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Barbara Townley

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33

Publications

5.2K

Citations

26

H-Index

1985

Active since

Affiliations

University of Alberta(Current)

University of Edinburgh

University of St Andrews

Barbara Townley is an author at University of Alberta specializing in management, business, and education.

Top concepts

ManagementBusinessEducationOrganizational BehaviorHuman ResourcesOrganizational CommunicationStrategic ManagementArtsCultureBureaucracy

Publications per year

1985–2024

33

Publications

33

FOUCAULT, POWER/KNOWLEDGE, AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Barbara Townley · Academy of Management Review · 1993 · 714 citations

Human Resource Management Development, Hrm Practices, Management +12

Business Planning as Pedagogy: Language and Control in a Changing Institutional Field

Leslie S. Oakes, Barbara Townley, David J. Cooper · Administrative Science Quarterly · 1998 · 657 citations

THE ROLE OF COMPETING RATIONALITIES IN INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE.

Barbara Townley · Academy of Management Journal · 2002 · 507 citations

Business Culture, Education, Organizational Culture +20

The Institutional Logic of Performance Appraisal

Barbara Townley · Organization Studies · 1997 · 381 citations

Education, Performance Measurement, Institutional Isomorph Ism +19

Performance Measures and the Rationalization of Organizations

Barbara Townley, D. James Cooper, Leslie S. Oakes · Organization Studies · 2003 · 314 citations

Education, Performance Measures, Performance Measurement +18

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