Denis Borodin and Saulo Dubard Barbosa winners of the EGOS Best Paper Award 2024
The EGOS Best Paper Award 2024 has gone to Denis Borodin and Saulo Dubard Barbosa, respectively PhD candidate and professor at emlyon business school, for their article: “Entrepreneurial resilience in the context of political repression”.
The prize was awarded at the 41st EGOS Colloquium which took place in Athens, 3-5 July 2025. As the EGOS website states: ”The winning papers must display methodological rigor, theoretical relevance, innovativeness, and new insights into organizational phenomena.”
“I am deeply honored to receive the EGOS Best Paper Award 2024. I would like to sincerely thank all the respondents who generously shared their stories and experiences—this work would not exist without their courage. I am equally grateful to my co-author, Saulo Dubard Barbosa, for his unwavering support, and to the emlyon PhD program, which provided the intellectual freedom and mentorship to pursue this research journey in full.” - Denis Borodin.
“Denis is a hard-working PhD student and it feels great to share this Award with him. This is the first achievement of his promising academic career, and I am sure many other achievements will follow. His work holds the potential to improve our understanding of how entrepreneurs work and behave under political repression, being highly relevant today. I am grateful for the opportunity to support, challenge, and help structure such important emerging research and such brilliant young scholar.” - Saulo Dubard Barbosa.


About EGOS
EGOS is a scholarly association which aims to further the theoretical and/or empirical advancement of knowledge about organizations, organizing and the contexts in which organizations operate. As a collective, one of its main aims is to maintain and provide a voice for the critical and analytical approaches of its members to the study of organization worldwide.