Since 1980, the Organization and Management Theory Division has been presenting the Distinguished Scholar Award to scholars 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. Taken together, the list of honorees reflects the diverse theoretical and personal backgrounds of the division.
2024 David Krackhardt (Carnegie Mellon University)
2023 William Ocasio (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2022 Barbara Gray (Pennsylvania State University)
2021 Paul Adler (University of Southern California)
2020 Ann Langley (HEC Montreal)
2019 Lynne Zucker (UCLA)
2018 Alan Meyer (University of Oregon)
2017 Jerry Davis (University of Michigan)
2016 John Meyer (Stanford University)
2015 Martha Feldman (UC Irvine)
2014 Royston Greenwood (Alberta University)
2013 Ed Zajac (Northwestern University)
2012 Linda Argote (Carnegie Mellon University)
2011 Joel Baum (University of Toronto)
2010 Dan Levinthal (University of Pennsylvania)
2009 Christine Oliver (York University)
2008 Woody Powell (Stanford University)
2007 Ronald Burt (University of Chicago)
2006 Stephen Barley (Stanford University)
2005 Joanne Martin (Stanford University)
2004 David Whetten (Brigham Young University)
2003 Michael Tushman (Harvard University)
2002 Kathy Eisenhardt (Stanford University)
2001 Jane Dutton (University of Michigan)
2000 Howard Aldrich (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
1999 Bob Hinings (University of Alberta)
1998 Paul Hirsch (Northwestern University)
1997 Andy Van de Ven (University of Minnesota)
1996 Henry Mintzberg (McGill University)
1995 Andrew Pettigrew (University of Oxford)
1994 Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard University)
1993 John Van Maanen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
1992 Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford University)
1991 Michael Hannan (Stanford University)
1990 Richard Cyert (Carnegie Mellon University)
1989 Mayer Zald (University of Michigan)
1988 W. Richard “Dick” Scott (Stanford University)
1987 Bill Starbuck (New York University)
1986 James March (Stanford University)
1985 John Child (University of Birmingham)
1984 Charles Perrow (Yale University)
1983 Eric Trist (University of Pennsylvania)
1982 Robert Kahn (University of Michigan)
1981 Karl Weick (University of Michigan)
1980 Paul Lawrence (Harvard University)
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