Professor – ARH-144/2025
Corvinus University of Budapest has over a 100-year-old history and is one of the leading universities in Hungary in Business and Management, Economics, and Social Sciences.
We have around 11,500 students, of which, approximately 2,000 are international.
We are located in a stunning UNESCO Heritage building overlooking the Danube River, in the heart of Budapest.
We have been granted accreditation by EFMD and EAPAA and we are the only Hungarian business university to have two international institutional accreditations by AACSB and AMBA. Additionally, we are members of several international networks such as CEMS, BSIS, PRME, and CFA.
We are proud to have won the most sustainably developing university title in UI GreenMetric’s world ranking in 2022.
The Institute of Strategy and Management announces an open call for applications for the Professor position for an indefinite period.
The starting date is autumn semester 2025 or spring semester of 2026.
Job description and key duties:
Teaching duties:
- Teaching subjects belonging to the education portfolio of the Department of Strategic Management in weekly class hours as defined by the Academic Career Model.
Research duties:
- Writing articles in prestigious international and domestic journal in the field of Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate strategy or Competitive strategy.
- Participating at important international and domestic conferences, building international scientific relationships, getting involved in research projects, active research application activity in the field of Strategic Management thus securing the resources of the research projects and contributing to the internationalisation of the Institute and the University.
Service duties:
- Active participation in the professional public life of the Institute of Strategy and Management and the University, performing service tasks determined by the head of the institute.
- Supporting early-career academics at the university, including supervising PhD students as well as students participating in student competition.
- Mentoring assistant professor and associate professor colleagues in the institute.
Essential qualifications and experience:
- PhD degree and habilitation in any relevant discipline
- Teaching and research experience in higher education: at least 800 contact hours of which 80 is in English language
- Experience in fulfilling course leader duties: overall responsibility for at least one compulsory course or at least two optional courses
- Verifiable teaching development activity (curriculum development, methodological development): editor, first author, sole author or co-author of at least one coursebook or textbook, or a teaching aid or digital teaching material of 100 or more pages
- Extensive publication track record in highly ranked journals in the area of Strategy and management.
- Internationally recognised outstanding scientific performance: a very strong publication record in high-quality international peer-reviewed journals (Scopus Q1), authorship of at least one strategy related article in FT-50 journal (preferred if the applicant is the sole or first author of at least one of them).
- English teaching experience, teaching experience related to Strategy
- Track record of successful PhD supervision in any relevant discipline
- Membership at relevant national and international scientific organisations
- Demonstrated experience in leading or participating in national or international research projects.
Desirable experience:
- Feedback (student evaluation, evaluation of direct supervisor) verifying teaching excellence
- At least 10 years of teaching and/or research experience gained in higher education
- Very strong publication record in high-quality international peer-reviewed journals (FT50 journals are preferred)
- H-index of 30+ in Google Scholar or an H-index of 20+ in Scopus.
- A position in at least one scientific body at the broad field of strategic management (Strategic Management Society is preferred)
- Experience in international research projects as a principal investigator (PI)
- Editorial experience in at least one Q1 ranked strategy related international journal (active editorial membership is preferred).
Documents and certificates to be submitted as part of the application:
- Curriculum Vitae including a detailed presentation of teaching, research and service activities and results
- Summary table of achievements (Please fill in the Summary table Excel for professor applications)
- Cover letter, including the presentation of future academic plans (educational, teaching development and research plans)
- References written by at least two reputable leading professors or researchers of the discipline (signed, scanned)
- Scanned copies of the documents verifying the university degree, scientific rank (eg. PhD degree) and of the documents verifying other professional qualifications. (In case of scientific ranks obtained abroad, the nostrification will be arranged in the next phase of the selection procedure.)
- In case of university professor applicants who already have been appointed by the President of Hungary the document certifying this nomination shall be provided.
Remuneration and benefits:
- Favourable conditions regarding research facilities, data access
- Time devoted to research, travel support, etc.
- A competitive salary is accompanied by a 15% bonus in case of outstanding performance
- One time relocation support for candidates moving to Hungary
- Additional benefits via ’Cafeteria’ allowance
Application procedure:
- The deadline for the submission of the application: continuous until 2024. 04. 15.
- We aim to interview shortlisted candidates first online. Selected applicants will be notified of the details of the online interview by the end of April 2025. We aim to interview shortlisted candidates on fly-out from June 2025, either at Corvinus or at the annual conference of Academy of International Business (in July) or Strategic Management Society (in October).
- The applications shall be submitted by clicking on the APPLY HERE button and by following the instructions on the bottom of the webpage.
- The next step of the selection procedure is that the selected applicants will be interviewed by the Academic Tenure and Promotion Committee. The selected applicants will be informed in a later phase about details and timing.
For further information:
Please, feel free to e-mail us in administrative matters career@uni-corvinus.hu and in academic matters Miklós Stocker, Head of Institute of Strategy and Management at miklos.stocker@uni-corvinus.hu and/or Ágnes Szukits, Head of the Department of Strategic Management at agnes.szukits@uni-corvinus.hu .