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Steve Boivie

Professor
Carroll & Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures Leadership
Department of Management

Education

PhD; UT-Austin (2006)
MOB; Brigham Young University (2001)
BS; Utah State University (1999)

Research Interest

Corporate governance, top executives and directors, technology and new industry formation

Courses Taught

MGMT 466H
MGMT 676
MGMT 680

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 Publications

Harrison, J. S., Boivie, S., & Withers, M. C. (2023). Executives’ prior employment ties to interlocking directors and interfirm mobility. Organization Science, 34(4), 1602–1625. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2022.1638

Boivie, S., Withers, M. C., Graffin, S. D., & Corley, K. G. (2021). Corporate directors’ implicit theories of the roles and duties of boards. Strategic Management Journal, 42(9), 1662–1695. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3320

Campbell, R. J., Busenbark, J. R., Graffin, S. D., & Boivie, S. (2021). Retaining problems or solutions? The post‐acquisition performance implications of director retention. Strategic Management Journal, 42(9), 1716–1733. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3321

Gentry, R. J., Harrison, J. S., Quigley, T. J., & Boivie, S. (2021). A database ofCEOturnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–2018. Strategic Management Journal, 42(5), 968–991. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3278

Harrison, J. S., Thurgood, G. R., Boivie, S., & Pfarrer, M. D. (2019). Measuring CEO personality: Developing, validating, and testing a linguistic tool. Strategic Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3023

Harrison, J. S., Thurgood, G. R., Boivie, S., & Pfarrer, M. D. (2020). Perception is reality: how CEOs’ observed personality influences market perceptions of firm risk and shareholder returns. Academy of Management Journal, 63(4), 1166–1195. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2018.0626

Lee, J. M., Yoon, D., & Boivie, S. (2020). Founder CEO Succession: The role of CEO Organizational identification. Academy of Management Journal, 63(1), 224–245. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2017.0091