Curriculum Vitae, Sept. 2016
Alex Stewart (Walter Alexander Stewart)
a) Personal Information
Contact:
College of Business Administration, Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
Office: 414 288-7188; [email protected]
Canadian citizen, United States Permanent Resident
Personal interests: Photography; regionally competitive distance running:
Age group wins: on pavement: Wisconsin 20K championship race; half marathon (2015); hilly
trails: half marathon (2013), marathon (2014), 50K.
b) Educational Background
Ph.D., Political Science (minor: Social Anthropology), York University,
M.B.A., with distinction, York University
M.A., Social Anthropology, York University
B.A., Social Anthropology, York University
1987
1984
1979
1974
c) Academic Experience
Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship, August 2000 on;
Professor of Management, August 2013 on; Associate Professor of Management, Marquette
University, August 2000 to August 2013;
Academic Director, Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship, January 2013-Summer 2015; Director,
August 2000 to July 2004, Co-Director (with G. N. P. Konz, SJ), August 2004 to September
2007.
Courses:
Undergraduate and MBA (including corporate): Strategic Management; New Venture
Creation (with different titles); Consulting to Entrepreneurs; numerous Independent
Studies;
Undergraduate: International Entrepreneurship; Family Enterprise; Urban
Entrepreneurship, Financial Modeling for Entrepreneurs; Starting and Running an
Import and Export Business; Scenario Planning for Entrepreneurial and Family
Businesses; Entrepreneurial Sustainability, International Entrepreneurial Sustainability,
International Social Entrepreneurship; training of Dorm Fund judges.
Practitioner: Small Venture Management, for minority and women business owners
(three years).
Assistant and Associate Professor of Management, Texas Tech University, 1990-2000
Courses: (Undergraduate, MBA, Ph.D.) Strategic Management; (Ph.D.)
Entrepreneurship (scholarly); (Undergraduate, MBA, corporate MBA in China) New
Venture Creation; Consulting to Entrepreneurs.
Assistant Professor, Department of Management & Marketing, Brock University, 1985-1990.
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Courses: Organization Theory; Organizational Behaviour; Strategic Management;
Strategic Modeling (Undergraduate)
d) Record of Intellectual Contributions: Books, Articles and Refereed Chapters
Scholary Books
Stewart, Alex, Lumpkin, G. Thomas, & Katz, Jerome A., Eds. (2010). Entrepreneurship and
Family Business, Vol. 12 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth.
Bingley, UK: Emerald Group. Also a Google eBook, and included in the new Web of Science
(SSCI etc.) Book Citation Index. I authored or co-authored 81 pages in this book, with the
agreement of my co-editors, and invited and edited 11 other chapters.
My writings in this book are:
Stewart, Alex. 2010. Skeptical about family business: Advancing the field in its
scholarship, relevance, and academic role. pp. 231-241.
http://works.bepress.com/alex_stewart/3/
Stewart, Alex. 2010. Sources of entrepreneurial discretion in kinship systems. pp. 291313. http://works.bepress.com/alex_stewart/6/
Stewart, Alex, & Hitt, Michael A. 2010. The yin and yang of kinship in business:
Complementary or contradictory forces? (And can we really tell?). pp. 243-276.
http://works.bepress.com/alex_stewart/10/
Stewart, Alex, Lumpkin, G. Thomas, & Jerome A. Katz. 2010. An introduction to the
special issue on family business and entrepreneurship. pp. xiii-xxv.
Stewart, Alex. 1998. The Ethnographer’s Method. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
(Reviewed scholarly book.)
Reprinted in the SAGE Research Methods Online Suite. The paperback and a Kindle edition are
also in print.
Republished in a Korean language edition, 2009, title: 문화기술자의 방법; publisher:
군자출판사.
Stewart, Alex. 1989. Team Entrepreneurship. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. (still in
print.)
Refereed Articles with Reprints
Stewart, Alex. (2014). Too rare to be a token: An anthropologist in a management department.
Journal of Business Anthropology, 3(2), 140-158. Invited and reviewed by Editor Brian
Moeran (Copenhagen Business School) with Associate Editor Dixon Wong Heung Wah
(U. of Hong Kong) http://ej.lib.cbs.dk/index.php/jba/issue/view/574/showToc
Reprinted with updates in Creative Engagements: The Anthropology of Business and Business
Studies, Heung-Wah Wong, Ed. Berghahn Books. Chapter one of the collection,
Chinese translation: forthcoming in Anthropological Research published by Zhejiang University,
China.
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Stewart, Alex, & Hitt, Michael A. (2012). Why can’t a family business be more like a nonfamily business? Modes of professionalization in family firms. Family Business Review,
25(1), 58-86. http://works.bepress.com/alex_stewart/9/.
