Newman Award Chair, Marshall Schminke with award recipients:
Elizabeth G. Pontikes, Pavani Rangachari, and Chen-Bo Zhong

The William H. Newman Award Recipients

The Academy of Management awards the William H. Newman Award to outstanding and recent dissertations. This prestigious award can be given to up to three papers a year. Each paper must be: single-authored and based on a doctoral dissertation completed within the past three years. The criterion for the William H. Newman Award for Best Dissertation is as follows:

•    The Paper addresses a significant organizational phenomenon
•    It demonstrates appropriate consideration of relevant theoretical and empirical literature
•    The author offers reasonable interpretations of the research results, draws appropriate inferences about the theoretical and applied implications of the results, and suggests promising directions for future research
•    It yields information that is both practically and theoretically relevant and important
•    The paper is presented logically, succinctly, and clearly

The Newman Award Committee includes Marshall J. Schminke (Chair), Anke Arnaud, Rebecca Bennett, Don Bergh, Pamela R. Haunschild, Rob Moorman, and Greg Northcraft. From more than 20 best-in-division semi-finalist papers the Newman Committee considered, the following papers were selected as finalists for the Newman Award:

Rebecca Mitchell from the University of Newcastle, “Knowledge Creation in Groups with Diverse Composition;” Paul M. Leonardi, from Northwestern University, “Organizing Technology: Toward a Theory of Sociomaterial Imbrication;” Sophie Leroy, from the University of Minnesota, “Why Is It so Hard to Do My Work? The Challenge of Attention Residue when Switching Between Tasks.”

The Recipients of the William H. Newman Award are:

Elizabeth G. Pontikes from the University of Chicago GSB, “Fitting in or Starting New? Invention, Constraint, and New Categories in the Software Industry;” Pavani Rangachari, from the Medical College of Georgia, “Knowledge Sharing Networks Related to Hospital Quality Measurement & Reporting;” Chen-Bo Zhong, from the University of Toronto, “The Ethical Dangers of Rational Decision Making.”