The Department of Business Administration at the Nijmegen School of Management is offering a PhD position on a contract for 4-5 years, starting at the candidate's earliest convenience.

You will investigate entrepreneurship from a dynamic perspective, with a possible focus on start-ups in the platform economy. Even though the entrepreneurship literature strongly calls for process-oriented research, insights over time into entrepreneurial processes are still less frequent - partly due to a lack of suitable data sets. To address this gap and provide novel insights into entrepreneurial processes, you will be given access to the Perfect Timing (PT) Database and a panel dataset on platform entrepreneurs. In addition, you are also invited to collect your own dataset, e.g. through web-scraping or surveys. Possible analyses of the respective data include, but are not limited to, advanced regression techniques, survival analyses, sequence analyses, or Heckman models.

You will be supervised by Prof. Andrea M. Herrmann in collaboration with colleagues providing expert knowledge to the project, most notably Associate Prof. Anna Nadolska and Associate Prof. Matthias Weiss.

Your teaching load will be up to 10% of your working time. All teaching duties will be organised in consultation with you and in a way that will facilitate your thesis progress.

• You have an MSc degree in one or more of the following disciplines: business and management studies, political economy, sociology, economics, innovation studies, or a related discipline.
• You have a proven scientific interest in entrepreneurship research.
• You have completed at least one year of your higher education at a university providing thorough training in Western research standards (this is typically the case for universities located in Europe or North America).
• You have knowledge of and an interest in institutional theories, and you have strong analytical skills and a background in quantitative methods.
• You have a proven ability to work with statistical software, such as R, Stata and SPSS.
• You have high proficiency in English and, ideally, also in Dutch. Fluency in German would be an additional advantage.
• You have excellent scientific writing skills, as evidenced by your Master's thesis.
• You have strong skills in project management, flexibility and a proactive behaviour, making you a team player and pleasant collaboration partner.

Fixed-term contract: You will be employed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2.5 years (4 year contract) or 3.5 years (5 year contract).

• Employment for 0.8 (5 year contract) - 1.0 FTE (4 year contract).
• The gross starting salary amounts to €2,541 per month based on a 38-hour working week, and will increase to €3,247 from the fourth year onwards (salary scale P).
• You will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• You will be employed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2.5 years (4 year contract) or 3.5 years (5 year contract).
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services. Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment and help your family settle in Nijmegen.
• Working for us means getting extra days off. In case of full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the legally allotted 20.

Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

The Nijmegen School of Management (NMS) enables students, institutions and companies, societal actors and governments to play their part in a transformation towards sustainable societies. In doing so, the faculty is committed to Radboud University's mission of contributing to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. In the context of our 'Responsible governance for sustainable societies' mission, we address scientific and societal challenges from a good governance perspective. Our work focuses on the topics Beyond Economy, Climate, Inclusivity, Safety, and Democracy. By building, questioning and extending the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), we acknowledge their interrelatedness and focus on a number of grand challenges within society.

We contribute to innovation and sustainable growth on topics such as inequality, gender, decent work and poverty. Furthermore, we address environmental and climate challenges, seeking to contribute towards resolving them. Academic research and teaching at NMS are carried out in challenging educational programmes. These programmes are offered in the areas of Business Administration; Economics and Business Economics; Geography, Planning and Environment; Political Science; and Public Administration. Academic research takes place within the Institute for Management Research (IMR). Research is carried out within the above-mentioned domains and in interdisciplinary research groups: the Hotspots. The Nijmegen School of Management currently has  400 FTE staff and approximately 5,000 students.

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