Professor in Strategy and International Business (063218)

Surrey Business School is seeking to recruit a Chair in International Business for its Department of Strategy & Entrepreneurship. Surrey Business School (SBS) is an internationally recognised centre for management research and teaching. We are accredited by AACSB (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and by AMBA (the Association of MBAs). With a strong Senior Management Team led by its Dean, Professor Ansgar Richter, we are ambitious in building a world-class interdisciplinary business school where innovative thinking is accelerated into action. Based in Guildford just outside of London, the University of Surrey is an outstanding international University with an enterprising spirit. 

Surrey Business School is a mid-sized business school with approximately 110 academic staff members from around the globe, and a highly cohesive and collegial atmosphere. Specifically, we put a heavy emphasis on research excellence. Our faculty regularly publish their research in top journals such as AMJ, AMR, SMJ, JIBS, Management Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, ETP, Organisation Studies, Human Relations, Research Policy, and in other leading journals in their fields of expertise. Our colleagues have joined us from prestigious universities and business schools worldwide, with recent appointments including individuals who earned their PhD at institutions such as Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Chicago, LSE, and elsewhere.

We run a full slate of programmes including undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA programmes, as well as a PhD programme. Our programmes are renowned for their quality in terms of intellectual rigor, student experience, and employability. Through our Business Insights Lab, we work closely with companies and other partner organisations. In particular, we have strong links with many technology-oriented start-ups and established firms in London and the South-East of England. For further information about Surrey Business School, please visit our website (http://www.surrey.ac.uk/business-school).

The Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship has core research strengths in strategy, organization, entrepreneurship and international business. It manages a range of programs, among them a BSc and a MSc program in International Business Management. We thus seek to appoint a Chair in International Business who is also willing to provide leadership in the Department and support its future development.

We are looking for a strongly research-active academic with an excellent track record of publications in top international journals. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work in International Business relates to one or several of the School’s focus areas of digital innovation and technological transformation, leadership, social innovation and sustainability. You would play a particular role in developing the research agenda of the Department: Supervising PhD students, mentoring early career researchers, and attracting and managing externally funded research programmes. There will be ample opportunities for you to become active in business engagement and executive education.

This is a senior appointment, and the position is equivalent to a Full Professor (with tenure) at other institutions. Conditions and compensation will be at internationally competitive standards and be commensurate with the appointee’s experience and expertise.

For informal discussion please contact the Dean of Surrey Business School, Professor Ansgar Richter (a.richter@surrey.ac.uk).

Closing Date: 02 Sep 2018
Category: Research & Teaching