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1. Doctoral Position at Faculty of Economics and Business

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Cooperative enterprises are value-driven member-owned and democratically controlled organisations that operate primarily and philosophically outside of the traditional profit to capital owners’ model. A well described example of such a cooperative organisation is the Mondragon Corporation in Spain. Governance is often set forth as the most distinctive element of cooperatives. However, cooperatives are confronted with several pressures that challenge the nature of their governance. In the framework of a broad FWO-SBO project that aims to investigate governance of cooperatives and how they respond to these challenges, this research project will study how different types of governance influence the capacity of the cooperative to meet financial, social and ecological objectives.

Last Application Date: April 01, 2022 

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2. The PhD candidate will work on a statistical topic related to modelling dependencies, model selection or post-selection inference.

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The research groups ORSTAT and Statistics and Risk of KU Leuven (Belgium) have a vacancy for a full-time PhD scholarship, starting at the latest in September 2022, for a maximum of four years. The candidates will work on a statistical topic related to modelling dependencies, copulas, model selection and post-selection inference. This work should lead to a PhD degree.

Last Application Date: May 09, 2022

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3. PHD POSITIONS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, STRATEGY AND INNOVATION

Summary of Doctoral Project:

MSI particularly invites PhD applications pertaining to the following topics (more info on our website: https://feb.kuleuven.be/research/MSI/topics): Entrepreneurship (Prof. Michael Moedl, Leuven): In close collaboration with your supervisor(s) you develop your own research project on entrepreneurial activities as a major driver of innovation. Potential topic areas include, e.g., start-up financing (crowdfunding, ICOs, business angels, venture capital, accelerators, …), founder team dynamics, technology transfer, and digitalization. Entrepreneurship – Innovative Entrepreneurship in Cities and Regions (Prof. René Belderbos and Prof. Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Leuven): In this project, you will examine the influence of knowledge connectivity, ownership concentration of innovation, foreign and domestic multinational firm activity, and incumbent appropriation strategies in facilitating or hampering innovative entrepreneurial entry, growth of innovative entrants, and economic growth and resilience in European (metropolitan) regions. The project is a collaboration (double degree opportunity) with Utrecht University.

Last Application Date: March 31, 2022

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4. PH.D. POSITION IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Summary of Doctoral Project:

SKEMA Business school (France) in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven (Belgium) has one full-time Ph.D. position starting in September 2022, for a period of four years. The researcher to be hired will work in the field of Operations Research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Morteza Davari and Prof. Dr. Jannik Matuschke. He/She will obtain a Ph.D. degree jointly awarded by the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven and SKEMA Business School.

Last Application Date: March 25, 2022

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5. PHD SCHOLARSHIP IN STATISTICS

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The PhD candidate will work on statistical topics related to the design and/or analysis of discrete choice experiments. You will find a very dynamic and pleasant working environment, in a group that conducts research at the highest international level.

Last Application Date: April 15, 2022

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7. PHD SCHOLARSHIP IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The researcher to be hired will work in the field of OR under the supervision of Prof. Roel Leus; this work should lead to a PhD degree. Some keywords of our research area are: combinatorial optimization, integer (linear) programming, stochastic and robust optimization, algorithm design, … The candidate will work on the development of models and algorithms at the interface of discrete optimization, scheduling, project management, and innovation. He/she will find a dynamic and pleasant working environment, in a group that is actively involved in scientific research at the highest international level. Candidates will be expected to participate in seminars and conferences, be internationally mobile, and to enroll in our PhD program. The candidate can be asked to give guidance to Bachelor and Master students, to be involved in teaching activities, and to supervise exams.

Last Application Date: April 4, 2022

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8. PH.D. POSITION IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The first year of the program takes place onthe campus of KU Leuven where the doctoral students follow courses of thedoctoral program “Business Economics”. Students will participate actively in thescientific workshops and seminars organized at either institution insofar asthese are relevant to the research carried out and at the discretion of thejoint supervisors. Students are expected to submit conferencepapers at peer-reviewed academic conferences and high-impact journals in thefield. At SKEMA, the progress of the thesis will beevaluated at an oral presentation by a scientific committee each year.

Last Application Date: March 25, 2022

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9. PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The research department of Economics and Corporate Sustainability (KU Leuven campus Brussels, CEDON) and the Department of Engineering Management (University of Antwerp) are looking for a motivated graduate student to carry out doctoral studies in the field of environmental economics and circular economy, starting preferably in September 2022. The transition from a linear to a more circular economy that uses fewer materials and causes less negative environmental impact, requires behavioral changes from different economic stakeholders (producers, retailers, consumers, wastehandlers, repair shops, recyclers, …). To achieve a successful circular transition, the project aims to estimate and if possible predict the interaction between behavior and behavioral changes on the one hand and policy and policy changes on the other hand.

Last Application Date: May 31, 2022

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10. PHD POSITION IN BUSINESS ECONOMICS – AUDIT AND INNOVATION

Summary of Doctoral Project:

Innovation provides organizations the opportunity to obtain and sustain a competitive advantage and superior performance. While audit firm innovation in information technology has constantly been increasing during the last decade, little is known about how technology-focused innovations influence the audit process and audit firms’ competitive strategies. The main goal of this project is to investigate the impact of audit firm technology innovation on 1) audit outcomes, such as audit service quality and audit service standardization or differentiation, 2) competition between audit suppliers and the likelihood of supplier entry in the audit market, and 3) audit process efficiency and pricing.

Last Application Date: May 31, 2022

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11. PH.D. POSITION IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH APPLIED TO HEALTH SERVICES

Summary of Doctoral Project:

The first year of the program takes place on the campus of KU Leuven where the doctoral students follow courses of the doctoral program “Business Economics”. Students will participate actively in the scientific workshops and seminars organized at either institution insofar as these are relevant to the research carried out and at the discretion of the joint supervisors. Students are expected to submit conference papers at peer-reviewed academic conferences and high-impact journals in the field. At SKEMA, the progress of the thesis will be evaluated at an oral presentation by a scientific committee each year.

Last Application Date: March 25, 2022

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12. PHD POSITION IN LEADERSHIP

Summary of Doctoral Project:

You will execute a scientific research project and write a PhD on the topic of organizational leadership. The exact scope and research questions will be developed during the first year of the PhD study in collaboration with your supervisor (Prof. Nicolas Bastardoz). Some examples of topics include: (a) charismatic leadership; (b) the intersect of power and leadership; (c) the application of signaling theory to leadership; (d) followership, speaking up, and whistleblowing; or (e) implicit leadership theories. This research will rely primarily on quantitative methods (e.g., experiments, quasi-experiments, multi-source survey) and critical reviews of the literature.

Last Application Date: April 22, 2022

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