Michael Withers
- Background
- Publications
- Presentations
Education
Ph D, Arizona State University
MA, University of Alabama
MBA, University of Southern Mississippi
BBA, Mississippi State University
"Leading the board in a crisis: Strategy and performance implications of board chair directive leadership", (With R.A. Krause, M.J. Waller), Journal of Management, 50, 2024
"Upper echelon employment: A review of the fundamental questions related to the executive labor market", (With K.H. Lee, Y.S. Bermiss, S. Boivie), Journal of Management, 50, 2024
"Executives' prior employment ties to interlocking directors and interfirm mobility", (With J. Harrison, S. Bovie), Organization Science, 34, 2023
"No reason to leave: The effects of CEO diversity-valuing behavior on psychological safety and turnover for female executives", (With P. Dwivedi, I.H. Gee, S. Boivie), Journal of Applied Psychology, 108, 2023
"Strategic entrepreneurship: A review and research agenda", (With R.D. Ireland, J. Harrison, D.S. Boss, R. Scoresby), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47, 2023
"Corporate-level influences on internal capital allocation: The role of financial analyst performance projections", (With J.R. Busenbark, M. Arrfelt, M. Semadeni), Strategic Management Journal, 43, 2022
"Omitted variable bias: Examining management research with the impact threshold of a confounding variable (ITCV)", (With J.R. Busenbark, H. Yoon, D.. Gamache), Journal of Management, 48, 2022
"Propulsions toward what capes? Testing normative theory through a panorama of consequences", (With R.A. Krause), Journal of Business Ethics, 181, 2022
"The effect of CEO regulatory focus on changes to investments in R&D", (With R. Scoresby, R.D. Ireland), Journal of Product Innovation Management, 38, 2021
"The effect of CEO regulatory focus on changes to investments in R&D", (With S. Boivie, S.D. Graffin, K.G. Corley), Strategic Management Journal, 42, 2021
"To merge, sell or liquidate? Socioemotional wealth, family control, and the choice of business exit", (With R. Chirico, L.R. Gomez-Mejia, K. Hellerstedt, M. Norddqvist), Journal of Management, 46, 2020
"You've got a friend: Examining board interlock formation after financial restatements", (With M.D. Howard, L. Tihanyi), Organization Science, 31, 2020
"Go your own way: Exploring the causes of individual top executive turnover", (With J.A> Andrus, S.H. Courtright, S. Boivie), Strategic Management Journal, 40, 2019
"Board interlocks and firm performance: Toward a combined agency--resource dependence perspective", (With F. Zona, L.R. Gomez-Mejia), Journal of Management, 44, 2018
"Competitive landscape shifts: The influence of strategic entrepreneurship on shifts in market commonality", (With R.D. Ireland, D. Miller, J. Harrison, D.S. Boss), Academy of Management Review, 43, 2018
"The evolution of the board interlock network following Sarbanes-Oxley", (With M.D. Howard, R. Kim), Social Networks, 52, 2018
"A tale of two effects: Using longitudinal data to compare within- and between-firm effects", (With S.T. Certo, M. Semadeni), Strategic Management Journal, 38, 2017
"Compromise on the board: Investigating the antecedents and consequences of lead independent director appointment", (With R.A. Krause, M. Semadeni), Academy of Management Journal, 60, 2017
"Do board chairs matter? The influence of board chairs on firm performance", (With M.A. Fitza), Strategic Management Journal, 38, 2017
"Knowledge dependence and the formation of director interlocks", (With M.D. Howard, L. Tihanyi), Academy of Management Journal, 60, 2017
"Come aboard! Exploring the effects of directorships in the executive labor market", (With S. Boivie, S.D. Graffin, A.G. Oliver), Academy of Management Journal, 59, 2016
"Friends or strangers It all depends on context: A replication and extension of Beckman, Haunschild, and Phillips (2004)", (With M.D. Howard, C.M. Carnes, A.J. Hillman), Strategic Management Journal, 37, 2016
"That special someone: When the board views its chair as a resource", (With R.A. Krause, M. Semadeni), Strategic Management Journal, 37, 2016
"Family- versus lone founder-controlled public corporations: Social identity theory and boards of directors", (With A.A. Cannella, C.D. Jones), Academy of Management Journal, 58, 2015
"The perils of endogeneity and instrumental variable in strategy research: Understanding through simulations", (With M. Semadeni, S.T. Certo), Strategic Management Journal, 35, 2014
"A multidisciplinary review of the director selection literature", (With A.J. Hillman, A.A. Cannella), Journal of Management, 38, 2012
"Stay or leave: Director identities and voluntary exit from the board during organizational crisis", (With K.G. Corley, A.J. Hillman), Organization Science, 23, 2012
