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Institution Faculty of Business Administration - Munich School of Management - Professorship for Digital Services and Sustainability — Prof. Dr. Johann Kranz Remuneration group TV-L Full-time / Part-time Full-time (100%) Start date As soon as possible, ideally 1 October 2026 (The position is limited to three years with the possibility of extension)

About us:

We study the entrepreneurial potential of digital technologies for sustainable and successful value creation. Our research operates at the intersection of digital innovation, AI governance, and sustainability, asking how emerging technologies transform organizations, markets, and society, and how governance, regulation, and responsible design can shape that transformation for the better. We publish in the leading outlets of our field and maintain deep industry partnerships with major technology and industrial players.

We are looking for you:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/x)

in Munich

Your tasks and responsibilities:

This is a full-time postdoctoral fellowship for an outstanding early-career scholar who wants two things. First, build a strong and independent research pipeline, and secondly to do it in one of the world's most exciting research environments supported by substantial funds. We are open to excellent candidates from across our research agenda.

You will have real autonomy to pursue your own research questions, alongside opportunities to collaborate on funded projects with industry partners and engage with LMU's extraordinary network of neighboring research groups and institutes. The position is explicitly designed to prepare you for a future academic career whether in the German-speaking world or internationally.

Your qualifications:

Areas of Expertise
We welcome applications from candidates working in any of the following areas:

• AI governance, regulation, and responsibility: How organizations use AI governance in practice, how regulatory frameworks reshape innovation behavior and competitive dynamics, and how accountability mechanisms emerge when AI is deployed across institutional contexts
• Digital innovation and transformation: How organizations conceive, scale, and govern digital innovations; the role of AI and platform technologies in reshaping business models, industry boundaries, and organizational routines; and the institutional conditions that enable or constrain digital transformation
• Digital sustainability: How digital technologies can be designed and deployed to advance environmental goals; including Green IS, digital product passports, circular economy platforms, ESG reporting, and the tensions between digital growth and ecological limits
• Human-AI collaboration: How individuals and organizations adapt knowledge work, decision-making, and learning in the presence of AI systems; including the organizational conditions under which AI augments rather than displaces human capability, and the behavioral and cognitive dynamics of working with generative AI

We are especially interested in candidates whose work bridges two or more of these themes, and who bring a mix of rigorous empirical methods to theoretically grounded research questions.

Required Qualifications

• PhD in information systems, management, business informatics, or a closely related discipline (completed or imminent)
• A developing publication record demonstrating genuine research quality. Ideally at least one strong conference paper and papers under review or in progress targeting top journals
• Clear intellectual ambition and an identifiable research agenda that you can articulate and defend
• Excellent command of English; German language skills (min. C1) are an asset and will facilitate integration into the Munich research and industry ecosystem
• Method-agnostic excellence. We value rigor regardless of whether your work is interpretive, quantitative, experimental, or computational
• Collaborative, independent, and self-structured. You thrive with autonomy and take ownership of your research trajectory

Benefits:

Research environment

• Integration into an active research group with regular reading groups, paper workshops, and visiting scholars
• Full conference travel funding and support for international research visits
• Access to LMU's extraordinary interdisciplinary research ecosystem
• Industry access unlike anywhere else in Europe: direct connections to globally leading companies and a thriving deep-tech startup ecosystem
• A senior mentor who takes research seriously and will give you substantive, direct feedback

Career development

• Structured mentoring for the academic job market, including manuscript development, grant writing, and conference visibility
• Support the supervision of doctoral students and build your own research agenda within the group
• A position within one of the world's great research universities: LMU Munich consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in Europe

Munich itself

• Ranked #1 globally in the Monocle Quality of Life Survey 2024 — for livability, cultural vibrancy, access to nature, and quality of public life
• #4 in QS Best Student Cities 2025 — a city that genuinely works for researchers at every career stage
• Joint #6 worldwide in the ECA 2025–26 Location Ratings, alongside Vienna and Copenhagen, for quality of living for international professionals
• Europe's leading deep-tech ecosystem outside London: #17 in the Global Tech Ecosystem Index 2025, the only German city in the top 20, with particular strength in startups and investment density
• A city of remarkable cultural depth: world-class museums, an extraordinary music scene, the Alps and lakes an hour away, and a cosmopolitan population that makes it genuinely easy to live here as an international researcher

Also possible in a part-time capacity.

People with disabilities who are equally as qualified as other applicants will receive preferential treatment.

Contact:

Please send your application as a single PDF (max. 5 MB) to Tina Flemmerer at by 31 July 2026. Your application should include:

• A cover letter (max. two pages) describing your research agenda, why it fits with our group, and what you hope to accomplish during the fellowship
• Your full curriculum vitae, including a complete publication list
• A writing sample of your best single paper (published, forthcoming, or working paper)
• Names and contact details of two academic references who can speak to your research

Informal inquiries about the position, the group, or whether your research interests are a fit are warmly encouraged and can be directed to Prof. Dr. Johann Kranz at before submitting a formal application.

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