William H. Newman Award Winners: Veroniek Collewaert, Jason Davis and Dali Ma with Gregory Northcraft, Newman Award Chair.

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 criteria 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 Gregory B. Northcraft (Chair), Sigal Barsade, Kevin G. Corley, Kristina Diekmann, Pamela Hinds, Ray Zammunto.

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:

•    Aimee Dars Ellis; “The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Employee
Attitudes and Behaviors”

•    Bradley Paul Owens; “Humility in Organizations: Establishing Construct,
Nomological, and Predictive Validity”

•    Sylvie Verdier; “Country Exit: The Role of Internationalization Speed, Rhythm
         and Cultural Diversity”

The Recipients of the William H. Newman Award are:

•    Veroniek Collewaert; “Conflict between angel investors and entrepreneurs:
     Perception, reality and impact on innovation”

•    Jason Davis; “Rotating Leadership and Symbiotic Organization: Relationship
Processes in Collaborative Innovation”

•    Dali Ma; “Bring the Society Back In: Relational Identities in the Creation of
Entrepreneurship”