Professor Matthew Josefy

Professor Josefy is in the Management and Entrepreneurship department. His areas of expertise and interest include how Strategic Leaders (Board/TMTs) acquire and manage firm resources, particularly human capital, manage increased stakeholder expectations, and incorporate new forms of corporate governance.

Areas of Expertise

Resource Acquisition, Strategic Leadership (Board/TMTs), Organizational Survival, Firm Size, Strategic Entrepreneurship, Natural Language Processing, Anti-Human Trafficking.

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., Strategic Management, Texas A&M University, Mays Business School
• M.S., Financial Management, Texas A&M University, Mays Business School
• B.B.A., Accounting, Summa Cum Laude & Brown-Rudder Outstanding Graduate, Texas A&M University, Mays Business School

Professional Experience

• Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
• Texas A&M University, Mays Business School, Lecturer of Accounting
• HSBC
• Bank of America
• PricewaterhouseCoopers

Awards, Honors & Certificates

• Certified Public Accountant
• Chartered Financial Analyst 
• Strategic Research Foundation Dissertation Grant, 2016
• Outstanding Reviewer, Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management Conference, 2015
• 12 Under 12, Association of Former Students, Texas A&M

Selected Publications

• Bolinger, M., Josefy, M., Stevenson, R., and Hitt, M. (2022). Experiments in Strategy Research: A Critical Review and Future Research Opportunities. Journal of Management, in press. View Full Text
• Murray, A., Kuban, S., Josefy, M., and Anderson, J. (2021). Contracting in the Smart Era: The Implications of Blockchain and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations for Contracting and Corporate Governance. Academy of Management Perspectives, 35(4), 622-641 (equal authorship). View Full Text
• Stevenson, R. M., Josefy, M., McMullen, J., and Shepherd, D. (2020). Organizational and management theorizing using experiment-based entrepreneurship research: Covered terrain and the next frontiers. Academy of Management Annals, 14(2), 759–796. View Full Text
• Bacq, S., Geoghegan, W., Josefy, M., Stevenson, R., and Williams, T.A. (2020). The COVID-19 Virtual Idea Blitz: Marshaling Social Entrepreneurship to Rapidly Respond to Urgent Grand Challenges. Business Horizons, 63(8), 705-723. View Full Text
• Stevenson, R M.., & Josefy, M. (2019). Knocking at the gate: The path to publication for entrepreneurship experiments through the lens of gatekeeping theory. Journal of Business Venturing, 34(2), 242-260. View Full Text
• Bakker, R.M. & Josefy, M. (2018). More than just a Number? The Conceptualization and Measurement of Firm Age in an Era of Temporary Organizations. Academy of Management Annals, 12(2), 510-536. View Full Text
• Josefy, M., Dean, T. J., Albert, L. S., & Fitza, M. A. (2017). The Role of Community in Crowdfunding Success: Evidence on Cultural Attributes in Funding Campaigns to 'Save the Local Theater.' Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(2), 161-182.  View Full Text
• Josefy, M., Harrison, J., Sirmon, D. & Carnes, C. (2017). Living and dying: Synthesizing the literature on firm survival and failure across stages of development. Academy of Management Annals, 11(2), 770-799. View Full Text
• Li, D., Eden, L. & Josefy, M. (2017). Agent and task complexity in multilateral alliance: The safeguarding role of equity governance. Journal of International Management, 23(3), 227-241.
• Zardkoohi, A., Harrison, J,. S., and Josefy, M. (2017). Conflict and Confluence: The Multidimensionality of Opportunism in Principal–Agent Relationships. Journal of Business Ethics, 146(2), 405-417. View Full Text
• Nalick, M., Josefy, M., Zardkoohi, A., & Bierman, L. (2016). Corporate Socio-Political Involvement: A Reflection of Whose Preferences? Academy of Management Perspectives, 30(4), 384-403.  Available at: http://tx.ag/CSPI. For a discussion, see http://tx.ag/CSPIvideo
• Josefy, M., Kuban, S., Ireland, R. D., & Hitt, M. A. (2015). All Things Great and Small: Organizational size, boundaries of the firm, and a changing environment. Academy of Management Annals, 9, 715-802.  View Full Text
• Haynes, K.T., Josefy, M., & Hitt, M. A. (2015). Tipping point: Managers’ self-interest, greed and altruism. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 22(3), 265-279. View Full Text