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Researchers from across 91桃色 Management School (LUMS) have claimed a clutch of prizes in recognition of their endeavours.

Faculty members have collected six prizes at conferences and events held around the world.

In the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, outputs from the Centre for Family Business have picked up a hat-trick of awards at recent conferences for Centre Director Dr Allan Discua Cruz (pictured below). All three papers focus on religion in family businesses.

Application, approach, and use of Religiosity: Insights on relationships between beliefs and ethical decisions of business families and in their businesses, co-authored with Dr Albert James (of Dalhousie University, Canada), Dr Nicholas Burton (of Northumbria University), and Professor Jim Davis (of Utah State University) won Best Paper Award at the STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) conference in Mexico.

Understanding the Relationship Between Managers’ Belief in Big Gods and Firm Reputation, co-authored by Dr Burton, Dr Andrew Smith (of the University of Birmingham), and Dr Nicholas Wong (Northumbria), won Best Paper Award in the MSR Division at the 85^th AOM conference in Copenhagen.

And finally, Religion and Prosocial Behaviour in Family Firms, co-authored by Dr Smith, Dr Burton and Dr Wong, won the Most Innovative Paper Award, Family Business Division, at the European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM).

In the Department of Accounting and Finance, Professor Greg Pawlina and Dr Jesse Wang won the Best Paper Award at the 13th Portuguese Finance Network (PFN) Conference for their paper The Dynamics of Share Repurchases.

In the Department of Marketing, Professor Tony Patterson was part of a team to win the Special Session Award at the Consumer Culture Theory conference. He was part of a session on Consumer Research and Cultural Criticism along with Dr Sophie Whitehouse (of King’s Business School), Professor Stephen Brown (of Ulster University), Dr Mark Buschgens (of Australian National University), and Dr Marian Makkar (of RMIT University, Australia).

PhD researcher Ayesha Alam (pictured above) won the Most Innovative Methodology Award for her research into Marketplace Accessibility: A Study on Neurological Conditions at the Academy of Marketing Doctoral Colloquium.

Ayesha, who is supervised by Drs Leighanne Higgins, Killian O’Leary and Hayley Cocker, is conducting an action-based ethnography using ability focussed and accessible methods drawing on her partnership with charity Neurodropin. She is pioneering the creation and use of a podcast on neurological conditions as part of her methodology.

Dr Allan Discua Cruz (centre) receives the Most Innovative Paper in Family Business Award at the EURAM Conference in Florence from Professor Elena Casprini (left), Chair of the Family Business Research SIG at EURAM 2025, and Professor Andrea Calabrò, Chair of Sustainable Family Business & Entrepreneurship at IPAG Business School, France, and Global Academic Director of the STEP (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices) Project Global consortium, who sponsored the award.?