The STR Division gives the award annually in honor of the late Robert Litschert. To be eligible, papers must be submitted and accepted to the AOM Annual Meeting, and authored by students only. Papers with one or more non-student co-authors are not considered. Doctoral students should note their paper’s eligibility for the award during the submission process to the Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
2024
Farzam Boroomand (University of Minnesota): "Children Left Behind: Charter Schools and the Privatization of Public Education in the US"
2023
Hyoungwon Yoon (Bocconi University): "The Hidden Cost of Redeployment: The Impact of Geographic Redeployment on Inventor Performance"
2021
Sourobh Ghosh (Harvard U.) "Think Before You Act: The Unintended Consequences of Inexpensive Business Experimentation"
2020
Ming Zhu Wang (Washington U. At St. Louis): "Rumelt (1991) Revisited: oes Industry Really Matter More Than Corporate?"
2019
Haram Seo (U. of Minnesota): "Corporate Philanthropy as a Strategic Tool for Advocacy."
2018
Sina Khoshsokhan (Boston University): “When the Walls Come Down: Innovation in Diagnostics After the Invalidation of Gene Patents ”
2017
Andrew Boysen (U. Pennsylvania): “Where Have All the Disruptions Gone? Co-adoption of Partially Substituting Technologies”
2016
Andy Wu (U.of Pennsylvania): “Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners”
2015
Timothy Gubler (Washington U. in St. Louis): “Social Affiliations and Performance of Experts in Organizations”
2014
Yuchen Zhang (U. of Colorado, Boulder): “How Vertical Integration Affects Firm Innovation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence.”
2013
Seth Carnahan (U. of Maryland): “New Firm Creation Following Dissolution of Rival Organizations”
2012
Philipp Meyer-Doyle (U. of Pennsylvania): “How Do Firms Become Good Acquirers? Managerial Learning and the Acquisition Capability of Firms”
2011
Natalia Vuori & Timo Vuori (Aalto U.): “Mind the Way You Reflect: Causal Knowledge in Organizational Learning”
2010
Majid Abdi (York U.): “Internationalization and Performance: Degree, Duration, and Scale of Operation”
2009
Goce Andrevski (University of Kentucky): Competitive Strategy and Alliance Network Formation: Understanding the Origins of Network Positions.
2008
Hans Frankort (U. of Maastricht): “Structural Holes, Technological Resources, and Innovation: A Study of an Interfirm R&D Network.”