Faculty Openings
The Department of Business Administration at Carlos III University,
Madrid invites applications for full-time tenure track positions in
Management.
We seek highly qualified candidates who are committed to a career in
research and teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Applicants should hold a Ph.D. or have completed the requirements for
such a degree by the date of employment. Knowledge of Spanish is not
required.
We will be conducting preliminary interviews at the Academy of
Management Meetings in Philadelphia, PA on August 1-5, 2014. To be
considered for an interview, please send a CV and a letter of interest
to
recruiting.empresa@uc3m.es no later than July 20.
We will also conduct interviews at the XXXVIII Spanish Economic
Association (SAEe) Meetings, to be held in Universitat de les Illes
Balears (Mallorca, Spain) on 11-13 December 2014.
(http://www.asesec.org/simposio/).
We will consider as well candidates who cannot attend either conference.
We accept applications from September 1, 2014 to December 1, 2014.
Interested candidates should apply electronically at:
http://econjobmarket.org. Applications should include:
1) a cover letter specifying the selected area of interest;
2) CV;
3) a job market paper (identified as such) and up to two additional papers;
4) two or more letters of recommendation.
An Overview of the Department
Research
The Department of Business Administration of University Carlos III,
Madrid
(http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/dpto_economia_empresa/home) has
an international faculty and is committed to high standards of research
and teaching. In recent years, faculty members have published in, among
others, the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management
Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science,
Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Finance,
Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics,
Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Marketing
Research, Marketing Science, and The Accounting Review.
The Department of Business Administration of University Carlos III,
Madrid has been consistently ranked as one of the top 2 Business
Departments in Spain (http://rankinguniversidades.es/) and among the
top 20 institutions in Europe in recent years (2009-2013) according to
publications in top tier business journals
(http://jindal.utdallas.edu/the-utd-top-100-business-school-research-rankings/). The Department provides faculty members with incentives to publish in top journals, funding for conferences, advanced computer resources, and access to the main research databases. Faculty members are also active in looking for research funding from public and private
institutions.
Seminars
The department hosts a weekly seminar series, which brings to the
department top international researchers. There is also a weekly
internal seminar series where the departments faculty and Ph.D.
students present their work.
Workshops
Apart from the seminar series, the department frequently organizes
workshops, which bring together top researchers in the workshops
research area. Recent examples are the 2010 Madrid Commodities
Workshop, the 2010 Madrid Marketing Workshop, the 2011 Madrid Work and
Organizations Workshop (WOW), or the 2010 workshop on High Frequency
Trading.
Ph. D. Program
The Department offers, jointly with the department of Statistics, the
Ph.D. Program in Business Administration and Quantitative Methods. This
program is taught in English and attracts a very international group of
students.
International focus
We encourage interaction with researchers from other countries by
regularly hosting international visiting professors and by facilitating
visits of our faculty members to universities around the world.
We are part of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in
Management (EIASM). We have been active participants in the creation of
the Iberoamerican Academy of Management (IAM) and the European Academy
of Management (EURAM).
Teaching
At the undergraduate level, the members of our faculty teach mainly in
the Bachelor Degrees in Business Administration and in Finance and
Accounting, both ranked first in the country in their respective fields
by the widely followed ranking of Bachelor Degrees of Spanish newspaper
El Mundo. Our undergraduate degrees are offered both in English and in
Spanish, so knowledge of Spanish is not a requirement to teach at the
undergraduate level. Faculty members also teach in the Bachelor Degree
in Economics and other related programs.
Our department offers several Master programs, both research-oriented
and designed for professional practice. These programs are taught in
English. We offer official Master degrees in Management, in Finance, in
Marketing, and in Actuarial Science, as well as an MBA. Our MBA has the
accreditation of the Association of MBAs (AMBA), being the first
Masters Program from a Spanish public university to obtain this
accreditation.