Paul S Adler

Datos Biográficos

ID280859
NOMBREPaul S Adler
NOMBRESPaul S
APELLIDOAdler
FIRMAADLER P S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Southern California
ORCID0000-0003-3800-6806
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS31
TOTAL DE CITAS17
TOTAL COMO AUTOR29
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1983
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • System Change, Not Climate Change

    Open AccessZlatko Bodrožić, Paul S Adler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Management Studies2025

    The climate crisis challenges management scholars to address the system‐level factors that constrain and enable firms’ climate action. We argue that to meet this challenge, we need to study the climate action capacity of alternative systems of political‐economic power. We proceed in three steps. First, we develop a historically grounded map of four main types of power systems: ‘Oligarchy’, ‘Localism’, ‘Authoritarianism’, and ‘Democratization’. Th…

  • No Globalization Without Representation

    Open AccessPaul S Adler, Paul AdlerBOOKNo Globalization Without…2021

    From boycotting Nestlé in the 1970s to lobbying against NAFTA to the "Battle of Seattle" protests against the World Trade Organization in the 1990s, No Globalization Without Representation is the story of how consumer and environmental activists became significant players in U.S. and world politics at the twentieth century's close.

  • Operation Monkey Wrench

    Paul S Adler, Paul Adler et al.ARTICLEPopulism2019

    The policy process literature focuses on technocratic insiders, while scholarship on populism hones in on demagogic outsiders. The latter’s distrust of elites, compromise, and nuance makes them potentially effective in opposition or government, but less obviously as intervenors in policy formation between elections. We argue that, under certain conditions, populists can effectively insert themselves into policy processes without seizing power or …

  • Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives

    Paul S Adler, Paul Adler et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Sociology,…2014

    This chapter suggests that Michel Foucault is a nuisance for scholars of organizations, albeit a productive one. Foucault disavowed the study of organizations, yet his work was fundamentally concerned with the administering of lives, a central concern of scholars of organizations. The chapter explores this tension by examining four displacements that Foucault sought to effect: first, a move from asking ‘why’ type questions to ‘how’ type questions…

  • Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies

    Glen Morgan, Michael Reed et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Sociology,…2014

  • Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology

    Paul S Adler, Paul Adler et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Sociology,…2014

  • Healing Together

    Paul S Adler, Thomas A Kochan et al.BOOKHealing Together2013

    Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the lessons to be learned from its successes and complications. With twenty-seven unions and an organization as complex as 8.6-million-member Kaiser Permanente…

  • Learning from Occupy

    Paul S Adler, James Ploeser et al.ARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2012

    This issue's Contemporary Affairs section is a roundtable discussion of the Occupy Wall Street movement, held in Washington, DC, in December 2011. Moderated by historian-activist Paul Adler, the discussion combines reflections by full-time Occupiers James Ploeser and Vasudha Desikan with veteran grassroots organizer Heather Booth and engaged political scientist Dorian Warren. Together, they explore the sources, popular appeal, and likely future d…

  • Marx and Organization Studies Today

    Paul S Adler, Paul AdlerCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of sociology…2009

    Marx's analysis was not only astute in discerning capitalism's enduring features: it was also deeply critical. He documented and denounced capitalism's dark sides—its enormous human and environmental costs. More controversially, he claimed to have identified some fundamental features of capitalist development that would lead inevitably to capitalism's demise and its replacement by a superior form of society. This article aims to show the fruitful…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies

    Paul S Adler, Paul AdlerBOOKThe Oxford handbook of sociology…2009

    The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies aims to re-assert the importance of classical sociology to the future of organization studies. Organizations are a defining feature of the modern world, and the study of organizations (organization studies) has become well established in both sociology departments and professional schools, most notably business and management schools. Organization studies has long drawn inspiration from fo…

  • Perspective—Professional Work

    Paul S Adler, Seok-Woo Kwon et al.ARTICLEOrganization Science2008

    This paper traces the main lines of evolution of the organization of professional work. The argument is illustrated with material on the case of doctors and hospitals. While market and hierarchy principles have become progressively more salient in professional work, we argue that, in parallel, the community principle has been growing more influential, too. We further argue that professional community is mutating from a Gemeinschaft, craft guild f…

