Alexander Lewis, PhD

Melvin Lachman Chair in Entrepreneurship

Associate Professor, Management

A San Antonio native, Alexander Lewis joined the UT San Antonio faculty in 2020. His research interests include entrepreneurship, economic sociology and organizational theory. Specifically, his work explores the ways in which markets and market systems can be better harnessed towards the creation of economic and social value.

Lewis’ research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and he has published articles in journals such as Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Journal of Business Venturing, among others.

He is an associate editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (FT50), one of the leading entrepreneurship journals, and serves on the editorial review board of Journal of Business Venturing. He also co-leads the Alvarez-Powell Lab for Entrepreneurship Policy Prototyping (LEPP) at UT San Antonio, which designs and tests entrepreneurship policies via field experiments.

Lewis earned his PhD in Management and Organization Studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio.