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The 'gig economy' – enabling the hiring of service workers via internet-based platforms – is revolutionizing traditional employment. As a postdoc, you will contribute to the urgently needed but still underdeveloped research about the gig economy. A job where you can work together with fellow researchers in a friendly atmosphere, while also expanding your network internationally.
The Department of Business Administration at the Nijmegen School of Management is offering a postdoctoral position for 12 to 16 months (the end date is 31 August 2023). This postdoctoral position is part of an NWO-VIDI funded project on the 'gig economy', researching into online labour markets and their institutional foundations. Enabling the hiring of service workers via internet-based platforms, the gig economy is revolutionising traditional employment. The socioeconomic consequences are massive, ranging from increased work-autonomy to the possible erosion of labour standards. Interestingly, the opportunities and threats of the gig economy are distributed differently across countries, also depending on national regulation of dependent employment. To better understand how the gig economy operates (e.g. with regard to its institutional foundations, its impacts on national labour markets and necessities for regulation), you will be asked to conduct large-N analyses of gig workers and online platforms. To this end, you will be given the opportunity to use the datasets collected within the project or to use your own data. Possible analyses include, but are not limited to, advanced regression techniques, discrete choice experiments and sequence analyses. You will become part of the NWO-VIDI project team and its international network.
Fixed-term contract: a temporary employment for 12 to 16 months; the end date is 31 August 2023.
The Nijmegen School of Management (NSM) is an academic centre of research and higher learning. It has seven focus areas: Business Administration, Public Administration, Political Science, Economics, Social and Political Sciences of the Environment, Human Geography, and Spatial Planning. NSM strives for a multidisciplinary approach whenever possible. Altogether, NSM employs 350 FTEs, 75% of whom are academics.
Both Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes are offered in the seven focus areas, which are organised in NSM's educational institute. The educational programme is characterised by small-scale teaching and provides a stimulating learning environment with an emphasis on the development of academic skills. NSM currently has approximately 5,000 students. NSM's research activities fall under the responsibility of the interdisciplinary Institute for Management Research (IMR). Under the motto 'Responsible Governance for Sustainable Societies', our researchers carry out state-of-the-art research into complex problems of governance and management, in order to explain the causes of these problems, and to use that knowledge to create potential solutions. They combine knowledge and expertise from multiple disciplines with collaboration with relevant societal actors.
This position is affiliated to the Chair of Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Prof Andrea Herrmann and located within the Group of Organisational Development and Design (OD&D), which is part of the Department of Business Administration. The OD&D group consists of 20 members and several internal and external PhD candidates. In research and teaching, the group combines interests in the structural conditions of the organisation of work with process studies of emerging change in social practices and questions of organising for social responsibility. Externally funded projects involved new forms of organising in dynamic contexts, transitional change towards sustainability and circular economy, implications of new technology and Industry 4.0, as well as changes in the development of ecosystems and standards. Members of the group have published in high-impact journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Strategic Organization, Business & Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Research Policy, and Socio-Economic Review.
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