Applicants should frame their project proposals to fall within the purview of integrating the research areas of communication and reporting to fit into the overall research agenda of trust and corporate social responsibility. The Ph.D. project will explore challenges of integrating non-financial issues into internal and external communication with the ambition of achieving public trust. The Ph.D. candidate will be part of the CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility’s research network on corporate social responsibility (CSR) which includes the Nordic Center for Corporate Responsibility with the group of researchers engaged in studies of Strategic CSR Communication. The scholarship is funded by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Danish Ministry of Science and Copenhagen Business School.
Ideally, applicants should have a background education in business or social sciences (such as management, communication, strategy) and be prepared to carry out research relating to corporate social responsibility, trust and reporting in conjunction with PricewaterhouseCoopers and members of the CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility research team. Proven experience in collaboration with companies and empirical data collection methods may be an advantage. Proposals should be of high intellectual calibre and show a clear ability to explore, analyse and, as necessary, incorporate theoretical and empirical issues that tackle the relation between non-financial and financial reporting to internal and external audiences.
Institutional affiliation will be with the CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility (CBSCSR) at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management at CBS. CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility consists of ten senior researchers at CBS, a research director, together with a number of external business and academic partners and a group of Ph.D. students physically based in the centre. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute actively to the research environment at the center.
Integrating methods and perspectives from business disciplines and the social sciences, CBSCSR focuses on the challenges of corporate social responsibility for business and society and on how companies, governments and individuals themselves constitute the phenomenon known as CSR. Research revolves around how global and local flows are transforming the ideas and practices of management, organization and governance in both the private and the public sectors. Researchers share a concern with CSR across a number of distinct thematic fields.
Closing date: 5 May 2008 at 12.00 noon.
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