Pushing the Boundary Award

Watch the interviews with the 2025 award winners on YouTube: Interview Series with the 2025 Winners

Fabian Leuk, Adriana Wacker, Thomas Ortner, Julia Hautz

University of Innsbruck; University of Innsbruck; University of Innsbruck; University of Innsbruck

Measuring Openness in the Strategy Process: A Machine Learning Approach

Saheli Nath

University of Central Oklahoma

Accounts, Accountability and Remedial Work in Error Cascades

Christoph Brielmaier

University of Bamberg

Creating Order Where There Is None: The Reconciliation of Fragmented Attention Structure

Omid Omidvar, Gary Burke, Igor Pyrko

Aston University; Aston University; University of Bristol

Rhythms of Strategy

Matthew James Hurst, Davide Nicolini, Rene Wiedner

Warwick Business School; Warwick Business School; Warwick Business School

We Get Them Running Through Walls: Strategizing via an Indignation-Based Moral Battery

Rene Wiedner

Warwick Business School

Sustenance through Liberation: Vinyl Record Manufacturing after Disruption and Before the Hype

Meri Jalonen, Kathrin Sele

Aalto University; Aalto University

Innovating through Experiments: The Epistemic Nature of Experimenting in Practice

Marko Kohtamäki, Suvi Einola, Yassine Talaoui

University of Vaasa; University of Vaasa; University of Vaasa

Exposing the Contested Frames in Strategy Work: Using Visuals to Bridge the Contested Frames

Matt Thomas, Duncan Angwin, Karen Dale

Lancaster University; Lancaster University; Lancaster University

The Effects of Spatial Configuration on Opportunities for Emergent Strategy Making

Charlotte Cloutier, Jean-Pascal Gond

HEC Montréal; City, University of London

Is This a Worthy Strategy? Critique, Justification and Evaluation in the Practice of Strategy