"Doing more with less: The disordinal implications of firm age for leveraging capabilities for innovation activity", (With P.L. Drnevich, L.D. Marino), Journal of Small Business Management, 49, 2011
"Complementarity in monitoring and bonding: More intense monitoring leads to higher executive compensation", (With R.E. Hoskisson, M.W. Castleton), Academy of Management Perspective, 23, 2009
"Resource dependence theory: A review", (With A.J. Hillman, B.J. Collins), Journal of Management, 35, 2009
"Teaching market mechanisms and human capital in economics courses: Examples from jersey transactions in professional sports", (With F.G. Mixon, S.P. Salter), Journal of Education for Business, 82, 2006
"A shuffling of the guard: Audit committee exit as a response to financial restatements", Academy of Management 2021 Annual Conference, 2021
"The influence of CEO power and personality on compensation: A configurational approach", Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, 2021
"The mobility of family and nonfamily firm employees", Academy of Management 2020 annual conference, 2020
"A true causal inference? Using the difference-in-differences estimator in strategic management research", Strategic Management Society 2020 annual meeting, 2020
"Savior or destroyer? Examining the influence of shareholder activism on boards", Strategic Management Society 2020 annual meeting, 2020
"How much of a problem is omitted variable bias really? Examining strategy research with the ITCV", Academy of Management 2019 annual conference, Boston, 2019
"A theory of family firm professionalization", International Family Enterprise Research Academy 2019 annual conference, Bergamo, Italy, 2019
"The mobility of family and nonfamily firm employees", International Family Research Academy 2019 annual conference, Bergamo, Italy, 2019
"The diffusion of the lead independent director position through board interlocks", Strategic Management Society 2019 annual meeting, Minneapolis, 2019
"The mobility of family and nonfamily firm employees", Strategic Management Society 2019 annual meeting, MInneapolis, 2019
"Do CEOs differ much in their decision-making? Assessing the CEO effect on strategic change", Strategic Management Society 2019 special conference, Las Vegas, 2019
"It's who you know: How social ties at the top influence executive career mobility", Strategic Management Society 2019 special conference, Las Vegas, 2019
"Liberal boards and diversity: Examining the impact of board ideology on female board appointments", Academy of Management 2018 annual conference, Chicago, 2018
"The role of firm performance aspirations in managers' internal capital allocation strategies", Academy of Management 2018 annual conference, Chicago, 2018
"Differential effects of functional experience on board and CEO appointments for female executives", Strategic Management Soceity 2018 special conference, Hyderabad, India, 2018
"Who dates to say no? Independent director dissent in Chinese public corporations", Strategic Management Society 2018 annual meeting, Paris, 2018
"A socio-cognitive view of board effectiveness: A grounded theory model", Strategic Management Society 2018 special conference, Hyderabad, India, 2018
"The role of institutional logics in board interlock formation", Academy of Management 2017 annual conference, Atlanta, 2017
"Examining board interlock formation after financial restatements", INSEAD Conference on Behavioral Perspective on Corporate Governance, Fontainebleau, France, 2017
"The speed and magnitude of competitive actions post CEO succession", Strategic Management Society 201 special conference, Milan, Italy, 2017
"Losing control: Exploring the effects of an endogenous covariate on an exogenous variable", Strategic Management Society 2017 annual meeting, Houston, 2017
"Variance decomposing MA& activity", Strategic Management Society 2017 annual meeting, Houston, 2017
"You can go your own way: An examination of individual-level TMT exit", Strategic Management Society 2017 special conference, Milan, Italy, 2017
"Board interlocks and CEO succession in a global context: The case of emerging markets", Academy of Management 2016 annual conference, Anaheim, CA, 2016
"Friends in low places: Examining board interlock formation after financial restatements", Academy of Management 2016 annual conference, Anaheim, CA, 2016
"Do board chairs matter? The influence of board chairs on firm performance", Strategic Management Society 2016 annual meeting, Berlin, Germany, 2016
"Unlocking the benefits of the boardroom: Implications in the CEO labor market", Strategic Management Society 2016 annual meeting, Berlin, Germany, 2016
"Beyond familiness: Toward a typology of family influence in publicly traded firms", 2015 Theories of Family Enterprise Conference, Fort Worth, TX, 2015
"The influence of shareholder activism in the form of 13d filings on firm outcomes", Strategic Management Society 2015 annual meeting, Denver, CO, 2015
