Assistant / Associate Professor (Entrepreneurship), Department of Management & Entrepreneurship...

Assistant / Associate Professor (Entrepreneurship), Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, Fall 2026

Location :

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Open Date : Jun 13, 2025

Description :

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT AND DESCRIPTION

Haslam College of Business

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Multiple Tenure-Track Faculty Positions, Department of Management & Entrepreneurship

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.

Haslam College of Business and Department Background

The Haslam College of Business is well-funded with a current endowment of $260 million dollars. The Haslam College of Business is AACSB accredited, with over 200 full-time faculty serving over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Classes are taught in the state-of-the-art James A. Haslam II Business Building, which opened in 2009. The college has experienced exceptional growth, more than doubling since the Haslam Business Building opened. To meet the needs of 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. degree in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Organizations. Tenured or tenure-track departmental faculty members 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 including AMJ, AMR, ASQ, JAP, JBV, JIBS, JOM, Org Science, PPsych , and SMJ.

The Knoxville Area

Knoxville is located in east Tennessee, with a metro area of more than 900,000. Knoxville enjoys a mild climate, a beautiful and walkable downtown, varied nightlife, active neighborhoods, and eclectic shopping and restaurants. Knoxville has been consistently named as one of the 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 located within easy driving distance of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Asheville, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Nashville are readily accessible by car, and the Knoxville airport offers direct flights to more than 30 destinations.

Qualifications : Qualifications

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 enhancing their professional reputations, and making them 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 those applying at the associate level : the ability and desire to teach and / or develop programming in our 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 those applying at the assistant level : if the future (post-tenure) opportunity to teach and / or develop programming in GEE programs such as those listed above appeals to you, please include relevant background in your application materials.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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 Instructions :

Application Procedure

Candidates applying by August 1, 2025 will receive a complete review of their credentials. We will conduct preliminary interviews via videoconference (e.g., ZOOM) and will invite the finalists for each position to campus. We will continue reviewing applications until the positions are filled. We will not be conducting interviews nor meeting with applicants at academic conferences (e.g., AOM).

Please apply to only one of the positions and specify the rank at which you are applying. Applicants should submit a cover letter, current curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information of three references via Interfolio. In your cover letter, please explain your fit for the position and rank at which you are applying. At the end of your CV, please list the names and contact information of three references. Reference letters are not needed at the time of application.

Use the following link to apply for this position :

Entrepreneurship : apply.interfolio.com / 168920

Dr. Dave Williams, Search Committee Chair

Department of Management & Entrepreneurship

Haslam College of Business

412A Stokely Management Center

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Knoxville, TN 37996-0545

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement :

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and admission without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, and parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law. In accordance with the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the University of Tennessee affirmatively states that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or disability in its education programs and activities, and this policy extends to employment by the university.

Requests for accommodation of a disability should be directed to the ADA Coordinator at Equal Opportunity and Accessibility, 1840 Melrose Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996-3560, by email to  eoa@utk.edu , or by phone at 865-974-2498. Inquiries and charges of violation of Title VI (race, color, and national origin), Title IX (sex), Section 504 (disability), the ADA (disability), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (age), sexual orientation, or veteran status should be directed to the Office of Investigation and Resolution, 216 Business Incubator Building, E J. Chapman Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-3560, by email to  investigations@utk.edu , or by phone at 865-974-0717.