Fwd: Fw: Chair positions at University of Bristol, UK

[Andrew Ross]

See below from Jason Russell:

Hi Andrew,

Would you be able to send this to the CBH listserv?  The notice below regarding jobs in the UK may have appeal to some listserv members.

Thanks,

Jason

Jason Russell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and
Coordinator, MA in Work and Labor Policy -
School for Graduate Studies
Empire State College - SUNY
Review Editor,
International Labor and Working-Class History
800-847-3000, x3823


**Apologies for cross-posting**

The Department of Management in the School of Economics, Finance and Management at the University of Bristol is seeking a number of Chairs (Professors). At least one of these is in the area of International Management very broadly defined. We are seeking a person who would be heterodox (from the perspective of management studies) and are especially interested in individuals who can fit into the vibrant inter-disciplinary research culture of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/fssl/research/).

Scholars doing work in the following areas or similar are especially welcome to apply: international political economy; the political economy of the EU; comparative research into politics, business and society; cultural political economy with an international or comparative focus; political or international sociological research; human/economic geography; research on globalisation, labour and employment. These would complement existing strengths and recent hires in the department.

Details of the job(s) are below and in the Times Higher Education (http://jobs.timeshighereducation.co.uk/jobs_jobdetails.asp?ac=124232). Please distribute to those you think might be interested.

Please contact myself, Andrew Sturdy (Head of Department), or Stephen Lyne (Head of School) if you would like further details.


CHAIRS IN MANAGEMENT

The Department of Management at the University of Bristol (part of the School of Economics, Finance and Management) is seeking to make three appointments at professor level (two full time and one 0.2 fractional post).

The successful candidates will provide strong academic leadership in both research and teaching and will have a track record of publishing consistently at the highest levels and of securing research funding and wider research impact. They will also be able to provide excellent teaching and programme development at all levels.

The Department of Management is relatively new and is continuing to develop its research profile and teaching programmes. Its current specialisms reflect a social science approach to management and lie within organisation studies, international management and operations management. We are looking for people both to strengthen and complement these areas as the department grows. In particular, we seek to fill the following full-time and open (permanent) vacancies:

    - Chair in international management (including international HRM, talent management and/or international marketing)

    - Chair (0.2 fractional) appointment for 3 years for senior academics in any area of management which supports the department’s research strengths. This post has an emphasis on supporting research funding applications and junior faculty.

    -Chair in operations management (this post will be followed by two additional appointments at lecturer/senior lecturer level)

The closing date for applications is midnight on 8th March 2015. The proposed start date is the 1st of September 2015 or sooner.

For further information, please see http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/ and for informal enquiries,  please contact Dr Stephen Lyne (Head of School) Tel: 0117 9288408 or e-mail Stephe...@bristol.ac.uk. Alternatively, contact Professor Andrew Sturdy (Head of Department of Management)  (telephone Val Harvey, PA on 0117 928 8435 or email  Andrew...@bristol.ac.uk).

[Andrew Smith]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for sharing this job advert.

Just some background-- Bristol is one of the oldest and best universities in the UK. However, Bristol's school of management is very new, as Bristol only taught very traditional subjects like history and mathematics until very recently. The university has now devoted considerable funds to create a first-class, research intensive business school from scratch. 

The research focus of this management school will be on business humanities, including business history but also business ethics, CSR, philosophy etc., for the simple reason that recruiting top-notch mainstream quantitative management academics would be too difficult for a new school.  In terms of articles per academic published per year, the employer gets more research bang for its buck if it hires business historians, sociologists, etc and then convert them into management academics.  

In your cover letter, you should indicate a willingness to publish research in ABS-ranked 3 and 4 star journals. In our field, these journals are Business History (4 star), Business History Review (3 star) and Enterprise and Society (3 star). The full list of acceptable business-historical research outlets can be found on page 17 of the ABS Journal Quality Guide version 4. This guide shapes hiring decisions in management schools in the UK, north-western Europe, and Anglophone Asia. 

