Copenhagen Business School
Assistant Professorship in Performance Management (Management Accounting)

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for one or more vacant Assistant Professorship (s) in Performance Management (Management Accounting) at the department of operations management at the Department of Operations Management.

JOB DESCRIPTION: The position is part of the department's objective to extend and develop its performance management research and teaching profile. Candidates will be preferred whoin addition to core performance management competency also extends this research into novel themes such as e.g. sustainability, innovation, inter-organisational accounting or intangibles have a plus. It is also an advantage if candidates can bridge to other of the department's research interests, and it is a plus if the candidate has competency and skills in empirical research by any method.

The Department's research profile covers and integrates four academic research areas: Supply chain management (design of flows of goods, services, knowledge and information between firms); Performance management (design, use, and effects of financial and non-financial measures in strategy development and implementation); Innovation management (deployment of management tool to connect technology, organisation and markets); Operations management (relation between production, organization, and strategy in manufacturing and service industries); Managerial economics (decision modelling around pricing, costing, production planning and forecasting).

The Department of Operations Management supplies teaching and supervision to undergraduate, graduate, masters, executive and PhD programmes in economics and business administration.

To fulfill the research requirements of the position, the applicant chosen is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the Department as well as maintaining and establishing broad links across CBS.

The assistant professorship is a non-tenured position of up to three to five years with research and teaching obligations. 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.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Teaching and associated examination in existing CBS programs, including Executive Education
- Rejuvenating existing sessions, courses and teaching programs and contributing to innovative new ones
- Individual and group based research meeting high international standards
- Promoting CBS's academic reputation
- Initiating, fund raising and coordinating research projects
- 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.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS: The applicant must hold a PhD or the equivalent. Emphasis is placed on the applicant's research potential, which means that a researcher with a large research potential may be preferred to a researcher with a large research production.

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 type (highlighting, for example, relevant business, educational and dissemination activities).

FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information please contact: Professor Jan Mouritsen, Head of Department of Operations Management, tel.: +45 3815 2420, e-mail jm.om@cbs.dk. Information about the department may be found at http://www.cbs.dk/om

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

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Application must be send via the electronic recruitment system, using the link below. Application must include:
- A statement of application.
- Proof of qualifications and a full CV.
- Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level, including publications in the field's internationally recognized journals.
- Documentation of teaching qualifications or other material for the evaluation of his/her pedagogical level.
- Information indicating experience in research management, industry co-operation and international co-operation.
- 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.
- 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).

An expert committee will be reviewing the received job applications. The committee's recommendation of each candidate will be submitted to the person in question.

Closing date: March 16th 2012

Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see items above), by the application deadline.

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