Junior Professorship Business Administration, in particular Strategic Entrepreneurship (W1)

20 Jan 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LUENEBURG

Research Field

Management sciences

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)
First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Germany

Application Deadline

17 Feb 2024 - 00:00 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Other

Job Status

Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Leuphana University of Lüneburg stands for innovation in research and education. Methodological diversity, interdisciplinary collaboration, transdisciplinary cooperation with partners outside academia and a dynamic development characterize its research profile in the fields of education, culture, management & technology, sustainability as well as public affairs. Its award-winning study model is organized into the Leuphana College, the Leuphana Graduate School and the Leuphana Professional School.

The School of Management and Technology at Leuphana University invites applications for the following junior professorship:

—    BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, IN PARTICULAR STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP (W1)

The junior professorship advances an understanding of how strategic management shapes and is shaped by entrepreneurship. Your research is informed by broader theoretical debates in strategy and entrepreneurship, meets the highest standards for empirical studies, and connects strategic entrepreneurship themes to the field of sustainability and digital transformation.

In particular, we seek candidates who bridge strategic entrepreneurship with broader debates and approaches from organization studies. Fields in the area of management that the professorship could inform with a focus on strategic entrepreneurship include, but are not limited to startup entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship, institutional entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystems, strategy and entrepreneurship as process and practice, power and politics, time and temporality, paradoxes and dialectics in strategy-making, and future-making. With these or other themes, the professorship contributes to “entrepreneurship” as one of the School of Management and Technology’s profile areas. The position is also expected to complement existing research on the psychological, technological, or cultural sides of entrepreneurship by contributing an organizational/strategic view and to give broader impulses to further developing the school’s profile areas of “digital transformation” and “responsible and sustainability management”.

Therefore, in teaching, the incoming Professor for Strategic Entrepreneurship will offer electives focusing on strategic entrepreneurship and its intersections with managing startups, as well as digital and sustainable business transformations. Prospectively, you will also offer introductory courses and seminars on management that provide a solid basis for subsequent electives, as well as contributions to doctorate education in the research group on Entrepreneurship, Management, and Innovation. Beyond research and teaching, you are willing to inspire and educate students as well as non-academics to make a sustainable impact on people, organizations, and society; respectively, you ideally have ideas to impact society.

You share the idea of the university as an educational community. As a scholar willing to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration at the School of Management and Technology and beyond, you will participate in PhD education and contribute to the Leuphana Center for Organization & Social Transformation (LOST) and the RCE (Research Centre of Entrepreneurship) with your own original profile.

You strive to establish a vibrant international network and develop an internationally visible research program. This is demonstrated by a developing track record of highly-ranked entrepreneurship and management journal papers according to VHB Jourqual 3 or the Academic Journal Guide, which have a published and/or revise and resubmit status, competitive conference papers, and ideally research awards. Initial contributions to leading national and international scientific associations and conferences (AOM, EGOS, SMS, WK ORG, WK TIE, WK STRA, etc.) are expected. You have initial experience in the acquisition of externally funded projects (e.g., supporting research proposal applications, submitting research proposals, acquiring grants, collaborating on larger applications, experience with the handling of third-party funding projects), which indicates a successful approach to the acquisition of third-party funding as well as supporting the development of a viable third-party funding strategy during the junior professorship. Ideally, you have already successfully acquired third-party funding on your own. 

You have an excellent command of the English language. Ideally, you have spent some time in your career at a leading international business school and have a track record of teaching classes in English. If you do not speak German, you are willing to learn it within a reasonable period.

For this position, we seek a committed early-stage researcher who shows promise of excellence in teaching and research. According to § 30 NHG, formal requirements are a university degree and Ph.D. in a discipline relevant to the open position, your aptitude for teaching, and your ability to engage in independent academic research as demonstrated by the outstanding quality of your dissertation.

The junior professorship will be filled in accordance with pay grade W1 and is initially limited to a period of three years. The position will be extended for an additional three years, subject to a positive academic evaluation (in accordance with the guidelines for the mid-term evaluation of junior professors  of Leuphana University Lüneburg). The standard teaching load is 4 LVS.

At Leuphana, you will find an academic community that is open to changes in perspective and cultivates the dialogue among the different disciplines as well as between research and practice. With spirit and initiative, we address the challenges of civil society in the 21st century. Pursuing our idea of liberal education, we enable our students to think, reflect and act upon it. Our professors foster the awareness of gender and diversity aspects in teaching and research. Leuphana University is an equal opportunities employer. The university aims to increase its number of female professors. Qualified women are especially invited to apply.

For further information, please contact the Dean of the School of Management and Technology, Prof. Dr. Paul Drews ([email protected] ).

Please submit your application (without submission of an application photo) consisting of the following materials in two separate PDF files: a) motivation letter, CV, copies of academic degrees, and b) three relevant publications or manuscripts either under review or about to be submitted to a journal. Please enclose the completed application form  (as Excel file) with your documents. Guidance on the required application materials can be found here .

Applications should be sent preferably via email using the keyword “Strategic Entrepreneurship” (W1) to [email protected]  or to the President of Leuphana University Lüneburg, Post Box 2440, Lüneburg D-21314 by March 03, 2024. Please be aware that we cannot return application documents sent physically.

By submitting your application, you consent to your data being stored and processed for the purpose of the recruitment process. Please note our Data Protection Notice for Applicants  (in English  or in German ).

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1

Company/Institute

LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LUENEBURG

Country

Germany

City

Lüneburg, Niedersachsen (DE), near Hamburg, North of Germany

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Lüneburg, Niedersachsen (DE), near Hamburg, North of Germany

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