Barry Bozeman is a professor at Arizona State University where he is Director, Center for Organization Research and Design, and Arizona Centennial Professor of Technology Policy and Public Management. He specializes in two disparate fields, organization theory and science and technology policy.
Early life and education
Bozeman was born in Birmingham, Alabama on January 18, 1947 to Glenn Bozeman and Audrey J. Bozeman. His mother was a full-time homemaker and this father a construction worker. His early life was characterized by much family relocation, resulting in his attending 21 different schools before the 7th grade. In 1960, the family settled down in West Palm Beach Florida and Bozeman graduated from Palm Beach High School in 1964. He attended Palm Beach High Junior College, in Lake Worth Florida,, graduating in 1966. Bozeman played on the varsity baseball team at Palm Beach Junior College where he had the distinction of scoring the first run in the new team’s history.
Career
In 1970, Bozeman entered the doctoral program in political science at Ohio State University, focusing on public policy studies. He graduated in 1973 and, that same year, began as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. During that period, he began specializing in Science and Technology Policy and in 1974, as part of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, took a position as an analyst in the . After returning briefly to Georgia Tech, Bozeman took a job at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he was appointed in the Department of Political Science, as well as the new Department of Public Administration. In 1977, Bozeman began a long stay at . While at Syracuse, Bozeman was the Director of the Doctoral Program and was the founding director of the Center for Technology and Information Policy. He moved in 1993 to be the first full-time director of the new School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech and was later appointed as Regent’s Professor, the first social scientist to become a Regent’s Professor at Georgia Tech. In 2006, Bozeman moved to where he became the first holder of the . In 2013, Bozeman moved to Arizona State University where he is Arizona Centennial Professor of Technology Policy and Public Management and Director of the Center for Organization Research and Design.
Honors and awards
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, for lifetime of intellectual contributions to the field of public management, 2013
, best book on public administration topic, 2007-2012
, National Association for Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and American Society for Public Administration, career award for research, teaching and professional service, 2000
Fulbright Fellowships, University of Copenhagen, 1989–90, Valencia Polytechnic and INGENIO, 2012
Scholarly contributions
Bozeman’s chief contributions to organization theory and public administration include:
The theory of “dimensional publicness,” showing all organizations are affected by the constraints and endowment of political authority and of market authority and that behavior can be predicted from the mix of these forces.
The normative “public value theory,” set as an alternative to market failure theory and suggesting that public values can be attained by a variety of institutions, public and private, acting separately or together.
Theory and empirical research on organizational red tape and bureaucratic pathologies.
Research and theory on technology transfer, suggesting that a wide variety of outcome measures should be embraced rather than solely short-term market impacts.
Research and theory on scientific collaboration, both at the level of the individual researcher and the scientific organization or research center.
Personal life
Barry Bozeman and his wife Monica Gaughan live in Tempe, Arizona. Dr. Gaughan, a sociologist, is a faculty member at Arizona State University. Bozeman has two children from an earlier marriage, a son John and a daughter Brandyn.
Selected publications
Books
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Barry Bozeman, Public Values and Public Interest: Counterbalancing Economic Individualism. , best book in Public Administration during period 2007-2012].
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Articles
This list only contains articles from 2000 onward.
