WU is currently inviting applications for the position of a full professor^[1] 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.[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 role as a responsible university, ensures barrier-free accessibility, provides a family-friendly workplace, and is committed to the principles of equitable opportunities 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.

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 has been awarded certification under the University and Family Audit (Audit hochschuleundfamilie) and assists dual career couples. For further details, please see https://www.wu.ac.at/en/careers/job-portal.  

Further details on the call for applications, including a detailed qualification profile, can be found online: https://www.wu.ac.at/en/careers/job-portal/jobs/professorships.

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):

1. A solid academic qualification (e.g. PhD, habilitation or equivalent qualification) in management (highly advantageous), alternatively a closely related area
2. a track record of international experiences
3. 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
   1. 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
   2. regular participation in recognized conferences and workshops in the field of Management (e.g., Academy of Management, EGOS, EURAM);
4. A record in successfully attracting research funding
5. Excellent teaching qualifications at undergraduate and graduate levels as well as in executive education
6. Active participation in the international scientific community and a proven track record of serving the scientific community
7. Team leadership qualities
8. Gender and diversity management skills
9. Well documented activities in the areas of self-governance and third mission;
10. 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.

About WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Connections working at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business