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| Deadline Application PhD Positions - 15 March |
| If you are interested in a PhD in Business Administration, you can apply for a PhD position at ABRI. This is a paid PhD position, for three or four years. Only candidates with an accredited research master (Mphil, MSc, for the 3-year position) or regular university master (MSc, MA for the 4-year position) are eligible. It is not possible to apply with an executive master degree (MBA) or a master degree from a university of applied sciences. For more information please click here. |
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| Deadline call for papers EAWOP Small Group Meeting - 15 March |
The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology have been successful in obtaining funding for an EAWOP Small Group Meeting (SGM) on the “Antecedents of Work Design”.
The meeting will take place at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 3-4 of June, and will combine paper presentations, group discussions, and a keynote address from Prof. Sharon Parker.
The organizers hope that this Small Group Meeting will provide an opportunity for scholars to come together and discuss ideas, ongoing projects, and stimulate collaborative research on the factors that shape the quality of work design in contemporary organizations.
They invite all interested scholars to check our full call for papers here and submit an abstract before the March 15th deadline.
The EAWOP is confident that this event will provide a great environment for open, critical and inspiring discussions, that will move the field further. |
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| Deadline Application GLOMO Vacancy - 15 March |
| Global mobility of employees (GLOMO) has vacancy for a Junior Researcher for 2.5 years on the project “Managing Global Compensation and Rewards.” The primary job location will be at Toulouse Business School in France, with a 4 months stay at the Vrije Universiteit. Details about the vacancy can be found here. |
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| ABRI PhD Day - 19 March |
| Please see the news article in this newsletter. |
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| NEWS |
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| ABRI PhD Day on 19 March |
ABRI is pleased to invite you to the annual ABRI PhD Day that will take place on March 19, 2019.
This year’s PhD Day features four ABRI PhD candidates from different disciplines, who are now halfway their PhD trajectories. During this event, they will present their work to an audience of faculty members, fellow PhD students, and a panel of selected reviewers. This will be a great occasion to celebrate the progress that these PhD candidates have made so far, to give feedback on their work in development, and to strengthen our multidisciplinary research community.
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| Arjen van Witteloostuijn has been elected as an Fellow of Academy of International Business. |
The Academy of International Business (AIB) is the leading association of scholars and specialists in the field of international business.
The AIB Fellows consist of a select group of distinguished AIB members recognized for their outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business or have made significant contributions to the AIB. The AIB Fellows participate in the activities of the AIB by selecting the individuals to be honored as the Executive of the Year, the Educator of the Year, and the John Fayerweather Eminent Scholar. They also organize one or more sessions at the AIB annual meeting each year -- often including the Opening Plenary. |
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Established in 1959, today, AIB has 3198 members in 93 different countries around the world. Members include scholars from the leading global academic institutions as well consultants, researchers, government and NGO representatives. AIB welcomes individuals and institutions from developing countries, newly industrialized countries, as well as industrialized countries to join. The Academy also has 18 chapters established around the world to facilitate networking as well as the facilitation and exchange of knowledge at a more local level.
Arjen van Witteloostuijn is Dean of the School of Business and Economics. He is also affiliated to the University of Antwerp. In his previous positions he has been affiliated to the Tilburg University, the University of Groningen, the Maastricht University, the University of Durham, the Utrecht University, Cardiff Business School.
As of 2015, he is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen, or KNAW). As of 2016, Head of the Economics Section of the KNAW. As of 2017, Chair of the Department of Business, Economics, Law & Social Sciences of the KNAW. |
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| M&O launches own LinkedIn Page |
| The Management & Organisation department now has a new page on LinkedIn. |
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| Important milestone In AACSB accreditation |
| The School of Business and Economics is currently working on gaining our AACSB accreditation. The initial self-evaluation report, an important step in this process, has recently been approved by the AACSB. |
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Accredited schools must meet very strict quality standards and are widely known as the best business schools in the world. Therefore, they attract the best students, local and international. We are very pleased that we have reached this important milestone!
On Friday 15 March, we celebrated this positive news from AACSB with all our colleagues from the School of Business and Economics with cake and a speech by Dean Arjen van Witteloostuijn. |
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| EVENT OVERVIEW SPRING 2019 |
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