Update from the Research Committee
January 2026
By Veroniek Collewaert (Chair)
You may wonder what does the Research Committee really do? Allow me to shed light on the mystery! Every year, we receive submissions for the emerging scholar award (a combination of self-nominations and nominations by others), and the foundational paper award (nominations come from the ENT Division’s members). We also receive the top-rated candidates for the best paper awards (i.e. best empirical paper, best conceptual paper, best family business paper and best social entrepreneurship paper). Whereas the emerging scholar and foundational paper candidates are named candidates, the best paper awards remain anonymous to RC members.
All members of the RC vote for the foundational paper award. For all other categories, we split the work across RC members, ensuring every member votes for at least one other category. The number of nominees can vary. For instance, in 2025 we had 11 nominees for the Emerging Scholar Award, 12 nominees for the foundational paper award and best paper awards generally entail assessing 4 to max. 7 papers. Timing of evaluation is typically around end of April/early May. Let me also take this time to thank all the members of the Research Committee, who generously volunteer their time to go through the papers diligently!
I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce the new Chair of the Research Committee, who will be taking over from me after AoM 2026. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming Lien Denoo for taking over! I can definitely testify that it’s been fun to have a look behind the scenes of the awards we always get to watch (and maybe one day hope to win :-)) at AoM. Thanks Lien for stepping up!
Kind regards,
Veroniek
Chair of the ENT Research Committee