Assistant Professorships in Responsible Entrepreneurship
Core research areas of the Department of Business Humanities and Law include governance, culture, learning, entrepreneurship, business ethics, leadership and business law from commercial and societal perspectives. The candidate will be a member of BHL’s Entrepreneurship, Ethics and Leadership unit. The intersection between entrepreneurship and ethics is a key focus of this unit, and the emphasis on responsible entrepreneurship naturally aligns with this. Responsible entrepreneurship encompasses not only ethics but also a broader concern for how entrepreneurship unfolds within a historical, political, and societal context. Entrepreneurship can be understood from various perspectives, including the creation of new value, the process of market formation, the design and creativity involved in new ventures, and more. Therefore, the ideal candidate should demonstrate an understanding of entrepreneurship in context, drawing on humanistic knowledge, including various social disciplines such as history, sociology, philosophy, political science, and related fields.
Examples of research areas that the assistant professor might cover:
- Humanistic approaches to entrepreneurship
- Responsibility in entrepreneurship
- Market development in entrepreneurial contexts
- The role of design and creativity in market creation.
The assistant professorship is a fixed term position (4 years) with research and teaching obligations. To fulfill the research requirements of the position, the applicant(s) chosen is/are expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the Department. The successful applicant is obliged to participate in the assistant professor program at CBS on teaching principles and methods in order to fulfill the pedagogical requirements made at the end of the term of employment as an assistant professor.
Teaching responsibilities of the Department comprise undergraduate and graduate teaching in various areas related to business humanities and law, including entrepreneurship and new market creation.
Research environment
The core research areas of the Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL) are organized into different research Units: Entrepreneurship, Ethics and Leadership; Governance, Culture and Learning; and CBS Law. Faculty within these groups have research backgrounds in all areas of law, political science, sociology, philosophy, history, anthropology, literature, theology, aesthetics, design and innovation, tourism and leisure management, cultural economics, leadership and strategy, pedagogic study, and other areas.
What unites faculty in our department is an overriding concern for the organization of the human within its multiple environments: work, nature, economy, civil association, the state, and corporation. BHL also participates in numerous interdisciplinary cross-CBS activities. In line with this concern, the assistant professor should demonstrate a capacity to bridge across several of these environments and place the human at the heart of the project.
Responsibilities
- Teaching and associated examination in existing CBS programs, including Executive Education
- Individual and group-based research meeting high international standards
- Promoting CBS’s academic reputation
- Initiating, fund raising and coordinating research projects
- Promoting the teaching and research capabilities of Copenhagen Business School and other relevant assignments at Copenhagen Business School
- Contributing to the administrative responsibilities of the department and to CBS-wide tasks
- Communicating findings to the public in general and to CBS’s stakeholders in particular
- Research, including responsibility for the academic development of the relevant discipline
- Responsibility for publishing, scientific communication and research-based teaching
- Active participation in the regular research activities, such as research seminars, workshops and conferences.
The assistant professor is expected to contribute to the development and application of the department’s research and to maintain and strengthen CBS’s international research position.
Qualifications
- The applicant must hold a PhD or equivalent in an appropriate field. Emphasis is placed on the applicant’s potential for future research, meaning a candidate with strong research promise may be preferred over one with a more extensive publication record.
- The applicant must have professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).
- The candidate should be willing to offer academic citizenship within a diverse and interdisciplinary community.
Copenhagen Business School has a broad commitment to the excellence, distinctiveness and relevance of its teaching and research programmes. Candidates who wish to join us should demonstrate enthusiasm for working in an organisation of this type.
For further information, please contact: Head of Department Mitchell Dean, e-mail mde.bhl@cbs.dk or Unit Director Christian Garmann Johnsen, email: cgj.bhl@cbs.dk . Information about the department may be found at https://www.cbs.dk/bhl.
Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organisation.
Application
The application must be sent via the electronic recruitment system, using the link below.
The application must include:
- A statement of application.
- Full CV and copies of Master and PhD diplomas.
- Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level, including publications in the field’s internationally recognized journals and citations in the Social Science Citation Index and/or Google Scholar.
- A teaching portfolio documenting teaching qualifications and pedagogical development. The portfolio must include an overview of the applicant’s past teaching achievements and practice and its impact on the students, reflections on pedagogical competencies and core strengths, the educational competencies the applicant would like to develop, and the teaching opportunities they would like to pursue in the nearest future. Internal applicants must use the CBS Teaching Portfolio format. It is available at www.share.cbs.dk. Please make a PDF of each of the spreadsheets from part B of the portfolio.
- Information indicating experience in research management, industry co-operation and international co-operation.
- A complete, numbered list of publications (indicating titles, co-authors, page numbers and year) with an * marking of the academic productions to be considered during the review. A maximum of 10 publications for review are allowed. Applicants are requested to prioritise their publications in relation to the field of this job advertisement.
- Copies of the publications marked with an *. Only publications written in English (or another specified principal language, according to research tradition) or one of the Scandinavian languages will be taken into consideration.
Recruitment procedure
The Recruitment Committee will shortlist minimum two applicants; when possible five or more applicants will be shortlisted. The shortlisted applicants will be assessed by the Assessment Committee. All applicants will be notified of their status in the recruitment process shortly after the application deadline.
The applicants selected for assessment will be notified about the composition of the Assessment Committee and later in the process about the result of the assessment. Once the assessment committee has completed its evaluation, the department will extend interview invitations to selected qualified candidates.
Once the recruitment process is completed each applicant will be notified of the outcome of their application.
Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see items above), by the application deadline.
Copenhagen Business School invites all qualified candidates to apply for the position. An appointment committee will review the applications and invite a selection of qualified candidates to an interview.
One of CBS’ strategic goals is the promotion of diversity, which is why every effort has been made to ensure a recruitment process that reduces potential bias. Applicants are therefore encouraged not to include a photo or unnecessary personal information in their application.
Details about Copenhagen Business School and the department are available at www.cbs.dk.
Closing date: 1 september 2025.
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