Grenoble Ecole de Management

Research Position – POST-DOC (F/H)
18 months minimum

Within a funded research project – Faculty Pedagogy and Research Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM), an internationally and nationally recognized business school, is more than a school. It is a Business Lab for Society in which 8000 students and more than 500 employees learn and work every day to meet the challenges of companies and society at large.

Historically based in Grenoble, European Green Capital, city of science and technology, with training campuses in France abroad, Grenoble Ecole de Management is a multi-cultural organization with more than 500 employees, teachers and administrators, who value experimentation, innovation, and freedom to create.

A company engaged in sustainability projects since 2021, its raison d’être is to provide answers, through training and research, to the major challenges of the ecological, societal and economic transition, and to contribute to a more resilient, more just, more peaceful, more responsible world. Its values are responsibility and high standards. It is committed as an institution for 5 causes: ethics and integrity, equality between people, education for all, economic peace and ecological transition.

Within the Faculty of Pedagogy and Research and as part of the ANR METAVATION project we are looking for a researcher (post doctorate) for a contract of a minimum of 18 months.

The candidate will be part of an international team dedicated to the study of the co-evolution of emerging markets in a Metaverse context, based on qualitative and quantitative research. Work in emerging markets includes activities undertaken by firms to legitimize a new market, as well as to create and capture value in that market.

The candidate will also contribute to the advancement of a longitudinal study in the context of Nascent Market Work and the development of an instrument to measure Market Driving activities in the field of Metaverse/Mixed Reality Devices.

KEY TASKS

• Conduct interviews with decision-makers in the industry (company manager, marketing manager, etc.)
• Transcribe and code interviews using Atlas.ti software
• Contribute to conceptualizing publications in academic journals with databases collected and analyzed
• Present results at national and international conferences

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

• PhD in marketing, technology management or innovation management

OPERATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS/ HARD SKILLS

• Perfect command of the English (and French) language