AoM best paper award to Marina Biniari
Marina Biniary (Aalto University), Quy N. Huy (INSEAD) and Davide Ravasi (UCL) presented their paper titled “Do we have time to change now? How tensions in valorizing time influence planned organizational change” at the Academy of Management Conference in August.
The paper was awarded the 2020 Best Paper Award of the Organizational Development and Change(ODC) Division at the AoM.
The ODC’s best paper award goes to a paper presented at the Annual Meeting that exemplifies overall quality; is novel and provides insightful theoretical and/or methodological contributions; is rigorous in logic, exposition, and/or research methods; and is of high relevance to the field of ODC.
In addition DIEM PhD student Jane Seppälä’s papers was chosen as a finalist for the Managerial and Organizational Cogniiton Division’s Best Submissions with Practical Implications for Organizations.
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