Chair, Department of Marketing and Policy Studies

Weatherhead School of Management

Case Western Reserve University
Enterprise 597, 10900 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44106-7235

TEL: (216) 368-6048
FAX: (216) 368-4785
HOME: (216) 295-8283
E-MAIL: lhl@po.cwru.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese (with advance preparation)

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  business administration and management; industrial organization
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  foreign policy and international relations; leadership; political institutions; public policy
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  modern science and technology; technological change; technology transfer
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  comparative and cross-cultural studies; cultural and social change; organizations and institutions; technology and social change

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Editorial Board, Journal of Engineering-Technologies Management; President, Association of Japanese Business Studies, 1996-97; Visiting Instructor, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1979-87; Instructor, Reitaku University and High School, 1968-69.

IN JAPAN: 1977-78 - Fulbright; 1967-73 - employment; 1963-64 - military; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Technology Competition Policy in the US and Japanese Semiconductor Industries: A Fifty Year Retrospective," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (forthcoming); "The Commercialization of the Transistor Radio in Japan: The Functioning of an Innovation Community," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (45) (August, 1998); "Japan's Technological Import Policies in the 1950s and 1960s: Did they Increase Industrial Competitiveness?" International Journal of Technology Management (15) (1998); "Technology Communities and Innovation Communities," Journal of Engineering-Technology Management (1997); Organizing Business: Trade Associations in Japan and America (with McKeown) (University Press of America, 1988); How Japan Innovates: A Comparison with the US in the Case of Oxygen Steelmaking (Westview Press/Tokyo Keizai Shimbun, 1986); "US-Japanese Cooperation and Competition in Science and Technology," The Japanese-United States Relationship: Challenges and Opportunities (ed. Lauren et al.) (Westview Press, 1989); "Engineering Careers, Job Rotation, and Gatekeepers in Japan and the United States," (with Piehler et al.) Journal of Engineering Technology Management (1993).