Assistant Professor position within the Business Management and Organisation group (Tenure Track)
Location Wageningen
Are you the enthusiastic Assistant Professor we are looking for? Do you have academic expertise in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Business, Transformation of Agrifood Business?
For a May 2021 start, the Business Management & Organisation (BMO) Group in the Social Sciences Group of Wageningen University is looking to attract an ambitious and high-potential academic. The BMO group is part of the Section Business Science, which in turn is part of the Department of Social Sciences at the Wageningen University.
The BMO group at Wageningen University studies innovation and entrepreneurship in chains and networks, focusing on the agri-food industry in particular. In an increasingly interconnected world, where firms face major challenges related to, among others, climate change, urbanisation and food security, we provide the knowledge and insights needed to internally organise and govern firms appropriately and for firms to effectively collaborate in chains and networks.
Wageningen University is the world leading university in its domain. We offer Tenure Track as a career trajectory to excel academically in research and teaching. We wish to attract scientific talent and to stimulate and support their development. The Tenure Track position in the BMO group offers excellent career perspectives for relatively junior academics.
In this challenging career trajectory:
To further strengthen our group, your profile should signal:
Wageningen University & Research offers excellent terms of employment. A few highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:
For more information about this position, please contact prof.dr. Wilfred Dolfsma via wilfred.dolfsma@wur.nl or via +31 6 18410197.
For more information about the procedure, please contact Sandra Willemsen, Corporate recruiter or Bianca Aversteeg, recruitment support via recruitment.ssg@wur.nl.
Do you want to apply?
You can apply directly using the apply button on the vacancy page on our website which will allow us to process your personal information with your approval.
This vacancy will be listed up to and including the 31st of March 2021. We hope to schedule the first job interviews on the 9th of April 2021.
Equal opportunities
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) employs a large number of people with very different backgrounds and qualities, who inspire and motivate each other. We want every talent to feel at home in our organisation and be offered the same career opportunities. We therefore especially welcome applications from people who are underrepresented at WUR. For more information please go to our inclusive webpage. A good example of how WUR deals with inclusiveness can be read on the page working at WUR with a functional impairment.
The mission of Wageningen University and Research is “To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life”. Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment.
With its roughly 30 branches, 6.500 employees and 12.500 students, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. An integrated approach to problems and the cooperation between various disciplines are at the heart of Wageningen’s unique approach. WUR has been named Best Employer in the Education category for 2019-2020.
These are the points our employees list as good reasons to come work at WUR: read the 5 reasons to come work at WUR
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