DCDC Best Paper Award

DEADLINE: JANUARY 15

The University Council of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Programs, UCIRHRP, sponsors a student paper competition at the LERA Annual Meeting. New developments in employment relations, organizational behavior, and social movements call for a closer look at emergent processes, outcomes and organizational forms. The motivation for this special award is to reflect the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching emergent phenomena in the field. Examples include, but are by no means restricted to new forms of labor market institutions; diversity in organizations; social movements; and international/transnational actors and organizations.

WINNERS:

2022
Jianxuan Lei, University of Minnesota The Importance of Legal Strength for Trade Unions: Theory and Evidence in the Chinese Context

2021
Hyesook Chung Cornell University

2020
Yao Yao University of Toronto

2019 - Award not conferred 

2018
Sean O'Brady University of Montréal

 2017 - Award not conferred 

*We changed how our awards are dated - they will now be dated the year in which the award is presented. This change makes it look as though no awards were given in 2016

2015

• Qianyun Xie, University of Minnesota 

2014

• Mark Gough, Cornell University

2013

• Burcu Bölükbaşı and Eric Young, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2012

• Alan Benson, MIT

2011

• Sunanda Nayak, Management Development Institute

2010

• Erik Young, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
• Eun Kyung Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign