The SMS Awards (CK Prahalad Award For Scholarly Impact On Practice, SMS Educational Impact Award, SMS Emerging Scholar Award, SMS Service Award) have opened for the submission of applications or nominations as of February 6, 2025.
The awards will continue to accept submissions until the deadline of April 15, 2025.
To submit an application or nomination to one of the SMS Awards, click on the links below:
- CK Prahalad Award For Scholarly Impact On Practice: The CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice, introduced in 2011, was created to honor the legacy of CK Prahalad. The award recognizes excellence in the application of theory and research in practice. These include but are not limited to contributions to knowledge through the extraction of learning from practice; authored scholarly works that have substantively affected the practice of management; and/or the integration of research and practice.
- SMS Educational Impact Award: The Educational Impact Award recognizes excellence in contributing to the teaching mission in strategic management. It will be given to an individual who has made an exemplary contribution to quality and innovation in the teaching of strategic management, either through their own teaching and mentoring activities and/or by empowering other teachers with innovations and high-quality teaching materials.
- SMS Emerging Scholar Award: Inaugurated in 2007, the prize is awarded to a relatively young or new scholar, who displays exemplary scholarship that promises to have an impact on future strategic management practice. This award recognizes a portfolio of work that suggests the candidate will make fundamental contributions to the way we think about knowledge essential to achieving durable organizational success. Contributions that complement existing strategic management theory with ideas from other fields and disciplines will be considered.
- SMS Service Award: The SMS Service Award is conferred in recognition of significant and enduring service that made an outstanding and distinguished contribution to the Strategic Management Society and its members. The recipient is a person who has rendered lengthy, significant, and effective service to the SMS and its members. Contributions can include volunteer or compensated work for the Society or the field.