Business historians are sometimes referred to in informal contexts as "page seventeeners". Indeed, this term was used in one of my meetings today, albeit in a lighthearted fashion. However, once in post you would be strongly encouraged and incentivised to publish in journals listed on the other pages of the ABS Quality Guide. You would also be encouraged to co-author with non-historical scholars who are capable of applying their research lenses to historical data sets you have obtained from archives.  

I should hasten to add that the publication of version 5 of the Quality Guide is imminent. I do not expect radical changes in the ordering of the journals listed on page 17. However, I strongly suspect that the journal Management and Organization History will likely move up the ranks. Once version 5 is published, the number of people submitting to this journal will doubtless increase. I would, therefore, recommend submitting papers to this journal now: by the time your paper is published, the stock price will have risen, as it were.  

http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmor20#.VOTpZPmsW_E

Needless to say, plans to continue publishing in book format would be frowned upon.  No such plans should be discussed in a cover letter. 

The 0.2 professorial position mentioned in the ad will almost certainly go to Glenn Morgan, a Varieties of Capitalism/labour relations scholar who lives in Bristol and who currently works at Cardiff Business School. His current research interests are broad but include the crisis of neoliberalism, Japanese management systems, and international business.   A few months ago, Morgan went down from a full time job to a 0.8 job. Do the math. Once in post in Bristol, Morgan will help to select the other professors, who will in turn help to select the lecturers and senior lecturers who will work under them. As the Bristol business school expands, new job adverts should appear once Glenn Morgan and his new colleagues are in post and ready to interview potential underlings. 

 One should, therefore, keep Morgan's broad research interests in mind in crafting cover letters.

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=_AUBtrQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate 

No more than two sentences in your cover letter should discuss teaching to avoid the risk of being labelled student-oriented. The rest of the cover letter should focus on research. A cover letter sent to a UK HEI should never be longer than one page. 

I would love to have another CBH-HAC member here in the UK. For the record, I'm not interested in applying for any of the jobs opening up in Bristol, since I love my current post here in Liverpool and have an excellent working relationship with my professor, Andrew Popp, who is the editor of Enterprise and Society.  

If you wish to discuss this matter further with me, send me an email. 

I would also be open to discussing possible research collaboration with CBH-HAC members, provided our target journal was listed in the ABS guide. Based on recently obtained information, I would be very eager to publish in Management and Organization History. 

Andrew Smith

University of Liverpool Management School

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[Andrew Smith]

Dear Fellow Canadian Business Historians,

A week ago, the Association of Business Historians announced on its website that the new version of the Journal Quality Guide will be released on 25 February, which is about 7pm Eastern Time on 24 February. The guide will be published here.

http://www.bizschooljournals.com/

The individuals involved in preparing the new guide are listed on the website. They include several people who are sympathetic to business history journals, along with more quant mgmt scholars. Needless to say, none of these individuals will reveal the contents of the guide!!!

Andrew

On 18 February 2015 at 18:21, Andrew Ross <jar...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Andrew Smith]

Dear Canadian Business Historians,

There have been some significant changes in the ranking of business history journals in the tables used in UK  and NW European management schools. For one thing, some economic historical journals have appeared on the list of approved historical journals. 

 _Business History_ a UK based journal, has now been demoted by the _Business History Review_ from the US.  _Business History_ now ranks as a 3, a rank it shares with _Enterprise and Society_. The _Business History Review_ has climbed to 4. 

One other important development in this ranking system is that _Management and Organization History_ has attained a ranking of  just 2, whereas prior to yesterday's release of the new rankings, it had been widely expected to climb to 3. 

The guide can't be downloaded as  document that I can forward to you, so I have attached a screen shot. 

Andrew

[Jason....@esc.edu]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the information.  Do you know if the rankings will again be updated next year?  It appears that they were in 2009 an 2010, then there was a five year break.  It also seems like there may be a limit on the number of journals that make it into the top two tiers, with one having to come down if another goes up.  

Regards,

Jason

Jason Russell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and
Coordinator, MA in Work and Labor Policy -
School for Graduate Studies
Empire State College - SUNY
Review Editor,
International Labor and Working-Class History
800-847-3000, x3823

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[Andrew Smith]

Hi Jason,

There appears to be some sort of informal. 

I don't know when the next version will come out. Wish I did!

Andrew