Rate My Professor James Swaim

James Swaim is a Clinical Associate Professor of Management Internal at Kennesaw State University in the Coles College of Business, specifically within the Michael A. Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality. He was hired by the university in 2007 and holds two Doctor of Business Administration degrees from Kennesaw State University: a DBA in Business Administration earned in 2013 and a DBA in Information Systems completed in 2018. Throughout his career, Swaim has held faculty positions at the University of North Georgia from 2011 to 2018 and served as a part-time instructor at Georgia State University in 2018. His primary teaching areas encompass Entrepreneurship, Operations Management, and Strategic Management, where he contributes to business education through practical and scholarly approaches.

Swaim's research specializations include environmental sustainability in supply chain management, student intentions and behaviors toward sustainability, influence tactics in team projects, perceptions of offshoring, trust models between students and professors, and entrepreneurship curriculum development. He has produced a substantial body of peer-reviewed scholarship, maintaining Scholarly Academics status. Notable publications include 'Influences on Student Intention and Behavior Toward Environmental Sustainability' in the Journal of Business Ethics (2014, co-authored with Michael Maloni, Stuart Napshin, and Amy Henley); 'Motivational Influences on Supply Manager Environmental Sustainability Behavior' in Supply Chain Management: An International Journal (2016, with Maloni, Henley, and Stacy Campbell); 'Antecedents to Effective Sales and Operations Planning' in Industrial Management & Data Systems (2016, with Maloni, Paul Bower, and John Mello); 'The Use of Influence Tactics and Outcome Valence on Goal Commitment for Assigned Student Team Projects' in the Journal of Management Education (2017, with Amy Henley); 'Choosing an Undergraduate Major in Business Administration Degree: Student Evaluative Criteria, Behavioral Influences, and Instructional Modalities' in The International Journal of Management Education (2018, with Mark Hiatt and Maloni); 'Exploring Student Perceptions of Offshoring' in The International Journal of Management Education (2019, with Maloni, Ceyhun Mutlu, and Jeremy Wermert); 'Ability, Benevolence, and Integrity: The Strong Link between Student Trust in Their Professors and Satisfaction' in The International Journal of Management Education (2023, with Hiatt, Graham Lowman, Maloni, and Rajaram Veliyath); and 'Re-examining the Ability, Benevolence, and Integrity (ABI) Model of Trust' in Academy of Management Proceedings (2025). Swaim has also presented research at conferences such as the Decision Sciences Institute and Academy of Management. In community engagement, he has volunteered with Junior Achievement of Georgia since 2013, delivering organizational ethics presentations to high school students in north Georgia counties.