Top international award for WBS academic
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One of the most sought-after and coveted international awards for academic faculty working in the field of management is the annual Best Article Award given by the academic journal, Academy of Management Review. The US-based journal is one of the top two academic journals in all of management, by citations and on most other measures. Previous winners include renowned academics from schools such as Harvard Business School, the Wharton School and Columbia.
It is therefore with some pride and pleasure that Dr Michael Mol, Associate Professor of Strategy at WBS, recently heard that he and his London Business School co-authors Julian Birkinshaw and Gary Hamel have won the 2008 Academy of Management Review Best Article Award for their article Management Innovation.
The article describes how management innovation, the creation and implementation of new management practices, occurs through a process driven by change agents both inside and outside the firm. It fills a gap in the management literature, which had previously mostly talked about isolated innovations and about how management innovations spread to other organisations after they have been created. It also brings to the forefront the need for organisations to be innovative in their management practices, as much as they are in their products and business processes.
Michael commented, "I am obviously very pleased to have received the Award - it is certainly the highlight of my academic career so far. We hope that our work will have an impact not only on the world of academia but also on practice where new management practices get invented all the time. And I believe that academics, including us here at Warwick Business School, can help firms in their efforts to do so."
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