Adler, Paul

Professor
Department of Management & Organization
213-740-0748
padler@marshall.usc.edu

Paul S. Adler is Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business. He 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 USA 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.

Professor Adler is a management expert specializing in organization design and strategy implementation, and his expertise covers areas such as strategic human resource management (industrial and employee relations), productivity and quality, effective implementation of new technologies, new product development, information systems and infrastructure, and outsourcing and subcontracting.

A previous chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, Prof. Adler has published widely in academic and managerial journals both in the U.S. and overseas. He has published four edited volumes: Technology and the Future of Work (Oxford University Press, 1992); Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools (Oxford University Press, 1992), co-edited with Terry Winograd; Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems (Oxford University Press, 1999), co-edited with Jeff Liker and Mark Fruin; The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy (2006, Oxford University Press), co-edited with Charles Heckscher.

Prof. Adler has served on the Editorial Review Boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, California Management Review, Management Science, Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, and Journal of Engineering and Technology Management.

His consulting work has included numerous well-known organizations, such as General Electric, Honeywell, Tektronix, Apple Computer, Becton Dickinson, General Motors, Prime Computers, Chase Manhattan Bank, Sunrise Medical, NCR, Nortel, Child Health Corporation of America, and Qualcomm.

Education:
Ph.D. (Economics and Management), University of Picardie, Amiens, France, 1981
Diplome D'Études Approfondies, Economic analysis, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1979
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Economic and Social History, Paris, France, 1978
Certificate, Economics, Centre D'Études des Programmes Économiques, French Ministry of Finance, Paris, 1977