Collecting badges: Understanding the gold rush for business excellence awards

Business excellence awards (BEAs) have become all too commonplace. Entering and winning one has now part of contemporary organising. However, scholarly work examining these remains scattered, with the dominant narrative focusing on what could even be described as intense obsession award ceremonies. In this paper, we articulate mechanisms through which dual demands for managing competitive pressures achieving advantage drive organisations to enter awards. doing this, integrate expand upon prior explicate an integrative framework how interactions between various contextual environmental factors may induce BEAs potential outcomes, particularly those who win or are shortlisted We go present a set propositions constituting contribution, after our study's implications theory practice outlined.