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滨贰厂贰鈥檚 Research Excellence Awards, created to encourage increasingly relevant and rigorous research, have been given to 17 professors for publishing two or more articles in the world鈥檚 leading academic publications.

滨贰厂贰鈥檚 Research Excellence Awards recognize full-time faculty members who published at least two articles in the world鈥檚 top (A+) academic journals during the previous four consecutive academic years.

This year 鈥� the awards鈥� second year 鈥� the list of recipients grew to 17: professors Marc Badia, Miguel Duro, Christian Eufinger, Fabrizio Ferraro, Roberto Garc铆a-Castro, Massimo Maoret, Victor Mart铆nez de Alb茅niz, Manuel Mueller-Frank, Gaizka Ormaz谩bal, Sebastian Reiche, Sampsa Samila, Alvaro San Mart铆n, Antonino Vaccaro, Giovanni Valentini, Xavier Vives, Weiming Zhu and Christoph Zott.

The professors published 43 papers in 20 journals under the awards鈥� guidelines.

At an online ceremony held March 2, Dean Franz Heukamp and Mart铆nez de Alb茅niz, who is also Director of the Research Division, spoke about the importance of fostering rigorous and relevant research as well as sharing it with 滨贰厂贰鈥檚 communities and beyond. Recipients Miguel Duro and Sebastian Reiche then shared some of their high-impact work.

Duro (Accounting and Control) spoke about his investigations into transparency, which ask the question: 鈥淚s sunlight really the best disinfectant?鈥� The short answer is yes, but not for everyone.

That response is based on three of Duro鈥檚 papers published in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and the Review of Accounting Studies. Those papers discussed:

• disclosure regulations in Europe鈥檚 M&A market (鈥溾�� coauthored with Pietro Bonetti and Gaizka Ormaz谩bal);
• 鈥減roved reserves鈥� disclosures for the oil & gas industry in the U.S. and Canada (鈥溾�� with Marc Badia and Gaizka Ormaz谩bal);
• the oversight of publicly traded companies in the U.S. (鈥溾�� with Gaizka Ormaz谩bal).

Reiche (Managing People in Organizations) spoke about his recent empirical work on the surprising power of for global leaders.

While most talk of deference comes from below (i.e., employee to leader), Reiche鈥檚 study looks from above, from the C-suite, and finds that deferring to colleagues lower in the organizational hierarchy is an especially effective tactic for leading and learning in a new cultural context.

His paper, 鈥�,鈥� is forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal.