Global Voices in DEI Award

Global Voices in DEI Award

Status: CLOSED Self-nominations encouraged Presented at the AOM Annual Meeting Former Sponsor: Emerald’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

This award recognizes outstanding research that advances Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) by centering perspectives, experiences, and knowledge from historically marginalized and underrepresented regions and communities. It is awarded to the conference paper that best expands and deepens global understanding of DEI through localized insight.

About the Award

This award advances the DEI agenda beyond current frontiers by recognizing scholarship that challenges dominant narratives, captures local realities, and expands what “global” DEI knowledge looks like in theory and practice.

We encourage self-nominations for papers that incorporate transnational or intersectional analyses and contribute to more inclusive, globally relevant DEI scholarship.

Eligibility Criteria

  1. At least one author must be based in and conducting research on a country or community that is underrepresented or has been historically marginalized in DEI research.
  2. Empirical studies are set in understudied contexts—particularly in the Global South and other similarly marginalized groups and regions in the Global North.

Paper Type Guidance

Submissions may be empirical, conceptual, or methods-focused. Strong submissions clearly align with the award’s aims:

  • Conceptual papers demonstrate theoretical alignment with the award’s objectives (e.g., indigenous perspectives, African philosophy, Latin American liberation theory, or other non-mainstream thinkers and perspectives from around the world).
  • Methods papers introduce or advance innovative approaches that support ethical, inclusive, and culturally sensitive DEI research across diverse communities and global contexts.

How to Nominate

Please follow the DEI Division awards process for conference paper awards when the call opens. Self-nominations are welcome, especially for work that elevates marginalized or underrepresented perspectives and contexts.

Tip: In your nomination statement, explicitly connect your paper to the eligibility criteria and explain how it extends DEI scholarship beyond dominant narratives.

Contacts

● Award Status: Closed

Award Committee
Chair: Charlotte Karam
Members: Florence Villeseche, Renata Casado

When nominations are open, submit materials following the DEI Division awards call and instructions for conference paper awards.

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Award Recipients

Browse recipients by year. Click a year to view the full paper title, recipients, runner-up details (when available), and committee information.

2025 Measuring He Aronga Takirua: The Cultural Double-Shift of Maori Workers

Paper Title: Measuring He Aronga Takirua: The Cultural Double-Shift of Maori Workers

Award Recipients:

  • Jarrod Haar, Massey University
  • Benjamin Webster Walker, Victoria University of Wellington

Committee: Sujana Adapa, University of New England; Charlotte Karam, University of Ottawa; Florence Villeseche, Copenhagen Business School

2023 Advocating For Women on Boards in the UK and Norway: Framing Processes and Actor Positions

Paper Title: Advocating For Women on Boards in the UK and Norway: Framing Processes and Actor Positions

Award Recipients: Elena Doldor, Queen Mary University of London; Catherine Selerstad, University of South-Eastern Norway

Runner Up:

Institutional forces and transnational transfer of diversity management

  • Sabeen Imran Ahmad, King’s College London

Committee: Chair: Florence Villesèche; Members: Minna Paunova, Martyna Sliwa, Hans van Dijk

2022 The Effects of Nationality Diversity on Leadership Perceptions in Multinational Teams

Paper Title: The Effects of Nationality Diversity on Leadership Perceptions in Multinational Teams

Award Recipients:

  • Gouri Mohan, Assistant Professor, IESEG School of Management
  • Minna Paunova, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School
  • Yih-Teen Lee, Professor, IESE Business School, University of Navarra

Committee Members:

  • Elena Doldor
2021 When women can't be who they are at work: Religious-based identity threat

Paper Title: When women can't be who they are at work: Religious-based identity threat

Award Recipients:

  • Bahareh Javadizadeh (Indiana State University)
  • Carol Flinchbaugh (New Mexico State University)
  • Yashar Salamzadeh

Committee Members:

  • Elena Doldor (Chair, Queen Mary University of London)
  • Maddy Wyatt (King's College London)
  • Brent Lyons (York University)
  • Tiffany Trzebiatowski (Colorado State University)
  • Mustafa Ozturk (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Saneesh Edacherian (Indian Institute of Management)
  • Barnini Bhattacharyya (University of British Columbia)
  • Ila Gupta Sinha (Indian Institute of Management)

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2020 Leadership by gender stereotypes: Systematic examination of culture and gender of leaders

