Business School Dean Honored for Most-Cited Journal Submission

Contact: John Mahon, 581-1968

ORONO — John Mahon, Maine Business School director and dean of the College of Business, Public Policy and Health, has received a unique award for a paper he published more than a decade ago in the scholarly journal “Business&Society.”

During the 20th annual meeting of the International Association for Business & Society (IABS) June 18-21 in Snowmass, Colo., Mahon received the association’s “20th Anniversary Commemoration Award for the Best Paper” ever published in its journal.

Mahon, a co-founder and former president of the association, was honored for “Corporate Social Performance and Corporate Financial Performance: Twenty-Five Years of Incomparable Research,” co-authored with Jennifer Griffin, and published in 1997. The paper has remained to date the most cited paper in the nearly 50 years of publication of Business&Society, a quarterly peer-reviewed, management journal focusing on social issues, ethics and their influence on organizations.

Mahon also received a second award, the “2009 Conference and 20th Anniversary Celebration of the International Association for Business & Society Award for Best Paper” for a submitted paper that did not focus on the conference theme, “nature, humans and management.” Mahon presented that paper, “Corporate Social Performance Profiling: The Importance of Multiple Stakeholder Perceptions,” co-authored with Steven L. Wartick, also during the annual meeting.