The W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship is granted for an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work in an article published within the last three years (2020, 2021, 2022).  An article may be nominated by its author(s) or by any ASA member.

To nominate an article, send (1) a PDF file of the article or a functioning URL where it can be accessed, (2) a letter (PDF or MSWord) of no more than one page justifying the nomination, and (3) contact information for the nominee (including email), to the selection committee. Publication date is based on print publication for traditional journals (i.e., not online-first date), and release date for online-only journals. To receive full consideration, nominations must be submitted by March 31, 2023.

Please submit your nomination to the members of the Thompson Award Committee:

Jiwook Jung (chair)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

jwjung@illinois.edu

Adilia James     

Endicott College

adilia.james@gmail.com

Barbara Kiviat

Stanford University

bkiviat@stanford.edu

The Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship is granted for an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and work in a book published within the last three years (2020, 2021, 2022). Self-nominations are permitted; however, all nominations must come from members in good standing of the OOW Section. Nominated candidates need not be members of the OOW Section or the ASA in order to be eligible for the award.

To nominate a book, mail each member of the selection committee at the addresses below: (1) a hard copy of the book; and (2) a nomination letter that states how the book contributes to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and work and provides the nominee’s email address and other contact information. To receive full consideration, nominations must be received by March 31, 2023.

Please submit your nomination to each of the members of the 2023 Weber Book Award Committee:

Amy Binder (Chair)

840 24^th Street

San Diego, CA 92102

abinder@ucsd.edu

Melissa Abad

585 W Hacienda Ave, Apt 109

Campbell, CA 95008

mabad2@stanford.edu

Eric Dahlin

2927 Rensselaer Ct

Vienna, VA 22181

eric.dahlin@byu.edu

Minjae Kim

McNair Hall #238

Rice University

6100 Main Street

Houston, Texas, 77005-1892

minjaekim@rice.edu

The James D. Thompson Award is given for an outstanding graduate student paper in the area of organizations, occupations, and work (OOW) written or published within the last three years (2020, 2021, 2022). Authors may nominate themselves, or section members may do so. However, all submitted nominations must come from members in good standing with the OOW Section or the ASA in order to be eligible for the award. In addition, the award recipient serves for one year on the section Council and receives $500 for travel to a professional meeting.

 To nominate a paper, please submit the following materials via e-mail:

• PDF file of the paper,
• Nomination letter (PDF format) indicating how the paper contributes to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and work, and
• Contact information for the nominee (including email).

To receive full consideration, the committee Chair should receive the nomination materials by March 31, 2023 – Please use Thompson Paper Award Nomination as the subject for the email.  The full committee includes:

Laura López-Sanders (Chair)

Brown University

laura_lopez-sanders@brown.edu

prabhdeep singh kehal

University of Wisconsin, Madison 

kehal@wisc.edu

Laura Garbes

University of Minnesota- Twin Cities

garbes@umn.edu

Daniel Auguste

MIT Sloan School of Management

augustep@mit.edu

The Distinguished Career Award recognizes and celebrates a career of outstanding contributions to the area(s) of organizations, occupations, and/or work. Nominations are judged on the depth and breadth of scholarly impact over an extended time and across multiple projects.

Section members may nominate a distinguished scholar by sending the following information to the selection committee: (1) a letter of nomination, which outlines the candidate’s scholarly contributions to the field, (2) a copy of the candidate’s most recent curriculum vitae, and (3) contact information for the nominee (including email address). Nominators also have the option of sending a portfolio of up to 10 of the nominee’s electronic publications. All nomination materials should be in pdf or word format and submitted as attachments to a single email.

To receive full consideration, nominations must be submitted by March 31, 2023.

Please submit your nomination via email to each of the members of the 2023 Distinguished Career Award Committee:

Erin Cech (chair)

University of Michigan

ecech@umich.edu

Oneya Okuwobi

University of Cincinnati

okuwobof@ucmail.uc.edu

Eunmi Mun

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

eunmimun@illinois.edu

David Embrick

University of Connecticut

david.embrick@uconn.edu

Megan Tobias Neely

Copenhagen Business School

mne.ioa@cbs.dk

Congratulations to this year’s OOW Award Winners!

Max Weber Award: The Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship is granted for an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work in a book published within the last three years (2013-2015).

Winner: Lauren Rivera (Northwestern) for her book Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs

Committee: Kate Kellogg (Chair), Mike Lounsbury, Martin Ruef, Vicki Smith 

Thompson Award: The James D. Thompson Award is given for an outstanding graduate student paper on organizations, occupations, and work written in the three years prior to the award (January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015).

Winner: Benjamin Shestakofsky (UC, Berkeley) “High-Tech and High-Touch: The Labor Behind the Screens of an Online Market.”

Honorable mention: Patrick Reilly (UCLA) “The Layers of a Clown: Career Development in Cultural Production Industries.”

Committee: Michel Anteby (chair), David Pedulla, Pam Tolbert

Scott Award: 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 (January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015).

Winner: DiBenigno, J., and Kellogg, Katherine C. (MIT) “Beyond occupational differences the importance of cross-cutting demographics and dyadic toolkits for collaboration in a US hospital.” Administrative Science Quarterly.

Honorable mention: Mears, Ashley (Boston University) “Working for Free in the VIP Relational Work and the Production of Consent.” American Sociological Review.

Committee: Lisa Cohen (Chair), Emily Erikson, Andras Tilcsik