At the end of the year, the WU Awards ceremony took place again this year. With this award, WU recognizes the excellent achievements of its researchers. The award winners have made a name for themselves through their scientific curiosity and innovative research work - many of them more than once.

With the WU Awards, WU honors all researchers who have contributed to strengthening WU's excellence and finding solutions to economic and socio-political challenges with their work in the past year.

With the WU Awards, WU would like to thank all those researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to WU's reputation as a center of research. As one of the best business universities in Europe, WU is committed to high-quality research. With this award, WU expresses its recognition and appreciation of its excellent researchers.

The evening also provided a good opportunity for the researchers to exchange ideas across departments in a pleasant atmosphere.

WU would like to congratulate all award winners!

Excellent research achievements

This year, WU is honoring 23 researchers whose publications have appeared in internationally renowned journals (the so-called "Star Journals"). In addition, together with the City of Vienna, four other outstanding scientific publications will be honored with the "Best Paper Award".

Recipients of the Star Journals Award:

• Umashankar, N., Kim, K. H., & Reutterer, T. (2023). Understanding Customer Participation Dynamics: The Case of the Subscription Box. Journal of Marketing, 87(5), 719-735.

• Krause, F., Görgen, J., de Bellis, E., & Franke, N. et al. (2023). One-of-a-Kind Products: Leveraging Sttric Uniqueness in Mass Customization. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 40(4), 823-840.

• Peres, R., Schreier, M., Schweidel, D., & Sorescu, A. (2023). On ChatGPT and beyond: How generative artificial intelligence may affect research, teaching, and practice. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 40(2), 269-275.

• Pagano, M., Wagner, C., & Zechner, J. (2023). Disaster Resilience and Asset Prices. Journal of Financial Economics, 150(2), 103712.

• Feinstein, Z., & Rudloff, B. (2023). Characterizing and Computing the Set of Nash Equilibria via Vector Optimization. Operations Research. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation.

• Hahn, A., Kholodilin, K. A., Waltl, S., & Fongoni, M. (2023). Forward to the Past: Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin. Management Science. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation.

• Maier, L., Schreier, M., Baccarella, C., & Voigt, K.-I. (2024). University Knowledge Inside: How and When University-Industry Collaborations Make New Products More Attractive to Consumers. Journal of Marketing, 88(2), 1-20.

• Laux, C., & Laux, V. (2023). Accounting Conservatism and Managerial Information Acquisition. Journal of Accounting and Economics. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation.

• Schamp, C., Heitmann, M., Peers, Y., & Leeflang, P. (2023). Cause-related marketing as sales promotion. Journal of Marketing Research (JMR). Vorzeitige Online-Publikation.

• Arthi, V., Lampe, M., Nair, A. R., & O´Rourke, K. H. (2024). Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection. Economic Journal, 134(657), 23-47.

• Ahmadi, I., Abou Nabout, N., Skiera, B., & Maleki, E. et al. (2023). Overwhelming targeting options: Selecting audience segments for online advertising. International Journal of Research in Marketing. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation.

• Franke, N., & Krause, F. (2024). Understanding Consumer Self-Design Abandonment: A Dynamic Perspective. Journal of Marketing, 88(2), 79. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation.

• Ararat, Ç., & Meimanjan, N. (2023). Computation of Systemic Risk Measures: A Mixed-Integer Programming Approach. Operations Research, 71(6), 2130-2145. 

• Pichler, A., Diem, C., Brintrup, A., & Lafond, F. et al. (2023). Building an alliance to map global supply networks. Science, 382(6668).

• Wlömert, N., Papies, D., Clement, M., & Spann, M. (2023). Frontiers: The Interplay of User-Generated Content, Content Industry Revenues, and Platform Regulation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from YouTube. Marketing Science, 1-12. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation.

• Decreton, B., Tippmann, E., Nell, P. C., & Parker, A. (2023). More effective solutions? Senior managers and non-routine problem solving. Strategic Management Journal, 44(10).

• Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., & Katok, E. et al. (2023). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation.

• Clegg, M., Hofstetter, R., de Bellis, E., & Schmitt, B. H. (2023). Unveiling the Mind of the Machine. Journal of Consumer Research. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation.

• Beveridge, A. J., & Höllerer, M. A. (2023). Theorizing Organizational Benevolence. Organization Science, 34(5), 1864-1886.

Recipients of the 2024 Best Paper Award:

• Gugler, K., Heim, S., Janssen, M., & Liebensteiner, M. (2023). Incumbency Advantages: Price Dispersion, Price Discrimination, and Consumer Search at Online Platforms. Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, 1(3), 517-556.

• Lukmanova, E., & Rabitsch, K. (2023). Evidence on monetary transmission and the role of imperfect information: Interest rate versus inflation target shocks. European Economic Review, 158, Artikel 104557.

• Brottrager, M., Crespo Cuaresma, J., Ali, S. H., & Kniveton, D. (2023). Natural Resources Modulate the Nexus Between Environmental Shocks and Human Mobility. Nature Communications, 14, Artikel 1393.

• Hössinger, R., Peer, S., & Juschten, M. (2023). Give citizens a task: An innovative tool to compose policy bundles that reach the climate goal. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 173, Artikel 103694.