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 theRosabeth 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: , Social Forces
Winners: Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines
Publication: , Journal of Marriage and Family
Winners:IrenePadavic of Florida State University, Robin Ely of Harvard University, and Erin M. Reid of McMaster University.
Publication:,published in Administrative Science quarterly.
Winner: Hannah Riley Bowles
Publication:.Academy of Management.
Winner: Kate Weisshaar
Publication: From opt out to blocked out: .American Sociological Review.
Winners: Silke Aisenbrey & Anette Fasang
Publication: American Journal of Sociology.
Winners: Stephen H. Courtright, Richard E. Gardner, Troy A. Smith, Brian W. McCormick, and Amy E. Colbert.
Publication: , The Academy of Managment
Winners: Markus Gangl & Andrea Ziefle
Publication: The Making of a Good Woman: Extended Parental Leave Entitlements and Mothers' Work Commitment in Germany, TheAmerican 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: ,European Management Journal.