Professor/Associate Professor in Accounting and control

Luleå University of Technology (LTU) is seeking a professor/associate professor in the area of “Sustainable management of business and resources” at the division of Accounting and control, Department of Business administration and Social Sciences. The position is funded by LKAB Excellence Centre. LKAB is an international high-tech minerals group, one of the world’s leading producers of upgraded iron ore products for the steel industry, and a growing supplier of industrial minerals products to other sectors. LKAB is now investing 50 MSEK to strengthen research at LTU. The funds will be used to establish five new professors at Luleå University of Technology within strategically important research areas for LKAB. The area “Management of sustainable business and resources” within the research discipline accounting and control is one of these.

Accounting and control participate in many multidisciplinary research projects within different industries where business and technology are linked together. Several other disciplines at the Department of business administration and social sciences carry out research related to the mining industry, e.g. Economics, Quality and environmental management. At Luleå University of Technology (LTU) research focusing on the mining industry is being conducted within several research groups including the Hjalmar Lundbohm Research Centre (HLRC). Collaboration is now being strengthened by the new funding from LKAB to support advanced research at Ltu relevant to the mining sector.

Description
The discipline Accounting and control is designed to meet tomorrow's demands on the relationship between business and technology in both teaching and research. Within the discipline, the strategic area of “Management of sustainable business and resources” aims at conducting applied international research relevant to the mining industry; which may include:

* Risk management
* Investment
* Financing
* Resource allocation/efficiency
* Capital efficiency
* Corporate communication
* Margin improvement
* Growth enhancement
* Total shareholder return

Duties
The position contains research and research supervision relevant to the strategic area of “Management of sustainable business and resources” within Accounting and control.

Qualifications
To qualify for appointment as professor a person must have demonstrated both scientific skills and pedagogical skills. Equal consideration shall be given to the assessment of scientific skills as to pedagogic skills.

Basis for assessment
For the position as research leader the following assessment requirements apply

· Scientific skills
· Pedagogic skills

Other basis for assessment 
· Scientific orientation in relation to the strategic area
· Proven record of acquiring research funds and leading research projects
· Industrial experience and proven research cooperation with industry;
· Experience in international research cooperation     

For further information contact Head of Division Accounting and control Jeaneth Johansson, phone +46-920-491037, jeaneth.johansson@ltu.se,  or Head of Department Business administration and social sciences, Bo Jonsson, phone +46-920-491 17 17, bo.jonsson@ltu.se

Application
Application, marked with reference number 1217-10 should be addressed to: Luleå University of Technology, The Registry Secretary, SE – 971 87 Luleå, Sweden. The application should be appended with the (maximum ten) scientific works that the applicant in the first instance wants to use to support the scientific record. The pedagogic merits should also be documented. The application, written in English, should be sent in the form of three separate copies.

Deadline for application is August 26 2010
Reference number: 1217-10