Paul Adler

Die Befreiung Der Menschheit: Freiheitsideen in Vergangenheit Und Gegenwart

Technology and the Future of Work

Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools

Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems

The Firm As a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy

The Firm As a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents (Oxford Handbooks)

Sociology and social theory has always been a major source of new perspectives for organization studies. Access to a series of authoritative accounts of theorists and research themes in sociology and social theory which have influenced developments in organization studies is essential for those wish...

The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy

This volume explores the changing nature of community in modern corporations. Community within and between firms - the fabric of trust so essential to contemporary business - has long been based on loyalty. This loyalty has been largely destroyed by three decades of economic turbulence, downsizing, ...

Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents (Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management)

Sociology and social theory has always been a major source of new perspectives for organization studies. Access to a series of authoritative accounts of theorists and research themes in sociology and social theory which have influenced developments in organization studies is essential for those wish...

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations (Oxford Handbooks)

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 fou...

Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry

Lean Work examines the controversial Japanese model of "lean production" and its impact on work and workers in the global auto industry. Lean production is said to replace the narrowly specialized and repetitive jobs in mass production with teams of cross-trained workers who are empowered to rotate ...

Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

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 lesso...