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James G. Scoville Best International Paper Award
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Industrial Relations Center - Cash Prize: $500
The Labor and Employment Relations Association announces a call for international and comparative employment issues papers for consideration of a new “best paper” award. The Award has been  established in conjunction with the Industrial Relations Center at the University of Minnesota to honor retiring professor and long-time member of the LERA, James G. Scoville. The Scoville Best Papers Award, awarded for the best contributed paper on international and comparative employment issues will offer an annual cash prize of $500 and a plaque. The first award will be made in January 2010 at the 62nd LERA Annual Meeting; Professor James G. Scoville will present the first award.
Each year, the award will be made to the international and comparative employment issues paper designated by LERA paper referees as the “most outstanding.” Papers that address research and evaluation of international institutions and processes within employment relations and/or provide comparative analysis of employment relations systems and types will be considered. Individual country studies that address employment relations issues of international significance will also be considered.
Entries may be directly submitted by authors or nominated by outside parties. They may include papers written by
faculty, students, researchers, and research/practitioners who are LERA members. Eligible papers include those published in the public domain during the calendar year prior to the LERA Annual Meeting and those papers submitted and to be presented at the Annual Meeting, including international or comparative IR/HR papers already accepted into the annual meeting program. Papers may only be submitted once.
Guidelines for papers are as follows: paper length should be approximately 25 double-spaced pages in a 12-point font (the page limit is inclusive of references, endnotes and tables, etc.) though longer papers will be considered. Authors must submit a cover letter or sheet with full contact information and all nominations or submissions must include an electronic copy of the paper or link to a free website version. They may be sent via email to LERA office on or before the October 12, 2009 extended deadline. Acceptance decisions and notifications for the 2010 LERA meeting will be made by the fall of 2009.
If the winning paper is not published, per an agreement with scholarly journals in the field, LERA will offer the author of the winning paper an option of submitting the papers for fast-track pre-review for scholarly journals, though publication in those journals is at the discretion of their editorial boards. Winning papers are invited to publish in the LERA Online Proceedings.
The Award and $500 cash prize will be presented annually at the LERA Annual Meeting, during the General Membership Meeting and Awards Ceremony.
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