Steve Boivie

Professor
Carroll & Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures Leadership

Biography

Steve Boivie is a professor, and the Carroll & Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures Leadership in Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. 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. He 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, and technology and new industry formation. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, 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 and The Economist. He is currently serving on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.

Research

Title Year Type

A Database of CEO Turnover and Dismissal in S&P 1500 Firms, 2000 to 2018

Strategic Management Journal

2021 Article

Perception is Reality: How CEOs’ Observed Personality Influences Market Perceptions of Firm Risk and Shareholder Returns

Academy of Management Journal

2020 Article

Founder CEO Succession: The Role of CEO Organizational Identification

Academy of Management Journal

2018 Article

Measuring CEO Personality: Developing, Validating, and Testing a Linguistic Tool

Strategic Management Journal

2019 Article

Corporate Directors’ Implicit Theories of the Roles and Duties of Boards

Strategic Management Journal

2021 Article

Retaining Problems or Solutions? The Financial Performance Implications of Retaining Directors from an Acquired Firm’s Board

Strategic Management Journal

2021 Article