Call for Nominations
Seminal Contributions
to Accounting Literature Award
The American Accounting Association Seminal Contributions to Accounting Literature Award is intended to recognize works that have stood the test of time and have contributed in a fundamental way to later research. Seminal is defined as “having the character of an originative power, principle or source; containing or contribution to the seed of later development.”
The award is given no more frequently than once every three years and no more than one work is honored in any given year. Eligible works must have been published at least 15 years prior to the year in which the award is bestowed. The next time the award is presented will be 2010. Nominations for the next Seminal Contribution to Accounting Literature Award may be made in the fall of 2009.
Nominations for the Seminal Contribution to Accounting Literature Award may be made by any member of the association. The letter of nomination should briefly state why the nominated work constitutes a seminal contribution in the view of the nominator. Nominations should be sent to the AAA Vice President-Research, Gregory Waymire. With the counsel of the Research Advisory Committee, the Vice President-Research will recommend a candidate for the Award, when appropriate, with the final decision made at the Spring 2010 Executive Committee meeting.
The name of the award winner will be announced in Accounting Education News and the winner will be recognized and presented with a citation at the 2010 AAA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
If other committees receive nominations for the Seminal Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, they are requested to forward them to the Vice President-Research. The chairs of all committees that deal with AAA awards will be informed about this process.
The Vice President-Research collects nominations until January 31st in years in which they are solicited and involves the Research Advisory Committee to screen them. Further, the Committee will consider works worthy of the Award and add them to other nominations considered. The Vice President-Research and the Research Advisory Committee take into consideration that the Award is not given too frequently to avoid diluting its original purpose.
Submit nominations to:
Gregory Waymire
Emory University
Goizueta Business School
1300 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-727-6589
gregory_waymire@bus.emory.edu
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