Best-Paper-Proceedings 2021: Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
The paper "Beyond Fundraising - Token Dispersion and Venture Performance in Initial Coin Offerings" by Christian Schäfer and Steffen Strese has been selected to be one of the best accepted papers in the Entrepreneurship Division (ENT) at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM).
Christian and Steffen examine the relation of ICO funding signals and post-ICO token returns. While in other funding methods such as IPOs or crowdfunding, higher equity retention is considered a signal-of-value, they reveal that higher token dispersion positively relates to post-ICO token returns.
The paper "What Can the Coach Do: The Role of the Coach's Self-Awareness in Creating a Good Working Alliance" by Bastian Hechenrieder and Tessa Flatten has been selected to be one of the best accepted papers in the Education and Development (MED) Division at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM).
To answer the question how a coaches can shape and ensure a successful relationship with their clients Bastian and Tessa examined how the coach's self-awareness contributes to building a bond with clients, defining coaching goals and identifying necessary tasks. Their results suggest that the coach's self-awareness is an important factor that enables coaches to adopt their behavior according to the needs of their clients.