2007: Caesar Douglas, Jeannette Martin, and Roberta Krapels

"Communication in the Transition to Self-Directed Work Teams." Journal of Business Communication 2006 43: 295-321.

2006: Yunxia Zhu
University of Queensland, Australia

Written Communication across Cultures: A Sociocognitive Study of Business Genres: John Benjamins, 2005

2005: Gina Poncini

University of Milan

Discursive Strategies in Multicultural Business Meetings: Peter Lang, 2004

2005: Priscilla S. Rogers and Jane Thomas

University of Michigan

Mian Lian Ho, Irene F.H. Wong, and Catherine Ooi Lan Cheng

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

"Preparing new entrants for subordinate reporting: A decision-making framework," The Journal of Business Communication, (41) 2

2004: Dorothy Winsor

Iowa State University

Writing Power: Communication in an Engineering Center: SUNY Press, 2003.

2003:

Janis Forman

Anderson School of Business, University of California at Los Angeles

Paul Argenti The Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

The Power of Corporate Communication: Crafting the Voice and Image of Your Business:  New York, McGraw-Hill, 2002

2002: Geoffrey Cross
University of Louisville

Forming the Collective Mind, Hampton Press: Cresskill, N.J. 2001

2001: James Henry
George Mason University

Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archeology of Professional Writing.
Southern Illinois University Press: Carbondale, 2000

2000 (co-winners)

Sharon M. Livesey
Fordham University, New York

"McDonald's and the Environmental Defense Fund: A Case Study of a Green Alliance" The Journal of Business Communication, 26(1), 5-39

and

Nongluck Sriussadaporn-Charoenngam
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Fredric M. Jablin
University of Richmond, Virginia

"An Explanatory Study of Communication Competence in Thai Organizations" Journal of Business Communication , 36(4), 382-418

1999: Jim Suchan
Naval Postgraduate School

"The Effect of High-Impact Writing on Decision Making Within a Public Sector Bureaucracy," The Journal of Business Communication 35, July 1998.

1998 (co-winners)

N. Lamar Reinsch, Jr.
Georgetown University

"Relationships Between Telecommuting Workers and Their Managers," The Journal of Business Communication 34, October 1997.

Lisa Tyler
Sinclair Community College

"Liability Means Never Being Able to Say YouÍre Sorry," Management Communication Quarterly 11, August 1997.

1997: Naoki Kameda
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Business Communication Toward Transnationalism: The Significance of Cross-cultural Business English and Its Role. Tokyo, Kindai Bungeisha Co. Ltd., 1996.

1996: Linda Beamer
California State University at Los Angeles

"A Schemata Model for Intercultural Encounters and Case Study: The Emperor and the Envoy," The Journal of Business Communication 32, April 1995.

1995 (co-winners)

Carol David & Margaret Ann Baker (Graham)
Iowa State University

"Rereading Bad News: Compliance-Gaining Features in Management Memos," The Journal of Business Communication 31, October 1994.

Wanda J. Orlikowski & JoAnne Yates
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Genre Repertoire: The Structuring of Communicative Practices in Organizations," Administrative Science Quarterly 39, 1994.