Barry Bozeman

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 (née Martin). 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, (now Palm Beach State College), 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.^[1] 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 National Science Foundation’s Division of Information Science and Technology. 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 (1977-1993) at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. While at Syracuse, Bozeman was the Director of the Doctoral Program (1979-1986) 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 University of Georgia where he became the first holder of the Department of Public Administration and Policy’s Ander Crenshaw Chair in Public Policy.^[2] 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.^[3]

Honors and awards

• NASPAA/ASPA Distinguished Researcher Award (2014)^[4]
• George Fredrickson Award, Public Management Research Association (2013), for lifetime of intellectual contributions to the field of public management, 2013
• Herbert Simon Award, American Political Science Association (2013), best book on public administration topic, 2007-2012 (Public Values and Public Interest, Georgetown University Press 2007)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 2005
• Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration, elected 2006.
• Charles Levine Award, National Association for Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and American Society for Public Administration, career award for research, teaching and professional service (national award recognizing one academic scholar each year), 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.

Bozeman’s chief contributions to science and technology policy include:

• Research and theory on technology transfer, suggesting that a wide variety of outcome measures should be embraced (“contingent theory of effectiveness”) 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

References

External links

• Faculty website
• Curriculum Vita
• Center for Organization Research and Design website