2021 Responsible Research Roundtable Participant Biographies Brief Biography Group Robert Allen is a Professor and David Eccles Faculty Scholar at the University of Utah, and in 2020, Bob was elected President-Elect of the American Accounting Association. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Utah Outstanding Educator Award and the American Accounting Association/Deloitte…
2021 “Responsible Research in Management” Award Finalists (8) Barberá-Tomás, D., Castelló, I., De Bakker, F. G., & Zietsma, C. (2019). Energizing through visuals: How social entrepreneurs use emotion-symbolic work for social change. Academy of Management Journal, 62(6), 1789-1817. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2017.1488 Plastic pollution is concerning to many but turning such anxiety into concrete action is…
2021 “Responsible Research in Management” Award Winners (9) DesJardine, M. R., Marti, E., & Durand, R. (in press). Why activist hedge funds target socially responsible firms: The reaction costs of signaling corporate social responsibility. Academy of Management Journal, DOI: 10.5465/amj.2019.0238 This study shows that activist hedge funds disproportionately target socially responsible firms. Such targeting…
“Responsible Research in Management Award” 2020 Winners Webinar Series Third Webinar: December 11, 2020, Friday, 11am-1pm AZ; 1-3 pm NY time; 6-8 pm UK If you want to learn how to conduct award-winning research that can also potentially change the world for the better, this webinar series is for you! The IACMR-RRBM award…
2020 Ideas Worth Reaching Awards by the Aspen Institute The Ideas Worth Teaching Awards seek to honour exceptional teaching that prepares students with the context, skills and mindset to respond to the complexity and rapidly changing issues embedded in our economic and social systems – from inequality, to climate change, to the expansion of…
M&SOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management The 2020 Recipients of the M&SOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management are: Itai Ashlagi (MIT) and Peng Shi (USC Marshall School of Business) for the article Optimal Allocation Without Money: An Engineering Approach and Retsef Levi (MIT), Manoj Rajan (Rashtriya e Market Services Private…
2021 Responsible Research Roundtable Biographies of Speakers and Chairs Ruben Atekpe (Speaker) is Executive Chairman, Merchant Company of West Africa (MECOWA). An accomplished entrepreneur and investment advisor focused on opportunities for socioeconomic development and growth in Ghana and other parts of Africa, Ruben serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global…
2021 M&SOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management The purpose of responsible research is to encourage studies contributing knowledge that may have implications for making the world a better place by informing evidence-based, high quality and societally beneficial organizational practices across business, government and non-government organizations. 2021 Committee Zeynep Aksin Karaesmen Ravi…
2021 “Responsible Research in Management” Award Distinguished Winners (4) Bazerman, M. H. (2020). Better, not perfect: A realist’s guide to maximum sustainable goodness. New York, NY: HarperCollins. Much has been written about ethics from a variety of disciplines, with the most dominant influence from philosophers. Philosophers offer normative accounts of what they think people…