Congratulations to the Palgrave-Macmillan Best Paper Award Finalists for 2025

Not Only for the Money: Combining Financial and Social Incentives to Motivate Employees
Yue Zhong (Waseda University, Japan)
Yuichiro Tomitsuka (Waseda University, Japan)
Hitoshi Mitsuhashi (Waseda University, Japan)

  Japanese Career Women: Emotional Implications of Identity Dilemmas
Markus Pudelko (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Helene Tenzer (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany)

The Self-reinforcing Dynamics of Traumatic Shock in History: The Effect of Samurai Schools on Regional Entrepreneurship in Japan
Akitsu Oe (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Hitoshi Mitsuhashi (Waseda University, Japan)

and the winner is . . . . . . . .

The Self-reinforcing Dynamics of Traumatic Shock in History: The Effect of Samurai Schools on Regional Entrepreneurship in Japan
Akitsu Oe (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Hitoshi Mitsuhashi (Waseda University, Japan)