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James Barker (R) receives the award from Vishwanath Baba, Editor-in-Chief of CJAS
 

James R. Barker received the 2013 “Best Paper of the Year Award” from the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (CJAS). The prestigious award recognizes the article with the most significance and potential impact published by the journal in the preceding year. An adjudication committee of renowned Canadian and international business scholars selects the winning paper after carefully reviewing each article. The award was presented during the annual meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada this past May.
 
Professor Barker’s co-authors are Sarah Gilmore from the University of Portsmouth in the UK and Clive Gilson from the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Their winning paper, "Rhetorical profiling: Modes of meaning generation in organizational topoi", presents a theory to account for how homogeneous solutions to practical problems are created, launched and succeed in apparently diverse and heterogeneous organizations. The authors also develop a profiling system for categorizing an organization’s potential to develop and implement creative solutions to problems.
 
James R. Barker holds the Herbert S. Lamb Chair in Business Education at the Rowe School of Business. His present research concerns innovation, safety and sustainability leadership in highly complex organizations.