Full-time Post-Doc Position for the Juan Antonio Perez Lopez Chair at IESE Business School

Description

The Post-Doc Position

The Juan Antonio Perez Lopez chair at IESE Business School invites applications for a three-year Post-Doctoral position. The primary criterion for acceptance is research excellence in organizational behavior, leadership, or organization and management theory and an interest in studying topics related to corporate purpose and/or purpose-driven leadership. Ideally the candidate will have some publications in top academic journals and a strong pipeline. The position will start in September 2022; candidates should have finished their Ph.D. degree by the start date. This position will be responsible for conducting original research with the Chairholder Prof.  John Almandoz, who will supervise the candidate’s work. The holder of this position is also expected to become actively involved in the IESE Business School intellectual communities by regularly participating in research seminars, brown bag presentations, etc. Teaching is not required. The Post-Doc Position is in Barcelona. Prof. John Almandoz will collaborate remotely from New York, and Prof. Yih-Teen Lee will help supporting the Post-Doc recipient in situ. Prof. Carlos Rey from UIC is also interested in a research collaboration involving purpose-driven organizations.

Research Topics

• Personal and corporate purpose
• Purpose and positive leadership
• Meaningful work
• Institutional logics
• Business and society

IESE Business School

IESE Business School (www.iese.edu) is the Graduate School of Management of the University of Navarra, with main campuses in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, New York and Sao Paulo. It offers master-level (Master in Business Administration), graduate (Ph.D. in management), and executive education programs. Founded in 1958, recent rankings of the Financial Times, the Economist, and Business Week consistently situate IESE among the top-5 business schools in Europe. With full-time professors from 25 countries and professors with PhDs from the world’s leading universities, the faculty’s teaching and research efforts are global in outlook and content. IESE has about 32.000 alumni working more than 100 countries around the world.

Juan Antonio Perez Lopez Chair

The Juan Antonio Perez Lopez Chair was created in 2022 to contribute to research on management and meaningful work in dialogue with the contributions of business theorist Juan Antonio Perez Lopez (1934-1996), who was a professor and dean of IESE. The focus of the Chair is to focus on research on the type of relevant questions about business in society and leadership in organizations that Juan Antonio would be asking today.

We offer

• A professional working environment, stimulating activities in research and in-depth contact with business communities
• A competitive salary at the post-doc level
• A city that is often ranked as the most attractive European city to live in.

Qualifications

Requirements

1. Ph.D. degree in management, business ethics, organizational behavior, or related fields
2. Demonstrated research ability excellence in related fields; ideally, the selected candidate will have some publications in top academic journals and a strong pipeline
3. Profound knowledge of rigorous research methods (experience/interest in Juan Antonio Perez Lopez is considered an advantage)
4. Excellence in English

Application Instructions

Recruitment procedure

Interested candidates are to send: 1) a research statement, 2) a curriculum vitae, 3) 2 letters of recommendations and 4) copies of 2-3 research papers

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

IESE’s programs, research and activities, and our organizational practices, are informed by a humanistic and ethical vision of management. As such, IESE is an equal employment opportunity organization, and does not discriminate against any person on any legally protected basis.