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Paul Adler

Harold Quinton Chair of Business Policy, Professor of Management and Organization, Sociology, and Environmental Studies
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PhD, University of Picardie; DEA, EHESS

Paul S. Adler is Professor of Management and Organization, of Sociology, and of Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. He holds the Marshall Business School's Harold Quinton Chair in Business Policy. He began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974, where he received his doctorate in Economics and Management while working as a Research Economist for the French government. He came to the USA in 1981, and before arriving at USC in 1991, he was affiliated with the Brookings Institution, Columbia University, Harvard Business School, and Stanford's School of Engineering.

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Paul Adler, Charles Heckscher () "An organizational design for collaborative purpose ,"  Towards permeable boundaries of organizations  Research in Sociology of Organizations  forthcoming.
Zlatko Bodrožić, Paul Adler () "The Evolution of Management Models: A Neo-Schumpeterian Theory ,"  Administrative Science Quarterly  forthcoming.
Paul Adler, Charles Heckscher () "The value-rational organizational form as the context for distributed ambidexterity ,".
Paul Adler () "Alternative Economic Futures: A Research Agenda for Progressive Management Scholarship ,"  Academy of Management Perspectives  30, 123-128.
Paul Adler () "Our teaching mission ,"  Academy of Management Review  41, 185-195.
Paul Adler () "Book Review Essay: The Environmental Crisis and Its Capitalist Roots: Reading Naomi Klein with Karl Polanyi ,"  Administrative Science Quarterly.
Paul Adler () "Community and innovation: From Tönnies to Marx ,"  Organization Studies  36, 445–471.
Matt Vidal, Paul Adler, Rick Delbridge () "When Organization Studies Turns to Societal Problems: The Contribution of Marxist Grand Theory ,"  Organization Studies  36, 405–422.
Paul Adler () "Stewardship versus the Market: A Skeptical Perspective ,"  Stewardship of the Future  Greenleaf.
Paul Adler, Charles Heckscher, John McCarthy, Saul Rubinstein () "The Mutations of Professional Responsibility: Toward Collaborative Community ,"  Evolving Professional Responsiblity in Diverse Communities.
Paul Adler () "Capitalism in question ,"  Journal of Management Issues  23.
Paul Adler, Seok-Woo Kwon () "The Mutation of Professionalism as a Contested Diffusion Process: Clinical Guidelines as Carriers of Institutional Change in Medicine ,"  Journal of Management Studies  July, 930-962.
Paul Adler, Charles Heckscher () "Toward collaborative, ambidextrous enterprise ,"  Universia Business Review  Sept 2013, 34-51.
Paul Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan, Mike Reed () "The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents ,".
Paul Adler () "The Ambivalence of Bureaucracy: From Weber via Gouldner to Marx ,"  Organization Science  23, 244-266.
Paul Adler, Xiaoling Chen () "Combining creativity and control: Understanding individual motivation in large-scale collaborative creativity ,"  Accounting, Organizations and Society  36, 63-85.
Paul Adler () "Marx's philosophy and organization studies ,"  Research in the Sociology of Organizations, pp. 123-153.
Paul Adler () "Political Economy ,"  Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies.
T. Kochan, A. Eaton, R. McKersie, Paul Adler () "Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente ,"  Ithaca NY: Cornell Univerity Press.
Paul Adler () "Marx and organization studies today ,"  Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations.
Paul Adler, Mary Benner, David Brunner, John MacDuffie, Emi Osono, Bradley Staats, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Michael Tushman, Sidney Winter () "Perspectives on the productivity dilemma ,"  Journal of Operations Management,  27, 99-113.
Paul Adler () "(Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations ,"  New York NY: Oxford University Press.
Paul Adler () "A science which forgets its founders is lost ,"  The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations.
Paul Adler, Seok-Woo Kwon () "Community, Market, and Hierarchy in the Evolving Organization of Professional Work: The Case of medicine ,"  Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour.
Paul Adler, L. Forbes, H. Willmott () "Critical Management Studies ,"  Academy of Mangement Annals, pp. 119-180  1, 2008.
Paul Adler, Seok-Woo Kwon, Charles Heckscher () "Professional work: The emergence of collaborative community ,"  Organization Science  19, 359-376.
Paul Adler () "Technological determinism ,"  The International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies.
Thomas Kochan, Paul Adler, Robert McKersie, Adrienne Eaton, Phyllis Segal, Paul Gerhart () "The potential and precariousness of partnership: The case of the Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership ,"  Industrial Relations  47, 36-66.
