Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Culture and Economy

Copenhagen Business School (CBS) invites applicants for a vacant full-time position as Assistant Professor Tenure Track in Culture and Economy at Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC), preferably with an orientation towards/interest in digital consumer cultures and how culture shapes economic life and markets in light of increasing digital transformations.

Examples of research areas that the Tenure Track Assistant Professor/Associate Professor may focus on include:

• Consumer culture studies
• Cultural and social theory
• Cultural dimensions of markets
• Qualitative research methods and analysis

Multi-disciplinary by design, MSC leverages the synergies of its faculty to explore the conditions and practices of responsible management, organisation and governance in a globalising world, sharing a particular concern with culture, communication and context as lenses to understand the interaction and interdependencies of business and society.

MSC is a significant supplier of research based teaching to a broad portfolio of programmes, which includes undergraduate, graduate and doctoral teaching and supervision as well as executive education in the fields of:

• Responsible Management, Leadership and Governance
• Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
• Business and Development (with an emphasis on the emerging/growth economies context)
• Organisational Communication (corporate communication, strategic communication, leadership communication, marketing communication, international business communication) and Media Studies

The Assistant Professor position is a full time tenure track position (up to 6 years) with research and teaching obligations.
To fulfill the research requirements of the position, the applicant chosen is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the Department.

Responsibilities

• Teaching and associated examination in existing CBS programs, including Executive Education.
• Individual and group based research meeting high international standards.
• Research meeting high international standards, including responsibility for the academic development of the relevant discipline.
• Contributing to the development and application of the research of the department’s research areas and to maintain and strengthen CBS’s international research position.
• Promoting CBS’ 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.
• Communicating findings to the public in general and to CBS’s stakeholders in particular, including participating in the public debate.
• Responsibility for publishing, scientific communication and researchbased teaching.
• To be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the Department, including research seminars, workshops and conferences.

Qualifications

• Candidates must document a high degree of relevant, original and up-to-date scientific publications at an international level within the areas covered by the department.
• Importance is put on the candidate’s ability to undertake research management and other relevant management functions.
• The candidate should be able to document pedagogical qualifications, good teaching evaluations, and the ability to innovate within the educational field.
• CBS emphasises the candidate’s ability to establish productive contacts with the business community and/or with relevant stakeholders from the public and third sectors.
• The applicant must have professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).
• Demonstrated experience in online and blended teaching and learning formats.

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).

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

The application deadline is 15 March 2021 at midnight CET.
Application must include:

1. A statement of application.
2. Proof of qualifications and a full CV.
3. 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.
4. Documentation of teaching qualifications or other material for the evaluation of his/her pedagogical level.
5. Information indicating experience in research management, industry co-operation and international co-operation.
6. 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.
7. 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).

Recruitment procedure
The Recruitment Committee will shortlist minimum two applicants; when possible five or more applicants will be shortlisted. The shortlisted applicants will be assessed by the Assessment Committee. All applicants will be notified of their status in the recruitment process shortly after the application deadline.
The applicants selected for assessment will be notified about the composition of the Assessment Committee and later in the process about the result of the assessment.

Once the recruitment process is completed each applicant will be notified of the outcome of their application
Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see items above), by the application deadline.

For further information please contact:
Head of Department, Dorte Salskov-Iversen
e-mail dsi.msc@cbs.dk.

Information about the department may be found at cbs.dk/msc.

Deadline: 15. marts 2021.

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CBS er et unikt erhvervsuniversitet med en høj andel af udenlandske ansatte og studerende. CBS har ca. 644 undervisnings- og forskningsårsværk, 192 ph.d.-studerende og 724 administrative årsværk. Ca. 20.422 studerende er fordelt på bachelor-, kandidat-, MBA/EMBA-, ph.d.- og Executive-programmer, der udbydes på dansk og engelsk. Vores videnskabelige medarbejdere tæller internationale eksperter inden for de klassiske forretningsdiscipliner, men også i filosofi, historie, psykologi, sociologi, jura, politik, informationssystemer og kultur.
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