Anita McGahan in conversation with Paul Adler

October 19, 2026
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Interview Speaker

Paul Adler

Harold Quinton Chair Emeritus, University of Southern California

Paul Adler is Harold Quinton Chair Emeritus in Business Policy and Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization, at the University of Southern California. He began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974, where he received his doctorate...

Reflections from the Interview


Professor Paul Adler is one of the most distinguished senior scholars in the field of management, but you might not have guessed at the beginning of his career that he would have landed this way.  Paul describes his early work as a Marxist socialist and union organizers in Australia and France, and then his move into academic life in the United States in the 1980s.    What he demonstrates is an extraordinary capacity to stay true to the theoretical principles that...

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