Best paper of the year award for 2012. selected for summaries for practitioners by the
Family Firm Institute: http://www.ffi.org/blogpost/851776/145890/Research-and-Practice-FBR-ExecutiveSummaries.
Reprinted in Family Business, P. Sharma & L. Melin (Eds.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications, 2014.
Also reprinted in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, Vol. 6: International Management, M.
Singal (Ed.), New York: Wiley, 2015.
Stewart, Alex, & Miner, Anne S. 2011. Prospects for family business in research universities.
Journal of Family Business Strategy, 2: 3-14. http://epublications.marquette.edu/mgmt_fac/45/
Reprinted in: Family Business, J. Astrachan, K. McMillan, & T. Pieper (Eds), London:
Routledge, 2012.
Brush, Candida B., Duhaime, Irene M., Gartner, William B., Stewart, Alex, Katz, Jerome, Hitt,
Michael A., Alvarez, Sharon, Meyer, G. Dale, & Venkataraman, S. 2003. Doctoral
education in the field of entrepreneurship. Journal of Management, 29: 309-331.
Reprinted in: Entrepreneurship Education, P. G. Greene & M. P. Rice (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK:
Edward Elgar, 2007.
Stewart, Alex. 2003. Help one another, use one another: Toward an anthropology of family
business. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 27, Summer: 383-396.
http://epublications.marquette.edu/mgmt_fac/46/
Reprinted in: Small Business and Entrepreneurship, R. Blackburn and C. Brush, Editors, Sage
Publications, 2008.
Sayles, Leonard R., & Stewart, Alex. 1995. Belated recognition for work flow entrepreneurs: A
case of selective perception and amnesia in management thought. Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice, 19(3), 7-23. (Refereed journal article; but note that I was the guest
co-editor of this issue.)
Reprinted in: F. W. Taylor: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, J. C. Wood and
M. C. Wood, Eds., London: Routledge, 2002.
Stewart. Alex. 1991. A prospectus on the anthropology of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice, 16(2), 71-91.
Reprinted in: Advances in Entrepreneurship, P. Westhead and M. Wright, Editors, Cheltenham,
UK: Edward Elgar, 1999,
Also reprinted in: Entrepreneurship: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, N.
Krueger, Editor, London: Routledge, 2002.
Other Refereed Articles and Chapters
Stewart, Alex, and Aldrich, Howard E. (2015) Collaboration between management and
anthropology researchers: Obstacles and opportunities. Academy of Management
Perspectives, 29(2), 173-192.
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Stewart, Alex. (2014). The anthropology of family business: An imagined ideal. In L. Melin, M.
Nordqvist, & P. Sharma (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Family Business, Newbury Park, CA:
Sage, 66-82. (Refereed book; Chapter Four.)
http://epublications.marquette.edu/mgmt_fac/148/.
Stewart, Alex, & Cotton, John L. (2013). Making sense of entrepreneurship journals: Journal
rankings and strategy choices. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and
Research, 19(3), 303-323. http://epublications.marquette.edu/mgmt_fac/135/ (6.786 full
text downloads from Marquette's library site as of 9/23/2016)
Cotton, John L., & Stewart, Alex (2013). Evaluate your business school’s writings as if your
strategy matters. Business Horizons, 56(3), 323-331.
http://epublications.marquette.edu/mgmt_fac/136/
Craig, Jane S., Mandel, Stanley W., & Stewart, A. (corresponding author) (2012). Dilettante,
venturesome, Tory and crafts: A taxonomy and its performance implications in the Texas
apparel manufacturing industry. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 22(2), 1-26.
http://epublications.marquette.edu/mgmt_fac/142
Stewart, Alex. (2008). Who could best complement a team of family business researchers,
scholars down the hall or in another building? Family Business Review, 21: 279-293.
http://epublications.marquette.edu/mgmt_fac/52/
Stewart, Alex, Lee, Felissa K., & Konz, Gregory N. P. (2008) Artisans, athletes, entrepreneurs,
and other skilled exemplars of the Way. Journal of Management, Spirituality, and
Religion, 5: 29-55. http://works.bepress.com/alex_stewart/7/
Stetz, P.E., Howell, R., Stewart, A., Blair, J. D., & Fottler, M. D. 2000. Multidimensionality of
entrepreneurial firm-level processes: Do the dimensions covary? In P. D. Reynolds et al.
(Eds.), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, pp. 653-667, Babson Park, MA: Babson
College. (Refereed book chapter. ISBN 0-910897-21-2. This annual book series has an
all-time H index of 40 in Publish or Perish; our paper is the seventh most cited of 100
papers from 2000 on.)
Stewart, Alex. 1995. Journal ranking in Nacirema ritual: The case of I. C. MacMillan’s
publishing forums. Advances in Strategic Management, 12(A), 3-37. There are two
commentaries on this article.
