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  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - H. George Frederickson Award, Public Management Research Association
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Barry Bozeman is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has concentrated their research within the social sciences, particularly focusing on sociology, political science, public administration, management science, operations research, and communication.

The scientist's work prominently addresses topics related to public policy and administration research, evaluation and performance assessment, regulation and compliance studies, policy transfer and learning, climate change communication and perception, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, and social media and politics.

Bozeman has published several papers in well-regarded venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Use of science in public policy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic efforts to 'Follow the Science' (2022, Science and Public Policy)
  • Robotic Bureaucracy and Administrative Burden: What Are the Effects of Universities' Computer Automated Research Grants Management Systems? (2020, Research Policy)
  • Rules Compliance Behavior: A Heuristic Model (2021, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance)
  • The deformation of democracy in the United States: When does bureaucratic "neutral competence" rise to complicity? (2024, Public Administration Review)
  • The Last 20 Years of Empirical Research on Government Utilization of Academic Social Science Research: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review (2023, Administration & Society)

Frequent coauthors of Barry Bozeman include:

  • John P. Nelson
  • Spencer Lindsay
  • Stuart Bretschneider
  • Jiwon Jung
  • Jan Youtie

Publications are often featured in venues such as Public Administration Review, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, International Journal of Learning and Change, Research Policy, and Administration & Society.

The career of Barry Bozeman has been recognized with honors such as the H. George Frederickson Award from the Public Management Research Association in 2013, fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2005, and fellowship in The National Academy of Public Administration.

Best Publications

  • Technology transfer and public policy: a review of research and theory

    Barry Bozeman

  • The Impact of Research Collaboration on Scientific Productivity

    Sooho Lee;Barry Bozeman

  • Public Values and Public Interest: Counterbalancing Economic Individualism

    Barry Bozeman

  • Public Values An Inventory

    Torben Beck Jørgensen;Barry Bozeman

  • Scientists' collaboration strategies: implications for scientific and technical human capital

    Barry Bozeman;Elizabeth Corley

  • Comparing Public and Private Organizations: Empirical Research and the Power of the A Priori

    Hal G. Rainey;Barry Bozeman

  • Toward a Useful Theory of Mentoring A Conceptual Analysis and Critique

    Barry Bozeman;Mary K. Feeney

  • An empirical analysis of the propensity of academics to engage in informal university technology transfer.

    Albert N. Link;Donald S. Siegel;Barry Bozeman

  • Public‐Value Failure: When Efficient Markets May Not Do

    Barry Bozeman

  • Organizational Effectiveness: A Comparison of Multiple Models

    Kim S. Cameron;David A. Whetten

  • Bureaucracy and Red Tape

    Barry Bozeman

  • Research collaboration in universities and academic entrepreneurship: the-state-of-the-art

    Barry Bozeman;Daniel Fay;Catherine P. Slade

  • Academic careers, patents, and productivity: industry experience as scientific and technical human capital

    James S. Dietz;Barry Bozeman

  • Risk Culture in Public and Private Organizations

    Barry Bozeman;Gordon Kingsley

  • Scientific and technical human capital: an alternative model for research evaluation

    Barry Bozeman;James Scott Dietz;Monica Gaughan

  • The "Publicness Puzzle" in Organization Theory: A Test of Alternative Explanations of Differences between Public and Private Organizations*

    Barry Bozeman;Stuart Bretschneider

  • All Organizations are Public: Bridging Public and Private Organizational Theories.

    Lawton R. Burns;Barry Bozeman

  • Public management information systems: theory and prescription

    Barry Bozeman;Stuart Bretschneider

  • A Theory Of Government “Red Tape”

    Barry Bozeman

  • Job Satisfaction among University Faculty: Individual, Work, and Institutional Determinants

    Barry Bozeman;Monica Gaughan

  • Research Note: Public and Private Managers' Perceptions of Red Tape

    Hal G. Rainey;Sanjay Pandey;Barry Bozeman

  • Scientists? collaboration strategies: implications for scientific and technical human capital

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  • Public Service Motivation Concepts and Theory: A Critique

    Barry Bozeman;Xuhong Su

  • Public Management Strategies: Guidelines for Managerial Effectiveness

    Barry Bozeman;Jeffrey D. Straussman

  • Public Values and Public Interest: Counterbalancing Economic Individualism

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  • Red Tape and Task Delays in Public and Private Organizations

    Barry Bozeman;Pamela N. Reed;Patrick Scott

  • Innovative behavior in small-sized firms

    Albert N. Link;Barry Bozeman

  • Organizational Rules and the "Bureaucratic Personality"

    Barry Bozeman;Hal G. Rainey

  • Scarcity and Environmental Stress in Public Organizations: A Conjectural Essay.

    Barry Bozeman;E. Allen Slusher

  • Evaluating R&D impacts : methods and practice

    Barry Bozeman;Julia Melkers

  • Shrinking budgets and the shrinkage of budget theory.

    Barry Bozeman;Jeffrey D. Straussman

  • Understanding Public and Nonprofit Managers' Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory

    Chung An Chen;Barry Bozeman

  • R&D laboratory classification and public policy: The effects of environmental context on laboratory behavior

    Michael Crow;Barry Bozeman

  • Public Values Theory: What Is Missing?:

    Eriko Fukumoto;Barry Bozeman

  • Decision Making in Public and Private Organizations: A Test of Alternative Concepts of "Publicness"

    David Coursey;Barry Bozeman

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert N. Link
Albert N. Link University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Mary K. Feeney
Mary K. Feeney Arizona State University
Hal G. Rainey
Hal G. Rainey University of Georgia
Richard M. Walker
Richard M. Walker Lingnan University
Donald S. Siegel
Donald S. Siegel Arizona State University
Vincent Mangematin
Vincent Mangematin University of Doha for Science and Technology
Gene A. Brewer
Gene A. Brewer Arizona State University
Johan P. Olsen
Johan P. Olsen University of Oslo
Sanjay K. Pandey
Sanjay K. Pandey George Washington University
Mario Coccia
Mario Coccia National Research Council (CNR)

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