R. Michael Holmes Jr. is the Jim Moran Professor of Strategic Management in the Herbert Wertheim College of Business at Florida State University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on the psychological foundations of strategy and entrepreneurship and on the origins of institutions and their implications for management. Michael has over 50 publications, many of which are in management’s top journals. He also has taught principles of small business management to entrepreneurs in both Africa and the U.S. Michael received his B.S. from the University of Alabama and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.
Bruton et al. (2025) invited us to a Point/Counterpoint debate about management and organizational scholarship (MOS) in various institutional contexts. The Point’s primary thesis was that MOS is misguided because it reflects a U.S.-centric capitalist bias. It then presented four “varieties of… Read More »We Don’t Need a Socialist Perspective on Entrepreneurship