SFU Business professor Tom Lawrence to receive USC’s Greif Research Impact Award

Tom Lawrence, associate professor in management and organization studies and the Weyerhaeuser Professor of Change Management at SFU Business, is the 2010 recipient of the Greif Research Impact Award.

The Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California has selected Lawrence’s 2004 Academy of Management Journal article, entitled “Institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields: HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada,” in recognition of its scholarly impact. Launched in 2007, the annual award recognizes an entrepreneurship article published by the top-tier management and entrepreneurship journals six years ago that received the highest citations (based on the Social Sciences Citations Index) in the five years following publication.

Tom Lawrence’s research focuses on the dynamics of power, change and institutions in organizations and organizational fields. As the Weyerhaeuser Chair in Change Management, his mandate is to develop a long-term research program examining organizational change, with a focus on the social processes that facilitate or block learning and innovation.

He joined SFU Business in 2002 from the University of Victoria. He has also taught as a visiting scholar at a number of universities, including the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, McGill University, Royal Roads University, and the University of British Columbia.

Lawrence’s award-winning paper can be viewed in its entirety here:
http://thomaslawrence.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/maguire-et-al-2004-institutional-entrepreneurship-in-emerging-fields.pdf

For more information about the Greif Research Impact Award, and previous award winners, visit: http://www.marshall.usc.edu/greif/research/research-impact-award.htm