Paper Title: Leadership by gender stereotypes: Systematic examination of culture and gender of leaders

Award Recipients:

  • Yeun Joon Kim, University of Cambridge
  • Sooyun Baik, London Business School
  • Soo Toh, University of Toronto
  • Yingyue Luan, University of Cambridge

Committee Members:

  • Doyin Atewologun (Chair, Cranfield U., UK)
  • Fatima Tresh Diane
  • Chilangwa Farmer
2019 Embrace Merit and Inclusion: Creative Gains from Linking Identity Conscious to Identity Blind Climate

Paper Title: Embrace Merit and Inclusion: Creative Gains from Linking Identity Conscious to Identity Blind Climate

Award Recipients:

  • Yang Yang
  • Hao Chen
  • Alison Konrad
  • Orlando Richard
  • Abdul Rahman Beydoun

Committee Members: Doyin Atewologun (Chair, Cranfield U., UK); Yuka Fujimoto (Sunway University, Malaysia); Mustafa Ozturk (Queen Mary U. of London)

2018 The Impact of Board Gender Diversity Policy on Women on Boards: An Institution-based View

Paper Title: The Impact of Board Gender Diversity Policy on Women on Boards: An Institution-based View

Award Recipients:

  • Shili Chen
  • Shibashish Mukherjee
  • Niels Hermes, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
  • Reginald Hooghiemstra, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Committee Members: Yvonne Benschop, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands; David Dwertmann, Rutgers University; Doyin Atewologun, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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2017 Sisters doing it for themselves? A Postfeminist critique of Entrepreneurship

Paper Title: Sisters doing it for themselves? A Postfeminist critique of Entrepreneurship

Award Recipients:

  • Susan Marlow
  • Helen Ahl

Committee Members: Kate Welch (Chair); Yvonne Benschop; Charlotte Karam

2016 Diversity branding: A five-country comparison of corporate websites

Paper Title: Diversity branding: A five-country comparison of corporate websites

Award Recipients:

  • Karsten Jonsen
  • Sebastien Point
  • Elizabeth K. Kelan

Committee Members: Isabel Metz (Chair); Ivona Hideg; Olaf Sigurjonsson; Estefania Santacreu-Vasut; Saskia de Klerk; Marios Katsiouloudes

2015 Affirming personal values facilitates women's success in business

Paper Title: Affirming personal values facilitates women's success in business

Award Recipients:

  • Zoe Kinias
  • Jessica Sim

Committee Members:

  • Isabel Metz (Chair)
  • Ivona Hideg
  • Saskia de Klerk
  • Marios Katsioloudes
  • Estefania Santacreu-Vasut
  • Olaf Sigurjonsson
  • Siegrid Guillaumon Dechandt
2014 A fair way to go? Gender pay gap at the executive level in Australia

Paper Title: A fair way to go? Gender pay gap at the executive level in Australia

Award Recipients:

  • Yoshio Yanadori
  • Jill Gould
  • Carol Kulik

Committee Members:

  • Lynn Shore (Chair)
  • Shani Carter
  • Daria Crawley
  • Corinne Post
  • Jennifer Spoor
  • Maria Fernanda Wagstaff
2013 Contradictory discourses and the identity work of mother managers

Paper Title: Contradictory discourses and the identity work of mother managers

Award Recipients:

  • Ioanna Lupu

Committee Members:

  • Lynn Shore (Chair)
  • Stella Nkomo
  • Ariane Ollier-Malaterre
  • Tripti Singh
  • Maria Fernanda Wagstaff
2012 An unrequited affinity between talent shortages and untapped female potential

Paper Title: An unrequited affinity between talent shortages and untapped female potential

Award Recipients:

  • Ahu Tatli
  • Joana Vassilopoulou
  • Mustafa Ozbilgin

Committee Members:

  • Lynn Shore (Chair)
  • Stella Nkomo
  • Ariane Ollier-Malaterre
  • Tripti Singh
  • Maria Fernanda Wagstaff
2011 When East goes West attracting Malaysians in Malaysia and in Australia using minority employees

Paper Title: When East goes West attracting Malaysians in Malaysia and in Australia using minority employees

Award Recipients:

  • Yin Lu
  • Ng Prashant
  • Bordia Carol Kulik

Committee Members:

  • Stella Nkomo (Chair)
  • Karen Korbaak
  • Ahu Tatli
  • Nelarine Cornelius
  • Yusuf Sidani

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