Congratulations to the Palgrave-Macmillan Best Paper Award Finalists for 2026

Voice Norms in Context: How Cultural Values Influence Team Voice Norms on Employee Behavior in Japan
Ranxin Liao (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Xiji Zhu (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Ran Li (Beijing Normal University, China)


Building and Utilizing HR Department’s Social Capital with Line Managers for Effective HRM Implementation: Evidence from Japanese Firms
Shuichi Moritani (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Arjan Keizer (Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

Layered Co-Learning with Agentic AI: Reconfiguring Tacit Knowledge Transfer in a Japanese Industrial Conglomerate
Natsumi Takahashi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Indranil Bhattacharjee (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India)

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