[Apologies for cross-posting]

Through the Centre for Decision Research, based in the Business School 
at the University of Leeds, a prestigious University Research Fellowship 
is available focusing on aspects of Innovation, Risk and Strategic 
Decision Making.  The fellowship offers five years of research and, 
subject to satisfactory progress, leads to a permanent academic post 
after five years.  Salary is normally in the range £22,579 - £30,065.  
Closing date for applications is 25 February 2000.

Further details are available as follows:

Generaldetails about the fellowship from the Leeds University web-
site: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/urfinfo.htm
Somelimited further details about the research focus of the 
fellowship are given at the end of this mail.
Ican e-mail as an attachment further specific information about the 
Centre for Decision Research and the Business School and how the 
fellowship relates to our overall research plans.  Please contact me at 
{ HYPERLINK mailto:[log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]  This information is also on the web at 
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/urf7.htm.
Forother information, or to discuss details of the fellowship, please 
contact me:
e-mail – as above
phone – 44-113-233-4489
fax	44-113-233-4465
Alternatively,please contact my colleague, John Maule:
e-mail – { HYPERLINK mailto:[log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]
phone - 44-113-233-2622

Alan Pearman
Professor of Management Decision Analysis
Centre for Decision Research
University of Leeds
************************************
Basic details about the fellowship

A distinctive feature of current activities within Leeds University 
Business School (LUBS) is collaborative research bringing together work 
in risk-taking, decision making and strategic management.  This multi-
disciplinary research has involved staff from the Strategy, HRM and 
Decision-Making groups within the School and has been very 
successful in terms of publications and in attracting research funds. 

The research fellowship provides an opportunity to extend this work 
further in terms of its relevance for an understanding of innovation and 
entrepreneurial activities.  In particular, we are seeking to recruit a top-
rate researcher who would pursue research that takes contemporary work 
at the interface between risk-taking, decision making and strategic 
management and develops it further by considering how it can be used 
to increase our understanding of innovation and entrepreneurial activity. 
 The work would be expected to contribute both to theory explaining risk-
taking, innovation and entrepreneurial activity and to practice designed 
to facilitate it. 

Candidates are likely to hold, or be close to completing, a PhD in a field 
of direct relevance to the focus of the fellowship.  This work will 
probably be strongly founded in a core discipline such as psychology, 
decision analysis or economics.  Commensurate with the age and 
experience of the candidate, there should also be evidence of a 
developing record of publication in significant peer-reviewed 
international journals.

It is expected that the successful candidate will have an overview of the 
developing research agenda in the general areas of innovation, risk and 
strategic decision-making.  During the course of the fellowship and 
subsequently, it is expected that, in collaboration with colleagues in the 
School, he or she would establish and pursue an identifiable and 
significant stream of research and related work within it.

Staff of the Business School who are working in the areas of innovation, 
risk and strategic decision-making include: Nicola Bown, Keith Glaister, 
Gerard Hodgkinson, John Maule, Alan Pearman and Daniel Read.
`



%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%