  • CMS

    Open AccessPaul S AdlerARTICLEOrganization2008

  • Marx, Socialization and Labour Process Theory

    Open AccessPaul S AdlerARTICLEOrganization Studies2007

  • The firm as a collaborative community

    Charles C Heckscher, Charles Heckscher et al.BOOKThe firm as a collaborative…2006

  • Towards Collaborative Community

    Paul S Adler, Charles HeckscherCHAPTERThe firm as a collaborative…2006

    In the last thirty years the celebration of the unfettered market has gained considerable momentum. There has been a sustained attack on colJective institutions-on government, large bureaucracies of all kinds, worker associations, and communal norms of equity and solidarity-and a growing chorus celebrating competition and its association with individual freedom and choice. This chapter, and indeed the whole volume that it introduces, voices a cou…

  • Critical Perspectives on Activity

    Open AccessSeth Chaiklin, Peter H Sawchuk et al.BOOKCritical Perspectives on…2006

    The last two decades have seen an international explosion of interest in theories of mind, culture, and activity. This unique collection is the first to explicitly reach back to the tradition's original critical impulse within which the writings of Karl Marx played such a central role. Each author pushes this impulse further to address leading contemporary questions. It includes a diverse array of international scholars working from the fields of…

  • Critical in the Name of Whom and What

    Open AccessPaul S Adler, Paul AdlerARTICLEOrganization2002

    Mayer Zald’s article poses an important challenge to the field of Critical Management Studies. It is based on a presentation to the Critical Management Studies Workshop (CMSW) at the 2001 Academy of Management meeting. I respond to it as someone who has helped organize the Critical Management Studies Workshop within the Academy of Management. I write here, however, not to represent the group’s views but to advance the debate about its future. Whe…

  • Market, Hierarchy, and Trust

    Paul S AdlerARTICLEOrganization Science2001

    Recent conceptualizations of trends in the structure of U.S. industry have focused on the relative importance of markets, hierarchies, and hybrid intermediate forms. This paper advances the discussion by distinguishing three ideal-typical forms of organization and their corresponding coordination mechanisms: market/price, hierarchy/authority, and community/trust. Different institutions combine the three forms/mechanisms in different proportions. …

  • Social Capital

    Paul S Adler, P AdlerCHAPTERKnowledge and social capital2000

  • Flexibility Versus Efficiency? A Case Study of Model Changeovers in the Toyota Production System

    Paul S Adler, Barbara Goldoftas et al.ARTICLEOrganization Science1999

    This article seeks to reconceptualize the relationship between flexibility and efficiency. Much organization theory argues that efficiency requires bureaucracy, that bureaucracy impedes flexibility, and that organizations therefore confront a tradeoff between efficiency and flexibility. Some researchers have challenged this line of reasoning, arguing that organizations can shift the efficiency/flexibility tradeoff to attain both superior efficien…

  • On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu

    Paul S Adler, Laurie Graham et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1997

  • Alternatives to Lean Production

    Paul S AdlerARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1994

  • Technology and the future of work

    Paul S AdlerBOOKTechnology and the future of work1992

    "Competitive pressure demands that firms create a good balance of their technology, people, and organization, and that they sustain it with well-meshed business, technology, and human resources strategies. But the acceleration of technological change over the last decade has made it more difficult to find this balance. Moreover, the intensification of global competition has made any imbalance debilitating for business performance." "This book exp…

  • Taylorism Transformed

    Paul S Adler, Stephen P Waring et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1992

    This intellectual history interprets recent American business management ideas as political theory, describing their underlying assumptions about power and value. According to Stephen Waring, most business management theory descends from either Frederick Taylor's 'bureaucratic' theory of scientific management or Elton Mayo's 'corporatist' idea of human relations. Waring discusses the subsequent evolution of several management theories and techniq…

  • Marx, Machines, and Skill

    Paul S AdlerARTICLETechnology and Culture1990Citada por: 5

    of technology on skill requirements.' Marx's name figures prominently in this research as a theorist and prophet of the dehumanization and deskilling of work under capitalism. Indeed, it is now considered almost obvious that Marx, rightly or wrongly, saw capitalist development and use of machinery as tending to--and at least to some extent designed to--reduce skill requirements.2 This article argues that distinguishing more carefully between theo…