The Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Award
In 1993, some 13 years after the Strategic Management Journal was launched, an annual best paper prize was established by co-sponsors John Wiley & Sons and the Strategic Management Society to honor substantial work published in the SMJ. The award is for a paper published five or more years prior to the citation itself. This delay allows time for the impact of papers to be assessed in terms of citations and influence of the paper on teaching, research, and/or practice. Once eligible, a paper remains eligible until selected as the best paper. Continued eligibility allows recognition to be made for those insights and findings that sometimes occur before their time and only become widely recognized as significant until other work is published.
The award committee consists of the Editorial Board of the Strategic Management Journal and is supplemented by surveys of leading figures in the field of strategic management conducted by the Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editors of the Strategic Management Journal.
Authors of the winning paper receive a monetary award of US$5,000 along with a plaque at the SMS Annual International Conference.
Click here to view past winners of The Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Award.