University College Dublin invites applications for a planned permanent position of Assistant Professor in Management at the UCD School of Business, with teaching interest and expertise in the area of management of projects and/or supply chains . The successful candidate will teach project management and/or supply chain management at the graduate level, but their research interest and expertise can be in any area of management or organizational studies.
The successful candidate will contribute to the following areas and will have a track record of:
Research:
The School places a strong emphasis on research leading to publication in international, peer-reviewed academic journals and in leading debate in the academic and public space. The candidate should have established a track record in conducting research in management of projects or cognate fields such as supply chain management or organizational studies with publications in international, peer-evaluated journals in these specific fields or other management fields. Interdisciplinary research is also welcome.
Teaching and Learning:
The candidate should have experience and/or interest in teaching in the specialized Master's programmes in Project Management and/or Supply Chain Management as well as in other educational programs of the school. Each Subject Area makes a significant contribution to the School's undergraduate and postgraduate teaching including in particular our Undergraduate programmes – the BComm, the BComm (International), and our Bachelor of Business in Law, our wide range of specialist masters programmes, the MBA, Executive Education, and the PhD programmes.
Strategic Development & The School:
In conjunction with the College Principal and Dean of the School of Business, Associate Deans & Subject Area head, appointees will contribute to the strategic development of the School - including the formulation, implementation and execution of policies to develop the School's academic and strategic potential.
Administration:
S/he will also assume appropriate administrative and managerial duties, normally expected of colleagues at Assistant Professor level and fostering collegiality within the School.
About the School:
UCD School of Business is Ireland's leading business school and research centre. In 2009 we officially celebrated 100 years of business education. The UCD School of Business consists of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business ('the Smurfit School') and the UCD Quinn School of Business ('the Quinn School') focused on undergraduate education. The Smurfit School is located at Blackrock about five kilometres away from the Belfield campus while the Quinn School is located on the main campus. Academic staff teaches in both schools. One of the keystones of the School's reputation as one of the world's leading business schools is the quality and expertise of our Faculty. We are the only business school in Ireland to hold the triple crown of accreditation from AACSB (US), EQUIS (Europe) and AMBA (UK). We are the only Irish member of CEMS, a global alliance of leading business schools and multinational companies. We are a founder member of the Yale-led Global Network for Advanced Management. We have been consistently ranked in the top 100 business schools in the Financial Times' highly competitive global full-time MBA rankings. The mission of the School is to cultivate an environment of excellence in business education and to foster life-long learning and innovation in the preparation of promising people for positions of increasing responsibility and leadership in Ireland and abroad. This has been defined in its mission statement:
To be the leader in business education in Ireland and among the leaders in Europe by providing bold, imaginative educational programmes informed by an intensive commitment to research, discovery and innovation.
The core values of the School are excellence in research and teaching, collegiality within the university, and a willingness to change and accept diversity. The School is committed to continuous improvement and increasing aspirations in regard to teaching and knowledge creation and dissemination.
The Management Subject Area at UCD is the largest of the subject areas in the School of Business. The principal areas of academic specialty lie in the core business areas of entrepreneurship and innovation, international business, organizational behaviour, strategy, supply chain management, and technology management. Faculty have published in a wide number of journals including: Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, MIT Sloan Management Review, Family Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Business Ethics, Production and Operations Management, Organization Studies, Organizational Research Methods, Research Policy, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, among others.
http://www.smurfitschool.ie/researchandfaculty/facultylisting/management/
Faculty from the School will be attending the forthcoming INFORMS Annual Meeting in Houston.
Informal Enquiries ONLY to:
Professor Mark Pagell
Full Professor of Sustainable Supply Chain Management
mark.pagell@ucd.ie
Or
Associate Professor Virpi Turkulainen
Associate Professor of Management; Academic Director MSc in Project Management programs
virpi.turkulainen@ucd.ie