Kevin W. Rockmann is a professor of management at the George Mason School of Business. His primary research area is psychological attachment and relationship formation and as such is particularly interested in theories of identity, social exchange, and motivation. He enjoys studying distributed, virtual, on-demand, and other nontraditional work contexts. His research has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Academy of Management Proceedings, among other outlets. His research has also been covered by Time, the New York Times, NPR, Forbes, and the Chicago Tribune. He designed and has taught MBA and undergraduate negotiation courses for 15 years and in the process has won six separate teaching awards. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Administrative Science Quarterly.
Claus W. Langfred is an associate professor of management in the School of Business at George Mason University. He received his PhD in organization behavior from Northwestern University in 1998, where he worked with the Dispute Resolution Research Center. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, Small Group Research, and International Journal of Conflict Management. His work has also appeared in multiple book chapters, been selected for the Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management, and been covered in the Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Trust Research and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. He has taught negotiation for over 20 years, primarily at the MBA level, but also in other graduate and undergraduate programs, as well as to executive clients. He has received numerous teaching awards at multiple universities (Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, and George Mason University) for both graduate and undergraduate classes on negotiation.
Matthew A. Cronin is an associate professor of management in the School of Business at George Mason University. He received his PhD in organizational behavior from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. His research has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Annals, and Management Science and has been presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He has served on the editorial boards of Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Management Science, Academy of Management Review and is currently an associate editor at Organizational Psychology Review. He has won numerous teaching awards and is the coauthor (with Jeffrey Loewenstein) of The Craft of Creativity (Stanford University Press, 2018).
