Stephen R. Barley (born February 16, 1953) 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.
Barley's research focuses on the role of technology in organizational change and organizational/occupational culture.
in Student Personnel Administration from the Ohio State University in 1977, and a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1984.
[1] His dissertation was entitled "The Professional, the semi-professional, and the machine: The social implications of computer based imaging in radiology."
Barley was editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly from 1993 to 1997 and has served on the editorial boards for the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Managagement Studies, and Organization Science.