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VU Amsterdam is looking for new colleagues

  • 1.  VU Amsterdam is looking for new colleagues

    Posted 12-10-2020 10:03

    Dear colleagues,

    The Department of Management and Organization of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, invites applications for 3 Associate/Assistant positions.

    • ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP (APPLY HERE)
    • ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY (APPLY HERE)
    • ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF STRATEGY & INNOVATION (APPLY HERE)

    ABOUT VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM

    The ambition of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is clear: to contribute to a better world through outstanding education and ground-breaking research. We strive to be a university where personal development and commitment to society play a leading role. A university where people from different disciplines and backgrounds collaborate to achieve innovations and to generate new knowledge. Our teaching and research encompass the entire spectrum of academic endeavor – from the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences through to the life sciences and the medical sciences.

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is home to more than 26,000 students. We employ over 4,600 individuals. The VU campus is easily accessible and located in the heart of Amsterdam's Zuidas district, a truly inspiring environment for teaching and research.

    Diversity
    We are an inclusive university community. Diversity is one of our most important values. We believe that engaging in international activities and welcoming students and staff from a wide variety of backgrounds enhances the quality of our education and research. We are always looking for people who can enrich our world with their own unique perspectives and experiences.

    School of Business and Economics
    The School of Business and Economics (SBE) provides high-quality education and excellent research in business administration and economics with a focus on contributing to the social, economic and ecological challenges of our time. Whether it is the use of robots in society or big data, labour market participation or flexibility in the labour market, traffic jams or the housing market, flash crashes in the stock market or choice behaviour in gambling, leadership or change management: we believe in goal-oriented scientific research and understand that progress in academics, the business community and society is achieved through cooperation, openness and social responsibility.

    At SBE, all of our highly-motivated colleagues work together closely in a stimulating, dynamic and international environment to achieve our collective goal of encouraging society to make informed choices. Approximately 4,200 Bachelor's and Master's students and 1,700 executive students are enrolled at the School, and employs roughly 500 people.

    The Department of Management & Organization 
    The Department of Management and Organization comprises a large, diverse group of micro and macro scholars who seek to combine research excellence with passion in teaching. The department has a strong research tradition, manifested in top tier publication records (Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies etc.) well as in success in attracting external funding for research. The Department has a collaborative ethos with members actively working together on research and teaching projects. Our Department is highly diverse in terms of cultural backgrounds and we enjoy working in an international environment. We offer an active PhD program, Master programs in Entrepreneurship, Management Consulting, Human Resource Management, International Business, Leadership Change Management and Strategy & Organization and a broad range of courses in several Bachelor programs. The Assistant Professor will enhance and contribute to the Department's teaching and research activities and be member of the Management Consulting section. The research program of the section focuses on consultants and related management occupations as a research context, and is interdisciplinary in its analytical angles. Members of the group publish in journals like Organisation Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of Professions and Organizations. We also publish monographs with highly reputable publishers like Routledge, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. For more information about the department and the management consulting research group, see our website: https://sbe.vu.nl/nl/afdelingen-en-instituten/management-en-organisatie/research/index.aspx
     

    Prof. dr. Svetlana N. Khapova 

    Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Head of Department - Management & Organisation
    Director of the (Executive) part-time PhD programme in Business Studies
    Director of the VU Center for Boards and Executive Leadership Development
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    Svetlana Khapova
    Vrije U. Amsterdam
    Amsterdam
    +31205986471
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