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Paul Adler

Paul Adler's website (official or not) http://www.marshall.usc.edu/web/MOR.cfm?doc_id=3077
subjects Paul Adler writes about High Technology Industry, Organization Design, Human Resources
Paul Adler's profile Paul S. Adler, Professor, began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974. Prof. Adler received his doctorate in Economics and Management there, while working as a Research Economist for the French government. He came to the U.S.A. in 1981, and before arriving at USC in 1991, he was affiliated with the Brookings Institution, Columbia University, the Harvard Business School, and Stanford's School of Engineering. His research and teaching focus on strategic management and organization design of R&D, engineering, and manufacturing operations. He has consulted on the associated issues with many firms such as Honeywell, Tektronix, Apple Computer, Becton Dickinson, General Motors, Prime Computers, Chase Manhatten Bank, Sunrise Medical, NCR, and UPS. He has also been a speaker at numerous industry forums such as CAM-I, OSDA, the Planning Forum, and the Conference Board. He was the industry expert member of the three-person panel that conducted the first arbitration of an international transfer pricing case for the U.S. Tax Court (IRS v Apple Computers).

A past Chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, he has published widely in academic and managerial journals both in the U.S. and overseas. He has published two edited volumes, Technology and the Future of Work, and Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools, both with Oxford University Press. A third edited volume, Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems, is forthcoming.

EDUCATION: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France (M.A.), Centre de'Etudes des Programmes Economiques, Paris, France (Diplome), Univesite de Picardie, Amiens, France (Ph.D.)


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Technology and the Future of Work
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This book brings together a set of essays exploring the implications of new technologies in the workplace. The common premise of the contributions is that the effective implementation of automation in

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 Oxford University Press
 December - Hardcover
 Trends and Future
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Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems
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Japanese manufacturing methods have been transforming the American electronics and automobile industries. This book examines the process by which Japanese manufacturers are importing these methods,...

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 Business in Japan
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Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools
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As more and more equipment incorporates advanced technologies, usability -- the ability of equipment to take advantage of users' skills and thereby to function effectively in the broad range of real...

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 High Technology Industry
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