6 (paid) PhD candidate positions in Business and Management f/m
For each 1.0 fte (3-year positions)
Vacancy number: 16022
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEWEB) aims to combine high quality education with excellent research. The Faculty offers three Dutch taught Bachelor's programmes (Economics and Business Economics, Econometrics and Operations Research and Business Administration), one English taught Bachelor's programme (International Business Administration), eight English taught Master's programmes and thirteen postgraduate programmes. The faculty has several research groups with an outstanding international reputation. FEWEB accommodates approximately 5000 students and 1500 postgraduate students. Over 500 staff members are employed at the Faculty.
Amsterdam Business Research Institute
Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI) was established in 2009 and builds on a long history of research and teaching at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ABRI consists of six research tracks and involves renowned Dutch and international research fellows who publish in and are part of editorial board of journals including Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies. ABRI offers a full time PhD programme in Business and Management where the focus is not only on excellent research but also on academic career development.
The PhD candidate position
PhD students can rely on the intensive supervision and the extensive training offered by the faculty's leading researchers in the field. They will follow the 3-year PhD programme of the Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI), typically after a 2-year research master (eg. MPhil degree). The Faculty offers opportunities to attend conferences, to meet other international researchers and to participate in high-quality discussion groups in support of writing papers for publication. Many of our PhD students spend some time abroad during their trajectory. The prospects for the Faculty's doctoral graduates on the labour market are excellent, both inside and outside the academic world.
Tasks
The PhD student is required to conduct independent research, supervised by a (team of) professor(s), and to incorporate the findings of his or her research in a doctoral dissertation. In addition, the PhD student will be involved in teaching activities at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
Requirements
Applicants should have a MPhil / Research master (e.g. our Business in Society Programme, see below) or an equivalent programme (e.g. Junior Researcher Programme) with good grades in Economics, Business Administration, Operations Research, Sociology, or a related discipline. We expect candidates to show a proactive research orientation and to be proficient in written and spoken English.GMAT/GRE test results are required from all applicants. The candidates are expected to apply with their own research proposals written in accordance with the standard NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) guidelines. The topic of the research proposal must fit with one or more research programmes of ABRI.
Further particulars
The appointment will be for a total of three years. The initial appointment will be for a period of 12 months, extendable up to three years upon a positive evaluation. You can find information about our excellent fringe benefits of employment at www.workingatvu.nl.
Salary
The salary will be in accordance with university regulations for academic personnel, and amounts € 2.532 gross per month during the first year and increases to € 2.778 gross per month during the third year, based on a full-time employment.
Application
For more information on the application procedures and the proposal form, please check http://www.abri.vu.nl/en/doctoral-education/phd-programme/phd-vacancies/index.asp.
The applications should be sent before March 15, 2016 to Mw. Ina Putter (i.putter@vu.nl).
Start of the programme: September 1, 2016.
Deadline for application: March 15, 2016.
Please mention the vacancy number.
ABRI offers an excellent 2-year Research Master Programme in business administration
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam jointly offer a Research Master in business administration. This two-year accredited Research Master named 'Business in Society' aims to train PhD students for an excellent academic position or a research-related position in the public or private sector such as strategic advisor, researcher, or policy maker. Our Research Master is designed to develop the theory-building skills of students as well as strong methodological skills. It is a selective program (max. 25 students) to enable individual mentoring by internationally renowned researchers. Content-wise, we will pay particular attention to the complex interactions between business and society.
We are looking for those students who are academically ambitious and would like to pursue a research-oriented career. Admission criteria include standardized tests scores above the 85th percentile for the GMAT or GRE. The best graduates of our program will be offered (to apply for) fully-funded PhD candidate positions at the two universities upon completion of the two-year Research Master, such as mentioned above.
Please inform any students that you think are a good fit to our program, and encourage them to apply. Applications will be accepted until April 1, 2016.
For more information, please contact Maura Soekijad (program director, m.soekijad@vu.nl) or Flore Bridoux (associate director, f.m.bridoux@uva.nl). Further information is also available at:
http://www.uva.nl/rmsc-business-in-society
Dr. M. (Maura) Soekijad
Associate Professor Knowledge & Organization at KIN Research
Director Doctoral Education at ABRI Graduate School
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
T (+31 20) 59 86176 | E m.soekijad@vu.nl | W KIN Research http://www.kinresearch.nl