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Education
BA, sociology, Kent State University
MA, sociology, Kent State University
Ph.D., sociology, University of Wisconsin
Positions Held
At Haas since 1988
2007 - present Mitsubishi Chair in International Business and Finance, Haas School of Business
2007 - 2008 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
2003 Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University of Science
& Technology
2002-2003, Special Visiting Professor, Graduate School of
Policy and Management, Doshisha University
2001- Visiting Scholar, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
1997-2002, Director, Institute of Industrial Relations
1996 Visiting professor, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
1995-96 Associate Director, Institute of Industrial Relations
1993 - 94 Visiting professor, Doshisha University, Kyoto,
Japan
1990 - 91 Visiting Scholar, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo,
Japan
1988 - 2007 Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1984 - 88 Head, Department of Management & Policy, University
of Arizona
1984 - 88 Professor of Management & Policy and Sociology,
University of Arizona
1978 - 84 Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University
1973 - 79 Assistant to Associate Professor, University of
Southern California
External Service and Assignments
- Member: Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, Macro-Organizational Behavior Society, Sociological Research Association.
- Editorial board member: Asian Survey, Industrial Relations, Advances in International Comparative Management.
Current Research and Interests
- International business and management, particularly Japanese management
- Organizational design, interorganizational networks, organizational theory and research methods
- Labor and industrial relations
Selected Papers and Publications
- Japan’s Network Economy: Structure, Persistence,
and Change (with Michael Gerlach). New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2004
- “Dyad and Network: Models of Manufacturer-Supplier
Collaboration in the Japanese TV Manufacturing Industry”
(with Didier Guillot), In Alan Bird and Thomas Roehl (eds.):
Advances in International Management Special Issue on Changing
Japan. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 2004
- “Keiretsu, Governance, and Learning: Case Studies
in Change from the Japanese Automotive Industry” (with
Christina L. Ahmadjian), Organizational Science 12, (2001):
683-701
- "Economic Organization and Innovation in Japan: Networks,
Spinoffs, and the Creation of Enterprise" (with Michael
Gerlach) Pp. 151-198, in Georg Von Krog, Ikujiro Nonaka,
and Toshihiro Nishiguchi (eds.): Knowledge Creation:
A New Source of Value. London: Macmillan, 2000
- "The Structural Analysis of Japanese Economic Organization:
A Conceptual Framework" (with Michael Gerlach). In
W. Mark Fruin (ed.): Networks and Markets; Pacific Rim
Strategies New York: Oxford University Press, 1998
- "Evolving patterns of keiretsu organization and action
in Japan." (with Michael L. Gerlach and Christina Ahmadjian).
B. M. Staw and L. L. Cummings (Eds.) Research in Organizational
Behavior. Greenwood, NJ: JAI Press. 20 (1998): 307-343.
- "Organizational learning and purchase-supply relations
in Japan: Hitachi, Matsushita, and Toyota compared."
(with Christina L. Ahmadjian and Eliot Mason). California
Management Review. 24 (Spring, 1998): 241-264. Special
Issue on Knowledge and the Firm. Edited by Robert E. Cole.
- "The transformation of the Japanese employment system:
nature, depth, and origins." (with Yoshifumi Nakata).
Work and Occupations. 24 (February, 1997): 33-55. Reprinted
in F. Ackerman, N. R. Goodwin, L. Dougherty, and K. Gallagher
(eds.): The Changing Nature of Work. Covelo, CA:
Island Press, 1998.
- "Commitment, quits, and work organization in the
U. S. and Japan." (with Arne L. Kalleberg). Industrial
and Labor Relations Review. 50 (October, 1996): 39-59.
- "Keiretsu networks and corporate performance in Japan."
(with Michael Gerlach and Christina Ahmadjian). American
Sociological Review. 61 (February, 1996): 67-88.
- Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization
and Work Attitudes in the US and Japan, (with Arne L.
Kalleberg). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Teaching
- BA 254B Research in Macro-Organizational Behavior
- BA 105, Organizational Behavior
- BA 296.6, International Business and Japan
Honors and Awards
- Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (PhD Program), 1998
- Elected member, Sociological Research Association, 1983-present
- Elected member, Macro-Organizational Behavior Society, 1984-present
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