Assistant/Associate Professor; Organization Theory/Strategic Management), Department of Mana.
Listed on 2026-03-12
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Education / Teaching
University Professor, Academic
Position Overview
Assistant / Associate Professor (Organization Theory/Strategic Management), Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, Fall 2026
Location:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Open Date:
Jun 13, 2025
Effective Date of Employment:
August 1, 2026 or when filled
Compensation: competitive
Haslam College of Business and Department BackgroundThe University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business and the Department of Management & Entrepreneurship invite applications for tenure‑track positions in Organization Theory/Strategic Management at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The Haslam College of Business is AACSB accredited, with a current endowment of $260 million, over 200 full‑time faculty, and serves more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Classes are taught in the state‑of‑the‑art James A. Haslam II
Business Building (opened in 2009). The college has more than doubled in size since the building opened and a 240,000 sq ft additional College of Business building will open in 2027.
The Department of Management and Entrepreneurship offers two undergraduate degrees (Management and Human Resources Management), a master’s in Management and Human Resources, two minors (Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship), and a Ph.D. in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Organizations. Current 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.
Faculty publish in top journals such as AMJ, AMR, ASQ, JAP, JBV, JIBS, JOM, Org Science, PPsych, and SMJ.
Knoxville is located in East Tennessee with a metro area of more than 900,000. It offers a mild climate, a walkable downtown, varied nightlife, active neighborhoods, and eclectic shopping and restaurants. Knoxville has been named a top 25 best places to live by USA Today and a top 10 “America’s best towns” by CNN Travel. It is home to several large corporations and is within easy driving distance of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
Asheville, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Nashville are readily accessible, and the Knoxville airport offers direct flights to 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 Organization Theory/Strategic Management or a related discipline. The Ph.D. must be earned by August 1, 2026.
Assistant Professor candidates should show promise in developing a program in disciplinary research and scholarship that is gaining external recognition.
Associate Professor candidates should be targeting leading journals, producing scholarly output that enhances their professional reputations, and making them widely recognized contributors to their disciplines.
Preferred
:
- 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 applicants: the ability and desire to teach and/or develop programming in graduate and executive education (GEE) programs such as the 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 applicants: if future (post‑tenure) opportunity to teach and/or develop programming in GEE programs appeals to you, please include relevant background in your application materials.
Engage in organization theory and/or strategic management research that results in premier publications. Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in strategic management. Participate in professional and university service activities commensurate with faculty rank.
Application InstructionsApplications received by August 1, 2025 will receive a…
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