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Gerald E. Hills Best Paper Award

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Man Yang and Peter Gabrielsson have won this award from the ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍø's Entrepreneurial Marketing SIG

INTEREST CATEGORY: ENTREPRENEURIAL
POSTING TYPE: Awards

Posted by: Susan Wei


ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍø Entrepreneurial Marketing SIG
2025 Gerald E. Hills Best Paper Award

The Gerald E. Hills Best Paper on Entrepreneurial Marketing recognizes research with significant and lasting impact at the marketing/entrepreneurship interface.

We are delighted to announce this year’s winners:

Entrepreneurial marketing of international high-tech business-to-business new ventures: A decision-making process perspective

Man Yang, Hanken School of Economics

Peter Gabrielsson, University of Vaasa

Industrial Marketing Management (2017), 64, 147–160

This paper advances understanding of entrepreneurial marketing in high-tech international B2B ventures, offering a dynamic framework showing how entrepreneurs alternate between effectual and causal approaches to decision-making under uncertainty.

2025 Selection Committee

Yinghong Susan Wei (Chair), Texas A&M International University
Stern Neill, California Polytechnic State University
Maija Renko, Aalto University

Full list of past winners: 

Nominations for 2026 are due May 15, 2026
Send up to two nominated articles (self-nominations accepted) with a one-page endorsement to:

Stern Neill – sneill@calpoly.edu
Susan Wei – susanwei.yinghong@gmail.com