Judith Clair (center) and Katina Sawyer (right) accepting the 2022 Award for Outstanding Published Article in
POS from Julia Lee Cunningham (left).
The Kim Cameron Award for Outstanding Research in Positive Organizational Scholarship
The Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan invites nominations for the Kim Cameron Award for Outstanding Research in Positive Organizational Scholarship. This award is named for Dr. Kim Cameron, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations and the William Russell Kelly Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at the Michigan Ross School of Business. Kim’s work has examined how organizations achieve extraordinary performance over 45 years, touching on topics as broad ranging as virtuousness, downsizing, culture, and leadership excellence. The award will be given biennially in conjunction with the Positive Organizational Scholarship Research Conference.
The Center for Positive Organizations established this award to recognize outstanding published research and to inspire new work in the growing field of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS). Authors of the winning paper will be recognized at the Positive Organizational Scholarship Research Conference, held at the University of Michigan May 15-16, 2025.
Call for Nominations
Nominations open: November 15, 2024
Nominations close: January 15, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET
Nomination Requirements
The Kim Cameron Award for Outstanding Research in Positive Organizational Scholarship will be given for originality, contribution to the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship, quality of methodology and analysis, and potential to inspire additional POS research.
Nominations may come from authors of research papers written in English and published between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2024, or from others who wish to recognize research published in this timeframe for its excellence. All nominations must address an issue, theme, process, theory, or empirical question relevant to POS. All nominators will be asked to articulate the excellence of the research along with its link to POS. Outstanding research articles may use any methodology and may come from any discipline, though greater weight will be given to outstanding research that explores empirical questions rather than those engaged solely in literature review or theoretical aims.
Guidelines for nominators
- Please ensure your nomination addresses the criteria for the award.
Criteria for the Kim Cameron Award for Outstanding Research in POS include originality, contribution to the field of POS, quality of methodology and analysis, and potential to inspire additional POS research. - Please ensure that you are nominating outstanding research from the relevant time period for this award.
Nominations are invited for research articles that are:- Published between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2024, or
- Accepted for publication without contingencies, with a letter from a journal editor that specifies publication will happen between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2024
- Please articulate your logic for nominating the research as outstanding in Positive Organizational Scholarship.
The nomination form will ask you to specify how the research addresses key issues, themes, topics, empirical questions, or theories that are related to or relevant for advancing excellence in POS. - Please nominate broadly.
Award winning research may be based in any discipline, and may use any valid methodology, however, all nominations must be written in English. - Please invite others to participate.
You may nominate your own research article or you may nominate any research you find to represent excellence in the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship. If you believe someone should nominate an article, please share this call for nominations with them. - Please nominate before January 15, 2025.
The 2025 award cycle will close January 15, 2025. Please fully complete the nomination form and upload a PDF of the article on or before January 15, 2025, at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time Zone. - Please address questions to the Center for Positive Organizations.
You can reach us with questions about this award or nominations for the award via email: cpo-research-award@umich.edu.
Award Details
- All nominated articles will be reviewed by an advisory committee designated by the Center for Positive Organizations. Decisions of the advisory committee will be final.
- The winning author(s) will be invited to present their research at the 2025 Positive Organizational Scholarship Research Conference held at the University of Michigan May 15-16, 2025.
- Conference registration and customary travel expenses will be provided for up to two co-authors of winning papers.