2020 Best Paper Award Competition

The College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management is very pleased to announce the results of its Best Paper Award competition for 2020.
We are pleased to announce that two papers tied for second place in the competition this year:
Second Place Tie
"Collaboration in the field. A behavioural approach" by Lea Rüsch, Murat Tarakci, Maria Besiou, and Niels Van Quaquebeke.

• Lea Rüsch, Kuhne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany
• Murat Tarakci, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Maria Besiou, Kuhne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany
• Niels Van Quaquebeke, Kuhne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany

Second Place Tie
"Impact of Incorporating Returns into Pre-Disaster Deployments for Rapid-Onset Predictable Disasters" by Jon M. Stauffer and Subodha Kumar.

• Jon M. Stauffer, Texas A&M University
• Subodha Kumar, Temple University

Finally, the winning paper in this year's HOCM Best Paper competition is:
WINNER:
"Is authoritarian leadership an effective approach during humanitarian operations?" by Mojtaba Salem, Maria Besiou, and Niels Van Quaquebeke.

• Mojtaba Salem, Kuhne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany
• Maria Besiou, Kuhne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany
• Niels Van Quaquebeke, Kuhne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany