Congratulations to the Recipients of the JGM Best Paper Award at the Standing Track of Global Mobility at the 2026 EURAM Conference in Kristiansand, Norway, June 17-19.
Winner: "Taking Status Seriously: Understanding Expatriate Embeddedness Through Socioeconomic Status and Relative Social Standing."
Anoop Adhur Kutty, Aalto University, Finland
Alexei Koveshnikov, Aalto University, Finland
Miikka J. Lechtonen, Rikkyo University, Japan
First Runner-Up: "Institutional Misalignment and Migrant Remittance: How Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the UK Manage Uncertainty When Sending Money Home."
Ugbede Umoru, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Abiodun Adegbile, Birmingham City University, UK
Juliana Siwale, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Second Runner-Up: "Temporal Freedom Under Scrutiny: A Latent Profile Analysis of Psychological Overemployment, Mindful Self-Care, and Job Crafting among Digital Nomads."
Julia Hiemer, Technische Hochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany
Maike Andresen, University of Bamberg, Germany
Matej Černe, Faculty of Economics University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Andrew A. Bennett, Old Dominion University, USA
The Editorial Team of JGM has acted as double-blind judges on the Award Panel. These papers will be presented at the initial JGM Best Paper Award Session of the Global Mobility Track at the 2026 EURAM Conference, June 17-19, 2026.
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Professor Jan Selmer, Ph.D.
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Global Mobility (JGM)
Department of Management, Aarhus University
E-mail:
selmer@mgmt.au.dkTwitter: @JanSelmer_JGM
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