of Max Boisot recognizes an outstanding paper, with preference given to early career scholars. The topic for this award is the knowledge-based study of complex organizations and systems. Contributions in any of the main areas in which Max Boisot forged new understanding through a knowledge perspective are eligible for the award, in particular, research on organizational complexity; the strategic management of knowledge; China's business system; and Big Science. Scientists who received this award include: 2014 Liselore A. Havermans, Deanne N. Den Hartog, and Anne Keegan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Exploring the Role of Leadership in Enabling Contextual Ambidexterity. 2015 Goran Calic, Sebastien Hélie, and Elaine Mosakowski (Purdue University, United States of America) Managing Paradoxes for Creativity: A Psychologically Realistic Simulation of Embracing Organizational Tensions. 2016 Tomas Farchi (IAE Business School, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Sue Dopson (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) & George Chondrakis (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) The Role of Hybrid Governing in Science: Fostering Research across Boundaries. 2017 Jochem T. Hummel, Hans Berends & Philipp Tuertscher (VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands) What Do We Have in Common? Collective Action among Heterogeneous Actors in a Meta-organization. 2018 Pedro Monteiro (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) Back to the Future? Bureaucracy as an Infrastructure for Collaborative Knowledge Work. 2019 Stephanie Schrage (University of Hamburg, Germany) & Andreas Rasche (CBS, Denmark) Inter-organizational Paradox Management: How National Business Systems (NBS) Influence the Spillover of Paradox Management Practices in Global Value Chains References Further reading Leong, Lam Chuan. "Complexity, Bureaucracy and the Information Space". Ethos (Jul–Sep 2005). Savory, Clive (2006). "Translating knowledge to build technological competence". Management Decision 44 (8): 1052–1075. External links Remembering Max Boisot, 1943 - 2011 Max Boisot at Strategic Learning Partners 1943 births 2011 deaths British business theorists British expatriate academics English people of French descent Academic staff of ESADE People educated at Gordonstoun Deaths from cancer in the United Kingdom