Joshua B. Barbour, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Organizational Communication

Email: barbour@tamu.edu
Office Phone: 979-845-3570

Office: 102 Bolton
Department of Communication
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-4234

Dr. Barbour’s research centers on how institutions, organizational structures, and communication converge in organizational life. He is developing three primary lines of research, including (a) improving interprofessional communication and the management of knowledge work, (b) understanding the influence of urgency and uncertainty in organizing, (c) and developing methods for evaluating policy when concrete criteria do not exist. His work has been published in Management Communication Quarterly, Communication Theory, and The Handbook of Health Communication.

Dr. Barbour teaches COMM 305--Communication Theory, COMM 320--introduction to organizational communication, COMM 446--Communication, Organizations and Society, COMM 636--Survey of organizational communication.

Joshua B. Barbour
curriculum vitae
(PDF version)

EDUCATION

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

Barbour, J. B., Rintamaki, L. S., Ramsey, J. A., & Brashers, D. E. (under review). Information avoiding as uncertainty management.

Harrison, T. R., Morgan, S. E., Chewning, L. V., Williams, E., Barbour, J., Di Corcia, M., & Davis, L. (in press). Revisiting the worksite in worksite health campaigns: Evidence from a multi-site organ donation campaign. Journal of Communication.

Lammers, J.C., & Barbour, J.B. (2009). Exploring the institutional context of physicians’ work: Professional and organizational differences in physician satisfaction. In D.E. Brashers & D. J. Goldsmith (Eds.), Communicating to manage health and illness (pp. 91-112). New York, NY: Routledge.

Barbour, J. B., & Lammers, J. C. (2007). Health care institutions, communication, and physicians’ experience of managed care: A multilevel analysis. Management Communication Quarterly, 21, 201-231.

Lammers, J. C., & Barbour, J. B. (2006). An institutional theory of organizational communication. Communication Theory, 16, 356-377.

Lammers, J. C., Barbour, J.B., & Duggan, A. P. (2003). Organizational forms of the provision of health care: An institutional perspective. In T.L. Thompson, A. Dorsey, K. I. Miller & R. Parrott (Eds.), The handbook of health communication (pp. 319-345). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

Barbour, J. B., & Lammers, J. C. (in progress). Measuring the institutional context of physicians’ work: A multilevel confirmatory factor analysis.

Barbour, J.B. (in progress). Emergency planning as organizational uncertainty management.

Barbour, J.B. (in progress.) Message design logics of organizational change.

Huang, M., Barbour, J.B., & Su, C. (in progress). Organizational factors influence on use of knowledge management technologies: A multilevel analysis.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Harrison, T. R., Morgan, S. E., Chewning, L. V., Williams, E., Barbour, J., Di Corcia, M., & Davis, L. (2009, November). Revisiting the worksite in worksite health campaigns: Evidence from a multi-site organ donation campaign. Manuscript submitted for presentation at the annual meeting of National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Huang, M., Su, C., & Barbour, J. (2009, March). Multi-theoretical and multilevel analysis of antecedents for information sharing through digital repositories in project groups. Paper presented at the XXIX Annual Meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), San Diego, CA.

Barbour, J. B., Rintamaki, L. S., Ramsey, J. A., & Brashers, D. E. (2007, November). Information avoiding as uncertainty management. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Barbour, J. B. (2005, October). Health care institutions, medical organizing, and physicians: A multilevel analysis. Paper presented at the 18th annual Organizational Communication Mini Conference, Athens, OH.

Barbour, J. B., Rintamaki, L. S., & Brashers, D. E. (2005, May). Health information avoidance as uncertainty management. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New York, NY.

Barbour, J. B. (2004, March). Bioterrorism and the management of public uncertainty: content analyses of the 1999-2003 West Nile outbreaks and the 2001 Anthrax attacks. Poster presented at the 2004 Sam Nunn Policy Forum, Atlanta, GA.

Lammers, J. C., & Barbour, J. B. (2003, November). Managed health care as a Structuration process: An aggregated model and partial test. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Miami Beach, FL. (Top paper.)

Barbour, J. B. (2003, October). Organizing health communication campaigns. Paper presented at the 16th annual Organizational Communication Mini-Conference, Kalamazoo, MI.

Albano, J. A., Ramsey, J. A., Barbour, J. B., Dockum, M. C., Rintamaki, L. S., & Brashers, D. E. (2003, May). College students’ health information-seeking behaviors and perceptions of source effectiveness. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

Lammers, J. C., & Barbour, J. B. (2002, November). Identity, institutions, and structuration: The case of 'managed care'. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.

Lammers, J. C., Duggan, A., & Barbour, J. B. (2001, November). Managed care as managed health communication: Challenging assumptions about professional identity and organizations in health communication. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA.

Lammers, J. C., & Barbour, J. B. (2000, May). Placebo leadership: An empirical review of popular leadership themes. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the West Coast Conference for Small Groups Research, Santa Barbara, CA.

Barbour, J. B. (1999, March). Organizational commitment and communication satisfaction at the George Washington University: An applied approach. Paper presented at the annual DePauw University Undergraduate Honors Conference, Greencastle, IN.

 

GRANT WORK AND COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS

Investigator, Responding to Natural Disasters: Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders; Hines VA/MCHSPR, RRP 06-135; Dr. Frances Weaver and Sally Ann Holmes, co-principal investigators; $50,000.

Fellow, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Summer 2005 and 2006; $2,950.

Fellow, Rhetoric of Bioterrorism: Comparing the Media Portrayals of West Nile and the 2001 Anthrax Attacks; Arms Control Disarmament and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; $12,000.

Fellow, Graduate Program in Management Practice, The University of California at Santa Barbara; $6,500.

Investigator, Community Living and Learning Center Grant for Community Research (senior thesis grant), The George Washington University, $200.

AWARDS

2006: W. Charles Redding Dissertation Award for best dissertation in the field of
Organizational Communication, Organizational Communication Division of the
International Communication Association, $150

2005: Ruth S. and Charles H. Bowman Award, conferred upon the department’s most
outstanding graduate student based on the student’s total record of scholarship, teaching,
and service, UIUC Department of Speech Communication, $750

2002: Stafford H. Thomas Award, recognizing exceptional service by a graduate student
over the course of graduate study, UIUC Department of Speech Communication, $200

1999: George Hennigan and Edward Stevens Communication Award for Applied,
Community-Centered Scholarship, GWU Senior Thesis Award, $500

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

GUEST LECTURES AND COLLOQUIA

• Institutions and Organizations, Invited Colloquium, Texas A&M University Department of Communication, Summer 2008
• Introduction to Organizational Communication, 101 Guest Lecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Communication, Spring 2008
• Information Avoidance as Uncertainty Management, Brown Bag Talk, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Communication, Fall 2007
• Health Care Organization, Introduction to Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Communication, Fall 2007
• Entrepreneurship, Organizational Communication Assessment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Speech Communication,  Spring 2005
• Biodefense and the Media, Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security Lecture Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ACDIS Fall 2004
• Political Campaign Advertising, Social Movements and Campaigns, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Speech Communication, Spring 2003
• Top 10 Reasons to Study Organizational Communication, Introduction to Communication, University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Communication, Spring 2001

SERVICE

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

International Communication Association (ICA), National Communication Association
(NCA), Academy of Management (AOM)

 

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