Contact Information Catherine D. Cramton, Ph.D. George Mason University School of Management MS 5F5  Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444 Office: (703) 993-1814 Fax:     (703) 993-1870 E-mail: ccramton@gmu.edu

Biographical Information

Catherine Durnell Cramton is an Associate Professor in the School of Management, George Mason University. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University, and her A.B. degree from Harvard University.  Her research explores culture-specific coordination practices, cross-cultural adaptation, and subgroup dynamics, attribution and language issues in globally-distributed work teams. In Fall 2008, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Mediterranean School of Business, Tunis, where she deepened her understanding of the Mediterranean Rim cultural, economic and political context. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Bechtel Foundation.

Recent papers include "The meeting genre across cultures: Insights from German-American collaborations," (with T. Köhler and P. Hinds), which is forthcoming in Small Group Research, "Studying global work groups in the field" (with P. Hinds), which is forthcoming in Research Methods for Studying Groups and Teams, A. Hollingshead & M.S. Poole, Eds., "The dialectical dynamics of nested structuration in globally distributed teams (with P. Hinds), which appeared in the 2009 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, and "Situation invisibility and attribution in distributed collaborations" (with K. Orvis and J. Wilson), which appeared in the Journal of Management in 2007. Earlier work includes "Subgroup dynamics in internationally distributed teams: Ethnocentrism or cross-national learning" (with P. Hinds), which appeared in Research in Organizational Behavior in 2005, "Relationships among geographic dispersion, team processes, and effectiveness in software development work teams"  (with S. Webber), which appeared in the Journal of Business Research in 2005, "Overcoming barriers to information sharing in virtual teams" (with K. Orvis),  which appeared in Virtual Teams That Work, C. Gibson & S. Cohen, Eds., Jossey Bass, 2003,  "The mutual knowledge problem and its consequences for dispersed collaboration," which appeared in Organization Science in 2001 , "Finding common ground in dispersed collaboration," which appeared in Organizational Dynamics in 2002, and "Attribution in distributed work groups," which appeared in Distributed Work, P. Hinds & S. Kiesler, Eds., MIT Press, 2002.

 "The mutual knowledge problem and its consequences for dispersed collaboration" won the 2002 Best Published Paper Award, given by the Organizational Communication and Information Systems division of the Academy of Management.  Professor Cramton's work also has been featured in Business Week Online.

Professor Cramton teaches in the areas of cross-cultural and global management, organizational behavior, and leadership. She was the recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Contributions to Teaching award in the School of Management for her innovation in the classroom, contributions to the school's global mission, and teaching across all programs and levels. Students in her undergraduate and graduate classes have learned about culture and virtual work through partnerships with students at universities such as Johannes Kepler University (Austria), the University of Melbourne (Australia), the Turku School of Economics (Finland), Bocconi University (Italy), University of Auckland (New Zealand), University of Western Australia (Australia), and Niels Brock Business Academy (Denmark). Professor Cramton also has led graduate student residencies to Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, Hungary, and Tunisia. She has published pedagogical articles in the Journal of Management Education and the Journal of Teaching in International Business.