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STR Best Paper Award Winners

Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the STR best paper awards that were announced at the STR business meeting at the 2021 AOM Annual Conference:

Congratulations to Anita McGahan (U Toronto) and Leandro Pongeluppe (U Toronto) for receiving the 2021 Glueck Best Paper Award for their paper "There is no planet B: Stakeholder governance that aligns incentives to preserve the Amazon rainforest".  The Bill Glueck Best Paper Award is provided for the submission judged to be the best paper submitted to the refereed scholarly program and is supported by friends and former students of Bill Glueck, the 35^th president of the Academy of Management.

Congratulations to Ivana Naumovska (INSEAD) and Derek Harmon (U Michigan) for receiving the 2021 Ghoshal Research and Practice Award for their paper "Into the great unknown: When expressing more uncertainty improves entrepreneurial financing outcomes." 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. 

Congratulations to Sourobh Ghosh (Harvard U) for being receiving the 2021 Robert J. Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper for his paper "Think before you act: The unintended consequences of inexpensive business experimentation." The Robert J. Litschert Award for the best paper by a doctoral student was instituted in memory of Professor Litschert by his students & colleagues at Virginia Tech. It is particularly appropriate that the award is given to a promising doctoral student since Professor Litschert considered the mentoring of students his most important responsibility.

At the STR business meeting we also announced the eight STR track best paper awards. Please join us in congratulating the winners:      

Behavioral Strategy, Process and Change
"Feedback Fog and Affective Guide: The Interplay of CEO Affective Traits, Ambiguous Performance Feedback, and Firm Risk Taking" by Yuxuan Zhu, John Kim, and John Joseph

Competitive Strategy and Heterogeneity
"Psychology of Resource Pricing Decisions in Strategic Factor Markets." by Ipek Koparan and Federico Aime

Cooperative Strategy
"Can Alliance Substitute Acquisition? The Evidence from Natural Experiment." by Jaemin Lee and Joon Mahn Lee

Corporate and International Strategy
"CEO Power Motive and Propensity for Real Options Strategy: Evidence from New Industry Entry Mode Choice between Acquisition and Corporate Venture Capital" by Boshuo Li

Knowledge and Innovation and Strategic Human Capital
"The value of Commitment for Strategic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Field Experiment." by Elena Novelli and Chiara Spina

Stakeholder and Nonmarket Strategy
"Who Bleeds When Activists Attack? Activist Institutional Ownership And Employee Safety." by Chongwu Xia and Philipp Meyer-Doyle

Strategic Entrepreneurship
"Pivot Rules for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs." by John Chen, Daniel Elfenbein, Hart Posen, and Ming Zhu Wang

Strategic Leadership and Corporate Governance
"Forecasting as a Problem of Cognitive Search: Experimental Evidence from Forecasting Tournaments in the Context of the Auto Industry." by Rahul Kapoor and Daniel Wilde

Congratulations to all the winners – it was a pleasure to read your papers and seeing them presented at the conference.

Sincerely,

STR Officers Samina, Tim, Heather, Michael and Louise