Paul Adler () "The Future of Critical Management Studies: A Paleo-Marxist Critique of Labour Process Theory ,"  Organization Studies  28, 1313-1345.
Paul Adler, D. Obstfeld () "The role of affect in creative projects and exploratory search ,"  Industrial and Corporate Change  16, 19-50.
Paul Adler () "Beyond Hacker Idiocy: A New Community in Software Development ,"  The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy.
Paul Adler () "From Labor Process to Activity Theory ,"  Critical Perspectives on Activity Theory, Education and Work: An International Collection.
C. Heckscher, Paul Adler () "The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy ,"  Oxford University Press.
T. Kochan, R. McKersie, A. Eaton, Paul Adler, P. Segal, P. Gerhart () "The Kaiser Permante Labor Management Partnership, 2002-2004 ,".
Paul Adler, C. Heckscher () "Towards Collaborative Community ,"  The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy.
Paul Adler () "The Evolving Object of Software Development ,"  Organization  12, 401-435.
Paul Adler, F. McGarry, W. Irion-Talbot, D. Binney () "Enabling Process Discipline: Lessons on Implementing the Capability Maturity Model for Software ,"  MIS Quarterly Executive  4, 215-227.
Paul Adler, J. Jermier () "Developing a Field with More Soul: Standpoint Theory and Public Policy Research for Management Scholars ,"  Academy of Management Journal   48, 941-944.
Paul Adler () "Skill Trends Under Capitalism and the Socialisation of Production ,"  Skill Trends Under Capitalism and the Socialisation of Production.
Paul Adler () "Introduction to the Forum on Hospital Management ,"  California Management Review  45, 6-11.
Paul Adler () "Making the HR Outsourcing Decision ,"  Sloan Management Review  45, 53-60.
Paul Adler () "Towards Collaborative Interdependence: A Century of Change in the Organization of Work ,"  Balancing the Interests: The Evolution from Industrial Relations to Human Resources and Beyond.
Paul Adler, P. Riley, S. Kwon, J. Signer, B. Lee, R. Satrasala () "Performance Improvement Capability: Keys to Accelerating Improvement to Hospitals ,"  California Management Review  45, 12-33.
Paul Adler () "Critical in the name of whom and what? ,"  Organization  9, 387”395.
Paul Adler () "Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism ,"  Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge.
Paul Adler, Seok-Woo Kwon () "Social capital: Prospects for a new concept ,"  Academy of Management Review  27, 17-40.
Paul Adler () "Corporate scandals: It's time for reflection in business schools ,"  Academy of Management Executive  16, 148-149.
Paul Adler () "Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism ,"  Organization Science, 214-234.
Paul Adler, S. Kwon () "Social Capital: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ,"  Knowledge and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications.
Paul Adler, Edward Lawler () "Who Needs MBAs in HR? USC's Strategic Human Resource Management MBA Concentration ,"  Human Resource Management   38, 125-130.
Paul Adler () "Hybridization of Human Resource Management at two Toyota Transplants ,"  Remade in America: Transplanting and transforming Japanese management systems.
Paul Adler () "Teams at NUMMI ,"  Teamwork in the Automobile Industry.
Paul Adler () "The Emancipatory Significance of Taylorism ,"  Readings in Organization Science.
Paul Adler, B. Goldoftas, D. Levine () "Flexibility Versus Efficiency? A Case Study of Model Changeovers in the Toyota Production System ,"  Organization Science  10, 43-68.
J. Liker, M. Fruin, Paul Adler () "(Eds.), Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems ,"  New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
J. Liker, M. Fruin, Paul Adler () "Bringing Japanese Management Systems to the U.S.: Transplantation or Transformation? ,"  Remade in America: Transplanting and transforming Japanese management systems.
Paul Adler () "Building Better Bureaucracies ,"  Academy of Management Executive  13, 36-47.
Paul Adler, P. Landsbergis () "Lean Production and Worker Health: A Discussion ,"  New Solutions  8, 499-523.
Paul Adler, B. Goldoftas, D. Levine () "Stability and Change at NUMMI ,"  Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry.
Paul Adler () "Work Organization: From Taylorism to Teamwork ,"  Perspectives on Work  June 1997, 61-65.
Paul Adler, B. Goldoftas, D. Levine () "Ergonomics, Employee Involvement, and the Toyota Production System: A Case Study of NUMMI'S 1993 Model Introduction ,"  Industrial and Labor Relations Review  50, 416-437 (Reprinted in The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management, edited by Huw Beynon and Theo Nichols, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing).
