Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow in Entrepreneurship, Management and Entrepreneurship

Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship

PhD in Business Administration, University of Michigan

MA in Education, Columbia University

BA in Psychology, Johns Hopkins University

Trust, Entrepreneurship, Social Categorization, Emotion Management, Work Meaning,

Gender and Organization Science - Organization Science, 2018

Old Gold Summer Faculty Fellowship - University of Iowa, 2017

John L. Miclot Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship - John Pappajohn Entrepreneurship Center, 2017

Scholar in Family Business - Smith Family Business Initiative, Johnson College of Business, 2016

Yin, Y., Barrett, R., Williams, M., Wiesenfeld, B., & Wakslak, C. (In Press). (2025). Developing a General Construal Questionnaire. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. DOI: 10.1177/01461672251321318.

Williams, M. (2025). What’s Collaboration Got to Do With It? How Collaborative Approaches Inform Innovativeness Across Academia and Practice. Nurse Leader.New York, New York DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2025.01.004.

Williams, M., Mulvey, P. W., & Mayer, R. C. (2024). Restoring trust in employers: Diagnosing and treating the perception that an organization has “multiple personalities”. Behavioral Science & Policy. 9 (2) pp. 35-44.

Joseph, M. L., Williams, M., Reinke, K., Bair, H., Chae, S., Hanrahan, K., & St. Marie, B. (2024). Relational and Structural Components of Innovativeness Across Academia and Practice for Healthcare Progress Scale (IA-APHPS). The Journal of Nursing Administration. Journal of Nursing Administration. 54 (5) pp. 260-269.

Li, H. J., Wang, X. C., Williams, M., Chen, Y., & Brockner, J. (2023). My boss is younger, less educated, and shorter tenured: When and why status (in) congruence influences promotion system justification. Journal of Applied Psychology. 108 (9) pp. 1445–1460. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001086.

Williams, M., Ghoribani, M., & Kalnins, A. (2023). 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2020.0191.

Mayer, R. C. & Williams, M. (2021). Multilevel Trust in Uncertain Contexts: ODID You Hear We Have a New VP? In Understanding Trust in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective. New York, New York: Routledge.

Kalnins, A. & Williams, M. (2021). The Geography of Female Small Business Survivorship: Examining the roles of Proportional Representation and Stakeholders. Strategic Management Journal. pp. (Online Fi. DOI: 10.1002/smj.3266.

Ancona, D., Williams, M., & Gerlach, G. (2020). The Overlooked Key to Leadership Leading Through Chaos. Sloan Management Review.

Williams, M., Belkin, L., & Chen, C. (2020). Cognitive Flexibility Matters: The Role of Multilevel Affect and Cognitive Flexibility in Shaping Victims’ (Un)Cooperative Behavioral Responses to Trust Violations. Group & Organization Management.

"When No Is Better Than Yes," Accepted Speaker at Annual Faculty Women of Color in the Academy National Conference, April 2021.

"Own Your Leadership," Keynote/Plenary Address at University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, March 2021.

Tippie DEI Faculty Fellow, Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Iowa, 2020 - 2023

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Business Venturing, January 2017.

Associate Editor, Journal of Trust, January 2010 - January 2023.

Editorial Board Member, Organization Science, January 2009 - June 2024.