Academy of Management honours CBS professor with prestigious award

At the annual Academy of Management conference  in Vancouver, Professor Tor Hernes, CBS Department of Organization, received the George R. Terry Book Award for his book “Process Theory of Organization” .
 

Tor Hernes, professor of organization theory at CBS, is now a member of an exclusive club comprising George R. Terry Book Award winners, including notables such as Michael Porter and Henry Mintzberg. The Academy of Management (AOM ) grants the award annually. 
 

The award, presented at this year’s AOM conference in Vancouver, 7-11 August, is given to the book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of business economics and management during the last two years.
 

“It was a tremendous honour and it means a great deal to me to be recognised with an award like this,” says Professor Hernes about being the recipient of the 2015  George R. Terry Book Award, but points out:

“I believe, however, that the award is just as much a tribute to the research environment at the Department of Organization as it is to me. Not just my department, but all of CBS is a unique place when it comes to exploring new ways of thinking and challenging existing ideas.”
 

Hernes’ book, A Process Theory of Organization, was judged to be the best of the over  40 books reviewed and is the first to receive the award by an author not affiliated with an American or British institution. 

Grounded in philosophy, the book seeks, in Hernes’ own words, to explain organizations in ‘a world on the move’. It is based on insights from a number of philosophers and focuses especially on Whitehead’s process philosophy. The main argument of the book is that connectedness prevails over hierarchical systems in organisations.

 

Read more about Tor Hernes, his research and his book, A Process Theory of Organization