Assistant​/Associate Professor; Entrepreneurship), Department of Management & Entrepreneurship

Overview

The University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business and the Department of Management & Entrepreneurship invite applications for tenure-track positions in Entrepreneurship at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The effective date of employment is August 1, 2026, or when filled. Compensation will be competitive.

The Haslam College of Business and Department Background

The Haslam College of Business is well-funded with a current endowment of $260 million. It is AACSB accredited, with over 200 full-time faculty serving over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Classes are taught in the James

A. Haslam II Business Building (opened in 2009). The college has experienced growth, more than doubling since the building opened. To meet this growth, we are hiring new faculty, and a 240,000 square foot additional College of Business building will open in 2027.

The Department of Management and Entrepreneurship offers two undergraduate degrees (Management and Human Resource Management), a master’s degree in management and human resources, two university minors (Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship), and the Ph.D. in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Organizations. Tenured or tenure-track departmental faculty include Brian Bergman, Melissa Cardon, Russell Crook (Department Head), David Gras, Joseph Harrison, Christina Hymer, Tom Lumpkin (visiting), Alex Miller, Tim Munyon, Tim Pollock, Codou Samba, Anne Smith, Ruixiang Song, Sherry Thatcher, and Dave Williams.

Our faculty have published in top journals such as AMJ, AMR, ASQ, JAP, JBV, JIBS, JOM, Org Science, PPsych, and SMJ.

Knoxville Area

Knoxville is located in east Tennessee with a metro area of more than 900,000. Knoxville offers a mild climate, a walkable downtown, diverse nightlife, active neighborhoods, and eclectic shopping and dining. It has been named a top place to live by USA Today and a top 10 America’s best towns by CNN Travel. It is near Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, with convenient driving to Asheville, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Nashville.

Knoxville has a direct-flight airport serving more than 30 destinations.

Required: Candidates must hold a Ph.D. from an accredited institution and demonstrate evidence of quality scholarship and teaching effectiveness in Entrepreneurship or a related discipline. The Ph.D. must be earned by August 1, 2026. Candidates for Assistant Professor should show promise in developing a program in disciplinary research and scholarship that is gaining external recognition. Candidates for Associate Professor should be targeting leading journals, producing scholarly output that enhances their professional reputations, and be widely recognized contributors to their disciplines.

Preferred: Our preferred candidates will possess:

• An ongoing program of research in premier refereed journals.
• A desire to work with doctoral students.
• The ability to overlap with and extend our faculty’s research interests.
• An identifiable methodological skillset.
• A record of demonstrated teaching success at an accredited institution.
• For Associate level: the ability and desire to teach and/or develop programming in our graduate and executive education (GEE) programs (e.g., Masters of Science in Management and Human Resources, MBA, Executive MBA — Healthcare or Strategic Leadership, Physicians Executive MBA, or Aerospace and Defense MBA).
• For Assistant level: if future post-tenure opportunities to teach and/or develop GEE programming appeal, please include relevant background in your materials.

Entrepreneurship Position: Engage in entrepreneurship research that results in premier publications. Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship and/or innovation. Participate in professional and university service activities commensurate with faculty rank.

Application Procedure

Candidates applying by August 1, 2025 will receive a complete review of their credentials. Preliminary interviews will be conducted via video conference (e.g., ZOOM) and finalists will be invited to campus. We will continue reviewing…