"The timing and magnitude of strategic actions post CEO succession", Strategic Management Society 2015 annual meeting, Denver, CO, 2015
"The origin and evolution of board interlock network", Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, Brighton, UK, 2015
"Competing from the boardroom: The influence of board independence on strategic actions", Academy of Management 2014 annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
"Dedicated to our executive? The role of dedicated owners on CEO succession", Academy of Management 2014 annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
"The truth lies within...and between: The theoretical and empirical implications of longitudinal relationships in strategy research", Academy of Management 2014 annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
"Does endogeneity affect contingency modeling? Well, it depends...Examining the influence of endogeneity when testing interactions", Strategic Management Society 2014 annual meeting, Madrid, Spain, 2014
"Knowledge dependence and the formation of director interlocks", Strategic Management Society 2014 annual meeting, Madrid, Spain, 2014
"Where have all the outside CEO directors gone? A matching perspective of CEO director turnover", Southern Management Association 2013 annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2013
"A meta-analysis of board interlocks and financial performance", Strategic Management Society 2013 annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2013
"Storming the castle: Leadership transition at the top and competitor strategic actions", Strategic Management Society 2013 annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2013
"Remedying endogeneity: Are the cures worse than the disease?", Academy of Management 2012 annual conference, Boston, MA, 2012
"We go together (or maybe not): Examining director-board match stability and dissolution", Academy of Management 2012 annual conference, Boston, MA, 2012
"Supply side considerations on the market for corporate directors", Strategi Management Society 2012 annual meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012
"Shaping the competitive playing field: Integrating competitive dynamics with structuration theory", Strategic Management Society 2012 annual meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012
"Family-controlled public corporations: How family owners use boards of directors to retain contorl", Academy of Management 2011 annual conference, San Antonio, TX, 2011
"Norms only benefit equals: Perceptions of opportunism in power asymmetrical exchange relationships", Academy of Management 2011 annual conference, San Antonio, TX, 2011
"Do Innovation-supportive incentives support innovation?", 2010 Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference, 2010
"Revisiting the application of mixed models to organizational rsearch", Academy of Management 2010 annual conference, Montreal, Quebec, 2010
"Examining familiness: Exploring the influence of family on the board of directors", Strategic Management Society 2010 annual meeting, Rome, Italy, 2010
"Older but not always wiser: The disordinal implications of firm age and experience for leveraging capabilities for innovation", 2009 Bason College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Babson Park, MA, 2009
"It's all downhill from here: A theory of director capital deterioration", Academy of Management 2009 annual conference, Chicago, 2009
"How do firms leverage innovation-capabilities for repeat innovation activity?", 2008 Babso College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008
"Does an innovation-supportive culture always support innovation?", 2008 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008
"Director identities and the role of the board in organizational turnaround", Academy of Management 2008 annual conference, Anaheim, CA, 2008
"Re-conceptualizing absorptive capacity: Absorptive capacity breadth versus depth", Academy of Management 2008 annual conference, Anaheim, CA, 2008
"An innovation value chain approach to competitive advantage", 2007 Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2007
"Fostering entrepreneurial innovation: An empirical examination", Academy of Management 2007 annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2007
"Technological drivers of innovation activity in entrepreneurial firms", Southern Management Association 2007 annual meeting, Nashville, TN, 2007
"Knowledge breadth versus knowledge depth: Clarifying competing measures of absorptive capacity", Strategic Management Society 2007 annual meeting, San Diego, CA, 2007
"The entrepreneurial window of opportunities: A typology of entrepreneurial opportunities", Southern Management Association 2006 annual meeting, Clearwater, FL, 2006