RMD Past Award Recipients

Sage Publications/RMD Distinguished Career Award

Sage Publications/RMD/Lawrence R. James Early Career Achievement Award

Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award

2025: Gabriel, S., Podsakoff, N., Trougakos, J., Scott, B., Sonnentag, S., Beal, D., Butts, M. (2019). Experience sampling methods: A discussion of critical trends and considerations for scholarly advancement. Organizational Research Methods, 22, 969-1006.
2024: Grodal, S., Anteby, M., & Holm, A. L. (2021). Achieving rigor in qualitative analysis: The role of active categorization in theory building. Academy of Management Review, 46, 591-612.
2023: Hill, A. D., Johnson, S. G., Greco, L. M., O’Boyle, E. H., & Walter, S. L. (2021). Endogeneity: A review and agenda for the methodology-practice divide affecting micro and macro research. Journal of Management, 47, 105-143.
2022: Porter, C. O. L. H., Outlaw, R., Gale, J. P., & Cho, T. S. (2019). The use of online panel data in management research: A review and recommendations. Journal of Management, 45, 319–344.
2021: DeSimone, J. A., Harms, P. D., & DeSimone, A. J. (2015). Best practice recommendations for data screening. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36, 171-181.
2020: Newman, D. A. (2014). Missing data: Five practical guidelines. Organizational Research Methods, 17, 372-411.
2019: Preacher, K. J., Zhang, Z., & Zyphur, M. J. (2016). Multilevel structural equation models for assessing moderation within and across levels of analysis. Psychological Methods, 21, 189-205.
2018: Meade, A. W., & Craig, S. B. (2012). Identifying careless responses in survey data. Psychological Methods, 17, 437-455.
2017: Gioia, D. A., Corley, K. G., & Hamilton, A. L. (2012). Seeking qualitative rigor in inductive research: Notes on the Gioia methodology. Organizational Research Methods, 16, 15-31.
2016: Carlson, K. D., & Wu, J. (2012). The illusion of statistical control: Control variable practice in management research. Organizational Research Methods, 15, 413-435.
2015: Aguinis, H., Pierce, C. A., Bosco, F. A., & Muslin, I. S. (2009). First decade of Organizational Research Methods: Trends in design, measurement, and data-analysis topics. Organizational Research Methods, 12, 69-112.
2014: LeBreton, J. M., & Wittmer, J. L. S. (2008). Answers to 20 questions about interrater reliability and interrupter agreement. Organizational Research Methods, 11, 815-852.
2013: Edwards, J. R., & Lambert, L. S. (2007). Methods for integrating moderation and mediation: A general analytical framework using moderated path analysis. Psychological Methods, 12, 1-22.
2012: Harrison, D. A., & Klein, K. J. (2007). What's the difference? Diversity constructs as separation, variety, or disparity in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 32, 1198-1228.
2011: Boyd, B. K., Gove, S., & Hitt, M. A. (2005). Construct measurement in strategy research: Reality or illusion? Strategic Management Journal, 26, 239-257.
2011: Boyd, B. K., Gove, S., & Hitt, M. A. (2005). Consequences of measurement problems in strategy research: The case of Amihud and Lev. Strategic Management Journal, 26, 367-375.
2010: Newman, D. A., Jacobs, R. R., & Bartram, D. (2007). Choosing the best method for local validity estimation: Relative accuracy of meta-analysis vs. a local study vs. Bayes-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1394-1413.
2009: Aguinis, H., Beaty, J.C., Boik, R.J., & Pierce, C.A. (2005). Effect size and power in assessing moderating effects of categorical variables using multiple regression: A 30-year review. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 94-107.
2008: Edwards, J. R. (2002). Alternatives to difference scores: Polynomial regression analysis and response surface methodology. In F. Drasgow & N. W. Schmitt (Eds.), Advances in Measurement and Data Analysis (pp. 350-400).
2007: Edwards, J. R. (2001). Multidimensional constructs in organizational behavior research: An integrative analytical framework. Organizational Research Methods, 4, 144-192.
2006: Award withheld
2005: Vandenberg, R. J. & Lance, C. E. (2000). A review and synthesis of the measurement invariance literature: Suggestions, practices, and recommendations for organizational research. Organizational Research Methods, 3, 4-70.
2004: Cortina, J. M., Chen, G., & Dunlap, W. P. (2001). Testing interaction effects in LISREL: Examination and illustration of available procedures. Organizational Research Methods, 4, 324-360.
2003: Locke, K. & Golden-Biddle, K. (1997). Constructing opportunities for contribution: structuring intertextual coherence and 'problematizing' in organizational studies.Academy of Management Journal, 40, 1023-1062.
2002: James, L. (1998). Measurement of personality via conditional reasoning. Organizational Research Methods, 1, 131-163.
2001: Aguinis, H. & Stone-Romero, E. F. (1997). Methodological artifacts in moderated multiple regression and their effects on statistical power. Journal of Applied Psychology, 82, 192-206.

