Best Paper Award

2024

Anna Plotnikova & Krsto Pandza 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam &  Leeds University Business School
Bridging Expectations: Bidirectional Framing for Navigating Legitimacy Tensions

2023

Maria Skov Jensen
Aarhus University
Resisting Change That Can’t Be Resisted

2022

Pernille Smith and Susan Hilbolling
Aarhus University; Aarhus University
Serendipitous Learning in Collaborative Innovation


2021

Fannie Couture, Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Kirsten Le
University of Sydney Business School; City University, London; WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
Assessing the Unintended Consequences of Legitimating Responses to Grand Challenges

2020

Damla Diriker, Amanda Porter, Philipp Tuertscher
VU Amsterdam
What Does it Take to be Open? Sustaining Openness through Closure in Open Organizing Initiatives

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Saouré Kouamé

University of Ottawa

CEO’s Temporal Strategies to Pacify Warring Coalitions

2018

Timo Vuori and Quy Huy
Aalto University; Insead
Shaping Top Managers’ Moods: Board Emotion Regulation In The Strategy-formulation Process

2017

Rebecca Bednarek and Laure Cabantous
Birkbeck, University of London; City, University of London
Timing Practices and Material Markers in Coordinating Collective Market Patterns

2016

Eric Knight and Matthew Grimes
University of Sydney; Indiana University
CEO Sensegiving and Legitimacy Projection across Multiple Strategic Change Episodes

2015

Paula Jarzabkowski and Rebecca Bednarek
City, University of London; Birkbeck, University of London
Towards a Social-Practice Theory of Competition