Associate Professor in Geopolitics, Business Security and Resilience

Department of Business Humanities and Law Organisation/Company Copenhagen Business School Department Department of Business Humanities and Law Research Field Economics Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Established Researcher (R3) Positions PhD Positions Country Denmark Application Deadline 17 Jan 2026 - 12:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) Type of Contract Permanent Job Status Full-time Offer Starting Date 1 May 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No Offer Description Copenhagen Business School invites applications for 1-2 vacant Associate Professorships in Geopolitics, Business Security and Resilience at the Department of Business Humanities and Law. Core research areas of the Department of Business Humanities and Law include governance, culture, learning, entrepreneurship, business ethics, leadership and business law from commercial and societal perspectives. It is the ambition of the Department of Business Humanities and Law to further strengthen its capacities of research, teaching and societal engagement in relation to security and resilience challenges faced by businesses and society in a global and geopolitical context. Examples of research areas that the associate professor might cover: Legal, social scientific and humanistic approaches to security and resilience governance. Historical, political and socio‑economic contexts of business security and resilience. Interdisciplinary studies of how business, civil society and public authorities engage with and collaborate to face current security and resilience challenges including democratic and societal resilience. International threats and disruptions to business security. Teaching responsibilities of the Department comprise, among other, undergraduate and graduate teaching in business administration and sociology, entrepreneurship, business law, public governance, service management, business ethics and philosophy of science. Research environment The Department of Business Humanities and Law is dedicated to an integrated approach to the contemporary challenges facing business and society drawing on the humanities, interdisciplinary social sciences, and law. It emphasizes problem‑oriented research to understand those challenges and to build the lifelong capabilities necessary to address them. Faculty within the Department of Business Humanities and Law have diverse research backgrounds and research foci including but not limited to leadership, entrepreneurship, ethics, strategy, law, politics, sociology, philosophy, history, anthropology, diversity, equity and inclusion, culture and leisure management. What unites faculty is an overriding concern for the organization of the human within its multiple environments and, by implication, a research interest in the interdisciplinary conversation between humanities and social sciences. Within the Department of Business Humanities and Law, the position will be located in the Governance, Culture and Learning Unit, an interdisciplinary research environment connecting management issues relative to governance, culture and learning. The candidate will also be invited to join a research group. An overview of our research groups is available at Across CBS, the Department of Business Humanities and Law plays an important role in contributing to cross‑departmental research environments and educational activities that engage in addressing current business and societal challenges. Given the interdisciplinary outlook of the Department of Business Humanities and Law and its engagement with outside research environments, the candidate should demonstrate a capacity to collaborate across departments, disciplines and research groups. Candidates should also be able to explain how their work would integrate into core research and education activities at Copenhagen Business School. Copenhagen Business School is committed to scholarship and education that transforms society with business, including by exploring links between the humanities and social sciences to advance research on governance, broadly construed. The Associate Professorship is a permanent position with research and teaching obligations. To fulfill the research requirements of the position, the applicant chosen is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the Department. Responsibilities Teaching and associated examination in existing CBS programs. Individual and collective research meeting high international standards. Promoting CBS’s academic reputation. Initiating, fundraising and coordinating research projects. Promoting the teaching and research capabilities of Copenhagen Business School and other relevant assignments at Copenhagen Business School. Contributing to the administrative responsibilities of the Department and to CBS-wide tasks. Communicating findings to the public in general and to CBS’s stakeholders in particular, including participating in the public debate. Research meeting high international standards, including responsibility for the academic development of the relevant discipline. Responsibility for publishing, scientific communication and research-based teaching. Active participation in the regular research activities, such as research seminars, workshops and conferences. The associate professor is expected to contribute to the development and application of the research of the department’s research areas and to maintain and strengthen CBS’s international research position. Qualifications Advanced degree in an appropriate field. Documented teaching qualifications or other material for the evaluation of his/her pedagogical level. Please see guidelines for teaching portfolios. Documented research production at an international level, including publications in the field’s internationally recognized journals. Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken). Copenhagen Business School has a broad commitment to the excellence, distinctiveness and relevance of its teaching and research programmes. Candidates who wish to join us should demonstrate enthusiasm for working in an organisation of this type and have a record of engagement with empirical and theoretical interdisciplinary research and ability to work autonomously, and as part of a team. For further information please contact: Head of Department Mitchell Dean, e‑mail Information about the department may be found at cbs.dk/bhl. Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organisation. Application Application must be sent via the electronic recruitment system, using the link below. Application must include: A statement of application. Proof of qualifications and a full CV. Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level, including publications in the field’s internationally recognized journals and citations in the Social Science Citation Index, Scopus and/or Google Scholar. A teaching portfolio documenting teaching qualifications and pedagogical development. The portfolio must include an overview of the applicant’s past teaching achievements and practice and its impact on the students, reflections on pedagogical competencies and core strengths, the educational competencies the applicant would like to develop, and the teaching opportunities they would like to pursue in the nearest future. Internal applicants must use the CBS Teaching Portfolio format. It is available at Please make a pdf of each of the spreadsheets from part B of the portfolio. Information indicating experience in research management, industry co‑operation and international co‑operation. A complete, numbered list of publications (indicating titles, co‑authors, page numbers and year) with an * marking of the academic productions to be considered during the review. A maximum of 10 publications for review are allowed. Applicants are requested to prioritise their publications in relation to the field of this job advertisement. Copies of the publications marked with an *. Only publications written in English (or another specified principal language, according to research tradition) or one of the Scandinavian languages will be taken into consideration. Recruitment procedure The Recruitment Committee will shortlist minimum two applicants; when possible five or more applicants will be shortlisted. The shortlisted applicants will be assessed by the Assessment Committee. All applicants will be notified of their status in the recruitment process shortly after the application deadline. The applicants selected for assessment will be notified about the composition of the Assessment Committee and later in the process about the result of the assessment. Once the recruitment process is completed each applicant will be notified of the outcome of their application. Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see items above), by the application deadline. Copenhagen Business School invites all qualified candidates to apply for the position. An appointment committee will review the applications and invite a selection of qualified candidates to an interview. One of CBS’s strategic goals is the promotion of diversity, which is why every effort has been made to ensure a recruitment process that reduces potential bias. Applicants are therefore encouraged not to include a photo or unnecessary personal information in their application. Details Details about Copenhagen Business School and the department are available at Application due 1/17/2026 Start date 5/1/2026 WE TRANSFORM SOCIETY WITH BUSINESS CBS is a globally recognised business school with deep roots the Nordic socio‑economic model. Our faculty has a broad focus on societal challenges, and we have earned a reputation for high‑quality disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and education. We are located at Frederiksberg and have approximately 20,000 full and part‑time students, 800 full‑time faculty members, 200 PhD students and 700 administrative staff, and a full portfolio of bachelor, master, MBA/EMBA, PhD and executive programmes taught in English and Danish. Our global profile carries the obligation to address critical challenges in our research and to develop the transformational capabilities of students, graduates and business leaders via our educational activities and opportunities for lifelong learning. Complex challenges call for joint action, and therefore our strategy focuses on strengthening current and starting new partnerships with other sciences, the business community, authorities and civil society. CBS is working continuously on becoming a diverse and inclusive organisation, and we encourage all regardless of gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religious beliefs, LGBT+ identity, cultural background etc. to apply. 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