The Novak Druce Centre Best Paper Award for 2014/2015
Journal of Professions and Organization
As part of its ongoing effort to foster quality research on organizational issues concerning professionals, the Journal of Professions and Organization (JPO) will once again select an outstanding paper to receive its Best Paper Award. The $1,000 prize is funded by the Novak Druce Center for Professional Service Firms at the Said Business School, University of Oxford.
The Journal's editors and editorial board members will select the best paper, along with two runners up, from all papers submitted to JPO during our second calendar year of accepting submissions – i.e., the year to 31 March, 2015. The winning paper will be announced at the Novak Druce Annual Professional Service Firms conference to be held in Oxford, in July 2015.
In selecting the winner, the editors will reflect on JPO's ambitions to combine perspectives of professionalism and organization, and take into consideration the technical quality of the paper, the contribution to theory, and the empirical significance of the paper's findings. They will also consider such factors as innovation, significance to the research community, impact, and the clarity of presentation.
Brief statement of JPO's mission and scope:
· Journal of Professions and Organization aims to be the premier outlet for research on organizational issues concerning professionals, including their work, management and their broader social and economic role.
· We are particularly receptive to interdisciplinary perspectives and contributions, with strong interests in all professional organizations, professional service firms, and public sector professionals, including professionals in healthcare and nonprofit organizations.
· While recognizing the importance of traditional professions, we welcome work on new professions, occupations claiming some professional status, and on knowledge workers more generally.
· We welcome both qualitative and quantitative methods as well as innovative research utilizing new methodologies and analysis.
For further details on JPO and useful information for authors, see http://jpo.oxfordjournals.org; links to the winning and runner-up papers in the 2013/14 competition can be found at http://oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jpo/resource/best_paper_prize.html
For further information on Oxford's Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms, see: http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/ideas-impact/novakdrucecentre
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David M. Brock
Editor-in-chief, Journal of Professions and Organization
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