Michael Withers

31 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0002-5789-5445

University of Notre Dame

Publications

Are Family Owners Willing to Risk “Rocking the Boat”? A Blended Socioemotional Wealth-Implicit Theory Framework — Journal of Management 2026
Competitive Dynamics Are Alive with the Sound of Music: A Reply to “Time to Face the Music” — Academy of Management Review 2026
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption — Academy of Management Review 2026
When do firms benefit from overconfident CEOs? The role of board expertise and power for technological breakthrough innovation — Strategic Management Journal 2025
The Influence of CEO and Board Information Technology Expertise on Large Firms’ Risk of Cyber Breaches — Management Information Systems Quarterly 2025 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
Reducing Bias through Board Decision-Making: An Information-Processing Model of Board Decision Synergy — Academy of Management Review 2025
Upper Echelon Employment: A Review of the Fundamental Questions Related to the Executive Labor Market — Journal of Management 2024
Leading the Board in a Crisis: Strategy and Performance Implications of Board Chair Directive Leadership — Journal of Management 2024
Strategic Entrepreneurship: A Review and Research Agenda — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2023
Executives’ Prior Employment Ties to Interlocking Directors and Interfirm Mobility — Organization Science 2023
Omitted Variable Bias: Examining Management Research With the Impact Threshold of a Confounding Variable (ITCV) — Journal of Management 2022
Propulsions Toward What Capes? Testing Normative Theory Through a Panorama of Consequences — Journal of Business Ethics 2022
Corporate directors' implicit theories of the roles and duties of boards — Strategic Management Journal 2021
You’ve Got a Friend: Examining Board Interlock Formation After Financial Restatements — Organization Science 2020
To Merge, Sell, or Liquidate? Socioemotional Wealth, Family Control, and the Choice of Business Exit — Journal of Management 2020
Go your own way: Exploring the causes of top executive turnover — Strategic Management Journal 2019
Competitive Landscape Shifts: The Influence of Strategic Entrepreneurship on Shifts in Market Commonality — Academy of Management Review 2018
Board Interlocks and Firm Performance: Toward a Combined Agency–Resource Dependence Perspective — Journal of Management 2018
A tale of two effects: Using longitudinal data to compare within- and between-firm effects — Strategic Management Journal 2017
Compromise on the Board: Investigating the Antecedents and Consequences of Lead Independent Director Appointment — Academy of Management Journal 2017
Knowledge Dependence and the Formation of Director Interlocks — Academy of Management Journal 2017
Do board chairs matter? The influence of board chairs on firm performance — Strategic Management Journal 2017
That special someone: When the board views its chair as a resource — Strategic Management Journal 2016
Come Aboard! Exploring the Effects of Directorships in the Executive Labor Market — Academy of Management Journal 2016
Friends or strangers? It all depends on context: A replication and extension of Beckman, Haunschild, and Phillips (2004) — Strategic Management Journal 2016
Family- versus Lone-Founder-Controlled Public Corporations: Social Identity Theory and Boards of Directors — Academy of Management Journal 2015
The perils of endogeneity and instrumental variables in strategy research: Understanding through simulations — Strategic Management Journal 2014
A Multidisciplinary Review of the Director Selection Literature — Journal of Management 2012
Stay or Leave: Director Identities and Voluntary Exit from the Board During Organizational Crisis — Organization Science 2012
Resource Dependence Theory: A Review — Journal of Management 2009
Corrective Governance in the Boardroom: A Negotiated Order Perspective — Academy of Management Review