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Vacancy at the University of <st1:placename w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>, The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Strategy & Marketing Section
PhD position in Strategy, Innovation and Cimate Change
Vacancy number 08-5003
The candidate will be supervised by Prof. Ans Kolk and Dr Jonatan Pinkse and will thus be able to profit from the experience built up on business responses to climate change in the past decade at ABS. This project will focus on business and climate change, with specific attention to how companies draw on their strategic and innovative capabilities in developing solutions to climate change. In recent years, interest in cleaner, more climate-friendly technologies - such as solar energy and low-emission cars - has grown very rapidly, and new products and markets are emerging. However, there is not much research that systematically investigates the drivers and implications for companies to move in such directions. The research will combine multiple methods of investigation, qualitative as well as quantitative, and also calls for skills in research liaison with host organizations and good external presentation skills.
Requirements
Masters (MA, MSc) in the area of business (business administration, marketing, management, business economics, and with demonstrable interest in the area of strategy)
Interest (and preferably experience) in field research, including studies focusing on organisations
Mastery of both written and spoken English
Further information
Applicants who require further information should contact Dr. Pinkse (e-mail j.m.pinkse@uva.nl; tel. +31 20 525 4106). Before getting in touch, those who are interested in this PhD position are advised to take a look at a recent publication A Perspective on Multinational Enterprises and Climate Change: Learning from 'An Inconvenient Truth'? (see http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1021793), since the project will build on this work.
The UvA is located in the centre of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:place></st1:city>. For more information on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place> and its strategy & marketing section, please visit http://www.abs.uva.nl and www.abs.uva.nl/strategyandmarketing.
Appointment
The person appointed on this position will, in line with the collective agreement of Dutch universities, be considered employee of the university and therefore no tuition fee is charged. He/she will receive a monthly salary in accordance with University regulations for academic personnel, which will range from 2,000 (first year) up to a maximum of 2,558 (final year) gross per month.
The appointment will initially be for 1 year, to be extended to a total of 4 years upon excellent performance (an evaluation will be held after 8 months). The PhD thesis should be finalized within four years. In this period, the candidate will also be expected to do some teaching (20% of the time).
Applications
Applicants should send their CV and a covering letter to: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Personnel Department, attn. Bernadette Clemens, Roetersstraat 11, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Applications may also be emailed to applications-feb@uva.nl. Please include the job reference number. The closing date for applications is 28 March 2008.