The Academy of Management Learning and Education Best Paper Award

The Academy of Management Learning and Education Best Paper Award is given on a yearly basis to the selected paper published the previous year. The finalists were selected by the AMLE Award Committee: Robert Rubin (Chair), Kenneth G. Brown, Lisa Burke, Chris Kayes, and Donald L. McCabe. 

The Academy of Management Learning and Education Best Paper Award is decided by the committee on the basis of the following criterion: the paper embodies AMLE’s mission, it advances the state of scholarship in management learning and education, and lastly provokes thought and directs attention toward critical challenges/issues facing management education.

The Academy of Management Perspectives Best Paper Award finalists are:

Terence R. Mitchell,  “The Academic Life: Realistic Changes Needed for Business School Students and Faculty”, and Harold J. Leavitt*,  “Big Organizations are Unhealthy Environments for Human Beings”.

The Academy of Management Learning and Education 2007 Best Paper Awardees are Denise Rousseau and Sharon McCarthy, “Educating Managers from an Evidence-Based Perspective.”

*Professor Leavitt passed away in 2007. The Academy was pleased to have
Ms. Jean Lipman-Blumen at the awards ceremony to share this honor.