Assistant Professor in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship

Assistant professor in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

The department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) is looking for an Assistant professor in the area of strategic management and entrepreneurship.

Your role

Will you grab our available tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM)? We are looking for candidates with the potential to build a record of excellence in both research and teaching. You should have a doctorate degree or be in your final year of dissertation research. Our search is not limited to any individual sub-discipline of the broader strategic management field, although the Department would like to strengthen in some areas such as business-level strategies, innovation strategies, and digital strategies.

Your main tasks/ required qualifications

Our search is not limited to any individual sub-discipline of the broader strategic management field, although the Department would like to strengthen in some areas such as non-market strategies, platforms, and scaling-up.

Your required competences

We take pride in RSM’s high-performance research culture and its focus on positive change. Erasmus University ranks third in Europe in terms of 2013-2018 UTD top journal output. Faculty members routinely publish in top tier journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Organization Science and Management Science. RSM faculty members also regularly serve as (associate) editors of top journals like Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, and Journal of Management Studies.

We are also proud of our outstanding PhD programme, which has a strong record of placements at peer institutions such as INSEAD, HEC, Cambridge University (Judge), University of Warwick, University of South Carolina (Moore), Aalto University, and McGill University.

We offer

The position could start as early as August or September 2021. Erasmus University has attractive employment conditions, which include a holiday allowance of 8 per cent, an end-of-year bonus of 8.3 per cent and a considerable amount of vacation days.

Applications

Are you interested in this great opportunity? Please send us:

• your cover letter
• your CV
• job market paper
• research statement
• teaching statement
• teaching evaluations (if available)
• three letters of recommendation.

The initial deadline for applications is Friday 1 March 2021, although applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Promising candidates will be invited for an interview shortly after the deadline.

For more information about the job please contact Prof. Justin Jansen, Chair of the Department of Strategic Management an Entrepreneurship, via jjansen@rsm.nl.

Department

The department belongs to Europe’s strongest Strategy departments in terms of research output and impact. It consists of over approximately 40 teachers and researchers, including about 10 PhD candidates. It has excellent contacts with national and multinational businesses, and has a number of internationally renowned professors. Education and research are focused on strategic management, global strategy, family business, individual and corporate entrepreneurship, co-operation and competition between companies, and strategic renewal. The department has several research platforms, such as the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship and the Erasmus Centre for Family Business; they deliver pioneering research in specific areas of strategy.

Joining the Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship department at RSM means joining a terrific and exceptionally collegial and international group of tenure track faculty, including, Mirko Benischke (PhD University of Auckland), Giuseppe Criaco (Jönköping International Business School), Andreas Distel (Copenhagen Business School), Richard Haans (Tilburg University), Korcan Kavusan (Tilburg University), Patricia Klopf (WU Vienna University), Yu Liu (Aalto University), Brian Pinkham (UT Dallas/Jindal), Laura Rosendahl Huber (Max Planck Institute), Xena Welch Guerra (University of St. Gallen), Caroline Witte (Copenhagen Business School) and Zhiyan Wu (Zhejiang University).

To learn more about our activities and about our tenured faculty members, please visit: www.rsm.nl/research/departments/strategic-management-entrepreneurship

About RSM

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) is one of Europe’s top-ranked business schools. RSM provides ground-breaking research and education furthering excellence in all aspects of management and is based in the international port city of Rotterdam – a vital nexus of business, logistics and trade. RSM’s primary focus is on developing business leaders with international careers who can become a force for positive change by carrying their innovative mindset into a sustainable future. Our first-class range of bachelor, master, MBA, PhD and executive programmes encourage them to become critical, creative, caring and collaborative thinkers and doers. Study information and activities for future students, executives and alumni are also organised from the RSM office in Chengdu, China. www.rsm.nl

RSM is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly encourages applications from candidates of all genders, ethnicities, and nationalities.

Interested candidates should apply electronically: https://www.rsm.nl/about-rsm/vacancies/assistant-professor-in-the-area-of-strategic-management-and-entrepreneurship/