The Academy of Management awards the William H. Newman Award to outstanding papers based on recent dissertations. This prestigious award can be given to up to three papers a year. Each paper must be: (a) single-authored and (b) based on a doctoral dissertation completed within the last three years. All nominated papers should be completed and accepted on or before January 15, 2012.

The criteria for the Award include the following:

• The paper addresses a significant organizational phenomenon
• Shows appropriate consideration of relevant theoretical and empirical literature
• 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
• Yields information that is both practically and theoretically relevant and important
• Presented logically, succinctly and clearly

If you would like your paper to be considered, please watch for the 2012 Call for Submissions opening this November. You can nominate your submission by placing a check in the "Newman Award Nominee" box on the submission abstract entry screen. Once submissions close, each division or interest group program chair then nominates one paper to the award committee. The authors of the papers who have been nominated by the division and interest group program chairs will be asked to send an electronic version and a hard copy of their paper to the award chair. Finalists will be notified prior to the conference and the winners will be announced at the conference in Boston in August 2012. All finalists are expected to be in attendance.