Six (6) PhD Positions in Business & Management, VU University Amsterdam (VU), Netherlands (2015)

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 labor market are excellent, both inside and outside the academic world.

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 or an equivalent programme (e.g. Junior Researcher 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 programmes of ABRI.

Conditions of employment
The appointment will be for a total of three years. The initial appointment will be for a period of 12 months, extendable up to three years upon a positive evaluation.
The salary will be in accordance with university regulations for academic personnel, and amounts € 2.476,-gross per month during the first year and increases to € 2.717,- gross per month during the third year, based on a full-time employment.

Further details:
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