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

• 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

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  The entrepreneurship setting—an extreme organizational context—provides fertile ground for organizationally relevant theory testing and development. In this paper, we propose that randomized entrepreneurship experiments have considerable potential to advance theory in entrepreneurship as well as other areas of organization science using a full-cycle approach. We ground this proposition in a multipronged review of randomized experiments in entrepreneurship (REE). Based on this review of prior work and emerging trends, respectively, we provide illustrative examples of innovative theory-driven experiments and motivate future research to consider randomized experiments in the entrepreneurial context both for testing boundary conditions and enhancing organizational theorizing broadly.

• 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

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  We draw on gatekeeping theory to explore the individual and routine-level criticisms that entrepreneurship experimentalists receive during the review process. Using a multi-study approach, we categorize common gatekeeping themes and present illustrative critiques derived from a unique sample of decision letters and a supplemental survey of entrepreneurship editors. In combination, we extend gatekeeping theory by considering how it applies to the scholarly domain, contribute to the literature by exploring an alternative theoretical explanation as to why entrepreneurship experiments might fail to survive the review process, and finally, provide contextualized recommendations for authors and reviewers of experimental research.

• Murray, A., Kuban, S., Josefy, M., & Anderson, J. (2019). Contracting in the Smart Era: The Implications of Blockchain and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations for Contracting and Corporate Governance. Academy of Management Perspectives, in press. 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

Edited on March 20, 2018