Professor Stubbart teaches business strategy, management, organization theory and entrepreneurship at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He also has extensive experience teaching abroad at schools in Canada, Finland, Sweden, Russia and Northern Albania.

Before joining the College of Business faculty in 1991, Stubbart taught at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Rochester Institute of Technology.

Stubbart attended Syracuse University and earned a bachelor of business administration from Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds master’s and doctoral degrees in business administration from University of Pittsburgh.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Evolution by creative destruction
• Organizational failures
• Strategic behavior of firms in complex fields
• Life spans of firms

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

The Case of Disappearing Firms: Empirical Evidence and Implications. Charles I Stubbart and Michael Knight. Journal of Organizational Behavior, Feb 2006, pp 79-100.

‘The Case of the Disappearing Firms.” Academy of Management, New Orleans, 2004.

“Strategic Groups and Competitive Enactment: A Study of the Dynamic Relationships between Mental Models and Performance.” (with, J. D. Osborne, and A. Ramaprasad. Strategic Management Journal, 5, 22, 2001, 435-454.

“Deceptive Allure of Stage Models,” (with R. Smaley), Journal of Management Inquiry, 1999.

“Refocusing in the 1990s,” Decision Sciences National Conference (Proceedings), with J. Zhao, 1998. (award for best empirical paper).

AWARDS

United States State Department. Grant to develop faculty achievement in connection with regional Development, Shkodra, Albania. $188,000

United States State Department Grant for Albania, extension 1999-2001, $100,000.

Peabody Coal Company (with Keon and Nelson). $25,000 gift to sponsor revival and redirection of Entrepreneurship program at College of Business, 1997.

Southern Illinois University Special Research grant for project on Corporate Restructuring (with Liao), 1996-97, $20,000.

United States Information Agency Grant for management school development at Vladimir Polytechnic Institute. Sept. 01, 1994 - August 31, 1996, $297,000.

United States Information Agency Grant for management training in Albania. Director for grant, Jan. 01, 1995 – 1998. $287,000.

United States Information Agency Grant for training in Albania. Director from October 1993 to September 1994, $80,000.

Director of U.S. Department of Education CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research), Partners with Memphis State. 1992-94, $250,000.

SIUC Summer Teaching Grant to develop Pacific Rim international business course “Global 2000,” 1993, $15,000.

SIUC Special Research Awards Competition “A Distance-Learning Proposal for Management 350, ‘Small Business’,” Fall 1993, $7,500.