PhD Candidate: Organisation Design and Crises in Healthcare

The Nijmegen School of Management (NSM) is an academic centre of research and higher education, focusing on institutional and managerial issues within complex organisations. There are seven disciplines within NSM: Business Administration, Public Administration, Political Science, Economics and Business Economics, Social and Political Sciences of the Environment, Human Geography, and Spatial Planning. The faculty has four departments: Business Administration, Economics, Public Administration and Political Science, and Geography, Planning and Environment.

NSM strives for a multidisciplinary approach. Its educational programme is characterised by small-scale teaching and provides a stimulating learning environment with an emphasis on the development of academic skills. NSM employs 300 FTEs, 75% of whom are academics. Currently, NSM has approximately 5,000 students.

The Department of Business Administration consists of five chairs: Strategic Management, Organisational Design and Development, Marketing, Methods, and Strategic Human Resource Management. The Department of Business Administration is responsible for the BSc programme in Business Administration (including a full track in English, and a track in International Business Administration) as well as eight specialisations within the MSc programme in Business Administration (all in English).

Our interdisciplinary Responsible Organisation research programme addresses the multiple values underlying organisational responsibility, the conditions required to realise those values and the interventions geared to the transition of organisations towards responsible organisations. We co-create knowledge with multiple stakeholders in the wider community to ensure the impact of our scholarly work. Our research activities fall under the responsibility of the interdisciplinary Institute for Management Research (IMR).

The vacancy is within the Chair Group of Organisation Design and Development (ODD), which is part of the Department of Business Administration. Research and teaching focus on the design of organisational structures and networks, self-managing forms of organisation, interorganisational collaboration, organisational change and transformation processes, as well as how to make conscious decisions about the intended structure and implement changes in a responsible manner. The design perspective in the ODD group builds on the tradition of socio-technical system design that aims to jointly optimise both the social and the technical aspects of an organisation. The ODD group's research contributes to the Responsible Organisation research programme of the Department of Business Administration. Members of the ODD chair group have published in high-impact journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Long Range Planning, Organisation Science, Organisation Studies, Strategic Organisation and Research Policy.

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