Paul S. Adler

Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept

A growing number of sociologists, political scientists, economists, and organizational theorists have invoked the concept of social capital in the search for answers to a broade...

Two Types of Bureaucracy: Enabling and Coercive

This research was supported by several companies affiliated with the Stanford Integrated Manufacturing Association. Research assistance was provided by Emmeline DePillis. An ear...

Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism

Recent conceptualizations of trends in the structure of U.S. industry have focused on the relative importance of markets, hierarchies, and hybrid intermediate forms. This paper ...

Social Capital: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Shared Learning

Total productivity learning curve results are reported for several departments of an electronic equipment manufacturer with plants in the U.S., Europe and Asia. These results we...