Jean Bartunek, PhD
Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair, Professor - Organization Studies Department
Jean Bartunek received a BA in psychology and sociology from Maryville University in St. Louis and an MA and PhD 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 Organization Studies at Boston College since 1977.
Her primary substantive research interests are in the intersection of organizational change, conflict, and social cognition. Her primary methodological interest is in joint insider/outsider research. Recent representative publications include: Insider-Outsider Team Research (with Meryl Louis, Sage, 1996), Organizational and Educational
Change: The Life and Role of a Change Agent Group (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003), and "Dynamics and Dilemmas of Women Leading Women" (with Kate Walsh and Catherine Lacey, 2000, Organization Science).
She is co-editor, with Mary Ann Hinsdale and James Keenan of the Boston College Theology Department, of Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context: Learnings from the Sex Abuse Scandal in
the Catholic Church (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). She has also 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). From 1994-1997 she served as coeditor for nontraditional research for the Journal of Management Inquiry.
During the 2001-2002 school year Dr. Bartunek was president of the Academy of Management. She has previously been 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 of the Academy of Management, and a member of the board of directors of the Eastern Academy of Management.
She is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Applied
Behavioral Science and chair of the Advisory Committee for the Academy of Management Journal. She is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. In 1999 she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management. She is also 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
Fulton Hall 430C
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
jean.bartunek.1@bc.edu
phone: 617-552-0455
web site: http://www2.bc.edu/~bartunek/