Stewart, Alex, Learned, Kevin E., Mandel, Stanley W., & Peterson, Kristin M. 1995. Using field
level research on firm-level entrepreneurship: A coda. Entrepreneurship Theory and
Practice, 19(3), 175-184. (Non-reviewed editorial article.)
Stewart, Alex. 1990. The bigman metaphor for entrepreneurship: A “library tale” with morals on
alternatives for further research. Organization Science, 1(2), 143-159.
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Stewart, Alex. 1980. “Territorality” and bilingualism: A note on Jackson’s Community and
Conflict. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 12, 103-108. “Response” by John D. Jackson, the
following pages: 109-112.
e) Other Writings
Stewart, Alex. Forthcoming. Introduction to International Journal of Business Anthropology,
5(2). (1,142 words). (I am no longer sure what is happening with this introduction.)
Stewart, Alex. 2013. Foreword: Advantages of anthropology for business research. In R. G. Tian,
M. P. Lillis, & A. H. van Marrewijk, General Business Anthropology, 2nd Ed. Toronto:
North American Business Press. (a textbook); the foreword is on the Society for Applied
Anthropology website: http://community.sfaa.net/profiles/blogs/what-anthropology-brings-to-business.
Stewart, Alex. (2012). Anthropology of family business: Ten desiderata. In Proceedings, United
States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 27th Annual Conference.
This is the “featured” paper in the May bulletin of the International Council for Small
Business: http://www.icsb.org/article.asp
Stewart, Alex. 2011. Foreword: Why become a business anthropologist? In R. G. Tian, D. Zhou,
& A. van Marrewijk (Eds.), Advanced Readings in Business Anthropology: 8-9. Toronto:
North American Business Press.
http://businessanthropology.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html
Stewart, Alex. 2011. It’s not easy being E. Community College Entrepreneurship, Fall/Winter,
pp. 17, 23.
Stewart, Alex. 2011. Building on what students know. Community College Entrepreneurship,
Summer/Fall, pp. 17, 23.
Stewart, Alex. 2011. Student-centered learning. Community College Entrepreneurship,
Spring/Summer, pp. 18-19.
Stewart, Alex. 2010. A first course in entrepreneurship fundamentals, Part Two. Community
College Entrepreneurship, Fall/Winter, 12: 12, 29.
Stewart, Alex. 2010. A first course in entrepreneurship fundamentals, Part One. Community
College Entrepreneurship, Spring/Summer, 12, 26-27.
Learned, K. E., & Stewart, A. 1992. Entrepreneurial capabilities and resources: Sustainable
competitive advantage through innovation and opportunism. In Proceedings, United
States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 7th Annual Conference, pp.
133-142.
Stewart, A. 1987. Anthropology and the practice of entrepreneurship research. In New Ventures:
Creation, Development, Support, pp. 106-112. Milwaukee, WI: United States Association
for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2nd Annual Conference.
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Pineda, Rodley C., Whitehead, Carlton J., Boal, Kimberly B. and Stewart, Alex. 1993. Crosscultural differences in organizational planning. Are they situational or cultural or both?
Proceedings of the Southwestern Academy of Management. New Orleans, LA. 280-284.
(Regional; all others are national)
Book Reviews
Stewart, Alex. 1993. Review of Scientists as Entrepreneurs: Organizational Performance in
Scientist-Started New Ventures by K. J. Samsom. Organization Studies, 14, 144-147.
Stewart, Alex. 2016. Review of The Endurance of Family Businesses: A Global Overview edited
by Paloma Fernández Pérez and Andrea Colli. Investigaciones de Historia
Económica/Economic History Review (an SSCI journal).
Practitioner Communications (Aside from Community College Entrepreneurship papers)
Stewart, Alex. 1987, Dec. 7. Running hot at Magna. DesRosiers Automotive Reports, 8-10.
Rovito, Rich. 2009, Nov. 29. (interview of Alex Stewart) “Family businesses must be run more
‘professionally’”, The Business Journal:
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/11/30/focus3.html
Stewart, Alex, and Hitt, Michael, 2013, Family Firm Practitioner summary and podcast (by
Stewart) relating to Stewart and Hitt (2012), for Sage Publications. The link is at:
http://fbr.sagepub.com/content/suppl/2013/07/19/0894486511421665.DC1
f) Grant and Resource Activity
2000, Coleman Foundation CEAE grant, $108,000.
2001, Coleman Foundation CEAE grant, $20,000.
2002, Coleman Foundation CEAE grant, $44,000 and $20,000.
2003, Coleman Foundation CEAE grant, $18,500 and $4,000. This was the last year for this
program.
