Awards
ERIM Top Article Award and ERIM Impact Award 2007
Rotterdam, December 13, 2007 --- At the 6th annual ERIM Awards Presentation Ceremony, ERIM (the Erasmus Research Institute of Management) honoured its best researchers and the best research support officer The prizes are divided in different academic disciplines like the Dissertation Award, the Book Award and the Impact Award.
Ale Smidts, Scientific Director of ERIM started the Ceremony by looking back on this year’s milestones. The 100th PhD defense, the positive results of the midterm review, the opening of the Erasmus Behavioral Lab and the doubling of the publications in top journals show that there is a vibrant research environment and is a good indicator of the viability of the research institute.
The ERIM Awards were presented by Professor Steven Lamberts ,the Rector Magnificus of the Erasmus University. He stated that ERIM is quickly becoming one of the most outstanding research schools in Europe, thanks to the increasing impact and quality of its publications.
The ERIM Top Article Award was granted twice this year. The first award went to Justin Jansen, Frans van den Bosch & Henk Volberda for their article: “Exploratory innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance: Effects of Organizational Antecedents and Environmental Moderators” published in Management Science. According to the jury, the study was meticulously implemented and the paper was carefully crafted, and is a significant contribution to the growing literature on exploration and exploitation. Volberda has now a ‘grand slam’: over the years he has won the ERIM Book Award, the Impact Award and now the Top Article Award.
The second top article award went to Hans van Oosterhout, Pursey Heugens and Muel Kaptein for their article: “The Internal Morality of Contracting: Advancing the Contractualist Endeavor in Business Ethics” published in the Academy of Management Review. According to the jury, this conceptual article is truly interdisciplinary, combining knowledge and insights from: management, law, political theory, economics and philosophy. As few Dutch scientists publish in AMR, this can considered a landmark achievement.
The ERIM Impact Award went to Henk Volberda, Frans van den Bosch and Justin Jansen for their research on Social Innovation as exemplified in their study Slim Managen en Innovatief Organiseren. The jury consisting of top managers from business said that social innovation is all about ‘smart labor’ as answer to ‘cheap labor’. By proving the effectiveness of social innovation, this research stimulates companies to organize smartly.
Volberda en Van den Bosch have won the Impact Award now for the third time. Moreover, Justin Jansen is on the way of a ‘super grand slam’: he has won the ERIM Dissertation Award last year, and now the Top Article and Impact Award. Only a Book Award and the Young Researcher Award are still lacking for a ‘”five-leaf clover”.
