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IACMR Dare to Care Junior Scholar Award

IACMR Dare to Care Junior Scholar Award

IACMR
Is proud to announce the NEW

Dare to Care Junior Scholar Award
To be presented at the 2027 IACMR Conference in Hong Kong

Call for Nominations
Nominations can be submitted online at www.iacmr.org/dare to care
Submission period: January 15, 2027 to February 15, 2027.

IACMR invites nominations for the new IACMR Dare to Care Research Junior Scholar Award. Please read the following detailed information on the purpose of this Award, criteria that will be used to evaluate nominations, and the nomination process.

I. Purpose of this Award

The IACMR Dare to Care Junior Scholar Award recognizesscholars who are within eight years of completing their doctoral dissertation and whose scholarship demonstrates an exceptional commitment to responsible research, particularly research addressing the well-being. welfare, or the quality of life of stakeholders beyond shareholders.

Award winners will receive a certificate and a cash award. More importantly, they will join a community of Dare to Care Scholars who learn from and support one another as they shape the future of management research to take on the grand challenges facing our world.

Dare to Care Scholars seek to make the world a better place by producing credible knowledge with robust evidence which can be used with confidence to inform practices that improve the economic, social, or psychological well-being of stakeholders who have traditionally received less research attention than shareholders (Co-founders of RRBM, 2017, 2020; McGahan, 2018; Tsui, 2013; Tsui & Jia, 2013; Tsui, 2022; Tsui & Jia, 2024; Walsh, Weber & Margolis, 2003). By focusing on the well-being of stakeholders such as employees, customers, and communities, Dare to Care scholars demonstrate a strong commitment to both science – by producing credible knowledge – and society – by generating knowledge that is useful in practice toward a better world.

This Award also advances one of IACMR’s four core values: Responsible Scholarship.

II. Criteria for the Award

  1. Eligibility: The Dare to Care Junior Scholar Research Award is open for scholars who are within eight years of completing their doctoral dissertation. The scholar must hold an academic position with research as one of his or her primary professional responsibilities. The scholar being nominated also must be a fee-paying member of IACMR.
  • Societal relevance. Research that focuses on one or more of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) exemplifies the types of topics recognized by the Dare to Care Award. Especially relevant for this Award are studies that contributes to Goals 1 (No Poverty), Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), Goal 4 (Quality Education), Goal 5 (Gender Equality), Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), Goal 10 (Reduced Inequality), Goal 13 (Climate Actions), and Goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions). However, eligible topics are not limited to the SDGs.
  • Scientific credibility. The nominee’s record of research demonstrates methodological rigor, including careful attention to data and sample quality, and appropriate analytical methods. Of special interest are intervention-based field studies, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that robustly test theory-informed interventions (e.g., actions, policies, or programs), and research that uses multiple methods to address the well-being issues at the individual or collective levels. The quality of the journals in which the work is published may serve as a useful, though imperfect, indicator of scientific quality.
  • Responsible research. The nominee’s body of work exemplifies the seven principles of responsible research, which provide guidance for designing research that generates both credible and useful knowledge. 
  • A program of research. The nominee’s research record demonstrates a coherent program of research rather than a collection of articles on unrelated topics. This program of research may be reflected in publications in academic journals, as well as in monographs, policy papers, or books. Taken together, the nominee’s research should have the potential to make the world a better place by addressing conditions that impede or improve the well-being of relevant stakeholders. Studies of the same issue across different settings or at different levels of analysis, including the individual, group, organization, and societal levels, can also constitute a coherent program of research.
  • Managerial implications: The nominee’s body of published research generates knowledge or ideas to inform organizational or managerial actions, programs, or policies aimed at improving the well-being of stakeholders such as employees, managers, customers, or citizens in the societies.
  • Impact on practice: The nominee demonstrates the use of the research-based knowledge in teaching, advising, or consulting. This impact on practice also can be shown in papers published in practice-oriented outlets.
  • Conference attendance: The Award winner agrees to attend the 2027 IACMR Conference in Hong Kong to receive the Award. The Award winner also must be willing, if invited, to present his or her research on the Dare to Care topic at the 2027 IACMR Conference.

