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Ryan Stice-Lusvardi, Pamela Hinds, Melissa Valentine receive AOM CTO Best Paper Award

The AOM Communication & Technology in Organization Division announced the winners during its Annual Business Meeting in August 2022.
Ryan Stice-Lusvardi, Pamela Hinds, and Melissa Valentine
Left to right: Ryan Stice-Lusvardi, Pamela Hinds, Melissa Valentine

Congratulations to MS&E PhD student Ryan Stice-Lusvardi, as well as Professors Pamela Hinds and Melissa Valentine!

The team of co-authors received the 2022 Best Paper Award in the Communication & Technology in Organization (CTO) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM). Their winning paper, Legitimating Illegitimate Practices: How Data Analysts Compromise Standards to Promote Quantification, is based on Stice-Lusvardi's second-year paper. It describes how expert data analysts, when faced with certain conditions, engaged in and even evangelized practices that ran contrary to their field of expertise.