Academy of Management Journal
BEST ARTICLE AWARD WINNERS 1986–2016
1986—Toby Wall, Nigel J. Kemp, Paul R. Jackson,
and Chris W. Clegg, “Outcomes of Autonomous
Work Groups: A Long-term Field Experiment,” 29:
280–304.
1987—Gareth R. Jones, “Organization-Client Trans-
actions and Organizational Governance Structures,”
30: 197–218.
1988—Robert I. Sutton and Anat Rafaeli, “Untan-
gling the Relationship between Displayed Emotions
and Organizational Sales: The Case of Convenience
Stores,” 31: 461–487.
1989—Connie J. G. Gersick, “Marking Time: Pre-
dictable Transitions in Task Groups,” 32: 274–309.
1990—Lynn A. Isabella, “Evolving Interpretation
as a Change Unfolds: How Managers Construe Key
Organizational Events,” 33: 7–41.
1991—Jane E. Dutton and Janet M. Dukerich,
“Keeping an Eye on the Mirror: Image and Identity
in Organizational Adaptation,” 34: 517–554.
1992—Luis R. Gomez-Mejia and David B. Balkin,
“Determinants of Faculty Pay: An Agency Theory
Perspective,” 35: 921–955.
1993—D. Harold Doty, William H. Glick, and
George P. Huber, “Fit, Equifinality, and Organiza-
tional Effectiveness: A Test of Two Configurational
Theories,” 36: 1196–1250.
1994—Eric Abrahamson and Choelsoon Park,
“Concealment of Negative Organizational Outcomes:
An Agency Theory Perspective,” 37: 1302–1334.
1995—Mark Huselid, “The Impact of Hudman
Resource Management Practices on Turnover, Pro-
ductivity, and Corporate Financial Performance,”
38: 635–672.
1996—Danny Miller and Jamal Shamsie, “The
Resource-Based View of the Firm in Two Envi-
ronments: The Hollywood Film Studios from 1936
to 1965,” 39: 519–543.
1997—Anne S. Tsui, Jone L. Pearce, Lyman W.
Porter, and Angela M. Tripoli, “Alternative
Approaches to the Employee-Organization Re-
lationship: Does Investment in Employees Pay
Off?” 40: 1089–1121.
1998—Harry G. Barkema and Freek Vermeulen,
“International Expansion through Start-up or Ac-
quisition: A Learning Perspective,” 41: 7–26.
1999—Walter Ferrier, Ken Smith, and Curt Grimm,
“The Role of Competitive Action in Market Share
Erosion and Industry Dethronement: A Study of In-
dustry Leaders and Challengers,” 42: 372–388.
2000—Shaker Zahra, Duane Ireland, and Michael
Hitt, “International Expansion by New Venture
Firms: International Diversity, Mode of Market
Entry, Technological Learning, and Performance,”
43: 925–950.
2001—Scott E. Seibert, Maria L. Kraimer, and
Robert C. Liden, “A Social Capital Theory of Ca-
reer Success,” 44: 219–237.
2002—Peter D. Sherer and Kyungmook Lee, “Institu-
tional Change in Large Law Firms: A Resource De-
pendency and Institutional Perspective,” 45: 102–119.
2003—Kimberly D. Elsbach and Roderick M.
Kramer, “Assessing Creativity in Hollywood Pitch
Meetings: Evidence for a Dual-Process Model of
Creativity Judgments,” 46: 283–300.
2004—Rajshree Agarwal, Raj Echambadi, April
Franco, and MB Sarkar, “Knowledge Transfer
through Inheritance: Spin-out Generation, Devel-
opment, and Survival,” 47: 501–522.
2005—Ewan Ferlie, Louise Fitzgerald, Martin
Wood, and Chris Hawkins, “The Nonspread of
Innovations: The Mediating Role of Professionals,”
48: 117–134; and Clark G. Gilbert, “Unbundling
the Structure of Inertia: Resource versus Routine
Rigidity,” 48: 741–763.1
2006—Royston Greenwood and Roy Suddaby,
“Institutional Entrepreneurship in Mature Fields:
The Big Five Accounting Firms,” 49: 27–48.
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Two articles won the award in 2005.
2007—Donde P. Plowman, Lakami T. Baker,
Tammy Elizabeth Beck, Mukta Kulkarni, Stephanie
Thomas Solansky, and Deandra Travis, “Radical
Change Accidentally: The Emergence and Amplifi-
cation of Small Change,” 50: 515–543.
2008—Michael L. Barnett and Andrew King,
“Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: A Longitu-
dinal Analysis of an Industry Self-Regulatory In-
stitution,” 51: 1150–1170.
2009—Melissa E. Graebner, “Caveat Venditor:
Trust Asymmetries in Acquisitions of Entrepre-
neurial Firms,” 52: 435–472.
2010—David E. Hekman, Bradley P. Owens,
Pauline Schilpzand, Kari Aquino, Terence R.
Mitchell, and Keith Leavitt, “An Examination
of Whether and How Racial and Gender Biases
Influence Customer Satisfaction,” 53: 238–264.
2011—James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson,
“Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-Granted Rules of
Self-Censorship at Work,” 54: 461–488.
2012—Michael Smets, Tim Morris, and Royston
Greenwood, “From Practice to Field: A Multilevel
Model of Practice-driven Institutional Change,”
55: 877–904.
2013—Roy Y. J. Chua, “The Costs of Ambient
Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Con-
flicts in Social Environment Undermine Creativ-
ity,” 56: 1545–1577.
2014—Elke Schüssler, Charles-Clemens Rüling,
and Bettina B. F. Wittneben, “On Melting Sum-
mits: The Limitations of Field-Configuring Events
as Catalysts of Change in Transnational Climate
Policy,” 57: 140–171.
2015—Laura M. Little, Virginia Smith Major,
Amanda S. Hinojosa, Debra L. Nelson, “Pro-
fessional Image Maintenance: How Women Navi-
gate Pregnancy in the Workplace,” 58: 8–37.
2016—Mark de Rond and Jaco Lok, “Some Things
Can Never Be Unseen: The Role of Context in
Psychological Injury at War,” 59: 1965–1993.
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