2011, 2012. Co-PI, IEGERT grant proposal to the National Science Foundation, being revised
for resubmission.
2012-2015, PI for Marquette, Wisconsin Center for Commercialization Resources, Economic
Development Agency. Four year grant of $38,500 per year.
Active 2000-2008 in work with University Advancement in raising donations for activities such
as the Business Plan Competition and Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship. These are
collaborative efforts. Close involvement with the Kohler Center when it was still part of
the College.
g) Under review or in active preparation
Revise and Resubmit:
Stewart, Alex, Cotton, John, and Adya, Monica. Is Information Systems a singular field across
its technical and managerial - social science orientations? Communications of the AIS. I
am the methods/analysis contributor for the three bibliometric studies.
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Fully developed but not finalized manuscripts:
Stewart, Alex, & Cotton, John. Does the Domain of Management Scholarship Include Technical
Systems? A Replication on the Boundaries of Computer Science, Information Systems and
Management. Very near submission to the Academy of Management Discoveries.
Stewart, Alex, being joined by Isabel Stamm (Technical University of Berlin, a sociologist of the
family). The private benefits of control, families, and the benefits of private control. WasU
under review at Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. (reviews at ET&P were positive, but
it was submitted as a commentary on a manuscript that was rejected, hence it was rejected)
Stewart, Alex. Entrepreneurship in the Fish-Scale Model of Science: A Cross-Citation Analysis
of Potential Disciplinary Collaborations. Will be submitted to Entrepreneurship Theory
& Practice after the Academy meeting presentation (noted below).
Other work:
Stewart, Alex, and Aldrich, Howard. We have been invited to present a revision of a
commentary I presented at the Theories of Family Enterprise conference, May 2015, Fort
Worth, TX in next year’s conference at the University of Alberta. The title is “There is no
such thing as a family business: Long live family business studies” (noted below).
Stewart, Alex. Ethnographic research designs for entrepreneurship and family business. (Note:
the SAGE Handbook chapter was much too long, and this third of three parts is being
spun off, with about two months of work prior to journal submission).
Stewart, Alex, and Krackhardt, David. Peter’s puppies: Networks and entrepreneurial autocracy.
This is the study presented long ago at Carnegie Mellon, and the Universities of Chicago
and Colorado. It is a restudy of Team Entrepreneurship that turned out to be sensitive for
the actors involved. Although they are disguised, they know who they are. Time was
needed before publishing this work. This is my most innovative empirical study.
Much as I like the next scholarly idea here – not yet started except for a lot of reading – I think it
will give way to the work with Krackhardt (I owe him a publication) and also an applied
textbook for Oxford University Press on the startup process. My wife, who is a selfemployed attorney with a science (Ph.D.) background and about 13 years of serving
entrepreneurs, inventors and business owners, will be a co-author. I have collected many
competing books for (credited) ideas, and will conduct ethnographic style interviews with
people with extensive experience with various startups, such as microlenders and
managers of accelerators. The book will be focused and concise.
Ethnography using Spradley-inspired interviews and photo-ethnography to study…depends on
where I am. As it will be Newfoundland, the focus will be Memorial University of
Newfoundland and its connections with the entrepreneurial ecosystem (as it gets called
these days) and economic development.
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h) Peer Reviewed National Conference Presentations (Omitting Proceedings Noted Above)
Stewart, A. 2014.Why do anthropologists have so little impact on management research? Society
for Applied Anthropology annual conference, Albuquerque NM, March 22.
Cotton, J., & Stewart, A. 2010. Where should I publish? The problems of ranking journals.
Presented at the National Academy of Management Conference, Montreal.
Stewart, A., & Konz, G. N. P., S.J. 2005. A knack for entrepreneurship: Artisans, arbitrageurs
and other skilled exemplars of the Way. Presented at the National Academy of
Management Conference, Honolulu, HI.
Stetz, P. E., Stewart, A., Howell, R. D., Blair, J. D., & Fottler, M. D. 1998. Dimensionality of the
entrepreneurial posture/orientation construct: A structural equation study. Presented at the
National Academy of Management Meetings, San Diego.
Mathews, V, E., & Stewart, A. 1998. Who competes with whom? Delineating and explaining
market similarity in the international hotel industry. Presented at the National Academy
of Management Meetings, San Diego.
Morse, E. A., Stewart, A., & Learned, K. E. 1998. The temporal dynamics of entrepreneurial
growth: An event structure analysis in an entrepreneurial firm. Presented at the National
Academy of Management Meetings, San Diego.
Learned, K. E, & Stewart, A. 1997. Nature and nurture: Resource accumulation in an
entrepreneurial firm. Presented at the National Academy of Management Meetings,
Boston.
