Full professor Position
SKEMA Business School and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis invite candidates to apply for a tenured position in the fields of strategic management, innovation, organization or related fields. SKEMA and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis are founding members of Université Côte d'Azur, a consortium of the main academic institutions in the French Riviera. Committed to academic excellence, Université Côte d'Azur seeks world-class faculty with strong research and teaching experience.
Profile
The successful candidate will have outstanding publication records with a clear research agenda, influencing young scholars and PhD students. He or she will show enthusiasm for collaborating with colleagues and will demonstrate strong teaching abilities. Showing interest in collaborating with a practitioners would be a plus.
Position Summary
The successful candidate will be a member of the joint venture between the KTO research center from SKEMA Business School and GREDEG, a research center of the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis and CNRS, both members of Université Cote d'Azur. The salary and working conditions are comparable to top-tier European schools. Funding for conference attendance, research support, access to the most attractive databases (such as WRDS, Thomson One, and Bureau van Dijk), teaching and research assistantships are available. Teaching is in English. Knowledge of French is not required. The successful candidate will teach both the university and SKEMA's students at the graduate or post graduate level and may have opportunities to teach in Executive Education programs.
About Université Cote d'Azur
Université Cote d'Azur is a consortium of the main academic institutions of the French Riviera in all disciplines. Université Côte d'Azur has been awarded the highly coveted "IDEX", the French Investment for the Future from the French government and has initiated a long term plan for becoming one of the leading academic institution in Europe.
SKEMA is an EQUIS and AACSB accredited business school and recognized as one of the Europe's fastest growing business school with campuses in France (Sophia Antipolis, Paris and Lille), China (Suzhou), the U.S. (Raleigh – North Carolina State University campus), and Brasil (Belo Horizonte).
Université Nice Sophia Antipolis hosts more than 25,000 students with different campuses in Nice and Sophia Antipolis. Both SKEMA and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis offer a wide range of management programs taught in English and in French, at undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels, as well as Executive Education.
The KTO and GREDEG groups have developed a multidisciplinary environment. KTO and GREDEG faculty have published papers in Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Organization Studies and others.
Application procedure
Candidates should send the following information to Valérie SCHMID (delphine.breillat@skema.edu) and to Patrick Musso (patrick.musso@gredeg.cnrs.fr). Submit a curriculum vitae, all publications and working papers, a cover letter with a statement about past research and future directions, and course evaluation results for the last three years of teaching if available. Although not required, a teaching statement providing accomplishments and perspectives on teaching would be useful. Candidates should also provide three confidential letters of recommendation from qualified scholars.
Applications are due by May 15, but we will begin reviewing applications when received. Thus, candidates are strongly encouraged to submit as soon as possible. Informal enquiries may be made with the Head of the Knowledge Technology and Organization (KTO) research centre, Ludovic Dibiaggio (ludovic.dibiaggio@skema.edu) or the director of GREDEG, Patrick Musso (patrick.musso@gredeg.cnrs.fr)