The W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship is granted for an outstanding contribution to the discipline in an article on organizations, occupations and work published within the last three years. The committee will accept nominations for papers published any time from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2012. The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2013. Authors may nominate themselves, or section members may do so. To nominate a paper, send (1) a PDF file of the paper or a functioning URL where it can be accessed, (2) a letter (PDF, Word) justifying the nomination, and (3) contact information for the nominee (including email) to each member of the selection committee.

The contact for the 2013 Scott Award Committee is:

Ruthanne Huising
Desautels Faculty of Management
McGill University
1001 Sherbrooke Street West,
Montréal, Québec, H3A 1G5
514-398-2438
ruthanne.huising@mcgill.ca

Other members of the Scott committee are:

Ezra Zuckerman, MIT

Lindsay Owens, Stanford

Debra Osnowitz, Clark

2012 Winner

2011 Winner
Matt L. Huffman, Philip N. Cohen, and Jessica Pearlman. 2010. “Engendering Change: Organiza- tional Dynamics and Workplace Gender Desegrega- tion, 1975–2005.” Administrative Science Quarterly 55: 255–277.

2010 Winner
Alexandra Kalev. 2009. “Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequality at Work.” American Journal of Sociology 114(6): 1591-1643.

2009 Winner
David Stark and Balazs Vedres. 2006. “Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary.” American Journal of Sociology 111(5): 1367-1411.

2008 Winner
Brian Uzzi and Jarrett Spiro. 2005. ”Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem.” American Journal of Sociology 111(2):447-504.

2007 Winner
David Obstfeld. 2005. ”Social Networks, The Tertius Iungens Orientation, and Involvement In Innovation.” Administrative Science Quarterly 50(1):100-130.

2006 Winner
Brian Uzzi and Ryon Lancaster. 2004. ”Embeddedness and Price Formation in the Large Law Firm Market.” American Sociological Review 69:319-344.

2005 Winner
Hayagreeva Rao, Phillipe Monin and Rodolphe Durand. 2003. “Institutional Change in Toque Ville : Nouvelle Cuisine as an Identity
Movement in French Gastronomy.” American Journal of Sociology 108(4):795-843.
Vincent J. Roscigno and Randy Hodson. 2004. “The Organizational and Social Foundations of Worker
Resistance.” American Sociological Review 69(1):14-39.

2004 Winner
Kim A. Weeden. 2002. ”Why Do Some Occupations Pay More than Others? Social Closure and Earnings Inequality in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 108(1):55-101.

2003 Winner
Isin Guler, Mauro Guillen and John MacPherson. 2002. ”Global Competition, Institutions and the Diffusion of Organizational Practices: The International Spread of the ISO 9000 Quality Certificates.” Administrative Science Quarterly 47(2):207-232.