Stephen R. Barley

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Stephen R. Barley

Business

#270

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#294

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#123

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Management

#55

World Rank

#59

Historical Rank

#31

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Accounting

#91

World Rank

#106

Historical Rank

#36

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Stephen R. Barley's Degrees

PhD Organizational Behavior Stanford University
Masters Industrial Engineering Stanford University
Bachelors Industrial Engineering Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Stephen R. Barley is an American organizational theorist and Christian A. Felipe Professor of Technology Management at the College of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. Previously he was The Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Barley's research focuses on the role of technology in organizational change and organizational/occupational culture.

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Stephen R. Barley's Published Works

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Technology as an occasion for structuring: evidence from observations of CT scanners and the social order of radiology departments. (1986) (2953)
Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution (1997) (2538)
Occupational Communities: Culture and Control in Organizations (1982) (1288)
Design and devotion: Surges of rational and normative ideologies of control in managerial discourse. (1992) (1278)
Technology and Institutions: What Can Research on Information Technology and Research on Organizations Learn from Each Other? (2001) (1241)
Bringing Work Back In (2001) (1068)
The alignment of technology and structure through roles and networks. (1990) (962)
Materiality and Change: Challenges to Building Better Theory about Technology and Organizing (2008) (748)
Technicians in the Workplace: Ethnographic Evidence for Bringing Work into Organizational Studies (1996) (686)
What’s Under Construction Here? Social Action, Materiality, and Power in Constructivist Studies of Technology and Organizing (2010) (590)
Semiotics and the Study of Occupational and Organizational Cultures. (1983) (556)
E-mail as a Source and Symbol of Stress (2011) (487)
Cultures of culture: Academics, practitioners and the pragmatics of normative control (1988) (473)
Careers, identities, and institutions: the legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology (1989) (459)
Images of Imaging: Notes on Doing Longitudinal Field Work (1990) (388)
Cultural Organization: Fragments of a Theory, (1983) (377)
Why Do Contractors Contract? The Experience of Highly Skilled Technical Professionals in a Contingent Labor Market (2002) (357)
Corporations, Democracy, and the Public Good (2007) (257)
Organizations and Social Systems: Organization Theory's Neglected Mandate. (1996) (257)
Building an Institutional Field to Corral a Government: A Case to Set an Agenda for Organization Studies (2010) (238)
Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy (2004) (227)
The Lure of the Virtual (2012) (215)
The Changing Nature of Work: Careers, Identities, and Work Lives in the 21st Century (2017) (206)
Beach Time, Bridge Time, and Billable Hours: The Temporal Structure of Technical Contracting (2004) (195)
Contracting: A New Form of Professional Practice (2006) (168)
Between craft and science : technical work in U.S. settings (1998) (155)
In the Backrooms of Science (1994) (141)
For Love or Money? Commodification and the Construction of an Occupational Mandate (1997) (117)
When I Write My Masterpiece: Thoughts On What Makes A Paper Interesting (2006) (107)
The New World Of Work (1996) (101)
America's Working Man (1984) (91)
Introduction: At the Intersection of Organizations and Occupations (1991) (87)
Why the Internet Makes Buying a Car Less Loathsome: How Technologies Change Role Relations (2015) (86)
Bridging the Gaps between Engineering Education and Practice (2017) (72)
60th Anniversary Essay (2016) (70)
The Social Construction of a Machine: Ritual, Superstition, Magical Thinking and other Pragmatic Responses to Running a CT Scanner (1988) (63)
Do digital telecommunications affect work and organization? The state of our knowledge. (1999) (61)
Teaching-Learning Ecologies: Mapping the Environment to Structure Through Action (2011) (60)
What we know (And Mostly Don't Know) about Technical Work (2006) (56)
What can we learn from the history of technology (1998) (52)
Beyond design and use: How scholars should study intelligent technologies (2020) (46)
The emergence of a new commercial actor: community managed software projects (2002) (46)
Situated Redesign in Creative Occupations – An Ethnography of Architects (2017) (43)
In the Backrooms of Science: The Work of Technicians in Science Labs. EQW Working Papers WP11. (1993) (35)
