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Combining creativity and control: Understanding individual motivation in large-scale collaborative creativity by Adler, Paul S., Chen, Clara Xiaoling

“…Recent research has shown that management control systems (MCS) can improve performance in contexts characterized by high levels of task uncertainty. This…”
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Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism by Adler, Paul S

“…Recent conceptualizations of trends in the structure of U.S. industry have focused on the relative importance of markets, hierarchies, and hybrid intermediate…”
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Capitalism in Question by Adler, Paul S.

“…Paul Adler was Program Chair for the 2013 meeting of the Academy of Management in Orlando, Florida, in August. In this capacity, he organized the “All-Academy…”
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SOCIAL CAPITAL: MATURATION OF A FIELD OF RESEARCH by KWON, SEOK-WOO, ADLER, PAUL S.

“…Over the past decade social capital has matured from a concept into a field of research. We identify some of the main theoretical developments over this period…”
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Flexibility Versus Efficiency? A Case Study of Model Changeovers in the Toyota Production System by Adler, Paul S, Goldoftas, Barbara, Levine, David I

“…This article seeks to reconceptualize the relationship between flexibility and efficiency. Much organization theory argues that efficiency requires…”
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The Evolution of Management Models: A Neo-Schumpeterian Theory by Bodrožić, Zlatko, Adler, Paul S.

“…In the last century and a half, U.S. industry has seen the emergence of several different management models. We propose a theory of this evolution based on…”
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Two Types of Bureaucracy: Enabling and Coercive by Adler, Paul S., Borys, Bryan

“…This article proposes a conceptualization of workflow formalization that helps reconcile the contrasting assessments of bureaucracy as alienating to employees…”
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The Sociological Ambivalence of Bureaucracy: From Weber via Gouldner to Marx by Adler, Paul S.

“…Reports of the demise of the bureaucratic form of organization are greatly exaggerated, and debates about bureaucracy's functions and effects therefore…”
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2015 Presidential Address: OUR TEACHING MISSION by ADLER, PAUL S.

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Odyssey of a Socialist in the Business School World by Adler, Paul S.

“…This is an edited version of my remarks at the 2020 Academy of Management on receiving the Organization and Management Theory Division's Distinguished Scholar…”
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Interdepartmental Interdependence and Coordination: The Case of the Design/Manufacturing Interface by Adler, Paul S

“…In contrast with the relative stability of interdepartmental coordination mechanisms in ongoing operations, coordination tasks and mechanisms typically change…”
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ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC FUTURES: A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR PROGRESSIVE MANAGEMENT SCHOLARSHIP by ADLER, PAUL S.

“…The papers in this Symposium reflect a growing body of work within and around the Academy of Management among scholars and activists who share a double…”
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Community and Innovation: From Tönnies to Marx by Adler, Paul S.

“…The idea of community has lurked in various forms in organization studies since the field’s inception, but its recent prominence as a critical precondition for…”
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Professional Work: The Emergence of Collaborative Community by Adler, Paul S., Kwon, Seok-Woo, Heckscher, Charles

“…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…”
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The Mutation of Professionalism as a Contested Diffusion Process: Clinical Guidelines as Carriers of Institutional Change in Medicine by Adler, Paul S., Kwon, Seok-Woo

“…The Anglo‐American institution of the profession is mutating: we propose to analyse this mutation as a contested diffusion process that spreads new organizing…”
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The Future of Critical Management Studies: A Paleo-Marxist Critique of Labour Process Theory by Adler, Paul S.

“…For many years, the core of critical management studies was labour process theory (LPT), building on Braverman's (1976) reading of Marx. Recently, LPT has been…”
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Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept by Adler, Paul S., Seok-Woo Kwon

“…A growing number of sociologists, political scientists, economists, and organizational theorists have invoked the concept of social capital in the search for…”
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Perspective--Professional Work: The Emergence of Collaborative Community by Adler, Paul S, Kwon, Seok-Woo, Heckscher, Charles

“…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…”
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Perspectives on the Productivity Dilemma

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Management, Socialism and Democracy: A Dialog with Paul S. Adler on His Recent Book, The 99% Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism, Oxford University Press, 2019 by Martineau, Régis, Adler, Paul S.

“…The critical corner welcomes transcripts of roundtables, symposiums, interviews, keynotes speeches organized within conferences but also book reviews essays or…”
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