Matthew A. Cronin George Mason University
Dr. Matthew A. Cronin is an associate professor in the School of Management at George Mason University, and the 2016–2017 Conflict Management Division Chair of the Academy of Management. He is also an associate editor at The Academy of Management Annals, and incoming editor of Organizational Psychology Review. He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Cronin’s research seeks to understand how to make collaboration more creative and effective. His research has appeared in top-tier management publications such as The Academy of Management Review, The Academy of Management Annals, Management Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His research has been written about in The Boston Globe, Fortune, and presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He coauthored two books: The Craft of Creativity (Stanford University Press, 2018) and The Influential Negotiator (Sage Publishing, 2020).
Before re-entering academia, Dr. Cronin was president of Avalon Internetworking Corporation, LLC which provided B2B networking solutions to a wide variety of New York Metro area companies. He currently serves as chief scientific advisor for Process Metrics, an applied research organization that studies how aspects of team collaboration, as perceived by team members, can be used as lead indicators of schedule slippage, cost overruns, and safety hazards in large-scale hospital construction projects.