Stewart, A., & Krackhardt, D. 1997. Pinky’s puppies: structural spanning and resource creation
in entrepreneurship. Presented at the National Academy of Management Meetings,
Boston.
Craig, J. S., Mandel, S. W., & Stewart, A. 1997. Ownership as entrepreneurial behavior or not: A
special purpose taxonomic analysis. Presented at the National Academy of Management
Meetings, Boston.
Stewart, A. 1994. From data to theory on team entrepreneurship: What difference does a
computer make? Presentation in Symposium on Challenges in Conducting Field Research
on Firm Level Entrepreneurship, National Academy of Management Meetings, Dallas.
Learned, K. E., & Stewart, A. 1994, August. Opportunistic participation in management
research. Presentation in Symposium on Challenges in Conducting Field Research on
Firm Level Entrepreneurship, National Academy of Management Meetings, Dallas.
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Stewart, A., & Peterson, R. 1985. The moral and instrumental dimensions of the personal
networks of entrepreneurs. Presentation at the International Council for Small Business
meeting, Montreal PQ.
i) Invited Presentations (Selected)
Stewart, Alex. August 2015. Presentation of cross-citation analysis of promising disciplinary
collaborations for entrepreneurship, at the 2015 Academy of Management meeting (in a
PDW session chaired by Bill Gartner).
Stewart, Alex, and Aldrich, Howard. May, 2015, Fort Worth, TX. “There is no such thing as a
family business: Long live family business studies.” Invited as a commentator at Theories
of Family Enterprise conference, and I in turn invited Howard Aldrich as co-author.
Stewart, A. 2015. Discussant (formal presentation) on nine papers, National Society for Applied
Anthropology Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, March 26.
Stewart, A. 2010. Discussant (formal role, 20 minute talk) on system dynamics approach to
family business, conference on Value Creation in Private Family Firms, Concordia
University, Montreal, October 22.
Stewart, A., & Lee, F. K. 2010. Effortless entrepreneurship: Identifying and coaching for a
career that is a calling. Paper presented at the Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education
meeting, Marquette University, July 10.
Stewart, A. 2005, April. Featured speaker, Family Enterprise Research Conference, Niagara
Falls, ON, co-sponsored by Oregon State University and Wilfrid Laurier University.
Stewart, A. 2004, April. Featured speaker, Family Enterprise Research Conference, Portland OR,
co-sponsored by Oregon State University and Wilfrid Laurier University.
Stewart, A. 2001, September. Kinship and the creation of wealth. Theories of the family
enterprise: Establishing a paradigm for the field., Edmonton AB, Conference sponsored
by the Universities of Alberta and Calgary.
Distinguished Professor Seminar Guest (day-long), 2000, Spring, University of Colorado at
Boulder Ph.D. Program in Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
Stewart, A. 1996, November 7, Presenter in the Carnegie Mellon University, University of
Pittsburgh Groups and Organizations Workshop.
Stewart, A. 1995, February. Presentation of integration of ethnographic data and social network
analysis, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.
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j) Service to the Profession
Stewart, Alex. 2016-2017. Member, Organizing Committee and contributor for “Ethnographic
Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research”, Kauffman Foundation sponsored conference
at Princeton University, Derek B. Lidow, Princeton University, Organizer. For example, I
had a two-hour phone call with Dr. Lidow 09-21-2016.
Stewart, Alex. August 2015. One of the senior scholars aiding others in developing their
manuscripts (in my case Onnolee Nordstrom of the University of Alberta) on “family
business” in a PDW session, Academy of Management meeting, Vancouver BC.
Stewart, Alex. August 2015. Originator of a caucus on the prospects for forming an interest
group on the management scholars profession, Academy of Management meeting,
Vancouver BC.
Founder, “owner” and co-moderator of a new Academy of Management listserv:
[email protected], “Perspectives on the Management Scholars Profession”.
2014Judge (one of three) for best paper of 2013, Family Business Review
Member, Ethics Education Committee, Academy of Management, August 2013-.
Responsibilities: PDWs on ethics; (with Chair).
Grant reviewer, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden’s leading funder of research in the
Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016.
Grant reviewer, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch
Research Council), 2012
Member, Board, Family Enterprise Research Conference, 2008 to 2015.
Academic Chair, Family Enterprise Research Conference, the tenth annual meeting, 2014 (in
Oregon; work started with meetings in Portland in June 2013)
Chair, Family Enterprise Research Conference, the fourth annual meeting, held at Marquette,
2008
Co-Convener, Organization Science Winter Conference, 2005 and 2006
Program Chair, Organization Science Winter Conference, 2004
Past Chair, Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, 2003
Chair, Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, 2002
Program Chair, Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, 2001
Program Chair-Elect (PDW Chair), Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management,
2000.
Faculty member, Coleman Foundation Mentoring Retreat for Outstanding Junior
Entrepreneurship Educators, May 29-June 4, 2003, Buena Vista, CO.
