Call for one post doc Research Fellow in Management at the Department of Economics, Management [...]

Call for one post doc Research Fellow in Management at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods

The Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) is recruiting at the post-doc level (Type B post-doc fellowship) in Management. The fellowship is fixed term for 24 months (renewable for other 24 months upon evaluation).

Deadline: November 28, 2024, at midnight (Italian local time CEST)

POSITION

The Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) is seeking candidates for 1 post doc Research Fellow in Management (SSD ECON-07/A Economia e gestione delle imprese).

Yearly gross salary is 30.400 € (tax free according to art. 4 Legge 13 August 1984 n. 476 and subject, for what concerns welfare regulations, to regulations as from art. 2 paragraphs 26 and following Legge 8 August 1995 n. 335)

Duration: 24 months

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Experience in fundamental and applied research in management, entrepreneurship, strategy
• Quantitative research skills and ability to work on statistical software such as STATA, SPSS or R
• Knowledge of qualitative research methods, including design and delivery of questionnaire and semi-structured interviews
• Preferably close to the completion of a PhD program in management, entrepreneurship, strategy

Knowledge of language: English (knowledge of Italian is NOT required)

Candidates are expected to:

• Collect primary and secondary data collection on planning and implementation of growth strategies by impact-oriented ventures;
• Analyze data by applying qualitative and quantitative methodologies
• Prepare dissemination reports and scientific manuscripts to be submitted to relevant international journals;
• Actively participate in departmental life and seminars.

The fellowship does not involve any teaching.

DETAILS ABOUT THE RESEARCH PROJECT

Project title: Impact-oriented entrepreneurship: growth tensions, management practices and performance consequences

Abstract

Embraced by a variety of actors and operating across private, public or nonprofit sectors, impact-oriented ventures have proliferated in the last two decades as a dominant entrepreneurial form with a dual mission of explicitly striving for social or/and environmental objectives while generating profits or remaining economically viable. Emerging evidence points out to the difficulties impact-oriented ventures face especially while growing beyond their original boundaries. In this regard, literature is increasingly converging on the critical role of context when studying impact-oriented entrepreneurship, along the different stages of the entrepreneurial lifecycle. Therefore, understanding the complexities of the context becomes critical to explain entrepreneurial behaviors, practices, and outcomes.

Building on and extending current understanding about growth strategies of impact-oriented enterprise, the research project will pursue three interrelated goals:

• Systematically investigating current literature to dig deeper into the controversial nature of growing in impact-oriented entrepreneurship. The analysis will overview existing research on growth across impact-venture types including social and/or green entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, regenerative ventures, place-based entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in constrained environments;
• Qualitatively exploring the processes by which impact-oriented entrepreneurs adapt their growth strategies to fit with local embeddedness and resource constraints along the different stages of their entrepreneurial lifecycle. As a result, a taxonomy of managerial practices to handle growth-related tensions in constrained environments will be provided;
• Quantitatively analyzing the performance consequences of integrating context-related constraints in the growth strategy, by focusing on a sample to place-based entrepreneurial projects aimed at addressing social and/or environmental challenges.

THE EMPLOYER

The University of Milan is a major teaching and research institution located in one of Europe’s most thriving cities. The latest Italian research evaluation exercise (VQR 2015-2019) placed DEMM among the best departments in economics, management and statistics in Italy.

DEMM was also selected as one of the “Departments of Excellence” (Dipartimento di Eccellenza) by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) for two consecutive five-year terms (2018 – 2022 and 2023 – 2027).

For further information, please contact: recruiting.demm@unimi.it