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The new Inbev – Baillet Latour Chair in Error Management at Solvay Brussels
School of Economics and Management (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

invites applications for two Post-Doctoral research positions

 

ABOUT the Chair

Pushing the frontier of Error Management 

There has never been a greater abundance of theoretical and practical
lessons on how to "manage successfully” and “do the right thing”.  Yet ,
management errors continue to be part and parcel of organizational life.
While short-term consequences can be benign, leaving managerial errors
unaddressed in the longer term can imply severe financial underperformance
or even wholesale bankruptcy.  Unfortunately the causes of managerial errors
often are deep-seated and hard to control.  Emotional conflict, managerial
hubris, bandwagon behaviour, a dysfunctional culture and organizational
politics are amongst the most resilient sources of flawed decision-making;
including the failure to consider all relevant information and the neglect
of long-term consequences.  

Given the impossibility to avoid managerial errors altogether, the objective
of the Chair is to focus attention on “managing errors once they’ve been
made”.  Research produced by the Chair will benefit managers, businesses and
society at large by raising awareness about the importance of early stage
error detection, and by building an action-oriented agenda on how to
remediate managerial errors efficiently and effectively. 

ABOUT Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBSEM)

SBS-EM is the school of economics and management of the Université Libre de
Bruxelles (ULB), with a century-old tradition of excellence in higher
education. SBS-EM has 56 full-time faculty members and more than 150
affiliate faculty members from other departments or from practice. It offers
2 bachelor degrees, 4 masters (economics, business & economics, management
sciences, business engineering), a Ph.D. program in economics and
management, an MBA and a full range of executive education programs. About
3000 full-time students are enrolled in our programs. The school has a
strong research focus with four research centres (Centre Emile Bernheim,
DULBEA, ECARES and iCite) and several more thematic research units. It is
Equis and AMBA accredited. The school benefits from ULB’s strategic
partnerships with top institutions around the world, including for instance
Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, and Waseda, to facilitate international
research collaborations. 

 

ABOUT the candidates and selection process

The post-doctoral fellows will be expected to cross disciplinary boundaries
to perform first class research on the management of errors in
organizations. Researchers holding a PhD in any relevant discipline are
welcome to apply, provided their research programme directly addresses the
topic of the Chair. Examples of fields of studies that could be drawn upon
include: sense-making, organizational attention, organization design,
organizational learning, entrepreneurship and innovation, information
systems, risk management, systems design, impact assessment, corporate
governance, operations management, complexity, international expansion,
cognitive biases and many more.

 

While it is entirely the responsibility of the research team to develop the
research methodology and agenda, illustrative streams of analysis might
include:

- Definition of errors, recognizing that decisions in any environment imply
trade-offs and that information is incomplete;

- Detection of errors, by third parties (governance or regulation bodies) or
the decision makers themselves;

- Management of errors, to build a robust analytical framework based, a.o.,
on real life cases.

 

Appointments are for three years, followed by a two 2-years contract (hence,
3+2), depending on evaluations, starting as early as possible between
October 2013 and February 2014. 

In addition to the quality of the research proposal, applicants should
demonstrate their ability to publish in internationally recognized
peer-review journals. The ability to work closely with organizations and
conduct case studies will also be assessed. Next to a convincing theoretical
outline and research design, the proposal should include a plan for the
diffusion of findings to both academics and practitioners. For instance,
diffusion efforts could involve the organization of international workshops
or the preparation of innovative course material.  

 

An international scientific committee will select the candidates on the
basis of following criteria: quality of the research project, scientific
publications, commitment, international experience, and networking
capabilities.

 

To apply, send a cover letter, full CV and research proposal (maximum 5
pages) to Prof. Carine Peeters: [log in to unmask]

The deadline for sending the application material is August 30, 2013. 

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview at the end of
September 2013.

 

 

Dr. Carine Peeters

Professor of International Business and Strategy

 

Université libre de Bruxelles

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management

50 Av. F.D. Roosevelt CP 114/3

B – 1050 Brussels

BELGIUM

Phone: +32 2 650 4462

Email: [log in to unmask]

Offshoring Research Network – Belgium: www.solvay.edu/offshoring

Workshops for successful outsourcing:
http://www.solvay.edu/workshops-successful-outsourcing

European Outsourcing Association - Belgium: http://www.eoa-belgium.be/

 


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