# overview
Dr. Barge's major research interests center on developing a social constructionist approach to leadership, articulating the connections between appreciative practice and organizational change, as well as exploring the relationship between discourse and public deliberation, specifically practices that facilitate communities working through polarized and polarizing issues.  Other research interests include investigating the role of reflexivity in leadership and management practice, examining ways to develop effective academic-practitioner collaborations, and developing practical theory.

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3505 Human Resources And Industrial Relations

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3505 Human Resources And Industrial Relations

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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University of Kansas - (Lawrence, Kansas, United States)

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Millikin University - (Decatur, Illinois, United States)

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University of Kansas - (Lawrence, Kansas, United States)

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Gerald M Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship

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Exploring the Intersections of Individual and Collective Communication Design

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A Discursive Approach to Developing Leader Character: Rejoinder to The Development of Leader Character Through Crucible Moments

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Theory-based approaches to understanding public emergency preparedness: implications for effective health and risk communication.

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An Analysis of Effective and Ineffective Leader Conversation

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Parent, Student, and Teacher Perceptions of Parental Involvement

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A comparative analysis of influence strategies used by upper and lowerlevel male and female managers

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The effects of nonverbal communication and gender on impression formation in opening statements

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Memorable messages and newcomer socialization

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Communication and motivation within the superiorsubordinate dyad: Testing the conventional wisdom of volunteer management

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An Exchange of Letters: What Can a Specifically Social Constructionist Perspective Bring to Bear on What Must Be One of the Most Studied Subjects in Human History?

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Introduction: Toward Purposeful and Practical Models of Engaged Scholarship

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A Discursive Approach to Skillful Activity

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Crossing Boundaries between Communication Activism Research and Applied Communication Research Discourses

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A practitioner view toward engaged scholarship

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Pivotal leadership and the art of conversation

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Managing dualities in planned change initiatives

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Practical theory as mapping, engaged reflection, and transformative practice

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Action, not talk: a simulation of risk communication during the first hours of a pandemic.

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Making the Case for Academic and Social Impact in Organizational Communication Research

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Making time/making temporality for engaged scholarship

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Leadership as medium: A leaderless group discussion model

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A Round-Table Discussion of "Big" Data in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research

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Organizational Communication Design Logics: A Theory of Communicative Intervention and Collective Communication Design

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Understanding Challenges to Leadership-as-Practice by Way of MacIntyres Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry

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Task structure as a moderator of task and relational skills

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Toward a Communication Competency Model of Group Leadership

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Dialogical Wisdom, Communicative Practice, and Organizational Life

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A Critical Evaluation of Organizational Commitment and Identification

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Discursive positioning and planned change in organizations

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On interlinking language games: New opportunities for group communication research

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Public support for government actions during a flu pandemic: lessons learned from a statewide survey.

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Living Leadership: A Systemic Constructionist Approach

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The intersection of cultural and professional identity in nonprofit management

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Engaged scholarship and the creation of useful organizational knowledge

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Hope, communication, and community building

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Working with Appreciation in Managerial Practice

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Turning points in chairfaculty relationships

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Texas A&M University; Communication; 4234 TAMU

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Sommer, Paul Allen (2016-02). The Communicative Accomplishment of Knowledge Work in the Construction Industry. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Jacocks, Cara Whitney (2014-08). Redefining Entrepreneurship:  The Discursive Constructions and Dialectics of Women's Sole-Proprietorship, Business-Ownership and Direct Sales Business-Ownership. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Andreas, Dorothy Collins (2011-10). Characterization, Coordination, and Legitimization of Risk in Cross-Disciplinary Situations. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Mbutu, Paul (2012-10). Leadership Training, Inter-ethnic Conflict Management, and the Youth: A Case Study of One Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Nairobi, Kenya. Doctoral Dissertation.