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Assistant Professor Positions in International Business
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

With some 19.000 full and part-time students, 600 full-time faculty members, 220 PhD and 630 administrative staff CBS is a unique business-oriented university with a full portfolio of Bachelor, Masters, MBA/EMBA, PhD and Executive programmes delivered in English and Danish.

Our academic staff includes internationally-recognised experts in classical business disciplines as well as in philosophy, history, psychology, sociology, law, political science, information systems, culture and languages.

Assistant professor positions in International Business

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for one or more vacant Assistant Professorship (s) in International Business at the Department of International Economics and Management.

Core research areas of the Department of International Economics and Management are International Business, Emerging Markets, Asia Studies and Corporate Governance. It is the ambition of the Department to be in the international frontline in these research areas; to publish our research results in leading international journals; to have an excellent research environment; and to seek synergy between research and teaching. Teaching responsibilities of the Department comprise undergraduate and graduate teaching in International Business, Emerging Markets, Asia Studies and Corporate Governance.

Examples of research areas that the assistant professor might cover:

• Strategic management of multinational companies
• Internationalization of firms from emerging economies
• IB in the tourism and hospitality industries
• IB in the culture and creative industries
• IB and the development of the Chinese Economy
• International product development and entrepreneurship

The assistant professorship is a non-tenured position of four years.

To fulfill the research requirements of the position, the applicant(s) chosen is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the Department. The successful applicant is obliged to participate in the assistant professor program at CBS on teaching principles and methods in order to fulfill the pedagogical requirements made at the end of the term of employment as assistant professor.

Responsibilities

• Teaching and associated examination in existing CBS programs, including Executive Education
• Individual and group based research meeting high international standards
• Promoting CBS’s academic reputation
• Initiating, fund raising and coordinating research projects
• Promoting the teaching and research capabilities of Copenhagen Business School and other relevant assignments at Copenhagen Business School
• Contributing to the administrative responsibilities of the department and to CBS-wide tasks
• Communicatingfindings to the public in general and to CBS’s stakeholders in particular
• Research, including responsibility for the academic development of the relevant discipline
• Responsibility for publishing, scientific communication and research-based teaching
• Active participation in the regular research activities, such as research seminars, workshops and conferences.

The assistant professor is expected to contribute to the development and application of the research of the department’s research areas and to maintain and strengthen CBS’s international research position.
 

Qualification

The applicant must hold a PhD or the equivalent. Emphasis is placed on the applicant’s research potential, which means that a researcher with a large research potential may be preferred to a researcher with a large research production.

Copenhagen Business School has a broad commitment to the excellence, distinctiveness and relevance of its teaching and research programmes. Candidates who wish to join us should demonstrate enthusiasm for working in an organisation of this type (highlighting, for example, relevant business, educational and dissemination activities).

For further information please contact: Head of Department Niels Mygind, tel.: +45 3815 3032, e-mail nm.int@cbs.dk. Information about the department may be found at www.cbs.dk/int.

Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organisation.

Application

Application must be sent via the electronic recruitment system, using the link below.

Application must include:

• A statement of application.
• Proof of qualifications and a full CV.
• Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level, including publications in the field’s internationally recognized journals and citations in the Social Science Citation Index and/or Google Scholar.
• Documentation of teaching qualifications or other material for the evaluation of his/her pedagogical level.
• Information indicating experience in research management, industry co-operation and international co-operation.
• A complete, numbered list of publications (indicating titles, co-authors, page numbers and year) with an * marking of the academic productions to be considered during the review. A maximum of 10 publications for review are allowed. Applicants are requested to prioritise their publications in relation to the field of this job advertisement.
• Copies of the publications marked with an *. Only publications written in English (or another specified principal language, according to research tradition) or one of the Scandinavian languages will be taken into consideration.
  
   

An expert committee will be reviewing the received job applications. The committee’s recommendation of each candidate will be submitted to the person in question.

Closing date: 16 March 2012

Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see items above), by the application deadline.
 

Details about Copenhagen Business School and the department are available at www.cbs.dk.