Associate Professor in Business Security and Resilience Management

Job title: Associate Professor in Business Security and Resilience Management

Company: Copenhagen Business School


Job description: Associate Professor in Business Security and Resilience ManagementCopenhagen Business School invites applications for a vacant Associate Professorship in Business Security and Resilience Management at the Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL).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. It is the ambition of the department to further strengthen its capacities of research, teaching and societal engagement in relation to security and resilience challenges faced by businesses and society in a global and geopolitical context.Examples of research areas that the associate professor might cover:

• Legal, social scientific and humanistic approaches to security and resilience governance.
• Historical, political and socio-economic contexts of business security and resilience.
• Interdisciplinary studies of how business, civil society and public authorities engage with and collaborate to face current security and resilience challenges including democratic and societal resilience.
• International threats and disruptions to business security

Teaching responsibilities of the Department comprise, among other, undergraduate and graduate teaching in business administration and sociology, entrepreneurship, business law, public governance, service management, business ethics and philosophy of science.The Associate Professorship is a permanent position with research and teaching obligations.To fulfill the research requirements of the position, the applicant chosen is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the Department.Research environmentThe Department of Business Humanities and Law is dedicated to an integrated approach to the contemporary challenges facing business and society drawing on the humanities, interdisciplinary social sciences, and law. It emphasizes problem-oriented research to understand those challenges and to build the lifelong capabilities necessary to address them. Faculty within the department have diverse research backgrounds and research foci including but not limited to leadership, entrepreneurship, ethics, strategy, law, politics, sociology, philosophy, history, anthropology, diversity, equity and inclusion, culture and leisure management. What unites faculty is an overriding concern for the organization of the human within its multiple environments and, by implication, a research interest in the interdisciplinary conversation between humanities and social sciences.Within the Department of Business Humanities and Law, the position will be located in the Governance, Culture and Learning Unit, an interdisciplinary research environment connecting management issues relative to governance, culture and learning. The candidate will also be invited to join a research group. An overview of our research group is available at: https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-business-humanities-and-law/research/bhl-groups-centresAcross CBS, the Department of Business Humanities and Law plays an important role in contributing to cross-departmental research environments and educational activities that engage in addressing current business and societal challenges. Given the interdisciplinary outlook of BHL and its engagement with outside research environments, the candidate should demonstrate a capacity to collaborate across departments, disciplines and research groups.Candidates should also be able to explain how their work would integrate into core research and education activities at Copenhagen Business School. Copenhagen Business School is committed to scholarship and education that transforms society with business, including by exploring links between the humanities and social sciences to advance research on governance, broadly construed.Responsibilities

• Teaching and associated examination in existing CBS programs, including Executive Education
• Individual and collective 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, including participating in the public debate.
• Research meeting high international standards, 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 associate professor is expected to contribute to the development and application of the research of the department’s research areas and to maintain and strengthen CBS’s international research position.Qualifications

• The applicant must hold a PhD or equivalent in an appropriate field.
• Candidates must document a high degree of relevant, original and up-to-date scientific publications at an international level within the areas covered by the department. Importance is put on the candidate’s ability to undertake research management and other relevant management functions.
• The candidate should be able to document pedagogical qualifications, good teaching evaluations, and the ability to innovate within the educational field.
• CBS emphasises the candidate’s ability to establish productive contacts with the business community.
• The candidate should have demonstrable capacities and willingness to offer high-level academic citizenship within a diverse and interdisciplinary community.
• The applicant must have professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).

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 and have a record of engagement with empirical and theoretical interdisciplinary research and ability to work autonomously, and as part of a team.For further information please contact: Head of Department Mitchell Dean, e-mail or Unit Director Stina Teilmann-Lock . Information about the department may be found at .Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organisation.ApplicationApplication must be sent via the electronic recruitment system, using the link below.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, Scopus and/or Google Scholar.
• A teaching portfolio documenting teaching qualifications and pedagogical development. The portfolio must include an overview of the applicants 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

. 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 procedureThe 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 applicationCopenhagen 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

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Location: Frederiksberg, København

Job date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 02:12:47 GMT

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