Lecturer in Strategy

SIME contributes to core undergraduate teaching in Strategic Management, International Business, and Business Ethics and Sustainability. The Department also hosts the FT-ranked MSc in International Management and contributes specialist teaching across King's Business School. Located in central London, King's offers an internationally connected environment for developing ambitious research, research-informed education and engagement with organisations, policymakers and wider society.

About the role:

We seek an outstanding scholar whose research advances major themes in strategy, with a particular focus on technology and innovation. The successful applicant will complement and strengthen SIME's established capabilities in strategy, international management, innovation, sustainability, responsible business and geopolitics. We welcome theoretically ambitious and methodologically rigorous research across strategy. Of particular interest is work examining how technology and innovation shape firm strategy, competitive advantage, corporate scope, global supply chains, business models, organisational capabilities, industry evolution, ecosystems, platforms, and relationships among firms, markets and institutions.

Relevant work may also address artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, digital transformation, international strategy, non-market strategy, or the strategic implications of industrial, technology and innovation policy. We particularly welcome research that connects these questions to geopolitical change, geoeconomic fragmentation or business-government relations, while remaining open to different theoretical traditions, levels of analysis and methodological approaches within strategy. The postholder will develop an internationally excellent and visible research programme, publish work of originality, significance and rigour, pursue external research funding, and build productive collaborations within SIME, across King's and internationally.

They will deliver high-quality, research-informed teaching, including core strategy and relevant specialist subjects, contribute to doctoral supervision, and undertake academic leadership and citizenship appropriate to Senior Lecturer level. This is a full-time post (35 hours per week) offered on an indefinite contract., At King's, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

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We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination. When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King's guidance.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

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