Each year OMT honors its outstanding members with awards. This year we call for nominations for the Distinguished Scholar Award and for the Trailblazer Award. Nominations should include a brief letter explaining the nature and extent of the nominee's contributions.
The Distinguished Scholar award is for an OMT Division member whose contributions have been central to the intellectual development of the field of organization studies. As individuals, each recipient embodies a career of scholarly achievement and has had a significant impact on OMT scholarship. For past Distinguished Scholar award winners, please see http://omtweb.org/awards/distinguished-scholar-award. For the Distinguished Scholar award, the nomination should point out contributions to and influence on OMT scholarship.
The biennial Trailblazer Award recognizes scholars who have taken a leadership role in the field of OMT by opening up new lines of thinking or inquiry. A Trailblazer is a boundary-spanner and a conversation starter, someone who extends and builds the OMT community by shepherding new ideas and new scholarship, often in unconventional ways. Actions that may indicate "trailblazing" behavior include starting up or moving forward a journal or scholarly series, organizing a conference or workshop, and beginning or continuing a conversation about a set of OMT ideas. For past Trailblazer award winners, please see http://omtweb.org/awards/joanne-martin-trailblazer-award. For the Trailblazer award, nomination letters should highlight activities that opened up new lines of inquiry, new journals or series of conferences and workshops that prompted new areas of inquiry.
Nominations should be emailed to the OMT Division Chair-Elect, Candace Jones (candace.jones@bc.edu ).
The deadline for all nominations is Friday, January 24th 2014. So please make your nominations now.
Sincerely,
Candace Jones
Division Chair-Elect