The EGOS Book Award, etablished by the EGOS Executive Board and sponsored by EGOS, was inaugurated at the 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It seeks to celebrate the linguistic diversity of scholarship in the field of organization studies performed with the depth and richness of detail afforded by a monograph.
The EGOS Book Award is granted annually to an authored book (no edited volumes or textbooks qualify), published in the three previous years –
for 2024: books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 – in a language spoken by EGOSians, which makes an original contribution to the
knowledge about organizations, organizing, and the organized. It attracts a prize of EUR 2,000. The short-listed books will
be reviewed in the EGOS journal Organization Studies and featured on the EGOS website.
The EGOS Book Award 2024 will be presented during the Awards Ceremony at the 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024 in Milan (Italy).
EGOS Book Award 2023: Winner
Jana Costas: Dramas of Dignity. Cleaners in the Corporate Underworld of Berlin
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022
SHORT LIST
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Beth A. Bechky. Blood, Powder, and Residue. How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021
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Jana Costas: Dramas of Dignity. Cleaners in the Corporate Underworld of Berlin
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Wendy K. Smith & Marianne W. Lewis: Both/And Thinking. Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2022
EGOS Book Award 2022: Winner
Erin Metz McDonnell: Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020
SHORT LIST
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Sanford M. Jacoby: Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021 -
Erin Metz McDonnell: Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020 -
Juliana Teixeira: Trabalho Doméstico
São Paulo: Jandaíra, 2022 -
Melissa Tyler: Soho at Work: Pleasure and Place in Contemporary London
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019
EGOS Book Award 2021: Winner
Kimberly Chong: Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018
SHORT LIST
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Mitchel Y. Abolafia: Stewards of the Market: How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020 -
Pia Bramming & Vibeke Andersen: Selvledende organisering
Frederiksberg: Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne, 2019 -
Kimberly Chong: Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018 -
Angèle Christin: Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms
Princton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020 -
Chengwei Liu: Luck: A Key Idea for Business and Society
London: Routledge, 2020
EGOS Book Award 2020: Winners
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Daniel Beunza: Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019 -
Kate Lockwood Harris: Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses
New York: Oxford University Press, 2019
SHORT LIST
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Daniel Beunza: Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019 -
Antonio A. Casilli: En attendant les robots: Enquête sur le travail du clic
Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2019 -
Kimberly Chong: Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018 -
Kate Lockwood Harris: Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses
New York: Oxford University Press, 2019 -
Peter Payer: Der Klang der Großstadt: Eine Geschichte des Hörens. Wien 1850–1914
Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2019 -
Anne Vorre Hansen & Sabine Madsen: Theorizing in Organization Studies: Insights from Key Thinkers
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019
EGOS Book Award 2019: Winner
Philippe Lorino: Pragmatism and Organization Studies
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
SHORT LIST
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Tricia Cleland Silva: Transnational Management and Globalised Workers. Nurses Beyond Human Resources
London: Routledge, 2018 -
Marianna Fotaki & Nancy Harding: Gender and the Organization. Women at Work in the 21st Century
London: Routledge, 2018 -
Philippe Lorino: Pragmatism and Organization Studies
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 -
Fabrizio Montanari: Ecosistema creativo. Organizzazione della creatività in una prospettiva di network
Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2018
EGOS Book Award 2018: Winners
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Mark de Rond: Doctors at War. Life and Death in a Field Hospital
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017 -
Danièle Linhart: La comédie humaine du travail. De la déshumanisation taylorienne à la sur-humanisation managériale
Toulouse: Érès, 2015
SHORT LIST
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Mark de Rond: Doctors at War. Life and Death in a Field Hospital
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017 -
Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek & Paul Spee: Making a Market for Acts of God. The Practice of Risk-Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015 -
Danièle Linhart: La comédie humaine du travail. De la déshumanisation taylorienne à la sur-humanisation managériale
Toulouse, France: Érès, 2015 -
Damian P. O’Doherty: Reconstructing Organization. The Loungification of Society
London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 -
Andreas Reckwitz: Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten. Zum Strukturwandel der Moderne
Berlin, Germany: Suhrkamp, 2017
EGOS Book Award 2017: Winners
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Roland Paulsen: Empty Labor. Idleness and Workplace Resistance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014 -
Izabela Ślęzak: Praca kobiet świadczących usługi seksualne w agencjach towarzyskich [The Work of Female Sex Workers in Escort Agencies]
Lodz: University of Łódź Press, 2016
SHORT LIST
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Roland Paulsen: Empty Labor. Idleness and Workplace Resistance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014 -
Paul du Gay & Signe Vikkelsø: For Formal Organization. The Past in the Present and Future of Organization Theory
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016 -
Alaric Bourgoin: Les Équilibristes. Une ethnographie du conseil en management [The Equilibrists: An Ethnography of Management Consulting]
Paris: Presses des Mines, 2015 -
Izabela Ślęzak: Praca kobiet świadczących usługi seksualne w agencjach towarzyskich [The Work of Female Sex Workers in Escort Agencies]
Lodz: University of Łódź Press, 2016 -
Jana Costas & Christopher Grey: Secrecy at Work. The Hidden Architecture of Organizational Life
Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2016
Nominations, selection process, rules and time schedule
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A nomination for a book can be made by any active EGOS member with fluency in the language in which the nominated book is written. Self-nominations by the author(s) will not be accepted. Books authored by EGOS Board members cannot be considered for the award during their mandate.
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A nomination for the EGOS Book Award 2024 should consist of a book appraisal in English of approx. two pages in length.
Please email it to the EGOS Executive Secretariat executive-secretariat@egos.org, noting “EGOS Book Award 2024” in the email’s heading.
Submission period: September 1, 2023 to February 28, 2024. -
The Award Committee is chaired by (a) representative(s) appointed by the EGOS Executive Board and includes EGOSians who are renowned authors of academic books. The Committee will assign two evaluators to the short-listed books with fluency in the book’s language and will finally select the winner.
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In addition to the nominations submitted via email, to ensure a range of books for the selection, the Committee’s chair(s) will delegate a selected number of EGOSians as ‘book scouts’ in different languages who will be asked to nominate books.
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The EGOS Book Award 2024 will be awarded at the 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024 in Milan.