5 PhD Positions in Business & Management, Amsterdam Business Research Institute, Netherlands (2017)

Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI) was established in 2009 and builds on a long history of research and teaching at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. ABRI consists of six research tracks (Accounting and Financial Management; Information & Innovation Management; Logistics & Operations Research; Marketing; Organizational Behavior (incl. HRM); Strategy & Organization) and involves renowned Dutch and international research fellows who publish in and are part of editorial board of journals including Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies. ABRI offers a full time PhD programme in Business and Management where the focus is not only on excellent research but also on academic career development.

The PhD position
PhD students can rely on the intensive supervision and the extensive training offered by the faculty’s leading researchers in the field. They will follow the 3-year PhD programme of the Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI). The Faculty offers opportunities to attend conferences, to meet other international researchers and to participate in high-quality discussion groups in support of writing papers for publication. Many of our PhD students spend some time abroad during their trajectory. The prospects for the Faculty's doctoral graduates on the labour market are excellent, both inside and outside the academic world.

Tasks
The PhD student is required to conduct independent research, supervised by a (team of) professor(s), and to incorporate the findings of his or her research in a doctoral dissertation. In addition, the PhD student will be involved in teaching activities at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

Requirements
Applicants should have a MPhil / Research master (e.g. our Business in Society Programme) or an equivalent programme with good grades in Economics, Business Administration, Operations Research, Sociology, or a related discipline. We expect candidates to show a proactive research orientation and to be proficient in written and spoken English. GMAT/GRE test results are required from all applicants. The candidates are expected to apply with their own research proposals written in accordance with the standard NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) guidelines. The topic of the research proposal must fit with one or more research tracks of ABRI.

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