Apologies for cross posting – Please find the CfP for the Journal of Professions and Organizations (JPO) special issue on 'the professions and family business'.
We look forward to your submissions.
Family businesses encompass a broad range of actors, ranging from Germany's Mittlestand to America's family farm; from Europe's old money business families to the new-money elites of Shanghai and Silicon Valley; from the House of Tata to the House of Saud. What each of these diverse actors have in common is the role of kinship ties in shaping financial and management decisions. Historically, large family businesses have relied on trusted advisors and family offices to manage family wealth and succession issues.
The professions encompass law, accountancy, consultancies, investment banks, executive search firms, trustee firms and family offices, amongst others. In recent decades they have grown to be one of the most important and influential segments of the global economy.
In this Journal of Professions and Organization special issue we are interested in shedding light and developing theory around the growing engagement between family businesses, the professions and PSFs. The goal is to understand how the interaction of these key drivers of global growth, each with their own distinct forms of organizing and organization, influence one another and the process of professionalization within the field of family business.
We invite scholarly papers from a wide range of disciplines and academic perspectives. Kindly see the call for papers at the following link for further information:
http://oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jpo/resource/jpo-callforpapers-aug16.pdf
Submission deadline: March, 30th 2017
Submission site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpo
Special issue workshop, September 14-16th, 2017: Authors invited to revise and resubmit their manuscripts will have the opportunity to participate in a special issue workshop to be hosted by Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.
For inquiries about the process please contact; the special issue editors
Michael Carney (michael.carney@concordia.ca),
Rajshree Prakash (rajshree.prakash@concordia.ca),
Vanessa M Strike (vanessa.strike@sauder.ubc.ca)