Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award

The Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award is awarded for the submission to the refereed scholarly program that is judged to be the best paper that advances research while deriving important implications for practice. The award honors the contributions to both research and practice made by Sumantra Ghoshal.

2024

Piyush Gulati (INSEAD); Arianna Marchetti (London Business School); Phanish Puranam (INSEAD): "Digital Collaboration Technologies and Managerial Intensity in U.S. Corporations: An Examination"

2023

Linda Hofsäss (Freie University Berlin); Max Braun (Freie University Berlin): "Exploring the Dimensionality of Opportunism in Inter-Organizational Relationships with Meta-Analysis"

2022

Daniel Albert (Drexel U); Dirk Martignoni (U. of Lugano); Anoop Menon; Nicolaj Siggelkow (U. of Pennsylvania): "The Power of Open-Minded Simplicity in Mental Models"

2021
Ivana Naumovska (INSEAD).Derek Harmon (U Michigan): "Into the great unknown: When expressing more uncertainty improves entrepreneurial financing outcomes"

2020
Huy Nguyen (Montclair State U), Zhiang Lin (U of Texas at Dallas): "Stakeholder dependency and female CEO succession"

2019
 
Richard Saouma (Michigan State U), Jason Sandvik (U. of Utah), Nathan Seegert (U. of Utah), and Christopher Stanton (Harvard U.): "Workplace Knowledge Flows"

2018
Colleen Cunningham (London Business School), Song Ma (Yale University), Florian Ederer (Yale University): “Killer Acquisitions”

2017
Timothy Gubler (U.C.-Riverside): “When Social Capital Hurts: The Role of Human Capital Experience and Fit”

2016
Tianxu Chen (Oakland U.) and Jianhong Chen (U. of New Hampshire): “Corporate Venture Capital and Inter-Firm Rivalry: A Competitive Dynamics Perspective”

2015
Mark DesJardine (Western U.): “The Causal Effect of Financial Analyst Coverage on Long-term Capital.”

2014
Michael Boppel (U. of St. Gallen), Sven Kunisch (U. of St. Gallen) and Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School): “Corporate Programs: Analysis of a Major Structural Choice in Strategy Implementation.”

2013
Tyson Mackey (California Polytechnic State U.): Corporate Diversification and the Value of Individual Firms: A Bayesian Approach”

2012
Richard Hunt (U. of Colorado-Boulder) & Kip Kiefer (U. of Colorado-Boulder): “Parity, Paternalism and Peonage in the Informal Economy: An Empirical Study of Off-the-Books Loans”

2011
José Lejarraga (Pompeu Fabra U.), Tomás Lejarraga (Carnegie Mellon U.) and Charlotte Gaston-Breton (U. of Carlos III de Madrid): “Let Me Handle This, I’ve Done It Before: Experience and Self-involvement in Superstitious Learning”

2010
Arijit Chatterjee (ESSEC) and Donald Hambrick (Penn State U.): “CEO Personality, Capability Cues, and Risk-Taking: How Narcissists React to Successes and Stumbles”

2009
Gerard Hodgkinson (U of Leeds) and Mark Healey (U of Leeds) for: “Psychological Foundations of Dynamic Capabilities: Reflexion and Reflection in Strategic Management.”

2008
Aseem Kaul (U. of Pennsylvania) for: “Intelligent Investing and Governance: The Role of Financial Advisors.”