In 2017, five years after the Global Strategy Journal was launched, an annual best paper award was established by co-sponsors Wiley and the Strategic Management Society to honor substantial work published in the GSJ. As with the Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize, the award is for a paper published five or more years prior to the recognition.
In 2022, this award went to John Paul MacDuffie for “Modularity-as-Property, Modularization-as-Process, and ‘Modularity’-as-Frame: Lessons From Product Architecture Initiatives in the Global Automotive Industry”.