Sabancı Business School (SBS), founded in 1999 as part of Sabancı University, is one of Türkiye’s leading institutions for management education, research, and executive development. Located in Istanbul, SBS builds its philosophy on the principles of internationalization, interdisciplinary learning, and strong industry collaboration. Its programs are designed to cultivate entrepreneurial, responsible, and globally minded leaders who can thrive in today’s dynamic business landscape.
SBS offers a comprehensive portfolio of undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs, including the BA in Management, Professional MBA, Executive MBA, Masters in Finance, Masters in Business Analytics, Masters in Marketing, Masters in Action Research and Transformation and a PhD in Management. The PhD in Management is structured around specialized tracks in Management and Organization, Finance, Business Analytics and Operations Management, and most recently, Marketing.
The school is internationally recognized for its academic excellence, with programs consistently ranked in global listings such as the Financial Times (FT) and accredited by AACSB and AMBA, placing SBS among the top business schools worldwide. SBS ranked 48th globally in FT’s Executive MBA rankings for 2025, being the only business school from Türkiye to place in the top 50. Also, SBS ranked 53rd among the 100 most prestigious business schools in Europe in the FT’s 2025 European Business School Rankings. This makes SBS the best school from Türkiye to enter the list.
Research is at the core of SBS’s mission. The faculty is composed of globally trained scholars who contribute to high-impact research in areas such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, operations management. The school actively promotes interdisciplinary inquiry and collaborates closely with Sabancı University’s renowned engineering and social sciences faculties. This ecosystem enables students and researchers to engage in innovative projects that address real-world challenges.
Through its rigorous academic programs, innovative research agenda, strong industry connections, and global outlook, SBS continues to shape the next generation of leaders who will contribute to business and society at both national and international levels.
The interested candidates will have the opportunity to work with internationally recognized researchers in the following disciplines:
- Finance: empirical asset pricing, banking, corporate finance, and financial markets.
- Management: entrepreneurship, family business, international business, and globalization.
- Organization and Strategy: cross-cultural organizational behavior and management, strategic human resources management, strategic leadership, innovation and strategic transformation, corporate sustainability and ESG strategy, strategy formulation and implementation, organizational resilience, social impact, and performance management and mobility.
- Marketing:consumer behavior, cultural consumption, social media marketing, brand management, pricing, and marketing analytics.
- Operations and Information Systems Management: sustainable supply chain management, transportation and logistics design and planning, behavioral operations management, decision-making, social media analytics, data mining, data analytics, disaster logistics, and humanitarian supply chains.
Offer Description & Requirements: Researchers of any nationality with a doctoral degree (up to 8 years) and who have not resided in Türkiye for more than 12 months in the last 3 years before the call deadline (9 Sept 2026) are eligible to apply. Please check the conditions and your eligibility at the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships.
After the evaluation of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposals, an additional funding opportunity is available under the ERA Fellowships scheme for Widening countries, including Türkiye. Applicants who apply to the European Panel with a host institution in a Widening country and score above the quality threshold but are not funded from the main list may receive support through this additional budget. Researchers funded under this scheme are titled “ERA Fellows,” but their financial and employment conditions are the same as those of standard MSCA-PF fellows.
For applications, the expression of interest should be submitted by email to socialsciences.pp@sabanciuniv.edu with the subject "Expression of Interest for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026– [name of the candidate]".
The Expression of Interest should include the following information:
- Curriculum Vitae
- A brief outline of the proposed research project with defined objectives (max 2 pages)
- Motivation letter