Return to work: Toward post-industrial engineering (2005) (31)
The Codes of the Dead (1983) (28)
Does CSCW need organization theory? (2004) (24)
1. Technical Work in the Division of Labor: Stalking the Wily Anomaly (2018) (23)
What Do Technicians Mean When They Talk about Professionalism? An Ethnography of Speaking (2016) (20)
Work and Technological Change (2020) (19)
The Social Production of Technical Work: The Case of British Engineers. (1988) (19)
The Practice and Uses of Field Research in the 21st Century Organization (1999) (18)
Problems in Using Patient Satisfaction Data to Assess the Quality of Care Provided by Primary Care Physicians (2000) (17)
Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry. (1989) (14)
Military Downsizing and the Career Prospects of Youths (1998) (13)
INTRODUCTION: THE NEGLECTED WORKFORCE (2018) (12)
Be Careful What You Wish For (2016) (10)
The professional, the semi-professional, and the machines : the social ramifications of computer based imaging in radiology (1984) (10)
Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in U.S. Settings (1998) (10)
Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Social Mobility in the American Middle Class. (1990) (9)
Organizations and professions (1991) (9)
Signifying Institutions (2011) (9)
Military Organizations, Complex Machines: Modernization in the U.S. Armed Forces. (1993) (9)
Professionalization in Cyberinfrastructure (2018) (6)
The New Crafts: On the "Technization" of the Workforce and the "Occupationalization" of Firms (1992) (6)
The New Crafts: The Rise of the Technical Labor Force and Its Implication for the Organization of Work. EQW Working Papers. (1992) (5)
Working Institutions (2019) (5)
Shaping the Political Environment: An Ethnography of Public Affairs Professionals at Work (2019) (4)
Practice Makes Perfect: Emergency Medical Technicians and the Social Negotiation of a Skilled Occupational Identity. EQW Working Papers. (1992) (3)
Confessions of a Mad Ethnographer (2015) (3)
Dissertation: "Explaining the Source and Tempo of Invention: Recombinant Learning and Exhaustion in Technological Evolution" (2013) (2)
Toward an Emic Understanding of Professionalism among Technical Workers. EQW Working Papers WP29. (1994) (2)
Itinerant Professionals: Technical Contractors in a Knowledge Economy (2006) (2)
Customer codevelopment: the corneli-xerox joint study project, interim report (1991) (2)
How Should We Study Intelligent Technologies’ Implications for Work and Employment? (2020) (1)
A Letter to Editors (2008) (1)
How Virtuality Impacts the Way Teams Work: The Digital Organization (2013) (1)
Navigating the Future of Work: Ratings, Algorithms, and Digital Platforms (2018) (1)
How Do Technologies Change Organizations? (2020) (1)
Taking the Burdens: The Strategic Role of the Funeral Director (2015) (1)
Managing the Fears of Studying Technical Work (2020) (1)
RESUME CE 071 300 Nelsen , Bonalyn J . ; Barley , Stephen R . Toward an Emic Understanding of Professionalism among (2012) (0)
Will Military Reductions Create Shortages of Trained Personnel and Harm the Career Prospects of American Youth? EQW Working Papers WP26. (1994) (0)
The Work of Technologies & Technologies at Work: Implications for Organizing, Managing & Innovating (2017) (0)
Book Review: Human Resources: America's Working Man (1986) (0)
Foreword (2019) (0)
Katherine K. Chen: Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization behind the Burning Man Event. (2010) (0)
"Understanding New Technological Products: Identity, Practice, & Materiality" (2013) (0)
"Changing Institutions: New Logics, Reforms and Labor Structures in Professional Organizations" (2015) (0)
"Technization" of the Workforce and the "Occupatioalization" of Firms (1992) (0)
Inequality and the New Employment Relationship (2013) (0)
What Do Technicians Do ? (2012) (0)
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Fred Turner. (2007) (0)
can we the history (2003) (0)
Book Review: Human Resources, Personnel, and Organizational Behavior: The Human Side of Factory Automation: Managerial and Human Resource Strategies for Making Automation Succeed (1990) (0)
Book Review: Human Resources, Personnel, and Organizational Behavior: Job Redesign: Critical Perspectives on the Labor Process (1987) (0)
Research in the Sociology of Organizations: A Research Annual, Volume 8. (1992) (0)
Wrestling with Digital Objects and Technologies in Studies of Work (2021) (0)
Book Review: Seeing like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars (2016) (0)
Employment Relationships in the Gig Economy: Advancing Theory and Empirical Knowledge (2017) (0)
Pebble in a Pond (2007) (0)
What Do Technicians Do? EQW Working Papers WP17. (1993) (0)
Rejoinder (2008) (0)
What is a Technological Revolution? (2020) (0)
JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy: Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880 (2020) (0)
Political Ideology and Organizations (2015) (0)

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