Best paper and workshop awards for Cambridge Judge Business School faculty
A paper led by Karla Sayegh, Assistant Professor in Organisational Theory and Information Systems, won the Best Theory to Practice Paper Award, which recognises the potential of theoretical contribution to transform healthcare practice. The paper, entitled The Game of Rules: How Rules Are Negotiated to Enable Interprofessional Coordination, focuses on a Canadian hospital emergency department and its interactions with specialist wards amidst disruption. It examines how rules introduced to clarify task and role responsibilities can be bent by professional groups through forms of anticipatory gaming, leading to settlements that expedite joint work. Karla also received this award in 2018.
A professional development workshop (PDW) submission to the Academy of Management co-authored by Jochen Menges, Professor of Leadership at Cambridge Judge and the University of Zurich, was winner of the OB Division’s Best Broad Relevance PDW Award for 2026. The workshop was entitled Publishing Rigorous and Impactful Research on the Future of Work.
Cambridge Judge faculty shortlisted for Academy of Management book and journal awards
A book authored by Christopher Marquis, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at Cambridge Judge, was a finalist for the 2026 George R Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management. The book entltled The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs, looks at how taxpayers often foot the bill for environmental, social and other costs of companies, inflating their profits.
A paper authored by Madeleine Rauch, Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business, was a finalist in the Academy of Management Journal Best Article Award, for papers published in the Academy’s flagship journal. The paper entitled Between War and Peace: How Boredom Shapes the Enactment of Idealized Futures in Extreme Contexts, focused on United Nations peacekeepers, exploring how they navigate “tensions between their idealised aspirations to achieve peace and the often-mundane aspects of their fieldwork”. Madeleine was also nominated in the Best Student-Led Paper Award category for a paper entitled When Bonds Break: Restoring Meaningfulness in the Aftermath of Relationship Fractures, which examines how “relational injuries arising from violated expectations within interpersonal connections can threaten work meaningfulness and how people restore meaningfulness in the face of fractures”.
Featured faculty
Karla Sayegh
Assistant Professor in Organisational Theory and Information Systems
Jochen Menges
Professor of Leadership
Madeleine Rauch
Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business
Christopher Marquis
Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management
Featured research
Sayegh, K., Zhu, X. and Faraj, S. (2026) “The game of rules: how rules are negotiated to enable interprofessional coordination.” Academy of Management Proceedings
Marquis, C. (2024) The profiteers: how business privatizes profits and socializes costs.
Rauch, M. (2025) “Between war and peace: how boredom shapes the enactment of idealized futures at work.” Academy of Management Journal
Nguyen Trinh, E., Laryea, K. and Rauch, M. (2026) “When bonds break: restoring meaningfulness in the aftermath of relationship fractures.” Academy of Management Proceedings
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