Research Assistant (RA) in the departments of Marketing and Entrepreneurship.

This position is an excellent fit for someone with a background in psychology (or other related social sciences) who in the future is considering applying to a PhD program, and/or pursuing a career in behavioral research.

The RA would collaborate with two professors in different research projects (detailed below).

Governance and the growth and sustainability of entrepreneurial firms

We examine:

• How do governance and decision-making structures impact the growth and sustainability of entrepreneurial firms.


• How firms build effective relationships with stakeholders (e.g. employees, investors, and customers) and ensure value is shared in ways that support long-term success.


• How entrepreneurial firms can effectively manage their workforce to address challenges such as hiring talent retention and leadership development.

Consumer decision making: Differences between material purchases and experiential purchases

We examine:

• How different types of purchases are processed. For instance, whether experiential purchases (travel, restaurants, movies) are processed more intuitively, or are surrounded by more uncertainty, versus material purchases (cars, clothes, appliances).

How do consumers process the information and make decisions for one type or purchase versus the other?

Role requirements:

Must have’s:

• Fluency or near fluency in English (Ideally also fluency in Spanish).


• Literature review. Be able to conduct literature searches related to the above topics: identification of articles, summary of key findings, etc.


• Coding and statistical analysis: coding of materials or data entry for analysis in studies.

Desirable to have:

• Theory development: The RA will participate in the elaboration and construction of the theoretical framework of our projects.


• Studies: Designing and running survey studies and experiments (online and “paper and pencil”), exporting data, data analysis, summary of results.


• Statistics: knowledge of statistical software (e.g., SPSS, STATA, or R) and analysis in the social sciences (ANOVAs, regressions, moderated mediation) and, ideally, experience in multi-level modeling. Knowledge of Phyton (text mining, scaping and text analysis) would also be a plus


• Writing: The RA should be capable of writing for academic journals (ideally have previous experience, e.g., writing a re

search thesis).

• BS/ BA degree or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Social Psychology, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Marketing or Commercial engineering (or in a related field).


• Work permit for Spain


• Highly proficient in English (both oral and written)

Conditions

Full-time position (1.830 euros/month before tax)

Work-contract and Social Security

Start date

February

End date

1 year with the possibility of extending

CONTACT

Interested parties please send CV, academic transcript and a cover letter in English to:

Ingrid Vergés

IESE Business School

Email: iverges@iese.edu