About

Professor Matthew Williams is associated with the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University. The center assists faculty in developing translational research projects, providing support such as proposal preparation, training, technical assistance, and fostering collaborative relationships. The center also offers workshops, an intensive summer institute, and talks on current research topics, aiming to facilitate the dissemination and funding of translational research. Specific details about Professor Williams's individual research focus, background, or key contributions are not provided on the page.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Business
• Sociology
• Public relations
• Demographic economics
• Finance
• Demography
• Management
• Psychotherapist
• Economics
• Marketing

Selected publications

• Developing a General Construal Questionnaire

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · 2025-03-23

  articleOpen access

  thinking and concrete thinking shape how we interpret and interact with the world. One of the most influential approaches to abstract and concrete construals is Construal Level Theory, which has primarily taken a situational approach to studying construal level. The current research develops the General Construal Questionnaire to measure individuals' general tendencies toward abstract and concrete thinking, opening possibilities for new research that extends past the focus on situational construal. Distinguishing abstract and concrete construals as distinct factors reveals that they have unique effects. Abstract construal correlates with extraversion, openness to experience, a focus on the future, promotion, and desirability, a preference for cognition, tolerance for uncertainty, and a tendency to perceive similarities, stereotype, and evaluate. Concrete construal correlates with conscientiousness, a focus on the present, prevention, and feasibility, a preference for certainty and perfectionism, and a tendency to perceive differences and make daily progress.

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• Student Success Initiatives Drive Decrease in Academic Progression Committee Appearances

  American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education · 2025-11-01

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Objective: In 2021, following the COVID-19 pandemic, student appearances before the Gatton College of Pharmacy (GCOP) Academic Progression Committee (APC) were at an all-time high, and a number of recent matriculates in the first professional (P1) year dropped out of the PharmD program before the end of the first semester. The APC sought to evaluate mechanisms to enhance student retention while retaining academic rigor and achievement of programmatic outcomes.

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• What’s Collaboration Got to Do With It? How Collaborative Approaches Inform Innovativeness Across Academia and Practice

  Nurse Leader · 2025-02-06

  article1st authorCorresponding
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• Using ALEKS to Remediate Gaps in Pre-requisite Knowledge for PharmD Students

  American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education · 2024-09-01

  articleOpen access
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• The Implications of Increasingly Porous Boundaries for Workplace Relationships

  Academy of Management Proceedings · 2024-07-09

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  Workplace relationships promote productivity, growth, and well-being in organizations. However, as the work context changes, the nature of workplace relationships, the processes by which they are formed and maintained, and their functions may change as well. This symposium includes four studies that examine the ways in which workplace and societal shifts impact relational processes and outcomes. All four studies emphasize the increasingly porous boundary between work and life, considering the effects of alternative work arrangements and macrosocietal events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and global wars on workplace relationships and examining how nonwork relationships may fulfill work-related needs. The presentations and planned discussion will shed light on the ways in which relationships may be impacted by changes to work and worker concerns and the ways in which relationships may help employees navigate the changing world of work. Are All Relational Resources Equal? The Joint Effects of Work and Nonwork Relationships Author: Madison Mucci-Ferris; Tippie College of Business, U. of Iowa Author: Amy E. Colbert; U. of Iowa Homers, Officers, and Flexers: How Work Modalities Impact Workplace Relationships Author: Radostina Krassimirova Purvanova; Drake U. Author: Alanah Mitchell; Drake U. Coworkers’ Cross-Domain Conversations: Energizing and Preoccupying Effects of COVID-19 Author: Catherine Kleshinski; Indiana U., Bloomington Author: Kelly Schwind Wilson; Purdue U., West Lafayette Transformative Events: The Vicarious Effects of Distant War on Employee Prosocial Behavior Author: Liuba Belkin; Lehigh U. Author: Michele Williams; U. of Iowa Author: William J. Becker; Virginia Tech Author: Sarah Tuskey; Virginia Tech

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• Development and Testing of the Relational and Structural Components of Innovativeness Across Academia and Practice for Healthcare Progress Scale

  JONA The Journal of Nursing Administration · 2024-04-17 · 7 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: Using data from 5 academic-practice sites across the United States, researchers developed and validated a scale to measure conditions that enable healthcare innovations. BACKGROUND: Academic-practice partnerships are a catalyst for innovation and healthcare development. However, limited theoretically grounded evidence exists to provide strategic direction for healthcare innovation across practice and academia. METHODS: Phase 1 of the analytical strategy involved scale development using 16 subject matter experts. Phase 2 involved pilot testing the scale. RESULTS: The final Innovativeness Across Academia and Practice for Healthcare Progress Scale (IA-APHPS) consisted of 7 domains: 3 relational domains, 2 structural domains, and 2 impact domains. The confirmatory factor analysis model fits well with a comparative fit index of 0.92 and a root-mean-square error of approximation of 0.06 (n = 477). CONCLUSION: As the 1st validated scale of healthcare innovation, the IA-APHPS allows nurses to use a diagnostic tool to facilitate innovative processes and outputs across academic-practice partnerships.

