Professor
Management and International Business
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
TEL: (805) 756-7344
FAX: (805) 756-1473
E-MAIL: abird@calpoly.edu
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INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese
SPECIALIZATIONS:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
President, Association of Japanese Business Studies, 1997-99; Executive Committee, Careers Division, Academy of Management, 1997-99; Visiting Professor, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Montery CA, 1996-97; Research Associate, Japan-US Center for Business and Economic Studies, Stern School of Business, New York University, 1988-present; Visiting Lecturer, School of Business and Public Administration, University of the Pacific, 1984; Lecturer and Researcher, International Management Office, SANNO Institute of Business Administration, 1981-83; Program Director, K.K. Interac, 1979-81.
IN JAPAN: 1998-Present - Visiting Professor, Tsuda School of International Management, Tokyo; Research Associate, Center for Research on International Relations, Osaka International University, 1996-97; 1987-88 - employment, Fulbright; 1979-84 - employment, study; 1974-76 - church representative.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
"The Effects of Major Information Technology Adoption in Japanese Corporations," (with Lehrman) Journal of Japan and the World Economy (forthcoming); "International Assignments and Careers as Repositories of Knowledge," Developing Global Leadership Skills; The Challenge of HRM in the Next Millennium (forthcoming); "Japanese Multinationals Abroad; Individual and Organizational Learning" (with Beechler) (Oxford University Press, 1999); "Bridging Cultures; Preparing to Live and Work with Other Cultures," (with Dunbar, Mullen & Van Acker) (1998); "Organizational Learning in Japanese MNCs: Four Affiliate Archetypes," (with Beechler & Taylor) Multinational Corporation Evolution and Subsidiary Development (Birkinshaw & Hood, 1998); "Career Planning and Career Development of Managers Employed in Japanese Firms and US Subsidiaries in Japan," (with Granrose) Careers in Asia, (1997); "Careers as Repositories of Knowledge" Boundaryless Careers: Work, Mobility and Learning in the New Organizational Era (Arthur & Rousseau, eds. 1996); "Best Paper Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Business Studies" (with Wakabayashi) (1996); Journal of Japan and the World Economy "Power and the Japanese CEO" Asian Pacific Journal of Management (1990); "Expatriates in Their Own Home: A New Twist in the Human Research Management Strategies of Japanese MNCs," Human Resource Management (1989); "Organizational Demography in Japan: Group Heterogeneity, Individual Dissimilarity and Top Management Team Turnover," (with Wiersema) Academy of Management Journal.