Prof. Stephen B. Adams
Salisbury University
Research
Interests: My current research is on the development of high-tech regions, with particular
attention to the role of the academic anchor and the significance and timing of
entrepreneurship in that development.
Books
Stephen B. Adams, Before the Garage: Institutional Builders of Silicon Valley (in
progress)
Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler, Manufacturing the Future: A History of
Western Electric (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Stephen B. Adams, Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government
Entrepreneur (University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
Recent Articles and Chapters
Stephen B. Adams, “Growing Where You Are Planted: Exogenous Firms and the
Seeding of Silicon Valley,” forthcoming in Research Policy.
Charles Manz, Karen Manz, Stephen B. Adams, and Frank Shipper, “A Model of ValuesBased Shared Leadership and Sustainable Performance,” forthcoming in the Journal
of Personnel Psychology.
Charles Manz, Karen Manz, Stephen B. Adams, and Frank Shipper, “Sustainable
Performance with Values-Based Shared Leadership: A Case Study of a Virtuous
Organization,” forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Administrative Science.
Stephen B. Adams, Frank Shipper, Charles Manz, and Karen Manz, “Herman Miller
Furniture: Shared Leadership Built on a Foundation of Positive Values and
Creativity,” in Share the Lead, edited by Charles Manz, Craig Pearce, and Hank Sims
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, under contract).
Stephen B. Adams, “Follow the Money: Engineering at Stanford and UC Berkeley during
the Rise of Silicon Valley” Minerva 47, no. 4 (2009): 367–90.
Stephen B. Adams, “Stanford University and Frederick Terman’s Blueprint for
Innovation in the Knowledge Economy,” in The Challenge of Remaining Innovative:
Lessons from Twentieth-Century American Business, edited by Sally Clarke, Naomi
Lamoreaux, and Steve Usselman (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009),
169–90.
Stephen B. Adams and Paul J. Miranti, “Global Knowledge Transfer and
Telecommunications: The Bell System in Japan, 1945–1952,” Enterprise and Society
9, no. 1 (March 2008): 96–124.
Stephen B. Adams, “Stanford and Silicon Valley: Lessons on Becoming a High-Tech
Region,” California Management Review 48, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 29–51.
Stephen B. Adams, “Regionalism in Stanford’s Contribution to the Rise of Silicon
Valley,” Enterprise and Society 4, no. 3 (September 2003): 521–43.