Associate Professorship of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Impact

Associate Professorship of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Impact

Location: Oxford

Salary: Internationally Competitive

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Closes: 21st September 2026

Job Ref: 186664

Saïd Business School and Wolfson College are recruiting an Associate Professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Impact. The post is tenable from 06 September 2027, or at an earlier date by agreement. The successful candidate will be both a member of Saïd Business School, and a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College.

Closing date 12:00 midday BST, Monday the 21st of September 2026

The Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Impact group is interdisciplinary spanning core business disciplines of management, strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation, as well as related disciplines such as sociology, geography, engineering, psychology, economics, cognitive science, and political science. Faculty explore various dimensions of these subjects across the private, public, and social sectors. They regularly publish in top-tier management journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal, and take leadership positions within their fields internationally. Specific research topics include:

• Systems change
• Platform models and AI
• Fintech and digital transformation
• Climate action
• Complex systems

Associate Professor is the main academic career grade at Oxford with a focus on research and teaching. Associate Professors are appointed jointly by a University department/faculty and an Oxford college, and you will have a contract with both.

Associate Professors are full members of University departments/faculties and college governing bodies playing a role in the democratic governance of the University and their college. You will join a lively, intellectually stimulating, and multi-disciplinary community which performs to the highest international levels in research and teaching, with extraordinary levels of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.