On July 6, 2017, the Roland Calori Prize was awarded for the eighth time at the 33rd EGOS Colloquium in Copenhagen, Denmark. Professors Fabrizio Ferraro (IESE Business School), Dror Etzion (McGill University), and Joel Gehman (Alberta School of Business) won the award for their paper, “Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited.” Read the paper here.

The Roland Calori Prize is awarded bi-annually by the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) for the best article published in the journal Organization Studies over the previous two years. Awarded in tribute to professor Roland Calori for his contributions to EGOS, Organization Studies, and EMLYON Business School, the prize recognizes papers that display methodological quality and theoretical innovation, reflecting the diverse perspectives of social sciences as they relate to organizational studies. In the spirit of Roland Calori’s own work, the prize reflects pluralism in research traditions and diversity of paradigms. The prize of €2,000 is sponsored by EMLyon.

The complete list of award winners is listed below:

Roland Calori Prize 2017

Fabrizio Ferraro, Dror Etzion, and Joel Gehman. Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited. Organization Studies, 2015, 36 (3), pp. 363–390.

Roland Calori Prize 2015

Ignasi Martí and Pablo Fernández. The Institutional Work of Oppression and Resistance: Learning from the Holocaust. Organization Studies, 2013, 34 (8), pp. 1195–1223.

Roland Calori Prize 2013

Nina Granqvist and Juha Laurila. Rage against Self-replicating Machines: Framing Science and Fiction in the US Nanotechnology Field. Organization Studies, 2011, 32 (2), pp. 253–280.

Roland Calori Prize 2011

Galit Ailon and Gideon Kunda. ‘The One-Company Approach’: Transnationalism in an Israeli-Palestinian Subsidiary of a Multinational Corporation. Organization Studies, 2009, 30 (7), pp. 693–712.

Roland Calori Prize 2009

Anne-Laure Fayard and John Weeks. Photocopiers and Water-coolers: The Affordances of Informal Interaction. Organization Studies, 2007, 28 (5), pp. 605–634.

Roland Calori Prize 2007

Lawrence G. Shattuck and Nita Lewis Miller. Extending Naturalistic Decision Making to Complex Organizations: A Dynamic Model of Situated Cognition. Organization Studies, 2006, 27 (7), pp. 989–1009.

Roland Calori Prize 2005

Anne-Wil Harzing and Arndt Sorge. The Relative Impact of Country of Origin and Universal Contingencies on Internationalization Strategies and Corporate Control in Multinational Enterprises: Worldwide and European Perspectives. Organization Studies, 2003, 24 (2), pp.187–214.

Roland Calori Prize 2003

Eero Vaara. On the Discursive Construction of Success/Failure in Narratives of Post-Merger Integration. Organization Studies, 2002, 23 (2), pp. 211–248.