Bio of Barbara Gray
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Professor of Organizational Behavior, Director, Center for Research in Conflict and Negotiation |
Introduction
Dr. Barbara Gray is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Director, Center for Research in Conflict and Negotiation, at The Pennsylvania State University. She holds the following degrees: B.S. in Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude), University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, 1968; Secondary Education Certificate, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1973; and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1979. Dr. Gray has held the following visiting positions: Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation during 1987-88, Visiting Faculty, the Katholicke Universiteit Leuven in 1997, TVA Fellow at The Darden School, University of Virginia in 1998, and Boer & Croon Chaired Professor at the TIAS Business School, Tilburg University in 2004. Dr. Gray is also a trained mediator and consults to organizations about conflict and collaboraiton.
Dr. Gray's has published three books: Collaborating: Finding common ground for multiparty problems (Jossey-Bass, 1989); international Joint Ventures: Economic and organizational perspectives (with Kalyan Chatterjee, Kluwer, 1995), and Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts: Concepts and cases (with Roy Lewicki & Michael Elliott, Island Press, 2003). she has over 70 publications including work in Administrative Sciences Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Management and Journal of Management Inquiry.
Current Research
Dr. Gray's research interests include interorganizaitonal relations, multiparty cofllabofrative alliances, organizational and envnironmental conflict, team dynamics and sensemaking. She is currently studying the impacts of repair of relationship conflict on organizations and investigating leadership functions in multiparty alliances including a project with the National Insitutes of Health to study transdiciplinary teams.
Expertise
Conflict and Negotiation
Public/Private Partnerships
Cross-Sectoral Collaboration
Environmental and Diversity-Related Disputes
Interorganizational Relations
Team Conflict
Publication List
Ren, H. & Gray B., "Repairing Relationship Conflict: How violation types and culture determine appropriate restoration rituals", Academy of Management Review.
Purdy, J. & Gray, B., "Field Multiplicity, Conflict and Differential Institutionalization: The case of the state offices of mediation", Academy of Management Journal, Forthcoming.
Ren, H., Gray, B. & Kim, K., "Performance in International Joint Ventures: What factors really make a difference", Journal of Management, Forthcoming.
Gibson, D., Schweitzer, M., Callister, R., & B. Gray, "The Influence of Anger Expressions on Outcomes in Organizations", Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, Forthcoming.
Chiaburu, D. & Gray, B., "Emotional Incompetence or Gender-Based Stereotyping?", Journal of Applied Behavior Science, 43 (4).
Gray, B., "Enhancing Transdisciplinary Research through Collaborative Leadership", American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35 2S, S124-S132.
Brummans, B. H. J. M., Putnam, L.L., Gray, B., Hanke, R., Lewicki, R.J., & Wiethoff, C., "Making Sense of Intractable Multiparty Conflict: A Study of Framing in Four Environmental Disputes", Communication Monographs, 75 (1), 25-51.
B. Gray, "Interventions for Fostering Collaboration. In Huxham, C., Ebers, M., Cropper, S., & Ring, P. (Eds.)", Handbook of Interorganizational Relations. , 75 (1), 664-690.
B. Gray and S. Kaufman, "The Process of Partnership Construction: Anticipating obstacles and enhancing the likelihood of successful partnerships for sustainable development. In P. Glasbergen, F. Biermann, & A.P.J. Mols (Eds.", Partnerships, Governance and Sustainable Development: Reflections on theory and practice, 75 (1), 29 - 48.
B. Gray, "Ego and Identity as Barriers to Transformative Cooperation: Lessons from Feminism and Buddhism. In S.K. Piderit, Fry, R.E., & Cooperider, D. (Eds.),", Handbook of Transformative Cooperation, 75 (1), 127-150.
Gray, B., Coleman, P. & L. Putnam, "Intractable Conflicts: New perspectives on the causes and conditions for change", American Behavioral Scientist, 50 (10), 1-15.
Mollica, K., B. Gray, and L. Treviño, "The Persistence of Race Homophily among Newcomers in a Culturally-Diverse Setting: A Longitudinal Network Study", Organization Science, 15 (3), 136-151.
Editorship
Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Journal, 2004-present
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Behavioral Scince, 2005-present (previously Assoc. Editor)
Education
Ph.D.,
Organizational Behavior,
Case Western Reserve University,
1979
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Secondary Education,
Cleveland State University,
1971
B.S.,
Chemistry,
University of Dayton,
1968
Courses
Mgmt. 592, Qualitative Research Methods
Mgmt. 520, Team Facilitation
Mgmt. 521, Complex Negotiations
BA 502, Team Dynamics and Performance