Associate Professor, Executive Programs
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
480 Armstrong Bldg.
2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025
TEL: (212) 854-4416
FAX: (212) 316-1473
E-MAIL: slb7@columbia.edu
CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV
INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese
SPECIALIZATIONS:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Program Coordinator, The Michigan Program on American Business and Japan Center for Japanese Studies, Program Coordinator, The East Asia Business Program, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, 1984-86, 1989; Project Researcher, Sanno Institute of Business Administration, 1986-88.
IN JAPAN: 1998 - Hitotsubashi University, Visiting Associate Professor, 1986-88 - Fulbright; 1976-77, 1979-81, 1986-88 - study.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
"Organizational Learning in Japanese MNCs," (with Bird, Allan & Taylor) (forthcoming, Birkenshaw & Hood's Multinational Corporate Evolution and Subsidiary Development, MacMillan Books); "A Partial Test of a Model of Strategic International Human Resource Management," (with Taylor, Najjar & Gosh, 1998) Advances in International Comparitive Managent: A Research Annual (vol. 12, 1998); "A Typology of International Human Resource Management in Japanese MNCs: Organizational Implications," (with Bird & Taylor) Human Resource Management (vol. 37 (2), 1998); "Resource Flows and Structures of Control Within American and Japanese Affiliates in Southeast Asia," (with Gosh) Best Papers Proceedings (1998); "Managing Across Cultures: How American and Japanese Managers who Work Together Perceive Each Other," (with Bird & Kennelly) Japanese Multinationals, Journal of the Institute of International Relations (1998); "The Role of the 'Human Organization' in the Success of Japanese and American Affiliates Overseas," (Prism, 1997); "Toward an Integrated Model of Strategic International Human Resource Management," (with Taylor & Napier) Academy of Management Review (vol. 21, 1996); "Links Between Business Strategy and Human Resource Management Strategy in the US-Based Japanese Subsidiaries: An Empirical Investigation," (with Bird) Journal of International Business Studies (1995); "The Missing Link: International Strategy and HRM Practices in Japanese MNCs," (with Yang) Journal of International Business Studies (1994); "The Transfer of Human Resources Management Systems Overseas: An Explanatory Study of Japanese and American Maquiladoras," (with Taylor) Japanese Multinationals: Strategies and Management in The Global Kaisha (ed. Campbell and Holden) (Routledge, 1994); Advances in International Comparative Management: Emerging Themes in Research on Japanese Business and Management (ed. with Bird) (JAI Press, 1993).