Organization and Management Theory OMT

The IMO Institute at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) invites applications for a fully funded Ph.D. position in management for conducting research in the SNF project entitled Exploring the effects of audience-organization linguistic alignment on access to social benefits.
The project aims to study the effects of linguistic alignment between an organization's employees and external stakeholders on organizational performance, using natural language processing on a corpus of over 400.000 emails exchanged between a French governmental agency in charge of distributing social benefits in France and its beneficiaries. The project further includes a field experiment in partnership with the French governmental agency to test the effect of different types of linguistic content on beneficiaries' response. The doctoral student will work on the SNF project with Prof. Paul Gouvard, the SNF project leader.
The doctoral student will be enrolled in the PhD program in Management at USI. The successful candidate will be offered the possibility to work in a dynamic research team and in a multidisciplinary and international scientific environment. The PhD candidate will collaborate to the development of the institute research agenda. He or she will have the task of setting up a collection of data for his or her dissertation, while at the same time participating in a variety of tasks related to the research streams in which he/she is involved.

Ideal candidates should satisfy the following requirements:

• A Master (or equivalent title) in management, economics, sociology, psychology, or related disciplines
• High personal interest in organization theory, sustainability, and strategy, motivation to address important societal issues and a keen enthusiasm for quantitative empirical research
• Expertise in quantitative methods, computational social science, machine learning, natural language processing and/or knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Python) would be a plus
• Good skills in oral and written English (official language of the Ph.D. program)
• Good oral and writing skills in one (OR MORE) national Swiss languages (German, French, Italian, Romansh)
• Ability to work independently and to plan and direct own work
• Motivation to engage in the elaboration of a PhD dissertation. Ability to work in team and autonomy in scheduling research steps. Interest for teaching and tutoring students and availability to collaborate with colleagues (engage in scientific dialogue, listen and think critically) are required. 

Additional information on the position and how to apply can be found here: https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/imo/imo-phd-student_position-2023.pdf
Please send your application in electronic form or requests for further information to Paul Gouvard (gouvap@usi.ch).
Applications received before 01/01/2024, will be given priority. However, applications will be received until the position is filled.