PhD student positions at the Institute of Management and Organization

Funded PhD student positions at the Institute of Management and Organization (IMO)
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), at Lugano (Switzerland)

USI invites applications for 3 positions in the Management stream of the Ph.D. program in Economics.

The successful candidate will work as a teaching and research assistant at the Institute of Management and Organization and will be supervised by one of the faculty members de-pending on the area of research. The 3 positions are in the following areas:

Corporate strategy, governance, & stakeholder theory:
This position is part of a project funded by the Swiss National Fund aimed at studying the re-lationship between corporate strategy, corporate governance, and stakeholder theory. The ideal candidate will be interested in collecting data and analyzing large datasets to study the interplay among these topics. A keen interest in quantitative empirical research is strongly preferred. Previous experience as a research assistant and knowledge of programming lan-guages (e.g., Stata, R, Python) will be highly considered.
Supervisor: Prof. Emanuele Bettinazzi

Culture and organizations' performance and evaluations:
This position is opened for students with a general interest in the inter-relationships between cultural factors (such as language, values or norms), organizations' performance and their evaluations by external audiences. The ideal candidate will be interested in collecting and analysing large datasets to study these topics. A keen interest in quantitative empirical re-search is strongly preferred. Knowledge of programming language (e.g. Stata, R, Python) will be highly considered.
Supervisor: Prof. Paul Gouvard

Management and Organizations:
Students with an interest in the study of the social mechanisms underlying the behavior of organizations are particularly encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will be interested in collecting and analyzing large data to gain a greater understanding of topics covered in ma-jor journals in the field of management in general and organization theory in particular (e.g., Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal). A keen interest in quantitative empirical research is required. Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Stata, R, Python) will be highly considered.
Supervisor: Prof. Filippo Carlo Wezel