Mark Addleson
Associate Professor

maddleso@gmu.edu
703-993-3804
703-993-8215 fax
George Mason School of Public Policy
3401 Fairfax Drive – MS 3B1
Arlington, VA 22201

Education
PhD in the Faculty of Management, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

M.A. in Economics, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

B.A. (Hons) Economics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

B.A. (Majors in Economics and Psychology), Rhodes University

Cambridge "A" Levels in Economics and English, St. Andrews College, Grahamstown, South Africa

Biography
Mark Addleson is an Associate Professor of Management Economics at George Mason University School of Public Policy.

Before joining George Mason University in 1994, Dr. Addleson taught for more than 20 years in his native South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was head of the General Management program (marketing, strategy, economics).

From 1996 until 2006 Dr. Addleson directed the Masters program on Organization Development and Knowledge Management. The program focus is on group and team-based approaches to organizing, including understanding the role of communities of practice in the workplace.   Managing projects requires managing and assessing knowledge and knowledge transfer in addition to work flow.

In 2001 Dr. Addleson introducted a Masters program in Knowledge Management in the School of Public Policy.

From 1989 to 1994, Dr. Addleson was a director of Econometrix, a firm of consultants with clients across all sectors of the economy. He has consulted with many companies and public and non-profit organizations both in the United States and South Africa. Most recently, he consulted on the University of Maryland's TAMAR Project (Trauma, Addictions, Mental health And Recovery), using organizational learning ideas and practices in an integrated trauma treatment and education program for women with co-occurring disorders who are inmates in detention centers. Currently he is working in the area of organizational coaching, to develop new approaches to organizational change.

Dr. Addleson publishes regularly in academic journals and has authored books, newspaper articles, and papers presented at local and overseas conferences. Topics include urban and regional policy and regional manufacturing in South Africa, and the foundations of social theory and the nature of management decisions. He has been awarded numerous research grants and the Wits Business School's award for teaching excellence.

Areas of Research

• Knowledge Management
• Organizational Change
• Learning Organizations
• Methodology of Social Inquiry
• Austrian Economics