ETH Zurich, Strategic Management and Innovation group is looking for two doctorate students starting this November or adjusted upon agreement.
Overview:
Over the past years, online communities have rapidly become important sources of innovation in business and society. Online communities such as Github, Kaggle and Stack Overflow allow members across time and space to coordinate their work and create knowledge and innovation. Beyond software, such communities have also proliferated into other domains such as healthcare, gaming, art and design. Online communities feature unique organizational characteristics, including flat hierarchies, voluntary membership, and open organizational boundaries.
Job description
You will investigate various aspects of online communities, which are critical for their success, yet remain underexplored. The research may focus on software, healthcare, data science, finance, education or related communities.
You will be co-supervised by Prof. Georg von Krogh, Prof. Yash Raj Shrestha (HEC Lausanne) and a team of senior researchers at SMI and will be funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The duration of the PhD program is three to four years.
Your profile
You should have a MSc, MA, or MPhil degree in business administration, economics or related fields such as management information systems, computer science, psychology, sociology, mathematics, engineering, physics, and statistics (MBAs are not eligible). We invite individuals with a strong affinity for machine learning, big data analytics, and statistical analysis OR qualitative analysis. Furthermore, you should have excellent written and spoken English skills, be curious, learning-oriented, and self-directed, and enjoy collaborating in teams. Ideally, you should be able to demonstrate a strong interest in contemporary issues in management and organization and have prior experience in successfully conducting research, for example, by having written an excellent master thesis. Given the research-focused orientation of our team, we are looking for individuals with ambitions to pursue an academic career. The project should culminate in a PhD thesis composed of at least three high-quality research papers, targeted at the field's leading journals.
For more information, please check this website: Two PhD positions in Online Communities (ethz.ch)
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Chan Hyung Park
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis MO
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