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Hosting offers for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023

Published on 30.3.2023

Tampere University

Faculty of Management and Business (MAB) is looking for postdoctoral researchers interested in applying for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) in the 2023 call.

MSCA PFs provide excellent, fully paid opportunities for talented researchers to boost their career and skills development. We are currently preparing for the 2023 call (deadline of 13^th of September 2023). Tampere University (TAU) has longstanding experience in MSC actions. We make a substantial effort in MSCA PF calls and have achieved high success rates over the years. In the MAB faculty, we have a variety of interesting, innovative projects with experienced supervisors. We are looking for promising candidates who want to improve their research careers and networks, move to a different, exciting environment, and broaden their research horizons.

Several research groups at the MAB faculty are currently looking for postdoctoral researchers to join and actively co-develop successful applications to the MSCA PF call 2023 (please, see below).

Interested candidates, please send your CV (max 2 pages) and a brief outline of the proposed research project (max 2 pages) to both addresses before May 31, 2023:

Research Specialist Hanna Salminen, MAB faculty: hanna.salminen [at] tuni.fi
Research and Innovation Services’ Preaward team: preaward [at] tuni.fi

Please have “Expression of interest for MSCA PF” in the e-mail title. Also, a point-by-point declaration of eligibility is required (see exact eligibility requirements from program pages). This will be double checked by the research support staff. The sooner you approach us the better: we start reviewing applications already during the application period.

Please note that we cannot fully guarantee that suitable supervisor is found, and that you will be accepted as a MSCA PF candidate! All applicants will be informed of the acceptance by June 9, 2023.

Support for proposal writing – The MSCA PF Masterclass 2023

All accepted MSCA PF candidates have an opportunity to participate MSCA PF Masterclass 2023 organized by Research and Innovation Services at TAU. The Masterclass takes place during May-June 2023. The Masterclass consists of practical advice, training, coaching and individual feedback for MSCA PF proposals.

Research groups and the research centre looking for MSCA PFs

Administrative Studies

Business Studies

Financial Management and Accounting Research Group

Professor Lili-Anne Khin

Research Group on Sustainability and Critical Accounting

Professor Matias Laine

RESPMAN Responsible Management Research Group

Professor Johanna Kujala
- Action4Commons: Collective stakeholder action for commons: Integrating business-stakeholder value creation with polycentric governance
- CICAT2025: Circular economy catalysts: From innovation to business ecosystems
- B2N: Business to nature: Stakeholder-driven value creation in ecosystem services

Wastebusters Research Group

Professor Elina Närvänen

Information and Knowledge Management

Industrial Engineering and Management

Center for Innovation and Technology Research (CITER) Research Group

Professor Leena Aarikka Stenroos

Cost Management Center (CMC) Research Group

Professor Teemu Laine
Associate Professor (tenure track) Tuomas Korhonen

MSCA PF TOPICS:

Post-doctoral position: Balancing financial and ecological sustainability perspectives in industrial operations

The potential candidate could have a background on different domains of management, technology and environmentally conscious sciences. These could enable addressing development processes related to ecological sustainability, such as circular economy in the industrial context. The research could focus especially on understanding the drivers and mechanisms of and means to manage such a development process. The balance between the financial and ecological perspectives requires systemic thinking towards the complex development processes. Furthermore, it requires the possibility to understand the processes sufficiently in order to unveil the mechanisms of value creation from different perspectives. For example, the research could yield metrics and key performance indicators to justify, plan and control the development processes. As a methodological choice, we encourage rather holistic, interpretative approach e.g., in-depth case studies, qualitative interviews and research interventions, in order to unveil the complex mechanisms through which financially vital, yet ecological sustainable businesses are being developed and eventually maintained.

Post-doctoral position: Balancing performance and well-being in businesses requiring social interaction

The potential candidate could have a background on different domains of management, technology and social sciences. Such a background would enable analyzing the (social) processes in organizations, the design and implementation of the different processes, as well as the formulation and enactment of the performance measurement in such contexts. In order to understand the challenge of balancing well-being and performance in the organizations, and especially in order to unveil and analyze the practices where these perspectives either conflict or match, several theories need to be applied. These may include theories on social interaction, intersubjectivity, dialogue etc. The host research group is especially involved in the studies on pragmatic constructivism (and social constructivism), so expertise on these is highly valued. Furthermore, there is expected cooperation with organizations that use modern interaction technologies (ICT), so that interest in the use of those technologies as well as the methodologies that are based on close engagement with the studied organizations (action research, interventionist research qualitative case studies) is desired.

Post-doctoral position: Emergent organizing of innovation ecosystems

The potential candidate could have a multidisciplinary interest on social and organization sciences. Such a background would enable analyzing management and organization of innovation networks and ecosystems at multiple levels. Innovation ecosystems are collaborative organizational forms for responding to systemic challenges, and they comprise of multiple private and public organizations that represent different capabilities and rationalities. This hybrid inter-organizational setting motivates research on a variety of social and organizational arenas. Management, leadership and orchestration appear in different ways and require specific competences in ecosystems. In ecosystems individuals have multiple organizational and social group memberships which causes confusion but also incorporates the essential elements of the hybrid organization. Communication and interaction are primary processes of organization and knowledge production, and there is a growing need for studies on the micro level processes of situated action for the study of collective innovation. Possible methodological approaches include practice theory, discourse analysis, ethno methodology and conversation analysis. We encourage research interventions, action research and combined methodological choices, such as computational methods for the study of social phenomena as constitutive to organization.