Stephen R. Barley Richard Weiland Professor of Management Science and Engineering Co-Director, Center for Work, Technology & Organization
	Phone:	(650) 723-9477
	Fax:	(650) 723-1614
	Email:	sbarley [at] stanford [dot] edu
	External web link:	http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/people/faculty/barley/index.html
	Office:	Huang Engineering Center 208
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Research Interests

• Professional and technical work
• Effect of technological change on work and organization
• Social networks
• Corporate power and democracy

Selected Publications

• Stephen R. Barley. (2011) "Email as a Source and Symbol of Stress." Organization Science. 22: 887-906
• Diane Bailey, Stephen R. Barley, Paul M. Leonardi. (2012) "The Lure of the Virtual." Organization Science. 23: 1485-1504
• Stephen R. Barley. (2011) I Save a Technician's Butt and Another Saves MinePp. 98-102 in eds. Research Alive: Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research. Copenhagen, DK: Copenhagen Business School Press.
• Diane Bailey, Stephen R. Barley. (2011) "Teaching-learning ecologies: Mapping the environment to structure through action." Organization Science. 22: 262-285
• Stephen R. Barley. (2011) "Signifying Institutions." Management Communication Quarterly. 25: 200-206
• Stephen R. Barley. (2010) "What's under construction here? Social action, materiality, and power in constructivist studies of technology and organizing." The Academy of Management Annals. 4: 1-55
• Stephen R. Barley. (2010) "Building an Institutional Field to Corral a Government: A Case to Set an Agenda for Organization Studies." Organization Studies. 31: 777-805
• Stephen R. Barley. (2005) What we know (and mostly don’t know) about technical workPp. - in eds. The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization. : .
• Stephen R. Barley. (2007) "Corporations, democracy and the public good ." Journal of Management Inquiry. 16: 201-215
• Stephen R. Barley. (2008) "Rejoinder." Journal of Management Inquiry. 17: 168-171
• Stephen R. Barley. (2008) "A Letter to Editors" Pp. 39-49 in eds. Opening the Black Box of Editorship. New York: Palgrave.
• Stephen R. Barley. (2008) "Coalface institutionalism" Pp. 490-515 in eds. Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Stephen R. Barley. (2006) "Contracting: A New Form of Professional Practice." Academy of Management Perspective. 19: 1-19
• Stephen R. Barley, James Evans, Gideon Kunda. (2004) "Beach Time, Bridge Time and Billable Hours: The Temporal Structure of Technical Contracting." Administrative Science Quarterly. 49: 1-38
• Stephen R. Barley. (2010) "What’s under construction here? Social action, materiality, and power in constructivist studies of technology and organizing." The Academy of Management Annals. 4: 1-55
• Stephen R. Barley. (2004) Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Stephen R. Barley, James Evans, Gideon Kunda. (2002) "Why Do Contractors Contract? The Experience of Highly Skilled Technical Professionals in a Contingent Labor Market." Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 55: 234-261
• Stephen R. Barley, Paul M. Leonardi. (2008) "Materiality and change: challenges to building better theory about technology and organizing." Information and Organization. 18: 159-176
• Stephen R. Barley. (2006) "Itinerant Professionals: Technical Contractors in a Knowledge Economy" Pp. - in eds. America at Work: Choices and Challenges. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Stephen R. Barley. (2006) "When I write my masterpiece: Thoughts on what makes a paper interesting." Academy of Management Journal. 49: 16-20
• Diane Bailey, Stephen R. Barley. (2005) "Return to work: Toward a post-industrial engineering." IIE Transactions. 37: 737-752
• Stephen R. Barley, Gideon Kunda. (2001) "Bringing work back in." Organization Science. 12: 76-95
• Stephen R. Barley, Siobhan O\'Mahoney. (1999) "Do telecommunications technologies affect work and organizations?." Research in Organizational Behavior. 21: 125-161
• Stephen R. Barley. (1998) "What can we learn from the history of technology." The Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. 15: 237-255
• Stephen R. Barley. (1998) "Military downsizing and the career prospects of youth." Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Sciences. 559: 157-
• Stephen R. Barley. (1996) "Technicians in the workplace: Ethnographic evidence for bringing work into organization studies." Administrative Science Quarterly. 41: 404-441

Research Projects

Current Projects

• The Institutional Field of Corporate Political Power
• Networks of Corporate Power
• How the Internet is Changing the Work of Car Salesman

Completed Projects

• The Social Construction of Telecommuting
• Assessing the Role of Technology in the Work of Modern Engineers
• Contingent Work in Silicon Valley
• The Effects of Communication Technologies on Availability
• Transformation Of Engineering Design: Digitization And Global Distribution Of Engineering Work

Courses

• MS&E 181 Issues in Technology and Work for a Post-Industrial Economy
• MS&E 108 Senior Project
• MS&E 281 Management and Organization of Research and Development
• MS&E 381A. Doctoral Research Seminar in Work, Technology, and Organization: Theoretical Underpinnings
• MS&E 383. Doctoral Seminar on Ethnographic Research