Full Professor of Global Business

WU is currently inviting applications for the position of a full professor[1] of Global Business at the Department of Global Business and Trade. 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[2].

WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) combines excellence with responsibility. 
Its rare triple accreditation by EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA is a guarantee for the highest quality research and teaching in the fields of business, economics, and business law. WU’s research is characterized by a wide diversity of disciplines practiced at WU, allowing researchers to deal with even the most complex of research questions.

International cooperation is very important to WU, and we encourage and support both faculty and student mobility. WU is also very aware of its responsibility to its students, faculty, and staff and is committed to gender equality, equal opportunities, accessibility, family-friendly working conditions, and sustainability.
 
The Department of Global Business and Trade engages in research, teaching, executive education, and third-mission activities. We strive for excellent research and contribute to knowledge exchange internationally and nationally, within academia, and with other societal actors. Our activities mainly focus on topics related to International Business, Responsibility and Sustainability in Global Business, and Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management.

Qualifications

The successful candidate is expected to have established an international reputation as a researcher in the relevant field and to have excellent qualifications. Candidates’ qualifications will be assessed in the context of their academic age on the basis of the following characteristics:

a)    A solid academic qualification (e.g. doctorate or PhD, habilitation or an equivalent qualification) in International Business or a related area.

b)    An outstanding international reputation for high quality scholarship in the area of International Business commensurate with academic age, especially by having demonstrated the ability to publish in top-tier journals in the field. The successful candidate will complement the Department’s research portfolio in a meaningful way, e.g., be an International Business specialist in areas such as sustainability, crises management, geopolitics, supply chain management or business analytics..   

c)    Excellent teaching qualifications at undergraduate and graduate (including executive education), and PhD levels 

d)    Proven international experience and ability to teach in English;

e)    A strong record in attracting research funding;

f)     Leadership qualities; 

g)    Gender and diversity management skills.

Expectations

The successful candidate is expected to perform teaching activities at all levels (bachelor’s, master’s, PhD/doctorate, and executive education), both in the classroom and in distance-learning formats. 

The holder of this position is expected to teach 8 weekly credit hours. Teaching experience in English is required. Non-German-speaking candidates will be expected to acquire proficiency in German over a certain period of time.

We also expect the new professor to take an active role in the university’s self-governance and third mission activities.

The successful candidate is expected to engage in research collaborations with department members, potentially leading to journal publications and successful research grant applications.

Applications

WU is committed to diversity and inclusion, and qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. In case of equal qualification, female candidates will be given preference. Applicants with disabilities  will be supported during each stage of the recruitment process. Candidates’ qualifications will be assessed in the context of their academic age.
 
WU assesses performance in the context of each applicant’s biography and relative to the opportunities available to them. This approach recognizes that academic achievements cannot be assessed separately from each individual researcher’s biographical factors. To ensure equal opportunities, qualifications are evaluated relative to the applicant’s academic age. This means that WU takes biographical factors such as part-time employment or career interruptions due to caregiving or childcare obligations or other functions performed at or outside of a university into account. 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 your application, you can include personal data related to biographical factors. WU will keep all data that you send us as part of your application confidential. All persons involved in the selection procedure are bound by obligations of secrecy.

Applicants should address their applications and all relevant documents (including, in any case, a letter of motivation, academic CV, reference to the criteria specified in the call for applications) to the rector of WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna and upload those using the link provided/ button below/ on the WU website.

Please submit your application WU’s online recruiting tool by August 31, 2025. 

For further subject-related details about the position, please contact Professor Desislava Dikova, Department of Global Business and Trade, by email: Desislava.dikova@wu.ac.at.

For details about the application process, please contact the Senior Faculty Recruitment team email: prof.application@wu.ac.at.

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) Expectations. 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 (full-time); the actual annual gross salary is subject to negotiation
[2] The duration of fixed-term contracts is subject to negotiation.