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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">Vacancy: Tenure-</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">track Position for Assistant Professor or Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">The Department of Information Systems at the College of Business of the City University of Hong Kong invites applications for one or more tenure-track position(s</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">) at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor beginning in July 2015. Candidates must have received a doctorate in Information Systems or a related area by July 2015. Candidates must also have a strong commitment to high-quality research and</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond"></FONT> <FONT FACE="Garamond">excellent teaching. For appointments at the Associate Professor level, a substantial track record of research publications in top-tier journals is essential. For appointments at the Assistant Professor level, strong indication of the ability to publish in</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond"></FONT> <FONT FACE="Garamond">top tier journals is critical.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">Successful candidates should have the ability to teach at both graduate (MBA/MSc) and undergraduate (BBA) levels, and be able to effectively teach large freshman classes in the </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT FACE="Garamond">Introduction to Information Management</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">with a strong emphasis on IT applications. Hence the demonstrated capacity to motivate students to appreciate the value of innovative information management on businesses in the Internet era and to excite them about developing a career in business inform</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">a</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">tion services will be highly valuable. Ability to teach other courses in Information Systems and/or having experience in administrative work is a plus.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">CityU's College of Business and Department of Information Systems</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">CityU</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">’</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">s College of Business was the</FONT> <FONT FACE="Garamond">first business school in the Asia-Pacific region to obtain triple accreditations by AACSB, the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and the Association of MBAs. With about 40 research and teaching staff, the Department of Information Systems is on</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">e</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond"> of the largest among such departments in the world. Our research productivity has been ranked highly. In 2008, the Department was ranked 6th Worldwide and the second outside the USA (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT FACE="Garamond">Communications of the ACM</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">). In 2012, in the first H-Index study in Man</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">agement Information Systems (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT FACE="Garamond">ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">), six faculty from the Department were included in the list of researchers whose H-Index was at or above 20 based on Google Scholar (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://ai.arizona.edu/resources/h-Index.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Garamond">http://ai.arizona.edu/resources/h-Index.pdf)</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">. Most recently, CityU is ranked No. 5 in the Dallas List based on research contribution in Information Systems Journals (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT FACE="Garamond">MIS Quarterly</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT FACE="Garamond">Information Systems Research,</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">and </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT FACE="Garamond">Journal on Computing)</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">in 2010</FONT> <FONT FACE="Garamond">–</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond"> 2014 (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://jindal.utdallas.edu/the-utd-top-100-business-school-research-rankings/search"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Garamond">http://jindal.utdallas.edu/the-utd-top-100-business-school-research-rankings/search#rankingsByJournal</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">Application</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">Applicants should submit a CV and cover letter to </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:isrecruit@cityu.edu.hk"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Garamond">isrecruit@cityu.edu.hk</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">on or before November 25, 2014. Short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews at ICIS 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Garamond">Our ICI</FONT><FONT FACE="Garamond">S recruitment page is at: </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/is/recruitment.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Garamond">http://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/is/recruitment</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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