James R. Barker

Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams

James R. Barker · Administrative Science Quarterly · 1993 · 2.3K citations

Management, Organization Studies, Organizational Behavior +16

Coercion Versus Care: Using Irony to Make Sense of Organizational Surveillance

Graham Sewell, James R. Barker · Academy of Management Review · 2006 · 237 citations

Social Sciences, Organization Studies, Organizational Behavior +8

Identification in the Self-Managing Organization Characteristics of Target and Tenure

James R. Barker, Phillip K. Tompkins · Human Communication Research · 1994 · 176 citations

Management, Organization Studies, Organizational Behavior +10

The concept and the practices of discipline in contemporary organizational life

James R. Barker, George Cheney · Communication Monographs · 1994 · 120 citations

Management, Organization Studies, Organizational Behavior +7

Working under intensive surveillance: When does ‘measuring everything that moves’ become intolerable?

Graham Sewell, James R. Barker, Daniel Nyberg · Human Relations · 2012 · 104 citations

Management, Organizational Behavior, Performance Management +11