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Stephen R. Barley

Title:	Professor; Charles M. Pigott Professor in the School of Engineering
Department(s):	Management Science and Engineering
Affiliation(s):	Co-Director, Center for Work, Technology & Organization
Location:	Terman 422
Mail Code:	4026
Phone:	650.723.9477
Fax:	650.723.2826
E-mail:	sbarley@leland.stanford.edu
URL:	http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/people/faculty/barley/index.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/cgi-bin/barley.php
Administrator:	Lorrie Papadakis

Research Statement

Stephen R. Barley is the Charles M. Pigott Professor of Management Science and Engineering, the Co- Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford's School of Engineering and the Co-Director of the Stanford/General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in Organization Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to coming to Stanford in 1994, Barley served for ten years on the faculty of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He was editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly from 1993 to 1997 and the founding editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2002 to 2004. He has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, The Journal of Management Studies and Organization Science. Barley has been the recipient the Academy of Management's New Concept Award. He was a member of the Board of Senior Scholars of the National Center for the Educational Quality of the Workforce and co-chaired National Research Council and the National Academy of Science's committee on the changing occupational structure in the United States. The committee's report, The Changing Nature of Work, was published in 1999. Barley has written extensively on the impact of new technologies on work, the organization of technical work and organizational culture. He edited a volume on technical work entitled Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States published in 1997 by the Cornell University Press. In collaboration with Gideon Kunda of Tel Aviv University, Barley has recently published a book on contingent work among engineers and software developers, entitled Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in the Knowledge Economy, with the Princeton University Press. Barley teaches courses on the management of R&D, the organizational implications of technological change, organizational behavior, social network analysis and ethnographic field methods. He has served as a consultant to organizations in a variety of industries including publishing, banking, computers, electronics and aerospace.

For a complete list of Barley's publications, see his publications page.

Research Projects
Professor Barley's research focuses on the social and organizational implications of technologi
Summary: Professor Barley's research focuses on the social and organizational implications of technological change and on the technical and professional workforce. He is currently involved the following research projects: Detail: The Effects of Communication Technologies on Availability (with Debra Meyerson) Over the last several decades, people have become increasingly concerned about their inability to manage the boundary between work and family. During the same period of time the number of communication technologies that people employ have expanded to include email, voicemail, chat rooms, video conferencing and internet messaging. Some people argue that these new technologies enable us to juggle the demands on our lives more effectively. Others claim that they are intrusive and are blurring the boundary between home and work. Yet, few researchers have studied how these new communication technologies are affecting our availability and our notions of what it means to be accessible. Using data collected from communication logs, interviews and observations, this study examines how communications technologies affect the boundaries between work and the remainder of our lives and how they shape our sense of what it means to be accessible. The Social Construction of Telecommuting (with Diane Bailey) Since the late 1970's telecommuting has been viewed as a solution to a number of social and organizational problems. The popular and academic press has anticipated large increases in telecommuting among the working population. Yet, data show that only a small fraction of the workforce actually telecommutes with any regularity, although a growing number of people are using computers to work from home in the evening and in the early morning. This paper examines the social history of telecommuting. The goal is unravel why telecommuting has attracted so much attention and why it's promise has never been fulfilled. [Close Box]
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Degree	Discipline	Year	School
PhD	Management	1984	Sloan School of Management
MA	Education	1977	Ohio State University
BA	English	1975	College of William and Mary

