Dear all, This appointment may be of interest. - the closing date is 31 December.
with best wishes Clare > > > Research Assistant, 'Trust and Corporate Governance' > > This post arises from a British Academy grant awarded to Natalie Gold, > John Mellor, and David Vines for a project entitled “Trust and > Corporate Governance: Are there particular forms of ownership and > corporate governance that can assist with the promotion of trustworthy > business?”. The current literature on governance deals mainly with the > relationship between managers and shareholders, and does so through the > lens of the principal agent problem: optimal governance involves the > design of incentive contracts that will induce the best outcome for the > firm. In this project the focus will instead be on the relation between > the firm and the customer or client. Following on from work by Gold and > Vines, published in Capital Failure, this project will investigate how > 'weak trust’, where good behaviour is enforced by incentive contracts, > can be supplemented with forms of ‘strong’ trust, such as sympathy > or a desire to fulfil moral obligations. The intention is to investigate > how strong trust between a firm and its customers can be supported by > appropriately designed governance structures. The Research Assistant > will be required to conduct a review of the literature on governance > structures, with the aim of setting out the key issues in trust and > corporate governance, within the framework set out in Capital Failure. > > Qualifications: good degree, with relevant research interests (for > example trust, ethics and finance, philosophy and public policy). We > expect that the postholder would be studying for a PhD in a related > field, but the work could conceivably be done by a postdoc or an > advanced undergraduate. Although the postholder should be familiar with > philosophical frameworks, s/he should also be comfortable reading > empirical literature in management and economics, since we expect that > most of the literature to be surveyed will be in those fields. We are > looking for someone who is self-motivated, who is not afraid to plunge > into an area where very little has been written, and make connections > between the research topic and what is in the current literature. The > postholder does not have to be based in Oxford. > > The post is two days a week, starting as soon as possible (ideally > before the end of January) and lasting until June (about 5 months in > total). Remuneration will be at the rate of £107.85 per day. The > postholder will need to have the right to work in the UK. > > Please contact Natalie Gold ([email protected]) for further > informal discussions. > > To apply, please send a CV and a max 500 word cover letter explaining > how your interests relate to the topic of the project, why you are > qualified to do the work, and what you would bring to the project to > both Natalie Gold and David Vines ([email protected]) by 31 > December 2017. In your application, please state your grounds for having > the right to work in the UK, e.g., citizen of the EEA. Please ask two > referees to send references directly to us by the same deadline, and > include their names and contact details in your application. > > > _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