Grant reviewer, National Science Foundation, Arlington Virginia, 2000.
Reviewer, INFORMS (TIMS) Dissertation Competition, 1999
Reviewer, NFIB/ET&P National Dissertation Awards, Academy of Management, 1996, 1997
Hosting a Ph.D. student from Sweden, Jenny Helin, Fall 2009
Editorial Board memberships:
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 1990-2002
Organizational Research Methods 2004-2007
Organization Science 2004-2009
Family Business Review 2007 to present
Journal of Family Business Strategy, Summer 2010 to present
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Guest co-editorships:
Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 1995, 19(3).
Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, 2010, Vol. 12.
External reviewer for promotion and tenure cases, for Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne (to
Associate), University of Saint Thomas (twice, for tenure at chaired Professor, and for the
hiring of another chaired Professor), Southern Illinois at Carbondale (Professor),
Rochester Institute of Technology (Associate), and the University of Denver (Professor,
twice for same candidate), Leicester Business School for the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes;
St. Joseph’s University (Associate), Simon Fraser University (endowed Professorship),
Rutgers University (Associate), DePaul University (Associate).
k) Internal and Community Service
Departmental
Chair, faculty recruiting committee, 2006, 2008 (two during sabbatical), 2009, 2010, 2013
Member, faculty recruiting committee, 2005, 2011
Organizer, research seminars, 2006, 2007
Adviser (sole) for Entrepreneurship majors, hence also liaison with Business Career Center, and
program Assessment Leader, 2006 to present
Taking over two distressed sections of undergraduate Strategic Management a week after Spring
Break, 2007, with successful completions
Taking over three sections of MBA Strategic Management a month prior to launch and deferring
a sabbatical, due to a faculty member’s sudden exit, Spring 2016.
College
Founded and built the USNews #16 (2011) undergraduate entrepreneurship program as the sole
tenure-track faculty member; the only full-time instructor for the program until 2011.
Founder and initial adviser for new Minor in Entrepreneurship for non-business students, Fall
2011 (John Peterson has been hired full time and is now the adviser.)
Director and Co-Director responsibilities, Kohler for Entrepreneurship (service as otherwise
noted, and recruitment, supervision, budgets etc.), August 2000 to September 2007.
Research committee member 2000, 2001, Chair 2002, 2003, member 2004
Undergraduate curriculum committee, 2000, 2001, 2010, 2011, 2012
Chair, Bell Chair in Real Estate search committee, 2002
Member, Strategic Planning Task Force, Chair of Subcommittee on Outreach and Service,
member of Subcommittee on Mission, 2002, 2003, 2004
Founder and supervisor of Business Plan Competition, 2004, 2005; for undergraduate and inner
city categories, 2006; responsible again (with John Peterson), 2012 to present
Member, Strategic Task Force on Integration of the Curriculum, 2012-2013
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2013University
Subcommittee on Academic Affairs, 2000, 2001
Day-long meeting in Chicago on future of libraries, 2000
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Marquette representative on TechStar (with UWM, MCW), 2000, 2001; worked on founding the
Golden Angels Network.
AACSB meeting in Saint Louis on continuous improvement, 2001
Taught three sessions of Engineering’s Senior Design, 2001
Chair, Intellectual Property Review Board, 2001
Initiated and hosted the College’s first Metcalfe Chair visitor (G. Fairchild), 2003
Member, Core Curriculum Review Committee, 2006, 2007, first half of 2008
Mentor, minority student, McNair Scholars Program, 2008
Member, Library Committee, 2014-2015.
Member, Committee on Faculty, 2012-2015. (This is the committee of Faculty Senate
responsibly for faculty governance.)
Community
Founder and sole instructor, Owner Manager Program, for minority and female entrepreneurs,
2003, 2004, 2005, in conjunction with considerable time spent getting to know and gain
credibility with inner city and minority entrepreneurs. These efforts and outreach efforts
with students continue.
Judge, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, 2004 and 2005
Board member, West End Development Corporation, 2001 until 2005 or so
Program advisor (the “working board”) for Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, renamed
Initiative for a Competitive Milwaukee, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Participant in teaching Summer Entrepreneurship Camp run by S. Mansur
Chair of the board of an attempted startup inner city boarding school (UTU) - very intense but
short-lived, 2005
Teaching entrepreneurship to American Indian youth (Ho Chunk), with former American Indian
student Armando Zaragoza, and work with Armando, 2012, 2013. I am seeking to work
with Spotted Eagle, Inc. (http://www.spottedeagle.us/www/page.php) and anticipate that
this will work, but gaining traction has been slow. Armando and I continue to meet.