Publication Title	Author(s)/Speaker(s)	Open Document
Return to Work: Toward a Post-Industrial Engineering	Bailey, D.; S. R. Barley
Beach Time, Bridge Time, and Billable Hours: The Temporal Structure of Technical Contracting	Evans, J.; Gideon Kunda; S. R. Barley
Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy	Barley, S. R.; Kunda, Gideon
Why do Contractors Contract? The Experience of Highly Skilled Technical Professionals in a Contingent Labor Market	G. Kunda; S. R. Barley; J. Evans
Technology and Institutions: What Information Systems Research and Organization Studies Can Learn from Each Other	Orlikowski, W.; S. R. Barley
Title: Return to Work: Toward a Post-Industrial Engineering Author(s): Bailey, D.; S. R. Barley Journal: IIE Transactions, forthcoming Date Published: 2005 [Close Box] Title: Beach Time, Bridge Time, and Billable Hours: The Temporal Structure of Technical Contracting Author(s): Evans, J.; Gideon Kunda; S. R. Barley Journal: Administrative Science Quarterly Date Published: 2004 Details: 49: 1-38 [Close Box] Book Title: Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy Book Authors/Eds.: Barley, S. R.;Kunda, Gideon Publisher: Princeton University Press Date Published: 2004 Details: Princeton, NJ [Close Box] Title: Why do Contractors Contract? The Experience of Highly Skilled Technical Professionals in a Contingent Labor Market Author(s): G. Kunda; S. R. Barley; J. Evans Journal: Industrial and Labor Relations Review Date Published: 2002 Details: 55:234-261 [Close Box] Title: Technology and Institutions: What Information Systems Research and Organization Studies Can Learn from Each Other Author(s): Orlikowski, W.; S. R. Barley Journal: MIS Quarterly Date Published: 2001 Details: 25:145-165 [Close Box] Title: Bringing Work Back In Author(s): Barley, S. R.; G. Kunda Journal: Organization Science Date Published: 2001 Details: 12:76-95 [Close Box] Title: Computer-based distance education: why and why not Author(s): Barley, S. R. Journal: The Education Digest Date Published: 1999 Details: 65:55-9 [Close Box] Title: Do Telecommunications Technologies Affect Work and Organizations? The State of our Knowledge Author(s): O'Mahony, S.; S. R. Barley Journal: Research in Organizational Behavior , Volume 21 Date Published: 1999 Details: Pp. 125-161 in B. Staw and R. Sutton (eds) (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press 1999). [Close Box] Book Title: The Changing Nature of Work and Its Implications for Occupational Analysis Book Authors/Eds.: Kochan, T. A.; Barley; S. R. et al. Publisher: National Research Council Date Published: 1999 Details: Washington, D.C. [Close Box] Title: What can we learn from the history of technology? Author(s): Barley, S. R. Journal: The Journal of Engineering and Technology Management Date Published: 1998 Details: 15:237-255 [Close Box] Title: For love or money: Commodification and the construction of an occupational mandate Author(s): Nelsen, B. J.; S. R. Barley Journal: Administrative Science Quarterly Date Published: 1997 Details: 42:619-653 [Close Box] Title: Institutionalization and structuration: Studying the links between institutions and actions Author(s): Barley, S. R.; P. S. Tolbert Journal: Organization Studies Date Published: 1997 Details: 18: 93-117 [Close Box] Title: You can't be a stone if you're cement: Re-evaluating the emic identities of scientists in organizations Author(s): Zabusky, S. E.; S. R. Barley Journal: Research in Organizational Behavior Date Published: 1997 Details: 19: 361-404 [Close Box] Book Title: Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States Book Authors/Eds.: Barley, S. R.; J. Orr Publisher: ILR Press Date Published: 1997 Details: Ithaca, NY [Close Box] Title: Technicians in the workplace: Ethnographic evidence for bringing work into organization studies Author(s): Barley, S. R. Journal: Administrative Science Quarterly Date Published: 1996 Details: 41:404-441 [Close Box]
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Course Number	Course Title	Link
MS&E 108	Senior Project	http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande108
MS&E 184	Technology and Work
	Management and Organization of Research and Develo
	Doctoral Research Seminar in Work, Technology, and
	Organizations as Social Networks
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Academic Honors & Awards

Distinguished Scholar Award. Organization and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management. 2006
Distinguished Speaker Award. Technology Management Section. INFORMS. November, 2002
Breaking the Frame Award. Journal of Management Studies. 2000

Courses

Senior Project
Management and Organization of Research and Development
Technology and Work
Doctoral Research Seminar in Work, Technology, and Organization
Organizations as Social Networks
Doctoral Seminar on Ethnographic Research

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