The award was won for a joint paper "From shelter to emancipation: how disabled workers found their own voice through identity work" by Prof. Shaz Ansari (pictured) and Patricia Hein.
EGOS is a scholarly association which aims to further the theoretical and/or empirical advancement of knowledge about organizations, organizing and the contexts in which organizations operate. As a collective, one of its main aims is to maintain and provide a voice for the critical and analytical approaches of its members to the study of organization worldwide.
Since the 23rd EGOS Colloquium in Vienna in 2007, EGOS grants an annual prize for outstanding papers: EGOS Best Student Paper Award – sponsored by HEC Montréal, Canada, amounting to € 2,000. The paper must have a PhD student as its first author. The winning papers must display methodological rigor, theoretical relevance, innovativeness, and new insights into organizational phenomena. – The prizes are awarded at the following EGOS Colloquium.