James G. Scoville Best International Paper Award

Sponsored by LERA and University of Minnesota's Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies 
Cash Prize: $500

DEADLINE: JANUARY 15

The Scoville Best International Paper Award offers a cash prize to the international and comparative employment issues paper designated by referees as the “most outstanding.” The Award was established in conjunction with the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies at the University of Minnesota to honor retiring professor and long-time member of the LERA, James G. Scoville.

We invite LERA members to nominate colleagues’ papers – whether written by faculty, students, researchers or researcher/practitioners – for this award. Eligible papers include those published in print during the calendar year prior to the LERA Annual Meeting, were presented at the LERA@ASSA or LERA Annual Meeting in the calendar year prior, or are on the program for the upcoming LERA Annual Meeting. The Award and $500 cash prize is presented at the LERA Annual Meeting, during the General Membership Meeting and Awards Ceremony.

ELIGIBILITY:

• Papers on international and comparative employment issues will be considered, including those with empirical material on employment issues from two or more countries, that examine transnational employment-relations phenomena, or that make theoretical contributions using empirical material from a single country with implicit international comparisons.
• Papers may be authored by faculty, students, researchers, and researcher/practitioners who are LERA members.
• Self-nominations will not be considered.
• Eligible papers include those published in print during the calendar year prior to the LERA Annual Meeting. Journal articles published online only or available in working paper form will be considered for the calendar year in which they appear in the paper version of the journal.
• The committee will also consider papers presented at either the LERA@ASSA or the LERA Annual Meeting during the prior calendar year, including Competitive Papers and any International / Comparative tracks. Example...to be awarded as a winner in the 2023 competition, eligible papers would have been presented in 2022. 
• To accept this award, at least one author must be a LERA member.

NOMINATIONS: 

Nominations should be made at the LERA website electronically and must include full contact information and either an electronic copy of the paper or link to a free website version. Submissions should be entered on or before the above deadline.

NOMINATION/SUBMISSION FORM

PAST WINNERS:

2024
Preminger, J., & Bondy, A. S. (2023). Conflicting imperatives? Ethnonationalism and neoliberalism in industrial relations. ILR Review, 76(4), 646-673.		Krachler, N. (2023). Institutional support for new work roles: The case of care coordinators in the United States and England. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 61(4),  951-974.

2023
Lamare, J. Ryan, & Budd, John W. (2022). The relative importance of industrial relations ideas in politics: A quantitative analysis of political party manifestos across 54 countries. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 61(1), 22-49		Ahmed, Md. Shoaib., & Uddin, Shahzad. (2022). Workplace Bullying and Intensification of Labour Controls in the Clothing Supply Chain: Post-Rana Plaza Disaster. Work, Employment and Society, 36(3), 539-556.
Ryan Lamare University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	John W. Budd University of Minnesota	Shoaib Ahmed University of Sussex	Shahzad Uddin University of Essex

2022
Chunyun Li London School of Economics

2021: "Spillover Effects across Transnational Industrial Relations Agreements: The Potential and Limits of Collective Action in Global Supply Chains"

authored by Sarah Ashwin, Chikako Oka, Elke Schuessler, Rachel Alexander, and Nora Lohmeyer

2020: "Rethinking precariousness and its evolution: A four-country study of work in food retail"

Sean O'Brady, McMaster University

2019: "Economic integration and state responses: Change in European industrial relations since Maastricht"

Guglielmo Meardi, University of Warwick

2018: "Locating the Local and National in the Global: Multi-Scalar Political Alignment in Transnational European Dockworker Union Campaigns" authored by Katy Fox-Hodess, University of Sheffield

2017: Employer Association Responses to the Effects of Bargaining Decentralization in Australia and Italy: Seeking Explanations from Organizational Theory
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Peter Sheldon University of New South Wales	Raoul Nacamulli Università di Milano -Bicocca	Francesco Paoletti Università di Milano -Bicocca	David Morgan University of New South Wales

*We changed how our awards are dated - they will now be dated the year in which the award is presented. This change makes it look as though no awards were given in 2016

2015
Valeria Pulignano Katholieke University Leuven	Jasmine Kerrissey University of Massachusetts Amherst

• 2014 (presented in 2015) - not awarded
• 2013 (presented in 2014) - not awarded
• 2012 (presented in 2013) Mark Anner, Pennsylvania State University
• 2011 - Hiroshi Ono, Texas A&M University
• 2010 - Virginia L. Doellgast, London School of Economics
• 2009 - Lowell Turner, Cornell University