Matthew McCaffrey is Lecturer in Enterprise at the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. He is the recipient of the 2012 Richard E. Fox Foundation Research Prize, the 2010 Lawrence W. Fertig Prize in Austrian Economics, and the 2017 Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Excellence in Research and Teaching. His research focuses on the social and economic role of entrepreneurship, and the influence of institutions on entrepreneurial behavior. He has published on entrepreneurial decision making, judgement strategy, and the history of entrepreneurial ideas.