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John Paul MacDuffie
Associate Professor


Professor MacDuffie is Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School and co-director of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP), the research network founded at M.I.T. to study the challenges facing the global automotive industry. He received his B.A. degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. degree from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T.

Prof. MacDuffie’s research examines the diffusion of lean or flexible production as an alternative to mass production; the impact of human resource systems and work organization on economic performance; collaborative problem-solving within and across firms; and the relationship between product and organizational architecture. His global research on the determinants of high-performance manufacturing is featured centrally in the books The Machine That Changed the World and After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry. His research and commentary on the global automotive industry and trends in employment systems are featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg Business Week, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and on National Public Radio and Knowledge@Wharton. He is a founding board member of the Industry Studies Association; a member of the Automotive Experts Group at the Federal Reserve Bank; and a member of the Automotive Industry Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum.

Publications
John Paul MacDuffie (2011), Inter-organizational trust and the dynamics of distrust, Journal of International Business Studies, 42(1): 35-47
John Paul MacDuffie, K. Jaewon, F. K. Pil (2010), Employee Voice and Organizational Performance: Team vs. Representative Influence, Human Relations, 63(3): 371-394
Paul S. Adler, Mary Benner, David J. Brunner, John Paul MacDuffie, Emi Osono, Bradley R. Staats, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Michael L. Tushman, Sidney G Winter (2009), Perspectives on the Productivity Dilemma, Journal of Operations Management, 27: 99-113
John Paul MacDuffie (2008), HRM and Distributed Work: Managing People Over Distance, Annals of the Academy of Management, 1(1): 549-616
John Paul MacDuffie, S. Helper (2007), Collaboration in Supply Chains: With and Without Trust, The Firm as Collaborative Community, Charles Heckscher and Paul Adler (eds.), New York: Oxford University Press, 416-466
Bruce Kogut, John Paul MacDuffie, Charles Ragin (2004), Prototypes and Strategy: Assigning Causal Credit Using Fuzzy Sets, European Management Review, 1: 114-131

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Knowledge@Wharton
Should Performance Reviews Be Fired? 05/11/2011
Should Performance Reviews Be Fired? 04/27/2011
Reborn and Restructured, Can the Global Auto Industry Put Customers in Drive? 01/19/2011
Fresh Off Its IPO, Can GM Stage a Comeback? 11/23/2010
Will the Economic Recovery Run Out of Steam? 07/21/2010
Under the Hood of Toyota's Recall: 'A Tremendous Expansion of Complexity' 03/31/2010

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Honors And Awards
MBA Core Curriculum Award, 2000
MBA Core Curriculum Award, 1997-1998
Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Industrial Relations Research Association, 1997
Miller-Sherrerd Teaching Award for MBA Core Courses, 1994
Undergraduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, 1992
Zannetos PhD Thesis Prize, Sloan School of Management, MIT, 1991

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MacDuffie John Paul

John Paul  MacDuffie
 3105 SH-DH
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone: (215) 898-2588
Fax: (215) 898-0401
macduffie@wharton.upenn.edu

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Research Interests:
Organizational learning and collaboration; Managing people over distance; Links between corporate strategy and human resource management systems; High-involvement work systems; Diffusion of management practices; Flexible/lean production systems; Product and organizational architecture