Associate Professor of Business & Economics
Dean, School of Business, Policy, and Ethics
Management
Hollenbeck Hall 213
(937) 327-7907
jacksonr@wittenberg.edu
Ross A. Jackson, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary organizational theorist whose scholarship combines critical management theory, existential philosophy, and textual analysis, aimed at making visible the ideological and institutional structures through which organizational power becomes normalized, thereby enabling people to understand, resist, and ultimately transform forms of management that constrain human autonomy and solidarity.
Quote
- 鈥淭he only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.鈥� 鈥� Albert Camus
Office hours
- 10:30-12:30 Tuesday and Thursday (or by appointment)
Academic Background
- Bachelor of Business Administration, Business Economics (Ohio University)
- Master of Arts, Applied Economics (Ohio University)
- Doctor of Philosophy, Applied Management and Decision Sciences (Walden University)
Professional Background
- Defense analyst with 20-years of experience leading increasingly complex research efforts. Research ranges from cost and economic analyses focused on estimating weapon system acquisition costs to applications of advanced operations research techniques to solve strategy, organizational concerns. Air Force career culminated as the chief of Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command (HQ AFMC) Analyses and Assessments Division (A9A). In that capacity, I worked to collaboratively build robust teams capable of assessing, optimizing, and leading data-driven decisions surrounding billion-dollar investments. Additionally, I extended the analytic focus of the organization to incorporate qualitative research techniques, textual analysis and data visualization.
Personal interests
- Reading