Several faculty in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University were award winners at the 2009 Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, held in Chicago in August. More than 10,000 AOM members attended the meeting, which explored “Green Management Matters, ” focused on how teaching, research, and service might shape and be shaped by society's increasing concern about responsible stewardship of the natural environment. The Academy of Management is a leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations.
The Whitman faculty award winners are:
Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises
Mike Haynie, assistant professor
The McGraw-Hill/Irwin Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award for the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program
Tom Lumpkin, the Chris J. Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship
The Foundational Paper IDEA award for “Clarifying the Entrepreneurial Orientation Construct and Linking It to Performance,” published in the Academy of Management Review in 1996 (with G. Dess), given to a “classic and highly influential contribution to entrepreneurship research that serves as a legacy for scholarly work in the field”
The Jack A. Dinos/Cox Family Enterprise Center Best Family Business Paper Award for “A Numerical Taxonomy of Family Business Outcomes: Ten Years of DV’s in Family Business Research,” (with A. Yu, K. Brigham, and R. Sorensen)
Alex McKelvie, assistant professor
Research Promise IDEA award for “Innovation in New Firms: The Role of Knowledge and Growth Willingness,” given to an unpublished piece that has “the greatest potential to impact the future of the field”
Johan Wiklund, associate professor
Research Promise IDEA award for “Re-Conceptualizing Entrepreneurial Exit: Divergent Exit Routes and Their Drivers,” (with K. Wennberg, D. DeTienne, and M. Cardon), forthcoming in Journal of Business Venturing
Selected as the best reviewer from Journal of Management Studies
Department of Management
Kristin Byron, assistant professor
Outstanding reviewer for the Academy of Management Review 2009
Top 10 reviewer for the Journal of Organizational Behavior 2009
Finalist for best symposium in the Careers Division (with G. Laurence)
Kira Reed, assistant professor
Recognized as an outstanding reviewers in the Public and Nonprofit Division’s Business Meeting
Media queries can be directed to Amy Mehringer Schmitz, Whitman director of communications, at (315) 443-3834 or aemehrin@syr.edu.
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