{"id":907,"date":"2015-01-29T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/?p=907"},"modified":"2015-02-18T16:12:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T16:12:22","slug":"907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/907\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Conference On Professional Service Firms, Oxford, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"High_Street,_Oxford,_England,_1890s\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Call for Papers<\/p>\n

Annual Conference On Professional Service Firms, <\/strong><\/p>\n

5-7 JULY 2015, Sa\u00efd Business School, Oxford, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Years since \u201cP2\u201d –\u00a0<\/strong>Time to take stock and look to the future of PSF studies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The July 2015 conference on professional service firms will take the 25th anniversary of Greenwood, Hinings and Brown\u2019s (1990) seminal paper on the \u201cP2\u201d archetype of the professional partnership as an opportunity to take stock and consider the future of PSF studies. Much has happened in the professional service landscape, and its scholarship, during the last 25 years. The \u201cP2\u201d archetype was introduced to account for the \u201cdistinctive characteristics\u201d of professional partnerships. But are they still distinctive today? And, if so, in what ways?<\/p>\n

The liberalization of the legal market in the UK and elsewhere has led to outside ownership and \u201cAlternative Business Structures\u201d. The resurgent interest in the provision of legal services among the \u201cBig Four\u201d has rekindled debates about multidisciplinary practices. The focus of innovation is increasingly shifting from service to process and business model innovation that goes beyond outsourcing and value chain disintegration to producing entirely new service delivery models, including virtual firms and subscription based payment. The intersection of these trends poses new challenges for leadership, governance, and regulation, but also for the broader question of whether there is still a distinctive PSF archetype or whether we need to shift attention to understanding how PSFs may be different from each other and, in fact, similar to other types of organizations: What can different types of PSFs and organizations learn from each other?<\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, we invite scholarly papers from a range of disciplines and academic perspectives on the topic. We welcome contributions from organizational theorists, business historians, communication scholars, evolutionary economists, political scientists, strategists, experts in finance, geographers, and anthropologists. We encourage you to submit studies concerning (but not limited to) the following questions:<\/p>\n