That’s Interesting! Award

The winning paper must cross intellectual boundaries, challenge taken-for-granted assumptions, attract the reader's attention and make an original argument. – The prize is awarded at the following EGOS Colloquium.

Please note:

• Only full papers which have been uploaded via the EGOS submission system can be con­sidered for these awards!

• When uploading the full paper via the EGOS website, author(s) should indicate whether she/he/they would like this paper to compete for this award.
   

SHORT LIST for the That’s Interesting! Award 2023

• Chiara G. De Leo: Embroidering legitimacy: Exploring the interplay of materiality and visuality in times of turbulent institutional change
  [sub-theme 64: Qualitative Research with Archival Data]

• José Luis Estévez, Davor Salihović & Stoyan V. Sgourev: Ad extorquendum veritatem: Denunciations at inquisitorial trial in the 14th century
  [sub-theme 07: Beyond Social Relations – Different Forms and Shapes of Networks]

• Rajiv Maher & Simón Crisóstomo Loncopán: Repoliticizing spirituality: A collaborative autoethnography on decolonial identity formation in an environmental conflict
  [sub-theme 55: Organizing for Multiculturalism: Between Conflict and Inclusion]

• Mark van Vuuren & Boris H.J.M. Brummans: Festina lente: Organizational patience as a future-making practice
  [sub-theme 06: Performing the Future Communicatively: How What Does Not Yet Exist Already Makes a Difference]
   

SHORT LIST for the That’s Interesting! Award 2022

• Paolo Aversa, Alex Howard & Maria Makarova: The social attribution of innovation: Uncovering the heads behind the guillotine
  [sub-theme 05/2022: Valuation and Social Evaluations: Giving Value to Evaluations]

•  Harsh Kumar Jha, Vinayak Ram Tripathi, Neha Arora & Ankita Singh: Partnership building in extreme situations: Professional calling, moral emotions and community engagement during big cat rescue operations in human settlemen
  [sub-theme 14/2022: The Role of Emotions and Embodiment in Extreme Contexts]

• Bryan Spencer: Decoupled earning among medical trainees and artificial intelligence
  [sub-theme 44/2022: New Approaches to Organizing Collaborative Knowledge Creation]
   

SHORT LIST for the That’s Interesting! Award 2021

• Rohin Borpujari: Open secrecy and social capital in technological innovation: Managing collective secrecy in the making of the atomic bomb
  [sub-theme 33/2021: Historical Organization Studies in Action: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Social Innovation]

• Katharina Dittrich & Julius Kob: Financially redesigning the Anthropocene: The role of infrastructural work for climate risks and climate impact
  [sub-theme 30/2021: Financial Markets and Corporate Sustainability]

• Tapiwa Seremani, Antonio Giuliani & Carine Farias: “This is a witch hunt!” Fostering and solidifying contentious online group cultures in the face of platform regulation and restriction
  [sub-theme 02/2021: New Actors, Responsibilities, and Forms of Organizing in the Age of Digital Transformations]
   

SHORT LIST for the That’s Interesting! Award 2020

• Katie Bailey: Spatial practices in waiting and delay at work
  [sub-theme 01/2020: Organization & Time: Understanding the Past (and Future) in the Present]

• Michal Frenkel & Varda Wasserman: With God on their side: Gender–religiosity intersectionality and women’s workforce integration
  [sub-theme 28/2020: Inequality, Institutions, and Organizations]

• Manuel F. Ramirez & Gazi Islam: “I am the Socratic Gadfly”: How sustainability managers construct climate change imaginaries through imaginary work
  [sub-theme 36/2020: Organizing for Climate Change: The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation, and Suffering]
   

SHORT LIST for the That’s Interesting! Award 2019

• Kate Lockwood Harris & Karen Lee Ashcraft: Doing power, deferring difference: Gendered-raced processes and the case of Karen Barad
  [sub-theme 10: Doing Process Research: Approaching Power as Productive and Relational in Organizing]

• Arvind Karunakaran: Front-line professionals in the wake of social media scrutiny: A process model of obscured accountability in the digital age
  [sub-theme 08: Occupational Membership, Careers and Resources in Flux]

• Rasmus Koss Hartman, Anders Dahl Krabbe & André Spicer: Veblenian entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial economy
  [sub-theme 49: Dreams, Fictions and Calculations: Imagined Futures in Organizational Life]
   

SHORT LIST for the That's Interesting! Award 2018

• Lukas Löhlein & David Twardowski: Lists, Accounting and the (Un)Making of the Organization: Understanding Shifting Modes of Formalization within Germany’s ‘Refugee Welcome Movement’
  [sub-theme 62: (Re-)Producing Civil Society through Organizational Practices]

• R. Duncan M. Pelly: Sadism in Foreign Lands: The Burn Pit Atrocity
  [sub-theme 01: Ethnography: Surprises, Stories, Speaking Out]

• Adi Sapir: Mythologizing the Story of a Scientific Invention: Constructing the Legitimacy of Research Commercialization
  [sub-theme 48: More to Talk About: Unexpected Roles of Language in Organizing]
  
   

SHORT LIST for the That's Interesting! Award 2017

• Thijs Willems, Alfons van Marrewijk & Sierk Ybema: T.I.S. 3.1: The Management of Railroad Suicides
  [sub-theme 14: “De/Humanisation and Organization”]

• Juliane Reinecke & Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari: Targets as Allies or Adversaries: An International Framing Perspective on the “Activist’s Dilemma”
  [sub-theme 25: “The Political Organization of Markets: Social Movements, Stakeholders and Non-market Strategy”]

• Yousra Rahmouni Elidrissi: Bodies on the Line – Performing Embodied Politics in the French Climate Justice Movement
  [sub-theme 33: “Organizational Struggles over the Natural Environment”]
  
   

SHORT LIST for the That's Interesting! Award 2016

• Daniel Geiger & Anja Danner-Schröder: It’s all about Timing: Toward a Relational Understanding of Time in Routine Performance
  [sub-theme 03: “The Entrepreneurial Origins of Organizational Routines and their Impact on the Development of Organizations”]

• Simon Oertel: Structure Determined by Imprinting: The Diffusion of Diversity Management in German Universities
  [sub-theme 53: “Power over Modern Universities”]

• Hortense Blazsin: The Challenger Launch Decision, a Case Study of Organizational Deafness to Practical Wisdom
  [sub-theme 20: “Invisible/Silent Aspects of Change: The Role of Phronesis in Managing Organizational Change”]