Assistant Professor in Business History

6 days ago


Frederiksberg, Frederiksberg Kommune, Denmark Copenhagen Business School Full time
Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a vacant Assistant Professorship in Business History with a particular focus on archival work and written historical presentation at Department of Business Humanities and Law.

The assistant professorship is a fixed term position (3 years) with research and teaching obligations. Starting date is expected to be 1 July 2025, or as agreed upon during consultation. The assistant professorship is connected to a externally funded research project on the history of a particular Danish company (Grønbech A/S) in a 200 year perspective. The assistant professor's tasks will focus on archival work and preparing a book manuscript and research articles.

The successful candidate will work closely with the project leader and our research group in business history.

Responsibilities

- Retrieval and processing of relevant historical sources from Danish and foreign archives.
- Preparation of a coherent historical manuscript on the company's 200-year history, with a special focus on the company's strategic choices and historically shifting product areas.
- Teaching and associated examination in existing CBS programs
- Individual and group based research meeting high international standards
- Promoting CBS's academic reputation
- Promoting the teaching and research capabilities of Copenhagen Business School and other relevant assignments at Copenhagen Business School
- Contributing to the administrative responsibilities of the department and to CBS-wide tasks
- Communicating findings to the public in general and to CBS's stakeholders in particular
- Research, including responsibility for the academic development of the relevant discipline
- Responsibility for publishing, scientific communication and research-based teaching
- Active participation in the regular research activities, such as research seminars, workshops and conferences.

The assistant professor is expected to contribute to the development and application of the research of the department's research areas and to maintain and strengthen CBS's international research position.

Qualifications
Applicants must hold a PhD in business history or a related field, such as economic history, cultural history, or business studies with a historical approach. A strong methodological understanding of historical research and archival work is essential.

The ideal candidate will be able to work independently with complex historical sources, critically assess archival materials, and synthesize large amounts of information into a coherent and analytically sound historical narrative. Prior experience in manuscript development, editing, and/or the publishing process will be an advantage.

The applicant must have professional proficiency in English (written and spoken). Furthermore, professional proficiency in Danish is also required, as a large part of the work tasks consists of source searching in Danish-language archival material, and the employment also involves writing a book that is to be published in Danish. Additionally, familiarity with international research networks in business history and experience in communicating historical insights to a broader audience will be considered an asset.

Copenhagen Business School has a broad commitment to the excellence, distinctiveness and relevance of its teaching and research programmes. Candidates who wish to join us should demonstrate enthusiasm for working in an organisation of this

For further information please contact: Associate Professor Anders Ravn Sørensen, e-mail ars.bhl@cbs.dk. Information about the department may be found at www.cbs.dk/bhl.

Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance's agreement with the Central Academic Organisation.

Research environment
The Department of Business Humanities and Law is dedicated to an integrated approach to the contemporary challenges facing business and society drawing on the humanities, interdisciplinary social sciences, and law. It emphasizes problem-oriented research to understand those challenges and to build the lifelong capabilities necessary to address them. Faculty within the Department of Business Humanities and Law have diverse research backgrounds and research foci including but not limited to leadership, entrepreneurship, ethics, strategy, law, politics, sociology, philosophy, history, anthropology, diversity, equity and inclusion, and leisure management. What unites faculty is an overriding concern for the organization of the human within its multiple environments and, by implication, a research interest in the interdisciplinary "conversation" between humanities and social sciences.

Within the Department of Business Humanities and Law, the position will be located in the Governance, Culture and Learning Unit, an interdisciplinary research environment connecting governance studies at all levels of global society.

Teaching responsibilities of the Department comprise undergraduate and graduate teaching.

To fulfill the research requirements of the position, the applicant(s) chosen is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the Department. The successful applicant is obliged to participate in the assistant professor program at CBS on teaching principles and methods in order to fulfill the pedagogical requirements made at the end of the term of employment as assistant professor.

Application
Application must be sent via the electronic recruitment system, using the link below.

Application must include:

1. A statement of application.
2. Full CV and copies of Master and PhD diplomas.
3. Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level, including publications in the field's internationally recognized journals and citations in the Social Science Citation Index and/or Google Scholar.
4. A teaching portfolio documenting teaching qualifications and pedagogical development. The portfolio must include an overview of the applicants past teaching achievements and practice and its impact on the students, reflections on pedagogical competencies and core strengths, the educational competencies the applicant would like to develop, and the teaching opportu-nities they would like to pursue in the nearest future. Internal applicants must use the CBS Teaching Portfolio format. It is available at www.share.cbs.dk. Please make a pdf of each of the spreadsheets from part B of the portfolio.
5. Information indicating experience in research management, industry co-operation and international co-operation.
6. A complete, numbered list of publications (indicating titles, co-authors, page numbers and year) with an * marking of the academic productions to be considered during the review. A maximum of 10 publications for review are allowed. Applicants are requested to prioritise their publications in relation to the field of this job advertisement.
7. Copies of the publications marked with an *. Only publications written in English (or another specified principal language, according to research tradition) or one of the Scandinavian languages will be taken into consideration.

Recruitment procedure
The Recruitment Committee will shortlist minimum two applicants; when possible five or more applicants will be shortlisted. The shortlisted applicants will be assessed by the Assessment Committee. All applicants will be notified of their status in the recruitment process shortly after the application deadline.

The applicants selected for assessment will be notified about the composition of the Assessment Committee and later in the process about the result of the assessment.

Once the recruitment process is completed each applicant will be notified of the outcome of their application. Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see items above), by the application deadline.

Copenhagen Business School invites all qualified candidates to apply for the position. An appointment committee will review the applications and invite a selection of qualified candidates to an interview.

One of CBS' strategic goals is the promotion of diversity, which is why every effort has been made to ensure a recruitment process that reduces potential bias. Applicants are therefore encouraged not to include a photo or unnecessary personal information in their application.

Details about Copenhagen Business School and the department are available at www.cbs.dk.

WE TRANSFORM SOCIETY WITH BUSINESS

CBS is a globally recognised business school with deep roots in the Nordic socio-economic model. Our faculty has a broad focus on societal challenges, and we have earned a reputation for high-quality disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and education.

We are located at Frederiksberg and have approximately 20,000 full and part-time students, 800 full-time faculty members, 200 PhD students and 700 administrative staff, and a full portfolio of bachelor, master, MBA/EMBA, PhD and executive programmes taught in English and Danish.

Our global profile carries the obligation to address critical challenges in our research and to develop the transformational capabilities of students, graduates and business leaders via our educational activities and opportunities for lifelong learning. Complex challenges call for joint action, and therefore our strategy focuses on strengthening current and starting new partnerships with other sciences, the business community, authorities and civil society.

CBS is working continuously on becoming a diverse and inclusive organisation, and we encourage all regardless of gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religious beliefs, LGBT+ identity, cultural background etc. to apply. Reach out to us if you need assistance in the application or recruitment process, if there is something we should know, or if as a person with disability you wish to make use of your preferential access.

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