Executive Director, UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research
Professor, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management
Office: 510 Carl H. Lindner Hall
Email: charles.matthews@uc.edu
Phone: 513.556.7123
Fax: 513.556.5499
Dr. Matthews is an internationally recognized scholar and innovative teacher in the field of entrepreneurship. His teaching and research interests include: strategic management; small, entrepreneurial, and family-owned ventures; and leadership succession in family/privately held firms. His research has been published in the Journal of Small Business Management; the Journal of Small Business Strategy; Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Family Business Review, The Center for the Quality of Management Journal, and the International Journal of Operations & Production Management. He has been quoted in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Industry Week, Business Week, and Inc. He was a regular columnist on small business and entrepreneurship for The Cincinnati Post from 1998-2001.
An award winning teacher, Dr. Matthews has taught over 5,000 students ranging from freshmen to doctoral students to executives, from individual instruction to classes of 540. He has facilitated over 400 faculty-guided, student-based field case studies and has served as a consultant to numerous organizations including many family businesses. In addition to his consulting practice, Dr. Matthews has entrepreneurial and family business experience in the automotive, photographic, and real estate industries. An educational entrepreneur as well, he is the founder of the UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education Research in 1997, which was named one of the top 50 Entrepreneurship programs in the U.S. in 2001 (Success Magazine) and a top tier and top 100 nationally recognized program in 2003, 2004, and 2005 (Entrepreneur Magazine).Their paper, "Measuring the Impact of Social Networks on Entrepreneurial Success: The Master Mind Principle," was one of only 180 out of 350 submissions to be selected for presentation at the conference. As a result of the prestigious invitation, Matthews and Lonier were permitted to share their findings with more than 300 scholars in attendance. Their presentation summarized their research, which focused upon the prevalence of social capital networking among small business and the affects of these networks on the entrepreneur.
Since the conference, their research has garnered repeated recognition. It has been highlighted in the June 28-July 2, 2004 issue of the National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship, an electronic newsletter sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
The research drew additional attention in the July 19, 2004 issue of The MicroEnterprise Journal, a weekly publication covering issues that affect micro businesses. The journal summarized the research's findings as well as speculated its ramifications. It indicated hopes that the new research, and that to follow, would prompt policy makers to pass legislation to promote the success of small businesses, without compromising the independence of the owner. The MicroEnterprise Journal went as far as to cite the research as "the most important study of these very small businesses since Joanne Pratt's 1999 study of home-based businesses."
