Full Professor of Organization Studies and Governance(m/w/x)

# Full Professor of Organization Studies and Governance WU is currently inviting applications for the position of a full professor of **Organization Studies** at the Department of Management. Candidates are expected to have established an international reputation as a researcher in their field. Depending on the candidate’s academic credentials, the employment contract can be concluded either as a permanent employment contract or as a fixed-term employment contract with the option of a permanent extension. In the **Department of Management**, we engage in research, teaching, executive education, and third mission activities. We strive towards excellent research at the highest level, and to contribute to exchanging knowledge internationally and nationally, within academia and with other actors in society. We ground our research and teaching mainly in management and organizational theory, and we appreciate a social science perspective. We value our common understanding of academia as a joint effort grounded in mutual respect and appreciate our constructive collaboration. ## Qualifications **Organization Studies** is a diverse and multifaceted research area. It aims at the understanding of organizations as entities embedded in societal contexts. It seeks to understand how these entities are organized and how organizing occurs within these entities. Candidates explore these dimensions from a social science perspective and focus on how organizations and organizing shape and are shaped by societies. Original theoretical contributions to the development of Organization Studies can be achieved, for example, by analysing organizations and organizing from an institutional, process, or practice approach, or from the perspective of other current organization and management theories. The Department is open to strengthening existing areas of research as well as to developing new areas of scholarly expertise. Candidates should have a strong track record of theory-related empirical research in and of organizations, and employ and develop further innovative methodologies and methods in their work beyond the qualitative – quantitative divide. The successful candidate is expected to have established an international reputation as a researcher as exemplified above, underpinned by an extensive track record of research, and to have the following characteristics (candidates’ qualifications will be assessed under consideration of their academic age): a)    A solid academic qualification (e.g. PhD, habilitation or equivalent qualification) in management (highly advantageous), alternatively a closely related area b)    a track record of international experiences c)    An outstanding international reputation for excellent research based on management and organization theories from a social science perspective An excellent research record with regard to their academic age, especially by a.    having demonstrated the ability to publish in top-tier journals of the field (especially advantageous also in journals from the WU star-list and the department’s A+ and A lists) and by b.    regular participation in recognized conferences and workshops in the field of Management (e.g., Academy of Management, EGOS, EURAM); d)    A record in successfully attracting research funding e)    Excellent teaching qualifications at undergraduate and graduate levels as well as in executive education f)     Active participation in the international scientific community and a proven track record of serving the scientific community g)    Team leadership qualities h)    Gender and diversity management skills i)     Well documented activities in the areas of self-governance and third mission; j)     Ability to teach in German is an advantage; And – in case this is not possible at the start of the employment – a strong commitment to learn German towards an advanced level (CEFR B2) in the first five years is expected, in order to fulfill necessary responsibilities of this position, including teaching, university self-governance, and third mission activities. ## Expectations We expect the successful candidate to teach at all levels of higher education and executive education at WU, both in the classroom and in distance-learning. Full professors are expected to teach 8 weekly credit hours at WU. We also want them to play an active role in the development and improvement of existing academic programs. The successful candidate will be expected to take on a leadership role at institute level at the Department of Management, to establish stakeholder relations and to position the Institute as international knowledge hub for organization studies. The new professor should also take an active role in the university’s self-governance and third mission activities. The successful candidate shares the department’s collaborative approach and is also expected to contribute to the future development of the Department of Management. Overall, the successful candidate complements the department’s profile in research, teaching, and third mission. Especially in research, the candidate introduces new approaches to the overall portfolio of the department as well as connects with existing research foci. **Please note:** Only applications uploaded via our online recruiting tool will be considered. In their application documents, applicants must respond to all criteria specified in the call for applications, especially to items A) “Qualifications” and B) “What we expect.” A reference to these two items is considered a mandatory element of any application to WU Vienna, and any applications that lack this mandatory element cannot be considered. *1 employed under salary group A 1 pursuant to the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff [Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten], minimum gross yearly salary: €92,460.20; the actual annual gross salary is subject to negotiation.* *2 The duration of fixed-term contracts is subject to negotiation.*