Biography
Barley received his A.B. in English from the College of William and Mary in 1975, a M.A. in Student Personnel Administration from the Ohio State University in 1977, and a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1984. His dissertation was entitled "The Professional, the semi-professional, and the machine: The social implications of computer based imaging in radiology." His 1986 paper "Technology as an occasion for structuring" has been cited over 1000 times.
Barley was a professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University between 1984 and 1994 and joined the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University in 1994. The National Research Council and the National Academy of Science's committee on the changing occupational structure was co-chaired by Barley in 1998 and 1999.
Barley was editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly from 1993–1997 and has served on the editorial boards for the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Managagement Studies, and Organization Science. Barley currently co-directs the Center for Work, Technology, & Organization at Stanford University.
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