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The 2015 O&E Best Paper Award is the second of the Annual O&E Best Paper Awards. The prize is awarded to an outstanding paper published in O&E in the preceding three calendar years (2012, 2013, and 2014). The prize committee is comprised of the two O&E Co-Editors in Chief and two selected members of the O&E Editorial Board. Their decision will be based on the academic impact of the paper and it would specially consider both the number and the significance of the citations received by the paper. 

The recipient(s) of the award receives a certification and a prize of US$250 (to be split amongst the authors of a co-authored paper). Funding for this award is provided by SAGE Publications. The prize will be announced at the O&E editorial board meeting in the 2015 Academy of Management Meeting. Paper nominations have to be emailed to the O&E Co-Editors in Chair by the first author of the paper before April, 15th 2015. The nomination should include the complete reference of the paper and a brief supporting statement (maximum one page), and nominator information. 

Past winner: 

* 2014 O&E Best Paper Award: 

Hoffman, A.J. (2011): "Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate", Organization & Environment, vol. 24 no. 1 pp. 3-33. 

See the paper: http://oae.sagepub.com/content/24/1/3.full.pdf+html 

*** The 2015 Schneider-Electric Sustainability and Business Strategy Chair Award, to the Organization & Environment most outstanding article in term of relevance to management practice 

The Schneider-Electric Sustainability and Business Strategy Chair Award at IESE Business School recognizes the most outstanding article of the year in term of relevance to management practice published in the academic journal "Organization & Environment" (O&E) in 2014. This award is intended to encourage papers relevant to the praxis of environmental management by clearly addressing research questions pertinent to the translation of theory to executives and managers. In addition this criterion, the paper should exhibit soundness of the conceptual development, originality and new contribution(s), and appropriate methodology well applied. 

The winner receives an award plaque and a 250 Euros cash award from the Chair. In addition, the winning author/s will be invited to be part of the selecting committee for the subsequent edition of the award. The prize will be announced at the O&E editorial board meeting in the 2015 Academy of Management Meeting. Authors of eligible papers should identify their papers for consideration of this award by sending an email to chair.schneider-electric@iese.edu by no later than May 15th. A committee headed by Prof. Pascual Berrone (Holder of the Chair) and comprised of a Schneider-Electric representative, and the Editors in Chief of the O&E (Prof. Alberto Aragon-Correa and Mark Starik) selects the winner. 

Past winner: 

2014 - Elisabeth Albertini: "Does Environmental Management Improve Financial Performance? A Meta-Analytical Review", Organization & Environment, December 2013, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 431-457. 

See the paper: http://oae.sagepub.com/content/26/4/431.abstract