Paul Adler, T. Kochan, J. MacDuffie, F. Pil, S. Rubenstein () "United States: Variations on a Theme ,"  After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry.
Paul Adler () "Review of: Laurie Graham: On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker, and Terry L. Besser, Team Toyota: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky ,"  Contemporary Sociology  26, 754-757.
Paul Adler, A. Mandelbaum, V. Nguyen, E. Schwerer () "Getting the Most out of Your Product Development Process ,"  Harvard Business Review, 134-152.
Paul Adler, B. Borys () "Two Types of Bureaucracy: Enabling and Coercive ,"  Administrative Science Quarterly  41, 61-89.
A. Shenhar, Paul Adler () "The Technological base of the Company ,"  The Technological base of the Company.
Paul Adler, B. Borys () "A Portrait of the Relationship between Mechanization and Work in the U.S. Economy in 1980 ,"  International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing,   5, 345-375.
Paul Adler () "Interdepartmental Interdependence and Coordination: The Case of the Design/Manufacturing Interface ,"  Organization Science  6, 147-167.
Paul Adler, A. Mandelbaum, V. Nguyen, E. Schwerer () "From Project to Process Management: An Empirically-Based Framework for Analyzing Product Development Time ,"  Management Science  41, 458-484.
Paul Adler, A. Mandelbaum, V. Nguyen, E. Schwerer () "From Project to Process Management in Engineering: Managerial and Methodological Challenges ,"  Management of Design.
Paul Adler, A. Mandelbaum, V. Nguyen, E. Schwerer () "From Project to Process Management: An Empirically-Based Framework for Analyzing Product Development Time ,"  Management Science  41, 458-484.
D. Levine, Paul Adler, B. Goldoftas () "NUMMI: A Case Study ,"  Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win.
Paul Adler () "The Dynamic Relationship Between Tacit and Codified Knowledge: Comment on Nonaka ,"  Technology Management and Corporate Strategies: A Tricontinental Perspective.
Paul Adler () "Democratic Taylorism: The Toyota Production System at NUMMI ,"  Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry.
Paul Adler, R. Cole () "Designed for Learning : A Tale of Two Auto Plants ,"  Enriching Production.
L. Pelled, Paul Adler () "Antecedents to Intergroup Conflict in Multifunctional Product Development Teams: A Conceptual Model ,"  IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management  41, 21-28.
Paul Adler () "Workers' Responses to New Wave Manufacturing ,"  New Wave Manufacturing Strategies: Organizational and Human Resource Management Dimensions.
Paul Adler, R. Cole () "Rejoinder to Berggren's critique ,"  Sloan Management Review  35, 45-49.
Paul Adler () "Review of: C. Berggren: Alternatives to Lean Production: Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry ,"  American Journal of Sociology  99, 1366-68.
Paul Adler, R. Cole () "Designed for Learning: A Tale of Two Auto Plants ,"  Sloan Management Review  34, 85-94 (Reprinted in Ake Sandberg, ed., Enriching Production, Aldershot: Avebury, 1995, pp. 157-178.).
Paul Adler, B. Borys () "Materialism and Idealism in Organizational Theory ,"  Organization Studies  14, 657-679.
Paul Adler () "The Learning Bureaucracy: New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. ,"  Research in Organziational Behavior, vol.15.
Paul Adler () "Time-and-Motion Regained ,"  Harvard Business Review  Jan-Feb, 97-108 (reprinted in Robert Howard, ed., The Learning Imperative, pp. 255-276, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.).
Paul Adler, T. Winograd () "(Eds.), Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools ,"  Oxford University Press.
Paul Adler () "Managing DFM: Learning to Coordinate Product and Process Design ,"  Design for Manufacturability.
Paul Adler, K. Ferdows () "The Chief Technology Officer: A New Role for New Challenges ,"  Advances in Global High-Technology Management: Top Management and Executive Leadership in High Technology. vol. 2.
Paul Adler, D. McDonald, F MacDonald () "Strategic Management for Technical Functions ,"  Sloan Management Review  33, 19-28.
Paul Adler () "(Ed.), Technology and the Future of Work ,"  Oxford University Press.
Paul Adler () "Workers and Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Three Installations Compared ,"  Journal of Organizational Behavior  12, 447-460.
Paul Adler, K. Clark () "Behind the learning curve: The learning process ,"  Management Science  37, 267-281.
