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Joshua B. Barbour
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 48
Citations - 939
Joshua B. Barbour is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Organizational communication. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 40 publications receiving 773 citations. Previous affiliations of Joshua B. Barbour include Texas A&M University & University of Illinois at Chicago.
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An institutional theory of organizational communication
TL;DR: The authors define institutions as constellations (i.e., relatively fixed arrangements) of formalized rational beliefs manifested in individuals' organizing behaviors, including membership, rational myths, isomorphism, and decision hierarchies.
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Avoiding health information.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that health information avoidance is situational, relatively common, not necessarily unhealthy, and may be used to accomplish multiple communication goals and suggest a link between previous experience with serious illness andhealth information avoidance.
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Measuring professional identity: a review of the literature and a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis of professional identity constructs
TL;DR: In this paper, a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis of measures of professional identity constructs from a national sample of physicians nested in diverse practice organizations is presented, which demonstrated the empirical independence of belonging, attachment, and beliefs across multiple levels of analysis.
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Shadowing in/as work: ten recommendations for shadowing fieldwork practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide practical recommendations for shadowing as a method of organizational study with a focus on the situated processes and practices of shadowing fieldwork, including how to negotiate awkward conversations with participants, what to bring and wear, and how to take notes.
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Designing Communication for the Day-to-Day Safety Oversight of Nuclear Power Plants
Joshua B. Barbour,Rebecca Gill +1 more
TL;DR: This work investigated the collective design of and practice of status meetings—a pair of daily meetings meant to manage information about the day-to-day safety oversight of nuclear power plants, focusing on the fit, function, and fragmentation of approaches to status meetings.