper for either of the prizes. Sub-theme convenors cannot nominate papers that they co-author. Members of the selection committee, the local organizing committee and the EGOS Board are excluded from competing for either prize.
  • Once the formal requirements have been met, nominees are informed of their nomination by the selection committee. Those competing for the EGOS Best Student Paper Award may be asked to prove their status as PhD students at the time of their conference presentation.
  • From September to December, the selection committee choose the winning papers from the nominated papers. The decision will be made by December 31 but not be announced before the next EGOS Colloquium in July.
  • The prizes are awarded at the next EGOS Colloquium in July.