Jean Bartunek RSCJ received a B.A. in psychology and sociology from Maryville University in St. Louis and an M.A. and Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was a visiting assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1976-1977 and has been a faculty member in the Department of Management and Organization at Boston College since 1977. She was a Visiting International Fellow at the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) in the United Kingdom in 2009 and 2010.  

Her primary research interests are in areas of organizational change and academic-practitioner relationships.  Some representative books include: Insider-Outsider Team Research (with Meryl Louis, Sage, 1996), and Organizational and Educational Change: The Life and Role of a Change Agent Group (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003).  Some recent representative journal articles and book chapters include “The Construction and Contributions of “Implications for Practice”: What’s in Them and What Might They Offer?” (with Sara Rynes, Academy of Management Learning and Education, 2010), “The Development of a Process Model of Collective Turnover” (with Zhi Huang and Ian Walsh, winner of the “best paper” award in Human Relations, 2008), “The Spirits of Organization Development, or Why OD Lives Despite Its Pronounced Death” (with Richard Woodman, in Cameron and Spreitzer [Eds.], The Handbook of Positive Organization Scholarship, in press) and “Enabling Evidence-based management: Bridging the gap between scholars and practitioners” (with Opal Leung in Rousseau [Ed.], Handbook of Evidence-Based Management: Companies, Classrooms, and Research, In Press).

She has co-edited special research forums in the Academy of Management Journal dealing with innovative research methodologies (1993) and knowledge transfer between academics and practitioners (2001) and in the Academy of Management Review dealing with corporation as social change agents (2007). From 1994-1997 she served as coeditor for nontraditional research for the Journal of Management Inquiry.  She has won an Academy of Management Journal “best reviewer” award three times.

During the 2001-2002 school year Dr. Bartunek was president of the Academy of Management. She had previously served as Program chair for the Academy of Management's annual meeting, division chair for the Organization Development and Change division, a member of the executive committee of the Women in Management division and a member of the board of directors of the Eastern Academy of Management. She is currently the Ethics Adjudication Chair for the Academy of Management.  In 2009 she won the Academy’s Career Distinguished Service award for her contributions to the Academy of Management.  

She is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. She also serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization Studies, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. In 1999 she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management. She has also been listed in "Who's Who in the Management Sciences" and “Who’s Who in America.”

Since coming to Boston College, Dr. Bartunek has taught courses in organizational behavior, organizational research, organizational change and development, and negotiation.

Carroll School of Management
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jean.bartunek.1@bc.edu
phone: 617-552-0455
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