LUISS University invites outstanding candidates to express their interests for Assistant Professorship to be employed in the Department of Business and Management in the following disciplines:
· Accounting
· Corporate Finance
· Marketing
· Organization
· Strategy
· Industrial Dynamics
· Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability
Profile
The Assistant Professor will have a PhD from a leading school and an active research program in the aforementioned fields, and the potential to publish in prominent management journals. She/he will have teaching experience.
Position
Successful candidates will show a passionate drive to become leading scholars in their own field. Funding for conference attendance is available. Teaching is in English. Teaching load is one course per year either in an undergraduate or post-graduate programs. Candidates will supervise master dissertations and bachelor papers in their fields. Teaching assistants are also available. Appointments are full-time. The salary is competitive. The contract is 3+2 years.
About the Department
Located in the heart of Rome, the Department of Business and Management is one of the four Departments of LUISS ("Free International University for the Social Sciences"), a private University specialized in the social sciences. It offers undergraduate and post-graduate programs. The Department has recently started a recruiting campaign to develop its reputation for excellence in research and high quality teaching. The Department of Business and Management and the LUISS Business School are EQUIS accredited.
Primary areas of faculty research include:
· business model innovation;
· corporate governance;
· finance for innovation;
· technology transfer and IPR management;
· international management;
· new venture formation, growth, and corporate entrepreneurship;
· project organising;
· organizational learning and adaptation;
· public management and accounting;
· performance measurement systems;
· integrated corporate reporting;
· social capital and innovation;
· word-ofmouth-led innovation;
· ethics, responsibility and sustainability;
· innovation and the evolution of industries;
· global value chains;
· project-organising;
· tourism and cultural goods management.
Faculty focuses on diverse empirical contexts ranging from the aerospace and creative industries to the health service and the public sector. LUISS faculty have published papers in journals like Administrative Science Quarterly, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Management Studies, Industrial Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Journal of Information Technology, Organization Science, Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Marketing Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing.
Application procedure
Interested applicants should send the following information to recruitingdim@luiss.it (please write in the subject field "DBM call for assistant professors"):
(1) A cover letter illustrating the candidate's research program
(2) A curriculum vitae
(3) A copy of the applicant's job market paper and other (maximum three) publications
or working papers
(4) Three letters of recommendation
LUISS University is committed to increasing the number of international and female scholars among its faculty. Therefore, we especially welcome applications from international and female scholars.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY 31 ST AUGUST 2016