Ph.D. Scholarship offered at CBCSR

The Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility invites applications for one scholarship on the subject of Public Trust: Integration of Non-financial Reporting in Internal and External Communication.

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.

For a complete description of the Ph.D. scholarship and application procedure, please see word document below.

Closing date: 5 May 2008 at 12.00 noon.

For further information please contact:

Mette Morsing, CBSCSR, tel.: +45 3815 3205, e-mail mm.ikl@cbs.dk

Jonas Eder-Hansen, CBSCSR, tel.: +45 3815 3231, e-mail jeh.ikl@cbs.dk

Birgitte Mogensen, PricewaterhouseCoopers, tel +45 3945 3945, e-mail bmo@pwc.dk .

Mikael Sørensen, PricewaterhouseCoopers, tel +45 3945 3945, e-mail mhs@pwc.dk