WU is currently inviting applications for the position of a full professor[1] of Leadership and Strategic Change 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.[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.
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
Leadership and Strategic Change is a diverse and multifaceted research area. Leadership focuses on behavioural and interpersonal dimensions, while strategic change addresses structural and organizational aspects. Ideally, candidates will explore both dimensions of leadership and strategic change within or of organizations. This can be achieved, for example, by analysing leadership and strategy as embedded practices or processes, by examining the interdependencies between structure, strategy, and leadership from a systemic or institutional perspective or from the perspective of other current organization and management theories. Candidates should have a track record of theory-based, empirical research in organizations.
The successful candidate is expected to have established an international reputation as a researcher as exemplified above 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 in leadership and strategic change;
d) An excellent research record, 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 international conferences and workshops in the field of Management (e.g., Academy of Management, EGOS, EURAM);
e) A record in successfully attracting research funding;
f) Excellent teaching qualifications at undergraduate and graduate levels as well as in executive education;
g) Teaching in German and English. Non-German-speaking candidates are expected to acquire proficiency in German within five years;
h) Active participation in the international scientific community and a track record of serving the scientific community;
i) Team leadership qualities;
j) Gender and diversity management skills;
k) Well documented activities in the areas of self-governance and third mission.
Expectations
We expect the successful candidate to teach at all levels of higher education and executive education at WU, both in classroom and in distance-learning. Full professors are expected to teach 8 credit hours weekly 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 leadership and strategic change issues. The new professor should also take an active role in the university’s self-governance and third mission activities.
The successful candidate is also expected to contribute to the future development of the Department of Management (see https://www.wu.ac.at/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.
