Michael Withers

Education

• Ph D, Arizona State University, Strategic Management
• MA, University of Alabama, Management
• MBA, University of Southern Mississippi
• BBA, Mississippi State University, Management

Jobs

• Interim Director, Mays Innovation Research Center, Texas A&M University
• Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship, Texas A&M University
• Benton Cocanougher Chair in Business, Texas A&M University
• Professor, Texas A&M University
• Chancellor EDGES Fellow, Texas A&M University
• Presidential Impact Fellow, Texas A&M University
• Gina and Anthony Bahr Professor in Business, Texas A&M University
• Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
• Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

• 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)