Jack Clampit

Jack Clampit, PhD, is a research-active Lecturer in the Department of Management, where his primary role is to help the college’s emergent online program grow and maintain its AACSB accreditation. He holds a PhD in Business Administration with a specialization in International Management from the University of Memphis (2013), where he worked in its Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, a Visiting Professor at EAFIT University in Colombia (in one of Latin America’s top-ranked MBA programs), and most recently as an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi.

As an international business scholar, Dr. Clampit's research contributes to the general study of why some countries are richer than others (on average and at the bottom of its wealth distribution), by exploring how formal and informal country-level institutions influence managerial decisions that affect employee welfare, firm performance, and, ultimately, economic development. He has published 16 articles in top journals (including nine A*/A-ranked studies and five in the world's leading international business outlets, e.g., Journal of World Business, International Business Review) and 39 conference papers, earning 11 awards and distinctions, such as Feature Article status or Best Paper honors from various Academy of Management and Academy of International Business conferences. His COVID-19 study offering early, empirically validated guidance to small businesses (in July 2020) garnered recognition from top policymakers (at the state and national level) and 61 television stations in the USA (with its formal publication’s Altmetric public impact score ranked in the 97th percentile among all scholarly journals in the world and #1 overall for International Small Business Journal papers).

Dr. Clampit is also an acclaimed educator with consistently high ratings (average 4.7/5), teaching courses in international management, strategic management, and organizational behavior across undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and PhD levels, in various formats including online and hybrid. He has also published pedagogy papers and led students on global consulting projects with social entrepreneurship elements on three continents (helping local businesses increase revenue in ways that helped provide schools, running water, and reliable electricity to communities in Peru, Vietnam, and Morocco).

In service, he has held leadership roles in internationalization task forces, faculty senates, and grant initiatives, including a $1.6 million U.S. Department of Education grant to globalize Historically Black Colleges and Universities (held up as a blueprint for other programs to follow, due not just to its importance, but also to its focus on rigorously measured outcomes). With prior business and entrepreneurial experience in financial planning, import/export, and wholesale distribution, Dr. Clampit is also a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International and a former Dale Carnegie instructor.