Dear members of the OMT community:
We are excited to announce the winners and runners up of JPO Best Paper Award for 2021/22:
Winner:
§ Goto, M. (2022). Accepting the future as ever-changing: Professionals' sensemaking about artificial intelligence. Journal of Professions and Organization, 9(1), 77-99. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joab022
Runners up (alphabetical order):
§ Avnoon, N., & Sela-Sheffy, R. (2021). Counter-professionalization as an occupational status strategy: The production of professionalism in Israeli child-care workers' identity work, Journal of Professions and Organization, 8(3), 311-328. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joab014
§ Klimkeit, D. & Reihlen, M. (2022). No longer Second-class Citizens: Redefining Organizational Identity as a Response to Digitalization in Accounting Shared Services. Journal of Professions and Organization, 9(1), 115-138. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joac003
Congratulations to the authors of these great papers!
We are grateful to Michael Smets, Mari Sako, and the Oxford PSF Hub for sponsoring and enabling the award.
See this link for details of the award.
And a special thanks to the Sub-committee of JPO editorial board members who vetted the shortlisted papers:
• Paul Adler, Laurie Cohen, James Faulconbridge, Na Fu, Royston Greenwood, Ellen Kuhlmann, Bob Nelson, Amalya Oliver, Mark Pickering, Mike Saks, and Juani Swart
With all my best wishes,
David