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• It's More About ‘We’ Than ‘I’: Employee-Supervisor Fit in Achievement Striving, Organizational Identification, and Employee Voice

  Management and Organization Review · 2024-06-01

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  Abstract By integrating the theory of purposeful work behavior with the person-environment (P-E) fit literature, we employ a bilateral approach to examine how employee-supervisor congruence in purposeful work striving (i.e., achievement striving) influences employee voice behavior via an internal motivation mechanism (i.e., organizational identification). Using polynomial regressions with response surface modeling, we analyze data from 827 employees and their 197 supervisors in two studies. The results show that achievement-driven employees are more likely to speak up when employee-supervisor achievement striving is congruent, regardless of whether it is high or low. Furthermore, employee-supervisor congruence in achievement striving enhances employees’ felt oneness with the organization and organizational identification, which in turn fuels their voice behavior. We conclude with theoretical and practical implications.

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• Geography and Historically Marginalized Groups: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  Academy of Management Proceedings · 2023-07-24

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  The topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion of historically marginalized groups has recently garnered great scholarly interest in management. In this symposium, we build on this recent interest and examine the role of geography in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship of individuals from historically marginalized groups. Geography provides a platform for organizing regional innovation and entrepreneurial activity. Yet, relatively little empirical research examines how elements of the geographic environment influence the innovation and entrepreneurship of individuals from historically marginalized groups. The papers in this symposium specifically examine how geographic variations in regulations, industry agglomerations, research infrastructures, and concentration of businesses of marginalized groups affect the innovation and entrepreneurship of historically marginalized groups. Each study addresses the unique role geography plays, with potential implications for broader social issues on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Universities as Catalysts for Gender Inclusion in Innovation Author: Mercedes Delgado; Copenhagen Business School and MIT Author: Fiona Murray; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Geographic Agglomeration of Industry and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship Author: Pyung Nahm; U. of Minnesota Geographic Opportunities for Startup Employment and Labor Market Flexibility Author: Aleksandra Joanna Kacperczyk; London Business School Author: Francesco Castellaneta; SKEMA Business School Author: Raffaele Conti; ESSEC Business School Expressing a Business-Owner Identity Versus Underrepresented Demographic Identities Author: Arturs T. Kalnins; U. of Iowa Author: Michele Williams; U. of Iowa

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• Perspective on This Article from Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH) Profiles—Validated Risk Predictors for Progression to Oral Cancer

  2023-04-03

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  Perspective on This Article from Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH) Profiles—Validated Risk Predictors for Progression to Oral Cancer

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• Moving to the Big City: Temporal, Demographic, and Geographic Influences on the Perceptions of Gender-Related Business Acumen among Male and Female Migrant Entrepreneurs in China

  Academy of Management Discoveries · 2023-04-11 · 7 citations

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  Do migrant entrepreneurs from rural areas hold more traditional or more egalitarian gender-role perceptions, when immersed in urban areas? The answer to this question affects China’s within-country migrant entrepreneurs, who are increasingly women, because egalitarian gender-role perceptions increase the resources provided to female entrepreneurs by key stakeholders, including other migrant entrepreneurs. Currently, we know little about the gender equity and gender perceptions evidenced at the intersection of two significant trends in China: (1) rural–urban migration and (2) entrepreneurship. To advance our understanding of the gender bias that female migrant entrepreneurs may encounter, we first analyzed business acumen indicators of a nationally and geographically representative sample of 4660 entrepreneurs in China using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data (Study 1). Second, we analyzed differences in gender perceptions regarding female business acumen of 293 migrant entrepreneurs based in Beijing (Study 2). The perceptions of all entrepreneurs in rural areas (Study 1) and of male migrant entrepreneurs who were originally from rural areas (Study 2) are the most consistent with traditional gender-role stereotypes. However, male migrant entrepreneurs’ tenure and interactions in Beijing and all entrepreneurs’ exposure to higher proportions of female entrepreneurs were associated with more egalitarian perceptions. Migrant entrepreneurship in China provides insights into the differential influence of gender and home region socialization on the gender stereotypes and business-related perceptions of those immersed in a location with more egalitarian gender stereotypes.

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Frequent coauthors

• Amy Hurst

  New York University

  10 shared

• Shaun K. Kane

  Google (United States)

  7 shared

• Liuba Y. Belkin

  Lehigh University

  6 shared

• Arturs Kalnins

  5 shared

• M. Raveendran

  Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

  5 shared

• Ali Abdolrahmani

  University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  4 shared

• Roger C. Mayer

  4 shared

• Theresa Gallivan

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  4 shared

Education

• B.S.

  University of the West Indies

• M.S.

  University of the West Indies