Call for one post doc Research Fellow in Management at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods,

CANDIDATE PROFILE 

• Experience in fundamental and applied research in management, entrepreneurship, strategy 
• Quantitative research skills and ability to work on statistical software such as STATA, SPSS or R 
• Knowledge of qualitative research methods, including design and delivery of questionnaire and semi-structured interviews  
• Preferably close to the completion of a PhD program in management, entrepreneurship, strategy 

Knowledge of language: English (knoweldge of italian is NOT required) 

Candidates are expected to: 

• conduct systematic literature review on growth strategies in impact-oriented entrepreneurship (including social/green entrepreneurship; sustainable entrepreneurship; regenerative ventures; placed-based entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship in constrained environments); 
• collect primary and secondary data collection on planning and implementation of growth strategies by impact-oriented ventures; 
• Analyze data by applying qualitative and quantitative methodologies 
• Prepare dissemination reports and scientific manuscripts to be submitted to relevant international journals; 
• actively participate in departmental life and seminars.  

The fellowship does not involve any teaching. 

DETAILS ABOUT THE RESEARCH PROJECT 

Project title: Impact-oriented entrepreneurship: growth tensions, management practices and performance consequences 

Abstract 

Embraced by a variety of actors and operating across private, public or nonprofit sectors, impact-oriented ventures have proliferated in the last two decades as a dominant entrepreneurial form with a dual mission of explicitly striving for social or/and environmental objectives while generating profits or remining economically viable. Emerging evidence points out to the difficulties impact-oriented ventures face especially while growing beyond their original boundaries. In this regard, literature is increasingly converging on the critical role of context when studying impact-oriented entrepreneurship, along the different stages of the entrepreneurial lifecycle. Therefore, understanding the complexities of the context become critical to explain entrepreneurial behaviors, practices, and outcomes.  

Building on and extending current understanding about growth strategies of impact- oriented enterprise, the research project will pursue three interrelated goals: 

1.  systematically investigating current literature to dig deeper into the controversial nature of growing in impact-oriented entrepreneurship. The analysis will overview existing research on growth across impact-venture types including social/and or green entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, regenerative ventures, place-based entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in constrained environments;
2. qualitatively exploring the processes by which impact-oriented entrepreneurs adapt their growth strategies to fit with local embeddedness and resource constraints along the different stages of their entrepreneurial lifecycle. As a result, a taxonomy of managerial practices to handle growth-related tensions in constrained environments will be provided;
3. quantitatively analyzing the performance consequences of integrating context-related constraints in the growth strategy, by focusing on a sample to place-based entrepreneurial projects aimed at addressing social and/or environmental challenges.  

THE EMPLOYER 

The University of Milan is a major teaching and research institution located in one of Europe’s most thriving cities. The latest Italian research evaluation exercise (VQR 2015-2019) placed DEMM among the best departments in economics, management and statistics in Italy. 

DEMM was also selected as one of the “Departments of Excellence” (Dipartimento di Eccellenza) by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) for two consecutive five-year terms (2018 – 2022 and 2023 – 2027). 

HOW TO APPLY 

Instructions and applications forms can be found here: https://www.unimi.it/en/node/50912 

For further information, please contact: recruiting.demm@unimi.it 

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