Best Paper Award 2020: Award Ceremony

18 November 2020 | By: Prof. Dr. Katrin Burmeister-Lamp, Professor of Entrepreneurship

For the 2020 Best-Paper-Award “Innovation, (Corporate) Entrepreneurship and Transformation”, we received a new record of 56 submissions. From these 56 submissions, three finalists were selected to present their papers in an online event on 17 November 2020.

We congratulate the winners:

1st place (1.500 €): Stephanie Querbach (WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management), Miriam Bird (TUM Campus Heilbronn), Priscilla S. Kraft (WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management), and Nadine Kammerlander (WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management): When the Former CEO Stays on Board: The Role of the Predecessor’s Board Retention for Product Innovation in Family Firms, Journal of Product Innovation Management

2nd place (1.250 €): Steven M. Gray (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin), Andrew P. Knight (Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis), Markus Baer (Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis): On the Emergence of Collective Psychological Ownership in New Creative Teams, Organization Science

3rd place (750 €): Massimo Maoret (IESE Business School Barcelona), Marco Tortoriello (Bocconi University Milan), and Daniela Iubatti (SKEMA Business School, Université Côte d Azur): Big Fish, Big Pond? The joint Effect of formal and informal Core–Periphery Positions on the Generation of incremental Innovations, Organization Science

We thank all jury members (Dr. Stéphane Bonutto (Oerlikon), Dr Andreas Brokemper (Henkell-Freixenet), Prof. Dr Katrin Burmeister-Lamp (EBS), Prof. Dr Christoph Fuchs (EBS, Siemens Advanta Consulting), Prof. Dr Tobias Gutmann (EBS, Siemens Product Innovation Lab), Prof. Dr Christian Landau (EBS), Marc Launer (Boeing), Prof. Dr Christof Schimank (Horváth & Partners), and Prof. Dr Matthias Waldkirch (EBS)) for their help in making this tough decision and of course all colleagues who submitted their work. It was a pleasure to read all these interesting papers.

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