Matthew Grimes

Research interests

Entrepreneurship; business and society; organisational identity and identification; creativity; the governance of unintended consequences.

Dr Matthew Grimes’s research examines how individuals and organisations create, introduce, and sustain positive social change by way of entrepreneurship. To this end he studies both the contextual factors (e.g. regional and institutional differences) that enable innovation and social change as well as the individual factors (e.g. demographic and identity differences) that motivate and sustain individuals’ commitment to such change. He studies these factors primarily in contexts such as social entrepreneurship and business incubators/accelerators, where attempts to create, introduce, and sustain social change and innovation are particularly important and challenging.

Previous appointments

• Matthew Grimes was previously Assistant Professor at the University of Indiana’s Kelley School of Business (2015-2018) and also at the University of Alberta School of Business (2012-2015). Dr Grimes was appointed a Visiting Scholar in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School (2015) as well as an International Research Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University (2015-2018).

Awards & honours

• Emerging Scholar Award, ENT Division of the Academy of Management, 2018
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Journal, 2018
• Presidential Responsible Research in Management Award, co-sponsored by the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management and The International Association for Chinese Management Research, 2017 (inaugural year)
• Best Paper Award, 13th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference, 2016
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Journal, 2016
• Best Paper Award, SAP Division, Academy of Management, 2016
• People’s Choice Award from the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, 2015
• Research Fellow, Canadian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, 2012-2015
• Nova Faculty Fellow, 2014-2015
• Southam Edmonton Journal Faculty Fellow, 2013-2014

Selected publications

Here are a selection of Matthew Grimes’s publications. Please see the “Selected publications” tab above for a more comprehensive list.

Logue, D. and Grimes, M. (2020) “Platforms for the people: enabling civic crowdfunding through the cultivation of institutional infrastructure.” Strategic Management Journal (DOI: 10.1002/smj.3110) (available online Nov 2019)

Grimes, M.G. (2018) “The pivot: how founders respond to feedback through idea and identity work.” Academy of Management Journal, 61(5): 1692-1717 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2015.0823)

Grimes, M.G., Williams, T.A. and Zhao, E.Y. (2018) “Anchors aweigh: the sources, variety, and challenges of mission drift.” Academy of Management Review, 61(5): 1692-1717 (DOI: 10.5465/amr.2017.0254)

Gehman, J. and Grimes, M. (2017) “Hidden badge of honor: how contextual distinctiveness affects category promotion among Certified B Corporations.” Academy of Management Journal, 60(6): 2294-2320 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2015.0416)

Amezcua, A.S., Grimes, M.G., Bradley, S.W. and Wiklund, J. (2013) “Organizational sponsorship and founding environments: a contingency view on the survival of business incubated firms, 1994-2007.” Academy of Management Journal, 56(6): 1628-1654 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2011.0652)

Grimes, M.G., McMullen, J.S., Vogus, T.J. and Miller, T.L. (2013) “Studying the origins of social entrepreneurship: compassion and the role of embedded agency.” Academy of Management Review, 38(3): 460-463 (DOI: 10.5465/amr.2012.0429)

Education

• PhD Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management (2007 — 2012)
• MSc Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (2006 — 2007)
• B.B.A. William & Mary (1998 — 2002)

Companies

• Professor in Organizational Theory and Information Systems University of Cambridge (2021)
• Reader Cambridge Judge Business School (2018 — 2021)
• Assistant Professor Indiana University (2015 — 2018)
• Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Organization University of Alberta (2012 — 2015)
• Doctoral Candidate Vanderbilt University (2007 — 2012)
• Associate Director Corporate Executive Board (2002 — 2006)
• Research Associate Corporate Executive Board (2002 — 2003)

Skills

• Teaching
• Nonprofits
• Higher Education