Anne Lafarre
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Postdoc in Investor Stewardship and Shareholder Engagement Tilburg University in Netherlands
Degree Level
Postdoc
Field of study
Business Ethics
Funding
Temporary 2-year full-time postdoc employment with salary between €4,925 and €6,682 gross per month for full-time employment, plus vacation pay, year-end bonus, vacation leave, allowances, and pension.
Deadline
Nov 29, 2026
Country
Netherlands
University
Tilburg University
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About this position
Tilburg Law School at Tilburg University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a project on investor stewardship and shareholder engagement. The position sits in the Department of Private, Business & Labour Law and is embedded in the research programme Connecting Responsible Organizations, which focuses on sustainability and technology and connects legal scholarship with empirical and practice-oriented research.
The project asks when shareholder engagement makes a difference, for whom, and why. It studies stewardship not as isolated tools, but as a continuous relational process that can move from first contact and private dialogue through escalation and voting. The research will examine how engagement trajectories unfold and what makes them successful from both a beneficiary/client perspective and a broader corporate governance perspective.
The work is interdisciplinary and combines conceptual and normative analysis with empirical research. Depending on the candidate’s expertise, methods may include configurational analysis, regression analysis, computational text analysis, coding of engagement communication, interviews, and case studies. The project has close ties to practice, including institutional investors, investor organisations, and policymakers, and aims to generate output relevant to investors, companies, and policymakers.
The postdoc will work in a small team with Prof. Anne Lafarre and Prof. Christoph Van der Elst. Tilburg Law School is described as innovative and interdisciplinary, with research links across economics, the behavioural and social sciences, philosophy, history, and digital sciences, and the department’s corporate law and governance research combines doctrinal, law-and-economics, and empirical approaches.
The successful candidate will have room to develop their own research ideas within the theme while contributing to international publications and conference presentations.
Funding details
Temporary 2-year full-time postdoc employment with salary between €4,925 and €6,682 gross per month for full-time employment, plus vacation pay, year-end bonus, vacation leave, allowances, and pension.
What's required
Applicants must hold a PhD, or have completed it by the start date, in finance, economics, business ethics, management or organization studies, corporate law, or a related discipline. Demonstrable experience with empirical research (quantitative and/or qualitative) is required, together with a strong interest in corporate governance, institutional investors, stewardship and/or corporate sustainability. Candidates from legal backgrounds should be eager to work with empirical methods, while candidates from economics, finance, business or organizational studies should be open to corporate legal and normative questions. A track record or clear potential to publish in international peer-reviewed journals is expected. Excellent English is required at CEFR level C1 or above. Dutch is not required, but reading proficiency is an advantage. Candidates should be able to work independently and in an interdisciplinary team, engage with practitioners, and handle confidential data with care and integrity.
How to apply
Apply via the AcademicTransfer application link. Prepare your application materials and submit them before 2026-11-29. For questions about the position, contact Prof. dr. Anne Lafarre by email.
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Professors
Prof. dr. at Tilburg University
Netherlands
Research Interests
Corporate Finance
International Economics
Organizational Performance
Corporate Social Responsibility
Governance
Prof. at Tilburg University
Netherlands
Research Interests
Law
Content Analysis
Business Ethics
Sustainable Business
Economics Llm
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