At Texas Tech University
Founder and first Director, Center for Entrepreneurial and Family Business, previously Director,
Small Business Institute. 1996-2000.
Area of Management Advisor, Ph.D. program, 1995-1996, Jan.-July 1999, and Co-Advisor, Fall
1997 through 1998.
Chair, Area of Management Faculty Recruiting Committee for four searches, 1991-1992, 1996,
1998.
Dissertation Committees (Texas Tech)
Doctoral dissertation Supervisor for five Management students:
Kevin E. Learned, 1995, retired President, College of Idaho, Winner of the Academy of
Management’s NFIB certificate of distinction;
Stanley W. Mandel, 1996 (Center Director, Wake Forest University);
Vinitia E. Mathews, 1997, consultant (Portland OR);
Eric A. Morse, 1998 ((Full) Professor, Ivey, Western University);
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Terence T. Rock, 1999, consultant and conservative politician (Calgary AB).
Doctoral dissertation committee member for Joanne E. Hurd (MIS), 1992; Rodley C. Pineda
(Management), 2004; Michael S. Sanders (Industrial Engineering), 2000; Jun Yan
(Management), 2001
l) Honors and Awards
Best Paper of the Year award, Family Business Review, for Stewart & Hitt, 2012
Reviewer Excellence Certificate (one of ten for the year), Family Business Review, 2011
Reviewer Excellence Certificate (one of ten for the year), Family Business Review, 2010.
Distinguished Service Award, Family Enterprise Research Conference, 2009.
Distinguished Service Award, Family Enterprise Research Conference, 2008.
Best Reviewer of the Year Award, Organizational Research Methods, 2005.
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m) Summary of Citations
Work
Wo
S
Sco
p
PQ
Oth
r
Boo
k
Dis
s
CES 1980
ICSB 1985
Subt
.
Rprn
t
Tran
s
Patn
t
0
1
1
Dissertation
2
Brock WP
1
Cmm
t
BkE
d
Call
s
1
Tota
l
1
2
2
2
2
1
1
Team Ent.
56
22
10
20
68
39
215
Org Sci 90
15
4
3
2
10
22
56
ETP 91
18
19
11
22
39
50
159
ASM 95
2
1
1
4
11
3
7
7
36
1
1
4
4
1
11
11
Sayles 95
4
4
8
2
225
56
2
1
2
1
162
6
1
38
coda 95
2
Stetz 98
1
3
3
3
110
41
9
53
121
253
587
Stetz 2000
20
6
8
12
10
21
77
JOM 2003
46
32
18
42
42
29
209
1
ETP 03*
83
30
15
39
57
60
284
1
FBR 08
12
5
2
7
3
6
35
35
JMSR 08*
1
2
1
4
4
Edited bk 10
4
1
1
8
8
1
2
3
3
5
3
14
14
3
4
8
8
2
1
4
4
2
2
Ethn Method
2
Intro bk 10
Yin Yang 10
4
SEDKS 10
1
1
SFB 10
1
1
Foreword 2011
1
1
1
1
13
602
77
210
1
1
2
289
JFBS 2011
7
1
2
3
4
9
26
1
27
FBR 2012
66
10
19
29
35
33
192
2
194
1
1
1
1
1
USASBE 2012
JSBS 2012
IJEBR 2013*
1
4
3
Foreword 2013
BH
2
1
Handbook 2014
2
1
2
1
10
10
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
4
1
JBA 2014
AMP 2015
Total
1
2
470
1
180
10
7
246
1
2
3
417
547
1967
3
10
2
1
4
22
5
2011
No self-citations are included, and only citations with a printed page or web link for
evidence are counted; details available in an Excel file. WoS: Web of Science (e.g., SSCI) as it is
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currently listed (with Int Entrep Manag J dropped from WoS for its time of removal); Scopus
(but not WoS); PQ: ProQuest (but not WoS or Scopus); Other journals (many international);
Books; Doctoral dissertations (excluding web-based programs); Reprints; Translations of my
work; Patent (by IBM), Commentaries, other citing editions of books, Calls for papers in
journals (Group Decision & Negotiation, Int J Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research (twice)
and Journal of Organizational Change Management). Counted only once: citing works that are
reprinted in collections, and works in multiple editions or translations.
301 citations are in 29 languages other than English:
Africaans (2), Basque (1), Catalan (3), Chinese (43), Croatian (3), Danish (2), Dutch (7),
Estonian (1), Finnish (2), French (31), German (49), Hungarian (1), Indonesian (2)*, Italian (15),
Japanese (4), Korean (10), Lithuanian (1), Malay (1), Norwegian (11), Persian (4), Polish (3),
Portuguese (30), Russian (3), Slovenian (1), Spanish (57), Swedish (4), Thai (2), Turkish (6),
Ukranian (2) * plus another in a student journal, not counted
n) Testimonials
a) Used by Sage Publications
For Team Entrepreneurship (http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book2702)
Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “I recommend this book to readers with an
interest in entrepreneurship. The nitty-gritty details of the observations Stewart makes, and the
excellent overview of “Running Hot”, are likely to have the widest appeal. In terms of my own
interests, however, I find that Chapters Seven and Eight make an extremely useful contribution to
entrepreneurship research. Their points about the moral dimension of entrepreneurship were things I
had never considered before, at least in the way that Stewart discusses them”.
