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.
Paul Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan, Mike Reed
() "The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents ,".
Paul Adler
() "Political Economy ,"Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies.
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, P. Riley, S. Kwon, J. Signer, B. Lee, R. Satrasala
() "Performance Improvement Capability: Keys to Accelerating Improvement to Hospitals ,"California Management Review45, 12-33.
Paul Adler
() "Teams at NUMMI ,"Teamwork in the Automobile Industry.
Paul Adler, P. Landsbergis
() "Lean Production and Worker Health: A Discussion ,"New Solutions8, 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
() "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 Sociology26, 754-757.
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, A. Mandelbaum, V. Nguyen, E. Schwerer
() "Getting the Most out of Your Product Development Process ,"Harvard Business Review, 134-152.
Paul Adler, A. Mandelbaum, V. Nguyen, E. Schwerer
() "From Project to Process Management: An Empirically-Based Framework for Analyzing Product Development Time ,"Management Science41, 458-484.
D. Levine, Paul Adler, B. Goldoftas
() "NUMMI: A Case Study ,"Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win.
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.
Paul Adler, A. Mandelbaum, V. Nguyen, E. Schwerer
() "From Project to Process Management in Engineering: Managerial and Methodological Challenges ,"Management of Design.
Paul Adler, R. Cole
() "Rejoinder to Berggren's critique ,"Sloan Management Review35, 45-49.
Paul Adler
() "Review of: C. Berggren: Alternatives to Lean Production: Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry ,"American Journal of Sociology99, 1366-68.
Paul Adler
() "Workers' Responses to New Wave Manufacturing ,"New Wave Manufacturing Strategies: Organizational and Human Resource Management Dimensions.
Paul Adler, R. Cole
() "Designed for Learning: A Tale of Two Auto Plants ,"Sloan Management Review34, 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 Studies14, 657-679.
Paul Adler
() "Time-and-Motion Regained ,"Harvard Business ReviewJan-Feb, 97-108 (reprinted in Robert Howard, ed., The Learning Imperative, pp. 255-276, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.).
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 Review33, 19-28.
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 Manufacturing1, 33-54.
Paul Adler, A. Shenhar
() "Adapting Your Technological Base: The Organizational Challenge ,"Sloan Management Review32, 25-37.
Paul Adler
() "The Skill Requirements of CAD/CAM ,"International Journal of Technology Management5, 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
() "Managing High-Tech Processes: The Challenge of CAD/CAM ,"Managing Complexity in High-Technology Organizations.
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, 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 Society17, 377-412.
Paul Adler
() "CAD/CAM: Managerial Challenges and Research Issues ,"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management36, 202-215.
Paul Adler
() "Contributing author: Challenges and Opportunities for Manufacturing Engineers ,"SME Technology Report, Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
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
() "Managing Flexible Automation ,"California Management Review, 34-56.
Paul Adler
() "A Plant Productivity Measure for High-Tech Manufacturing ,"Interfaces17, 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 Sociology93, 499-501.
Paul Adler, D. Helleloid
() "Effective Implementation of Integrated CAD/CAM: A Model ,"IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management34, 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 Management2, 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 People3, 3-16.
Paul Adler
() "New Technologies, New Skills ,"California Management Review, 9-28.
Paul Adler
() "Review of: L. Hirschhorn: Beyond Mechanization ,"Academy of Management Review, 222-226.
Paul Adler
() "Rethinking the Skill Requirements of New Technologies ,"High Hopes for High Tech.
Paul Adler, N. Bowers
() "History vs. Segmentation: On Recent Labor Market Research (in Italian) ,"Metamorfosi1, 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.