Table of Contents

Paul S. Adler and Charles Heckscher: Introduction
Part I: Framing Concepts
1: Paul S. Adler and Charles Heckscher: Towards Collaborative Community
2: Charles Sabel: Theory of a Real-Time Revolution
3: Michael Maccoby: The Self in Transition: From Bureaucratic to Interactive Social Character
Part II: Community Inside Corporations
4: Jay Galbraith: Differentiated Networks
5: Paul S. Adler: Beyond Hacker Idiocy
6: Michael Maccoby: Healthcare Organizations as Collaborative Learning Communities
7: Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman: Hyperconnected Net Work
8: Saul Rubinstein: Collaborative Community and Employee Representation
Part III: Community Across Corporations
9: Lynda Applegate: Building Inter-Firm Collaborative Community
10: John Paul MacDuffie and Susan Helper: Collaboration in Supply Chains
Part IV: The Process of Change
11: Michael Maccoby and Charles Heckscher: A Note on Leadership in Collaborative Communities
12: Charles Heckscher and Nathaniel Foote: The Strategic Fitness Process
13: Mark Bonchek and Robert Howard: The Power to Convene: Leadership in Interfirm Networks

About the Author

Charles Heckscher is a professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University. His research focuses on organization change and its consequences for employees and unions, and on the possibilities for more collaborative and democratic forms of work. His books include The New Unionism, The Post-Bureaucratic Organization (Sage, 1994), White-Collar Blues (Basic Books, 1995), and Agents of Change (OUP,
2003). As Director of the Center for Workplace Transformation he is leading research into the development of collaboration in local unions and corporations. Before coming to Rutgers he worked for the Communications Workers' union and
taught Human Resources Management at the Harvard Business School. Paul Adler is Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Educated in Australia and France, he came to the US in 1981. Before joining 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. He has
published widely in academic and managerial journals both in the U.S. and overseas. He has also published three edited volumes: Technology and the Future of Work; Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools;
and Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems, all with Oxford University Press.

Reviews

This is a heroic work by contemporary standards. Not only does it mount a wide-ranging argument connecting many contemporary changes, but... it is exceptionally well-integrated, in start contrast with many edited collections these days.... A highly integrated volume that ties together a wide range of subjects in a way that would be well beyond the means of any single scholar.
*Industrial and Labor Relations Review*