Award Recipients

Canada Research Chairs

Tier 1 Chairs are awarded to outstanding researchers and renowned by their peers as world leaders in their fields.

Alberta School of Business Recipients:

Jennifer Jennings, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Entrepreneurship, Gender and Family Business, 2020-2027
Michael Lounsbury, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2014-2021

Distinguished University Professor

The title of Distinguished University Professor is awarded to those individuals who have achieved outstanding distinction and scholarship in research, teaching and service to the academy and the community at large. It's one of the highest honours bestowed on an academic member.

Alberta School of Business Recipients:

Randall Morck, 2006

McCalla Professorships

The McCalla Professorships are named after the first Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. McCalla Professors are those who value excellence in teaching, acknowledge the importance of students, conduct themselves in an ethical manner, are collaborative, open to change, take pride in history and traditions and are committed to integrating their research and teaching.

Alberta School of Business Recipients:

Lukas Roth, 2020-21
Emily Block, 2019-20
Kyle Murray, 2018-19
Trish Reay, 2017-18
P. Devereaux (Dev) Jennings, 2016-17
Gerald Häubl, 2015-16
Armann Ingolfsson, 2014-15
Peter Popkowski Leszcyzyc, 2013-14
Marvin Washington, 2012-13
Jennifer Jennings, 2011-12

J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research

The University of Alberta's most prestigious research award - the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research is named for the University's first Vice-President (Research). Two awards are presented annually to recognize outstanding work in distinct fields of research for excellence in the general area of humanities, social sciences, law, education and fine arts and; for excellence in the sciences or engineering. The award recognizes and honours faculty members whose research contributions, fundamental and applied, add significantly to our knowledge base; faculty members who are recognized nationally and internationally for their scholarly accomplishments; and faculty members who set a standard of excellence for other University of Alberta faculty, graduate and undergraduate students and the community-at-large.

Alberta School of Business Kaplan Laureates:

Michael Lounsbury, 2020
David Cooper (Professor Emeritus), 2010
Randall Morck, 2009
Royston Greenwood (Professor Emeritus), 2006
C R (Bob) Hinings (Professor Emeritus), 2000
Alice Nakamura (Professor Emeritus),1992

Martha Cook Piper Research Prize

The Martha Cook Piper Research Prize award commemorates Dr. Piper's significant contribution to the research community while vice-president (research) and vice-president (research and external affairs) at the University of Alberta in the 1990s. The annual award recognizes two faculty members in the early stage of their careers who enjoy a reputation for original research and show outstanding promise as researchers.

Alberta School of Business Recipients:

Michael Lounsbury, 2009

Killam Annual Professorships

The Killam Annual Professorships were established in July 1991 to suitably acknowledge the generous Izaak Walton and Dorothy Killam bequest. The award is granted to faculty members based on the quality of their scholarly activities such as teaching, research, publications, creative activities, presented papers, and supervision of graduate students.

Alberta School of Business Recipients:

Kyle Murray, 2016
Gerald Häubl, 2014
David Cooper (Professor Emeritus), 2008
Lloyd Steier, 2007
Royston Greenwood (Professor Emeritus), 2001
C R (Bob) Hinings (Professor Emeritus), 1999
Michael Gibbins (Professor Emeritus), 1998

Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award

The Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award recognizes, promotes and supports outstanding and innovative faculty researchers at the University of Alberta whose academic work benefits the learning environment of their department and whose research has the potential to be of significance to society at large.

Recipients from the Alberta School of Business:

Joel Gehman, 2015
Kyle Murray, 2012
Michael Lounsbury, 2006
Stan Li, 2003
Gerald Häubl, 2000

Emily Block was appointed George M. Cormie Chair on July 1, 2019, for a five-year term

P. Devereaux Jennings won the Academy of Management, Social Issue in Management Division 2019 Best Book Award for "Re-Engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era"

Joel Gehman was named to the #thinklist Top 20 "most influential faculty thinkers on issues of responsible business"

Joel Gehman was appointed the Alberta School of Business Chair in Free Enterprise on July 1, 2019, for a five-year term

Joel Gehman and Vern Glaser's paper "Finding Theory-Method Fit" was named the most cited paper in the Journal of Management Inquiry over the past three years

Trish Reay was appointed TELUS Chair in Management on July 1, 2019, for a five-year term

Lukas Roth earned a Best Paper Award for his work titled "Insider Entrenchment and Corporate Sustainability Around the World" at the 2019 Financial Management Association's Global Finance Conference in Latin America

Joel Gehman received the Responsible Research in Management award for his article "Hidden Badge of Honor: How Contextual Distinctiveness Affects Category Promotion Among Certified B Corporations."

