Dear Colleagues
The following position announcement was received from Xavier Martin.
The Department of Organization and Strategy of Tilburg University invites
applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Operations
Management / Supply Chain Management. We are able to hire applicants to
join the Department in any month during 2013; however ABD applicants are
expected to have completed their doctoral dissertation prior to taking up
employment.
The Department of Organization and Strategy is part of the School of
Economics and Management at Tilburg University. It currently consists of
21 tenured or tenure track faculty members and 8 lecturers. This includes
a small but well-connected group in operations management / supply chain
management with part-time Professor Roger Schroeder (also the Donaldson
Chair in Operations Management Emeritus at the University of Minnesota)
and professors Bart Vos, Harold Krikke, Bert Meijboom and another junior
scholar about to join. Besides Roger Schroeder and Bart Vos, several Full
Professors of the Department have interests related to operations
management, including Geert Duysters (innovation and entrepreneurship),
Xavier Martin (strategy and supplier relations), Niels Noorderhaven
(project management and international management), Tal Simons
(organization), and Arjen van Witteloostuijn and part-time Professor Bart
Nooteboom (interfirm relations). The Department also employs a vibrant
group of junior faculty. Besides operations management / supply chain
management, the department faculty work in the following research areas:
strategic management, international management, organization theory,
entrepreneurship and innovation management. (For positions in the areas
other than operations management/supply chain management, see our separate
position posting under Organization and Strategy.) Department members are
drawn from leading universities in North America, Asia and Europe. The
Department has a very strong research orientation. The Department is
associated with several research institutes, including as co-leader of the
Center for Innovation Research, and with several large-scale research
initiatives.
We are looking for a scholar who is able to combine social science theory
with empirical methods (surveys, archival analyses etc.) to tackle
managerial issues pertaining to business operations, including but not
limited to supply chains. Ideally, we seek someone who is expert in
operations management / supply chain management aiming to publish
consistently in top operations management journals (such as the Journal of
Operations Management), and possessing a sufficiently strong disciplinary
background in social science conferring an ability as well as interest in
conversing with colleagues in strategic, international, organizational,
entrepreneurial and innovation management.
Note that a separate department of the School houses a strong Econometrics
and Operations Research department. For this reason, for this position we
are NOT looking for an operations research scholar such as with a primary
focus on numerical modeling or mathematical analytics.
Faculty of the Organization and Strategy Department mostly teach in three
bachelor programs, three MSc programs, a Research Master program and a PhD
program. This includes one popular specialized MSc in Supply Chain
Management. All programs except one of the bachelor programs are taught in
English. Non-Dutch-speaking candidates will be asked to teach in English
only. The working language of the Department and School is English.
Further information about the Department is available at
www.tilburguniversity.edu/os.
We aim to maximize the research time available to active faculty, and
working conditions are otherwise comparable to major research universities
in North America and Europe. The standard teaching load is two courses
plus guidance of Bachelor and Master's thesis projects. Compensation is
competitive with similar schools, and we provide support for conferences
and other research related expenses.
Tilburg University is one of Europe's leading universities in the fields
of economics and management - indeed it regularly ranks among Europe's top
3 by research productivity. Tilburg is a pleasant city located in the
Southern Netherlands, within one of Europe's foremost high-tech regions
and equidistant from Amsterdam (Netherlands), Brussels (Belgium) and the
Dusseldorf/Cologne area (Germany).
Complete applications are due on October 1, 2012. Applications after the
deadline will be considered only if a position is still available.
Applicants should submit (1) a brief motivation letter, (2) a curriculum
vitae, (3) a research statement and (as relevant) a dissertation summary,
(4) examples of research, and (5) evidence of teaching ability (which may
include a teaching statement). In addition they should ask three referees
to submit their letters of reference directly. Applications and letters of
reference should be sent to
OM-recruiting@tilburguniversity.edu. Make sure
to mention "operations management" in the header and text of your e-mail.
Members of the Department will be attending the Academy of Management
meeting in Boston, where we will schedule meetings with promising
candidates. Applicants interested in such a meeting should send
preliminary material at the earliest possible date, and no later than July
30, to
OM-recruiting@tilburguniversity.edu. The partial application should
contain (1) a brief motivation letter, (2) a curriculum vitae, (3) a
research statement, (4) at least one example of research. Make sure to
mention "operations management" in the header and text of your e-mail.
(Complete application packages as described in the preceding paragraph can
then be submitted by October 1.)
Any further questions relating to this position can be directed to Xavier
Martin at
x.martin@tilburguniversity.edu.