MANAGEMENT PROFESSOR WINS BEST PAPER

November 17, 2004

Art Bedeian, a professor in the management department at LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration, received the 2004 Academy of Management Executive Best Paper award. The paper, which Bedeian co-authored in 2003, was titled “Mitigating Risks, Visible Hands, Inevitable Disasters, and Soft Variables: Management Research That Matters to Managers.” Bedeian received the award at the annual Academy of Management conference in August.

The Academy of Management Executive is the practitioner journal of The Academy of Management, the leading international organization of academics and management practitioners. Each year, the members of the Executive Advisory Panel rank the articles published in AME to select the best article.

Bedeian is a Boyd Professor and the Ralph and Kacoo Olinde Distinguished Professor in the Rucks Department o Management. Bedeian completed his Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of Iowa, before earning his Master of Business Administration at the University of Memphis and his Doctorate at Mississippi State University. He also will receive the Southern Management Association’s 2004 Sustained Outstanding Service Award at the November SMA meeting.

For more information on the E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration, please visit www.bus.lsu.edu or contact Wendy Luedtke at 225/578-8865 or wendy@lsu.edu.