Anne S. Huff, then University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: “This is an unusual and interesting book. I
like it because it is different, and requires more of the reader than many texts. Its tone is energetic
and engaging, and its themes are compatible with emerging thinking about managing organizations.”
Howard H. Stevenson, Harvard Business School: “Team Entrepreneurship’s focus on the way in which
entrepreneurship is a group and social phenomenon rather than macho-individualistic phenomenon
is critical. Overall, the book clearly is written from the inside perspective and reflects an unusual
understanding of how entrepreneurship really works”.
For The Ethnographer’s Method http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book7527?siteId=sageus&prodTypes=any&q=The+Ethnographer%27s+Method:
Peter Adler, University of Denver (and past Co-Editor of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography): “I was so taken
by its exposition and clarity of thought that I have just ordered The Ethnographer’s Method as required
reading in my ‘Methods of Field Research’ course.”
Fredrik Barth (Anthropology), University of Oslo: “I admire its clear language and simultaneously detailed
and clear thought—a rare combination these days!”
Stephen R. Barley, Stanford University: “The most realistic and level-headed discussion of doing fieldwork
that I have read in years. No aspiring ethnographer should be without it.”
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Reed Nelson, Southern Illinois University (then Associate Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly): “I wish
every author of a qualitative submission to ASQ would read it and use its checklist.”
b) Other
From Howard Aldrich’s website, http://www.unc.edu/~healdric/Links/Book_recommendations.html, the first
recommendation listed: “A Few Books I Highly Recommend to Organization Theorists & Researchers”

“Alex Stewart’s book, The Ethnographer’s Method 1998. Essential reading for people setting out to
conduct real ethnographic research (as opposed to those who just wander around a site for a few
hours and ask questions).”
From A Companion to Organizational Ethnography, D. Douglas Caulkins and Ann T. Jordan (Eds.),
Blackwell, 2013, chapter on “Entrepreneurship Studies” by Peter Rosa (University of Edinburgh)
and D. Douglas Caulkins (Grinnell College):
“Stewart, the most prominent social anthropologist in the entrepreneurship field, has elegantly drawn
attention to the potential of introducing social anthropology to researching entrepreneurship. His
approach to trying to integrate anthropological principles by collaborating with scholars from
other disciplines has the greatest potential for reinvigorating its contribution to the field.” (p.
115). Other quotes are on pages 103, 104, and 105.
From Crossing the Valley of Death: A Multi-sited, Multi-level Ethnographic Study of Growth Startups and
Entrepreneurial Communities in Post-industrial Detroit, unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Anthropology, Wayne State University, Marlo Rencher, 2012:
“Today, Alex Stewart has emerged as the leading scholar focused on entrepreneurship and culture” (p.
38). (This dissertation cites 11 of my works. The author is a social entrepreneur in Detroit.)
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How I Have Learned about the Practice of Entrepreneurship
Completed MBA (with distinction) in Entrepreneurial Studies, York University.
Worked for the General Manager of a division of Magna International, leading to my first book, Team
Entrepreneurship.
Continuing to teach a practice-focused approach to entrepreneurship at Texas Tech and Marquette,
aiming to coach people along their personal curves towards business start-up and growth.
Developing the infrastructure for such coaching, including helping to launch an angel investor network, a
small incubator and links to mentors, advisers and community resources, in collaboration with a
“pracademic” (John Peterson).
Doing fieldwork in a software firm in Boise ID, as supervisor for Kevin Learned’s NFIB Award Winning
dissertation.
Marriage to a Ph.D. cancer researcher turned self-employed business attorney whose practice serves
inventors, scientists, entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Faculty advising of over 250 semester-long consulting projects for business owners. (This count is of
projects- there were many more students).
Starting and running a teaching program for entrepreneurs (The Owner Manager Program) for three
years. (Our focus was inner city entrepreneurs, mingled with others – including high tech, and
the supply of higher potential entrepreneurs is sadly limited in Milwaukee’s inner city.)
In process of starting a side business in fine art photography. (I use photography in my teaching. My next
major research project with use photo-ethnography.)
I notice that I have not yet included scholarly work. However, as a field researcher and practice-oriented
teacher, I try to learn from and contribute to useful research.
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