In summary, to be eligible for this Award, the nominee’s body of research must:

  1. Address timely managerial, organizational, or societal conditions that affect the well-being or quality of life of stakeholders;
  2. Demonstrate strong credibility through rigorous research methods and robust findings;
  3. Generate actionable insights to inform policies or practices that improve the well-being of individuals, groups, communities, or societies; and
  4. Demonstrate engagement with practice, such as developing programs or training, or providing advice to executives, managers, or policy makers.

III. Nomination Process

  1. Each nomination must be supported by two independent nomination letters. The primary nominator is responsible for submitting both nomination letters, along with the nominee’s CV and two representative publications.
  2. The nominator must prepare the signed nomination letter on the nominator’s official university letterhead.
  3. Each nomination letter must explain how the nominee meets the criteria outlined above for this Dare to Care Junior Scholar Award.
  4. Each nominator must state their academic or professional position, university affiliation, and relationship to the nominee. The nomination letter must also include a declaration confirming that the nominator is not the nominee’s doctoral dissertation advisor, current supervisor, or research collaborator.
  5. The two nomination letters, the nominee’s CV, and the two publications, all in PDF format, must be submitted before February 15, 2027, through the webpage XXXX.
  6. The nomination may be submitted in either English or Chinese.
  7. Self-nominations are not accepted.

IV. Evaluation of Applications

The Dare to Care Research Award Committee will evaluate and select the Award winners. The Committee comprises senior scholars and accomplished professors who are committed to the principles of responsible research that addresses Dare to Care topics. The co-chairs of the Committee are Prof. Runtian Jing (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) and Prof. Jia Lin Xie (University of Toronto, Canada).

The Award winners will be notified no later than April 15, 2027.

  • Resources on Responsible Research and Dare to Care Scholarship

The following resources may help prospective nominators better understand the concepts of responsible research and Dare to Care scholarship.

This webpage provides information about the winners of the Responsible Research in Management Award, sponsored by IACMR from 2018 to 2020 and by the Academy of Management Fellows Group from 2021 onward. Visitors of the webpage can read the descriptions of the award-winning research and access the published papers. Many of these papers address Dare to Care topics.

For example, research that focuses solely on helping firms to improve their performance, without analyzing any direct or meaningful benefits to stakeholders, would not be considered as a Dare to Care topic.

  • Book:

Tsui, A.S., Li, X.H., Jia, L.D., Liang, J., Zhong, W.G., Jing, R.T., & Douglas, H. (Eds), 2018. Responsible Research in Management: Philosophy and Practices. Beijing, China: Peking University Press (in Chinese).

  • Articles or papers cited in this Call:
  • Co-founder of RRBM (2017, revised 2020). A vision of responsible research in business and management; Striving for useful and credible knowledge. Retrieve from: www.rrbm.network.
  • McGahan, A. M. (2018). Presidential address—Freedom in scholarship: Lessons from
  • Atlanta. Academy of Management Review, 43(2): 173–178.
  • Tsui, A.S. (2022). From traditional research to responsible research: The necessity of scientific freedom and scientific responsibility for better societies. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 9: 1-32.
  • Tsui, A.S. (2013). On compassion in scholarship: Why should we care? Academy of Management Review, 38(2), 167-181. 
  • Tsui, A. S., & Jia, L.D. (2013). From the Editors: Calling for humanistic scholarship in China. Management and Organization Review, 9(1), 1-15.
  • Tsui, A.S., & Jia, L.D. (2024). Reflections on the founding and aspirations of Management and Organization Review. Management and Organization Review, 20(6), 905-918.  
  • Walsh, J. P., Weber, K., & Margolis, J. D. (2003). Social issues and management: Our lost cause found. Journal of Management, 29(6): 859–881.