PhD Scholarships in Entrepreneurship and Organisation-Creation, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (2016-2017)

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a PhD scholarship within the field of entrepreneurship and organisation-creation. The position will be affiliated with Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship, but located at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy.

MPP is a modern research department with the ambition to make our research in management at an internationally qualified level known to students, companies, public institutions, and research colleagues. A creative, multi-disciplinary dialogue that challenges the various academic disciplines and perspectives ties research at the department together. A rich dialogue with social sciences and humanities distinguishes the Department. This implies that core areas like management, strategy, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, politics, philosophy, sociology and history, become productive and critically relevant in radically new ways. The department is committed to achieving synergy effects between research and education and to bring this new knowledge into play in society in a constructive, engaged, and valuable manner.

MPP is divided into four research groups, complemented by an administrative unit. The PhD stipend will be associated with the Management and Entrepreneurship Research Group (MERG) and be important for CBS’ Entrepreneurship Business in Society Platform. The research group, whose primary aim is to provide a supportive research context to its members, is focused on the relationships between control and creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, leadership of research- and knowledge intensive companies, and art/aesthetics in business competitiveness.

It is the ambition of the Department to offer a PhD stipend that focuses on entrepreneurship and organisation-creation. The PhD will explore, broadly, the nature of entrepreneurial learning, and, specifically, engage in ethnographic field work at the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship. The goal, for this position, is to gain an in-depth and nuanced understanding of the processes by which individuals engage in entrepreneurial practices that may result in the creation of new businesses.

Teaching responsibilities of the Department comprise undergraduate and graduate teaching in entrepreneurship.

Examples of research areas that this scholarship will cover:

- Processes of Entrepreneurial Learning
- Entrepreneurship as Practice
- The Pragmatics of Possibility
- The Philosophical Basis of Value Creation

The PhD position is intended to extend the boundaries of current academic theory, as based in the humanities, as a way to inform the specifics of entrepreneurial practice – the day-to-day activities of individuals creating the future through the mundane. Our intention is to find candidates who are willing to grapple with disparate theoretical ideas and approaches and fashion these perspectives into pragmatic insights for use in practice. In addition, candidates will engage in ethnographic and autoethnographic fieldwork to generate knowledge on how individuals fashion the future through their work. Such nuanced knowledge of the behaviors, mindset, intentions and capabilities of individuals in the process of entrepreneurship will be used to inform theories of the possible and valuable.

Further details:
http://www.cbs.dk