Postdoc in Tax Law and Entrepreneurship

The Department of Business Humanities and Law at Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a non-tenured 2 to 3-year Postdoc in Tax Law and Entrepreneurship. The starting date is negotiable but should be during the calendar year 2024.

The position is intended to build capacity in entrepreneurship studies and is connected to the Carlsberg Semper Ardens: Advance research environment “The Entrepreneurial Age: Rethinking Entrepreneurship in Society”. Overall, the project group explores in which historical contexts our current understanding of entrepreneurship first emerged, how entrepreneurial discourse assigns value and legitimacy to some forms of behavior over others, and by which mechanisms it affects social change. How we think and talk about entrepreneurship shapes a critical view of entrepreneurship and creates possibilities for reframing, which provide novel impulses for the future.

The Postdoc will focus on the intersection between tax law and entrepreneurship. On the one hand tax regulations can be detrimental to entrepreneurship by creating additional barriers for a successful venture. On the other hand, tax regulations may be used to induce entrepreneurship by granting taxpayers various tax incentives. Moreover, new tendencies in entrepreneurial behavior may necessitate amendments of tax policy and legislation. Accordingly, the Postdoc should explore this intersection (mainly) from legal perspective.         

The Postdoc position is a two-year fixed-term appointment with opportunity for extension to a third year.

For more information about the position, please contact Christina Lubinski, cl.bhl@cbs.dk or Peter Koerver Schmidt, pks.bhl@cbs.dk.

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, economics, 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, social sciences, and law.

Within the Department of Business Humanities and Law, the position will be located in CBS LAW, a unit focusing on law in a business & society context. The Postdoc will also have close ties to the Entrepreneurship, Ethics and Leadership Unit, an interdisciplinary research environment connecting leadership to business ethics and entrepreneurship.

Across CBS, the Department of Business Humanities and Law participates in numerous interdisciplinary activities related to entrepreneurship, including teaching entrepreneurship to undergraduate and graduate students, collaborating with the incubator program Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship and engaging in research group related to entrepreneurial venturing. Given the interdisciplinary outlook of the Department of Business Humanities and Law and the department’s engagement with other research environments, the candidate should demonstrate a capacity to bridge across disciplines and research groups. Group overview available at: https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-business-humanities-and-law/research/bhl-groups-centres

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have completed a PhD in law, with a clear interest in tax law and preferably in issues of relevance for entrepreneurship. The candidate will be committed to an academic career, have the capabilities to conduct internationally recognized research, and be able to communicate research findings clearly. The candidate will show an interest and ability to connect legal dogmatic research and social sciences in his/her research.

The assessment of the candidate will be based primarily on the following qualifications:

• Excellent academic track record and/or a promising pipeline, and an ability to clearly articulate a research agenda in Business Humanities and Law,
• Enthusiasm for empirical and theoretical interdisciplinary research,
• Ability to work autonomously, and as part of a team,
• Excellent organizational and communication skills (both oral and written); proficiency in English is required,
• Ability to engage with others in a way that reflects our collective commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion,
• Documentation of pedagogical qualifications or related material.

Application procedure

All applications must be sent via the electronic recruitment system, using the link below. The application must include:

• Cover letter describing the motivations to apply and fit with the research and teaching environment at CBS, BHL, and CBS LAW.
• A 3 to 5-page project description or outline of the work that the candidate intends to do during the postdoc, including publication plans.
• A full CV and proof of qualifications.
• Any relevant information indicating experience in research management, industry cooperation and international collaborations.
• Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level, including publications in internationally recognized journals and citations in the Social Science Citation Index and/or Google Scholar.  A maximum of 5 publications for review are allowed. Applicants are encouraged to prioritize their publications or working papers in relation to the field of this job advertisement.
• A complete, numbered list of publications and work in progress (indicating titles, co-authors, page numbers and year) with an * marking of the academic productions to be considered during the review.
• Documentation of pedagogical qualifications or related material.

Recruitment procedure

The Recruitment Committee will shortlist a minimum of two applicants. If 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. An appointment committee will invite a selection of qualified candidates to an interview. Once the recruitment process is completed each applicant will be notified of the outcome of their application.

Appointment

Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organization. Information about CBS as a workplace is available at www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs/jobs-cbs.

For further information, please contact: Christina Lubinski, cl.bhl@cbs.dk, or Peter Koerver Schmidt, pks.bhl@cbs.dk. Information about the department may be found at www.cbs.dk/bhl. Information about CBS LAW may be found here: www.cbs.dk/law.  Information about Copenhagen Business School is available at https://www.cbs.dk/en.

Closing date: 15 January 2024.

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.

One of CBS’ 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.