Joel Gehman received the 2018 Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management.

Joel Gehman's paper on "Patently secretly? Hydraulic fracturing patents and the containment of public risk information" was nominated for the Past President's Best Paper Award from the Western Academy of Management.

Royston Greenwood is named 2018 Highly Cited Researcher in Economics and Business by Clarivate Analytics. Dr. Greenwood has earned this title a remarkable five years in a row. This list showcases world-class researchers who are selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple high cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations in their field.

Gerald Haeubl's paper titled "Enacting rituals to improve self-control" received the 2018 Best Individual Paper Award at the Society for Consumer Psychology Conference.

Jennifer Jennings was awarded the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Review.

Michael Lounsbury was elected Fellow of the Academy of Management which recognizes and honours members who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management.

Michael Lounsbury is named 2018 Highly Cited Researcher in Economics and Business by Clarivate Analytics. World-class researchers on this list are selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple high cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations in their field.

Randall Morck received the Yangtze-River Scholar Award which is the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China.

Trish Reay was conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences for her work in healthcare management.

Lloyd Steier is ranked as the 4th most influential scholar in the field of family business in a recent study published in Scientometrics. This study maps and analyzes the scientific research networks of family business succession and co-authorship networks ranging from 1939 to 2017.

Ivor Cribben was a finalist for the Best Paper Award at the 16th International Business and Economy Conference.

David Deephouse was named Best Reviewer for the Journal of World Business, 2016.

Joel Gehman's paper "Hidden Badge of Honor: How Contextual Distinctiveness Affects Category Promotion Among Certified B Corporations" won the 2017 Responsible Research in Management Award co-sponsored by the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management and the International Association for Chinese Management Research.

Joel Gehman won the Roland Calori Prize for Best Paper in the journal Organization Studies for "Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited". This prize is awarded bi-annually by the European Group for Organization Studies for papers which display methodological quality and/or theoretical innovativeness and which reflect the diversity of social science perspectives as they relate to organizations and the organized. According to Web of Science, this was the #1 most-cited of 164 papers published in Organization Studies during the period covered by the Roland Calori Prize.

Joel Gehman received the 2017 ONE Emerging Scholar award from the Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the Academy of Management. This award "recognizes early career academics who have already made outstanding research contributions in the area of organizations and the natural environment, and who appear to have a strong potential to continue making such contributions in the near future."

Joel Gehman received the EFMD Case Writing Award in the Urban Transition Challenges category.

Royston Greenwood is among the top 1% most cited in Economics and Business and is named as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2017 by Clarivate Analytics. These researchers have distinguished themselves by publishing a high number of papers that rank in the top 1% most-cited in their respective fields over a recent 11-year period.

P. Devereaux Jennings was awarded the ONE Outstanding Service award by the Organizations and Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the Academy of Management. This award is given for exceptional leadership to the ONE Division.

Paul Messinger received an honourable mention (2nd Best Paper) in 2017 for Marketing Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada for "Risk Preferences and Probabilistic Discounts".

Trish Reay won the 2017 Myron D. Fottler Exceptional Service Award from the Academy of Management's Health Care Management division for exceptional service to the division and to the profession.

Lukas Roth's paper "Do Institutional Investors Drive Corporate Social Responsibility? International Evidence" won the Investment for Impact Research Prize in 2017 from the Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley-Haas. This award recognizes outstanding research pertaining to the social impact of capital.

Angelique Slade Shantz's paper titled "The opportunity not taken: Entrepreneurship as an occupational identity in contexts of poverty" published in the Journal of Business Venturing was a finalist for the Carolyn B. Dexter Award which is the Academy of Management's 'best paper' designation.

Sheng-Jun Xu won the Western Finance Association Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award in 2017.