Barbara Townley

Barbara Townley publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barbara Townley sits on this spectrum.

Barbara Townley D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barbara Townley sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

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

  Barbara Townley

  1320
  Citations

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

  Leslie S. Oakes;Barbara Townley;David J. Cooper

  1170
  Citations

• Reframing Human Resource Management: Power, Ethics and the Subject at Work

  Barbara Townley

  1154
  Citations

• The Role of Competing Rationalities in Institutional Change

  Barbara Townley

  880
  Citations

• The Institutional Logic of Performance Appraisal

  Barbara Townley

  563
  Citations

• Performance Measures and the Rationalization of Organizations

  Barbara Townley;David J. Cooper;Leslie Oakes

  434
  Citations

• The construction of auditing expertise in measuring government performance

  Yves Gendron;David J. Cooper;Barbara Townley

  397
  Citations

• In the name of accountability ‐State auditing, independence and new public management

  Yves Gendron;David J. Cooper;Barbara Townley

  345
  Citations

• Managing in the creative industries: Managing the motley crew

  Barbara Townley;Nic Beech;Alan McKinlay

  316
  Citations

• PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND THE EMERGENCE OF MANAGEMENT

  Barbara Townley

  299
  Citations

• Foucault, Power/Knowledge, and Its Relevance for Human Resource Management

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  293
  Citations

• Managing with Modernity

  Barbara Townley

  257
  Citations

• Beyond Good and Evil: Depth and Division in the Management of Human Resources

  Barbara Townley

  225
  Citations

• Misfits, mavericks and mainstreams: : Drivers of innovation in the creative industries

  Candace Jones;Silviya Svejenova;Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen;Barbara Townley

  211
  Citations

• `Know Thyself': Self-Awareness, Self-Formation and Managing:

  Barbara Townley

  196
  Citations

• The elephant in the room? Class and creative careers in British advertising agencies

  Charlotte McLeod;Stephanie O'Donohoe;Barbara Townley

  150
  Citations

• The Owl of Minerva: Reflections on Theory in Practice

  Richard Marsden;Barbara Townley

  145
  Citations

• Practical Reason and Performance Appraisal

  Barbara Townley

  111
  Citations

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

  Leslie Oakes;Barbara Townley;David J. Cooper

  75
  Citations

• The Construction of Auditing Expertise in Measuring Government Performance

  Yves Gendron;David J. Cooper;Barbara Townley

  24
  Citations