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The Academy of Management, the world’s oldest and largest professional association for scholars who study management and organizations, honored research by Matthew Bothner, associate professor of organizations and strategy. Bothner received the 2006 Glueck Best Paper Award for the most outstanding new research submitted to the Academy’s refereed scholarly program in business policy and strategy. He was honored for his paper “Status Volatility and Organizational Growth in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry,” co-authored with Jeong-han Kang, a post-doctorial researcher at Cornell University and Wonjea Lee, a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago Department of Sociology. The research for Bothner’s award winning paper was funded in part by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which seeks to advance entrepreneurship.
At Chicago GSB, Bothner teaches “Strategy and Structure: Markets and Organizations” to students in the school’s full-time MBA program, Evening MBA program and Weekend MBA programs. His research focuses on social status and market competition, social network dimensions of competition and risk taking, diffusion high-technology environments, and network effects on gift exchange in venture capital. A previous paper, “Relative Size and Firm Growth in the Global Computer Industry” was awarded both the Louis R. Pondy Award and Newman Award by the Academy of Management.
Bothner received the award August 15 in Atlanta at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management.