Paul Adler () "Capitalizing on New Manufacturing Technologies: Current Problems and Emergent Trends in US Industry, in National Academy of Engineering and the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education ,"  People and Technology in the Workplace.
Paul Adler () "Workers' Assessments of Three Flexible Manufacturing Systems ,"  International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing  1, 33-54.
Paul Adler, A. Shenhar () "Adapting Your Technological Base: The Organizational Challenge ,"  Sloan Management Review  32, 25-37.
Paul Adler () "Marx, Machines and Skill ,"  Technology and Culture  31, 780-812.
Paul Adler () "Shared Learning ,"  Management Science  36, 938-958.
Paul Adler () "Managing High-Tech Processes: The Challenge of CAD/CAM ,"  Managing Complexity in High-Technology Organizations.
Paul Adler, K. Ferdows () "The Chief Technology Officer ,"  California Management Review, 55-63.
Paul Adler () "The Skill Requirements of CAD/CAM ,"  International Journal of Technology Management  5, 201-216.
Paul Adler, K. Ferdows () "The Role of the Chief Technology Officer ,"  International Conference on Strategic Leadership in High Technology Organizations, University of Colorado at Boulder .
Paul Adler, H. Riggs, S. Wheelwright () "Product Development Know-How: Trading Tactics for Strategy ,"  Sloan Management Review, 7-17.
Paul Adler () "When Knowledge is the Critical Resource, Knowledge Management is the Critical Task. ,"  IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management   36, 87-95.
Paul Adler () "CAD/CAM: Managerial Challenges and Research Issues ,"  IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management  36, 202-215.
Paul Adler () "Contributing author: Challenges and Opportunities for Manufacturing Engineers ,"  SME Technology Report, Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Paul Adler, B. Borys () "Socio-dets and Techno-dets: Determinants of Diffusion and Implementation Patterns of Automated Machine Tools ,"  Journal of Engineering and Technology Management   6, 161-185.
Paul Adler () "Technology Strategy: A Guide to the Literatures ,"  Research on Technological Innovation, Management, and Policy (vol. 4).
Paul Adler, B. Borys () "Automation and Skill: Three Generations of Research on the Machine-Tool Case ,"  Politics and Society  17, 377-412.
Paul Adler, B. Borys () "Automation and Work (in French) ,"  Revue Formation-Emploi, 5-25.
Paul Adler, B Borys () "The Forest and the Trees: A Response to the Comments by Alain d'Iribarne (in French) ,"  Revue Formation-Emploi, 30-31.
Paul Adler () "Automation Skill and the Future of Capitalism ,"  Berkeley Journal of Sociology   33, 1-36.
Paul Adler () "Managing Flexible Automation ,"  California Management Review, 34-56.
Paul Adler () "A Plant Productivity Measure for High-Tech Manufacturing ,"  Interfaces  17, 75-85.
Paul Adler () "Review of: P. Whalley: The Social Production of Technical Work and R. Sussman, Mechanics of the Middle Class ,"  American Journal of Sociology  93, 499-501.
Paul Adler, D. Helleloid () "Effective Implementation of Integrated CAD/CAM: A Model ,"  IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management  34, 101-108.
Paul Adler () "Review of: P. Blackburn, R. Coombs, K. Green: Technology, Economic Growth and the Labor Process. ,"  Journal of Economic Literature, 158-59.
Paul Adler () "Automation and Skill: New Directions ,"  International Journal of Technology Management  2, 761-772.
Paul Adler () "Contributing author: Management of Technology: The Hidden Competitive Advantage. ,".
Paul Adler () "Skill Formation in U.S. Accounting Firms ,"  Office: Technology and People  3, 3-16.
Paul Adler () "New Technologies, New Skills ,"  California Management Review, 9-28.
Paul Adler () "Rethinking the Skill Requirements of New Technologies ,"  High Hopes for High Tech.
Paul Adler () "Review of: L. Hirschhorn: Beyond Mechanization ,"  Academy of Management Review, 222-226.
Paul Adler, N. Bowers () "History vs. Segmentation: On Recent Labor Market Research (in Italian) ,"  Metamorfosi  1, 235-264.
Paul Adler () "Thirty Years of Automation and Operating Costs in French Banking ( in French) ,"  Revue Economique, 987-1020.
Paul Adler () "The Productivity Puzzle': Numbers Alone Won't Solve It ,"  Monthly Labor Review, 15-21.