Biography

Steve Boivie is the Carroll & Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures Leadership at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He received his PhD in strategic management from the University of Texas at Austin, his master’s degree from Brigham Young University, and his bachelor’s degree from Utah State University.

Steve is primarily interested in how behavioral and social forces affect human actors at the top of the organization and he conducts research in the areas of corporate governance, top executives, and directors.

His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Annals, and Journal of Management. Steve’s research has also been mentioned in a number of press outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review online, Forbes.com, IR Magazine, Bloomberg, The Economist, and more. He is currently serving on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, and Strategic Management Journal.

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AOM Research

• The Parenting Paradox: How Multibusiness Diversifiers Endorse Disruptive Technologies While Their Corporate Children Struggle, Academy of Management Journal
• Time for Me to Fly: Predicting Director Exit at Large Firms, Academy of Management Journal
• Founder CEO Succession: The Role of CEO Organizational Identification, Academy of Management Journal
• Are Boards Designed to Fail? The Implausibility of Effective Board Monitoring, Academy of Management Annals
  

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