Organizational Research Methods Best Paper Award

Sage Publications/RMD Best Paper Award

2025: Separating Misapplication from Method in Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
- Lau Holgersen, Daniël Lakens, & Jesper Wulff
2024: Moderation in Response Surface Analysis: Current Shortcomings, Recommendations, and Software
- Leander De Schutter, Marius Can Dijke, & Jeffery Edwards
2023: Testing Interaction Effects: Overcoming the Limitations of the Product Term
- Torsten Biemann & Jeremy Dawson
2022: Would I Lie to You? Using Markov Chains to Detect Careless Responding to Survey Data
- Torsten Biemann, Irmela Koch-Bayram, & Madleen Meier-Barthold
2021: Building Theories From Qualitative Interview Research: How Many Interviews Do I Need?
- Kasper Elmholdt, Michael J. Gill, & Jeppe A. Nielsen
2020: Experimental Design for Mediation Tests
- Dan K. Hsu
2019: How much of a problem is omitted variable bias really? Examining strategy research with the ITCV
- John R. Busenbark, Daniel L. Gamache, Hyunjune (Elle) Yoon, S. Travis Certo, & Michael C. Withers
2018: Distinct Methods, Biased Nonetheless: Insufficient Effort Responding as a Potential Confound
- Jason L. Huang
2017: Insufficient Effort Responding as a Meaningful Construct and Partial Function of Latent Aggression
- Justin A. DeSimone, H. Kristl Davison, Jeremy L. Schoen, & Mark N. Bing
2016: Dichotomizing Network Data Can Change the Meaning of Actor Centrality
- Noah Eisenkraft
2015: On the Use of Spline Regression in the Study of Congruence in Organizational Research
- Jeff Edwards & Mark Perry
2014: Ooops, I’ve Got an Outlier in My Data – What Now? Using the Deviant Case Method for Theory Building
- Michael Gibbert, Lakshmi Naie, & Matthias Weiss
2013: The Chrysalis Effect: How Ugly Data Metamorphosize into Beautiful Articles
- Ernest O'Boyle, George banks, & Erik Gonzalez-Mulé
2012: When Often Becomes Always, and Sometimes Becomes Never: Miscomprehension in Surveys
- Ben Hardy & Lucy R. Ford
2011: On the Problems of Ratio Measures as Dependent Variable OLS Regression
- Robert M. Wiseman & Seungho Choi
2010: The Unfolding Model of Turnover, Research Design, and Analysis Choices: A Monte Carlo Study
- Craig J. Russell

SAGE/RMD Best Student Paper Award

2025: Augmented Inference Making: Organizing the Chain of Thought Trials from Perception to Conception
- Hassan Md Hamadi & Anna Brattström
2024: Improving Theory Testing with Nonlinear Control Variables
- Andreas Salmen & Diemo Urbig
2023: Using Counterfactuals for Theory Building in Management and Organization Studies
- Gizem Kadioglu, Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani, & Michael Gibbert
2022: Heterogeneity in Effect Sizes: An Assessment of the Current State of the Literature
- Sven Kepes, Wenhao Wang, & Jose Cortina
2021: The Application of the Difference-in-Differences Model in Strategic Management Research
- Chi Hon (John) Li & Trevis S. Certo
2020: Comparing Two Approaches to Testing Within-Level Interactions Using Panel Data
- Manuel J. Vaulont & Zhen Zhang
2019: 'Meh!': Examining Midpoint Endorsement Habitude (MEH) in Survey Research
- Tianjun Sun, Bo Zhang, Wei Ming Phan, Fritz Drasgow, & Brent W. Roberts
2018: Advancing Qualitative Meta-Analyses: A Realist and a Constructivist Approach
- Stefanie Habersang & Markus Reihlen
2017: When ANOVA Gets It Wrong: A Re-introduction of the Regression Discontinuity Design
- Nicolas Basratdoz
2016: A Critical Note on the Prevalent Use of the Standard Deviation as Diversity Measure
- Kim De Meulenaere
2015: Incorporating Effect Size Variation into Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modelling
- Jia Yu, Patrick Downes, Kameron Carter, & Ernest O'Boyle
2014: Formative Measurement when Indicators Contain Error: Analysis of Ten Alternative Approaches
- Mikko Rönkkö & Miguel Aguirre-Urreta
2013: Quantile Regression and its Application in Inequality Studies
- Mingxiang Li
2012: Tales Left Tails Tell: A Natural Experiment Involving the Truncation of Nonignorable Missing Data
- Richard Hunt & D. Lerner
2011: Using Propensity Score to Estimate Average Treatment Effect: A Review and a Practical Guidance
- Mingxiang Li
2010: Assessing the Relative Model-Data Fit
- Louis Tay, Usama S. Ali, Fritz Drasgow, & Bruce A. Williams

RMD Best PDW Award Winner

2025: Experimenting: Best Practices and Future Directions
- Organized by Denise Falchetti & Margaret Ormiston
2024: Unsilencing images in qualitative research: Giving voice to photographs with two hands-on activities
- Organized by Ace Beorchia & Anne Smith
- Presented by Ben Alexander, Hans Hansen, Sara R. S. T. A. Elias, & Jaewoo Jung
2023: Endogeneity: Myths, Legends, and Facts – Second Annual
- Organized by Elle Yoon & Daniel Gamache
- Presented by John Busenbark, Lindsey Greco, Scott Johnson, & Michael Withers