Kanter Award
The Boston College Center for Work & Family is proud to partner with Purdue University to recognize the best work-family research each year and honor those scholars with the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award.
Named in honor of Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has been identified as the most influential contributor to modern literature on work and family, the Kanter Award is given for the best research paper(s) published during the year. The rigorous award process involves a minimum of 70 scholarly reviewers from all over the world who decide on the Kanter winners from over 2500 articles published in over 75 scholarly journals. No applications or nominations are accepted.
The Kanter Award raises awareness of excellent work-family research, fosters debate about standards of excellence, identifies the “best of the best” studies on which to base future research, and outlines specific implications of the research for work-life and human resource professionals.
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2024 Winners
Congratulations to Vanessa Conzon, winner of the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research!
Administrative Science Quarterly
Congratulations to Julie Wayne, Maura Mills, Yi-Ren Wang, Russell Matthews, and Marilyn Whitman, winners of the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research!
Journal of Business and Psychology
Past Winners
Winners: Anette Eva Fasang, Silke Aisenbrey
Publication: Uncovering Social Stratification: Intersectional Inequalities in Work and Family Life Courses by Gender and Race, Social Forces
Winners: Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines
Publication: Work Schedule Unpredictability: Daily Occurrence and Effects on Working Parents' Well‐Being, Journal of Marriage and Family
Winners: Irene Padavic of Florida State University, Robin Ely of Harvard University, and Erin M. Reid of McMaster University.
Publication: Explaining the persistence of gender inequality: The work–family narrative as a social defense against the 24/7 work culture, published in Administrative Science quarterly.
Winner: Hannah Riley Bowles
Publication: Reconceptualizing what and how women negotiate for career advancement. Academy of Management.
Winner: Kate Weisshaar
Publication: From opt out to blocked out: The challenges for labor market re-entry after family-related employment lapses. American Sociological Review.
Winners: Silke Aisenbrey & Anette Fasang
Publication: The interplay of work and family trajectories over the life course: Germany and the United States in comparison. American Journal of Sociology.
Winners: Stephen H. Courtright, Richard E. Gardner, Troy A. Smith, Brian W. McCormick, and Amy E. Colbert.
Publication: My Family Made Me Do It: A Cross-Domain, Self-Regulatory Perspective on Antecedents to Abusive Supervision, The Academy of Managment
Markus Gangl
Winners: Markus Gangl & Andrea Ziefle
Publication: The Making of a Good Woman: Extended Parental Leave Entitlements and Mothers' Work Commitment in Germany, The American Journal of Sociology.
Winners: Erin Kelly, Phyllis Moen, J. Michael Oakes, Wen Fan, Cassandra Okechukwu, Kelly Davis, Leslie Hammer, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Rosalind Berkowitz King, Ginger Hanson, Frank Mierzwa, Lynne M. Casper.
Publication: Changing Work and Work-Family Conflict Evidence from the Work, Family, and Health Network, The American Sociological Review
Winners: Laura denDulk, Sandra Groeneveld, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, and Monique Valcour
Publication: National context in work-life research: A multi-level cross-national analysis of the adoption of workplace work-life arrangements in Europe, European Management Journal.
Winners: Allison Konrad and Yang Yang
Publication: An examination of women, men, lone parents, and parents with partners. Is using work-life interface benefits a career-limiting move?, Journal of Organizational Behavior 33, 1095-1119.