Professor Adler began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974. He 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. His research and teaching focus on organization theory and design in R&D, engineering, software, healthcare, and manufacturing operations. He has served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division and the Critical Management Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management, and he has published widely in academic and managerial journals both in the U.S. and overseas. His most recent book was The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy (OUP, 2006).

provides excellent supplemental reading to original works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Thorstein Veblen, and other notables within this field of research. Summing up: Recommended.

• PART I: THE ROLE OF THE CLASSICS ; PART II: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ; PART III: AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ; PART IV: AFTERWORD

Professor Adler began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974. He 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. His research and teaching focus on organization theory and design in R&D, engineering, software, healthcare, and manufacturing operations. He has served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division and the Critical Management Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management, and he has published widely in academic and managerial journals both in the U.S. and overseas. His most recent book was The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy (OUP, 2006).

provides excellent supplemental reading to original works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Thorstein Veblen, and other notables within this field of research. Summing up: Recommended.

• PART I: THE ROLE OF THE CLASSICS ; PART II: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ; PART III: AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ; PART IV: AFTERWORD

Professor Adler began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974. He 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. His research and teaching focus on organization theory and design in R&D, engineering, software, healthcare, and manufacturing operations. He has served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division and the Critical Management Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management, and he has published widely in academic and managerial journals both in the U.S. and overseas. His most recent book was The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy (OUP, 2006).

provides excellent supplemental reading to original works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Thorstein Veblen, and other notables within this field of research. Summing up: Recommended.

• PART I: THE ROLE OF THE CLASSICS ; PART II: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ; PART III: AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ; PART IV: AFTERWORD