Best Paper Award for 2015/2016
Journal of Professions and Organization
We are excited to announce that the Journal of Professions and Organization will once again select an outstanding paper to receive its Best Paper Award. The $1,000 prize will once again be sponsored by the Professional Service Firms hub at Oxford Saïd. This award is part of JPO's ongoing effort to promote top quality research on organizational issues concerning professionals.
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 third calendar year of accepting submissions – i.e., the year to 31 March, 2016 – including submissions to the "P2" and the "Family Business" Special Issues. The winning paper will be announced during the 2016 Professional Service Firms conference at Oxford, 10-12 July, 2016.
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 – including links to the winning and runner-up papers in the 2014/15 competition -- see http://jpo.oxfordjournals.org.
For further information on Professional Service Firms at Oxford, see: http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/faculty-research/professional-service-firms
David M. Brock
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Editor-in-chief | Journal of Professions and Organization
Professor | Guilford Glazer Faculty of Management | Ben-Gurion University | Tel: +972-525-491-351
International Research Fellow | Professional Services Firms | Saïd Business School | University of Oxford
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