Postdoc in the area of Individual Behavior in the Digital Economy

The Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI) at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is looking for a postdoc researcher. The postdoc position is time-limited to 2 years and connected to the project “Tax (dis)honesty in the digital economy: The case of Airbnb in Denmark” funded by the ROCKWOOL Foundation. Expected starting date is 1 January 2022. 

About Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Strategy and Innovation: 
Copenhagen Business School has the status of an independent university and has more than 20,000 students and app. 450 full-time professors (assistant/associate/full). CBS is thus one of the largest business schools in Northern Europe, covering a wide range of business-related academic fields. The Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI) is one of 11 departments within CBS. The department has about 50 faculty members, currently including 20 professors, 20 associate professors, 10 assistant professors, in addition to 8 postdocs and 19 PhD students. 

SI’s ambition is to host an internationally leading environment for research and teaching in strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, and international business. The theoretical foundation for research in these areas is eclectic and cross-disciplinary, combining theoretical insights from strategy, international business, organizational theory, economics, sociology, psychology, and economic geography. Methodologically, the department places considerable emphasis on the solid application of empirical methods, featuring surveys, register data, experiments, and qualitative studies. Faculty members have published in top academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, among others. 

About the project: 
This project intends to study tax evasion on platform markets within the empirical setting of the short-term rental market in Denmark. The project will combine digital trace data with detailed microdata from Denmark Statistics to investigate tax honesty on digital peer-to-peer platforms and potential heterogeneous effects across individuals. Furthermore, the team will investigate the effects of information-sharing agreements between platforms and tax authorities.

The postdoc position is a two-year position with 100% research obligations (i.e. no teaching obligations), starting in January 2022. The postdoc researcher will work closely with Vera Rocha, Tom Grad, and Jörg Claussen from SI. 

The project will mostly rely on empirical methods, namely on Danish micro-data. The ideal candidate for the position will be a recent PhD graduate with strong technical skills in data management and econometrics and with deep interest in these research questions.

Qualifications:
•    Applicants must have completed, or be close to completing, a PhD from an accredited institution in the areas of Economics, Management, Strategy, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, or related. Prior work with large datasets is preferable.
•    A strong (quantitative) research record (or potential) and first-rate econometric skills.
•    An excellent academic record and work ethic.
•    Excellent organizational and communication skills (both oral and written).
•    Enthusiasm for research required. The ideal candidate will be thinking of this position as a platform to build skills towards a research professorship in the future.
•    Willingness to move to and live in Denmark.

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

The application must include:

• Cover letter.
• Proof of qualifications and a full CV.
• Any relevant information indicating experience in research management, industry co-operation and international cooperation.
• 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 encouraged to prioritize their publications or working papers in relation to the field of this job advertisement.
• Copies of the publications marked with an *. Only publications written in English will be taken into consideration.

Recruitment procedure
The Recruitment Committee will shortlist a minimum of two applicants; if 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 his or her application.

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

For further information about the research project, please contact Associate Professor Vera Rocha: [email protected] .

Closing date: 29 August 2021.

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With some 20.422 full and part-time students, 644 full-time faculty members, 192 PhD and 724 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 and culture.

The University welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, gender, race, religion or ethnic background.