Congratulations to the winner and runners up for the 2017/18 JPO Best Paper Award:
The winner of the 2017/18 JPO Best Paper Award:
Ø Swethaa Ballakrishnen, (2017). 'She Gets the Job Done': Entrenched Gender Meanings and New Returns to Essentialism in India's Elite Professional Firms. Journal of Professions and Organization, 4(3): 324-342. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jox009
The runners up (in alphabetical order) are:
Ø Thomas Andersson & Roy Liff, (2018). Co-optation as a response to competing institutional logics: Professionals and managers in healthcare, Journal of Professions and Organization, 5(2), 71-87. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joy001
Ø Sida Liu, (2018). Boundaries and Professions: Towards a Processual Theory of Action. Journal of Professions and Organization, 5(1), 45-57. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jox012
Congratulations to all the authors and our wonderful reviewers on their wonderful contribution to the field of Professions and Organization!
ü Many thanks to the JPO Editorial Board members who contributed to this decision process: David Cooper, James Faulconbridge, Ellen Kuhlmann, Mitt Regan, Amalya Oliver, Juani Swart, Mike Saks, and Michael Smets
ü Many thanks to the Oxford PSF Hub for sponsoring the $1,000 prize for the Best Paper Award.
ü Many thanks to Michael Smets and his team at the Oxford PSF Hub, organizers of the PSF conference in Oxford this year, for a wonderful conference and for the unforgettable setting for making these awards.
Best wishes for a wonderful summer and continued success for JPO and all our other endeavors,
Beth, Daniel, David, Mirko & Sabina
JPO Editors
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 | Centre for Professional Services Firms | Saïd Business School | University of Oxford
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ü The Journal of Professions and Organization has entered the ABDC journal quality list at level A.
ü JPO was ranked in the 2 "ABS" category by the Academic Journal Guide.
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