Pushing the Boundary Award

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

2025

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

2024

Saheli Nath
University of Central Oklahoma
Accounts, Accountability and Remedial Work in Error Cascades

2023

Christoph Brielmaier
University of Bamberg
Creating Order Where There Is None: The Reconciliation of Fragmented Attention Structure

2022

Omid Omidvar, Gary Burke, Igor Pyrko
Aston University; Aston University; University of Bristol
Rhythms of Strategy

2021

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

2020

Rene Wiedner
Warwick Business School
Sustenance through Liberation: Vinyl Record Manufacturing after Disruption and Before the Hype

2019

Meri Jalonen, Kathrin Sele
Aalto University; Aalto University
Innovating through Experiments: The Epistemic Nature of Experimenting in Practice

2018

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

2017

Matt Thomas, Duncan Angwin, Karen Dale
Lancaster University; Lancaster University; Lancaster University
The Effects of Spatial Configuration on Opportunities for Emergent Strategy Making

2016

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