Mary Yoko Brannen
The AMD/Fujitsu Chair of Multicultural Integration
| Professor of International Business | Phone: 408 924-3580 |
| Department of Organization and Management | Fax: 408 924-3555 |
| College of Business, San José State University |
brannen_m@cob.sjsu.edu |
| One Washington Square | |
| San Jose, CA 95192-0070 | http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/branne_m/ |
Place of Birth: Kobe, Japan
Citizenship: U.S.A
Education:
| Ph.D. | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994 |
| School of Management | |
| Major: Organization Studies | |
| Minor: Cultural Anthropology | |
| Dissertation : "Your Next Boss is Japanese:" Negotiating Cultural Change at a Western Massachusetts Paper Plant | |
| M.B.A. | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988 |
| Emphasis: Organizational Behavior/ International Management | |
| Bachelor of Arts | University of California, Berkeley, 1981 |
| Major: Comparative Literature (English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Latin) | |
| LANGUAGE ABILITY: | Bilingual English and Japanese;fluent French;Spanish and Mandarin |
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
| 2006 | International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (IJBIRI, appointed to the editorial board as a senior editor, March, 2006. This is a quarterly refereed and peer reviewed journal published by Inderscience Publishers, Geneva. |
| 2004 | Core Faculty for the Managing Partnership and Strategic Partnerships Executive Education Program at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France |
| 2002 | Promotion to Full Professor |
| 2000 | Tenure Granted |
| 1998 | Promotion to Associate Professor |
| 1998 | Adjunct Associate Professor of Executive Education, University of Michigan Business School |
| 1992-98 | Assistant Professor of International Business, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, The University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, MI 1992-98. |
| 1987 | Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, Smith College, Northampton, MA. |
| 1986-92 | Lecturer, School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. |
SPECIALIZATION:
Ethnographic approaches to understanding the effects of changing cultural contexts
on technology transfer, work organization, and individuals′ assumptions regarding
work
TOPICS:
- Recontextualization and cultural barriers to the successful implementation of technology
- Criticality of the “team work” concept to technology management and work organization
- Managing equivocality of sensemaking in transferring work organizations- culturally
- Evolution of organizational culture in multinational work arenas
- Work alienation in complex cultural organizations
- Interpersonal networks as sources of power and influence in cross-national management teams
- Japan / U.S. technology transfer including expatriate management selection, adaptation, repatriation, and organizational learning from internationalization
CURRENT PROJECTS:
• Ethnographic study of organizational culture relevance, formation, maintenance and change in two fast-paced, quick to market high-technology firms.
• Objective to advance theory on negotiated culture and recontextualization to elucidate the effects of national and organizational culture on technology transfer, internationalization and organizational change.
EDITORIAL AND REVIEW BOARD DUTIES:
• International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (IJBIRI, appointed to the editorial board as a senior editor, March, 2006). This is a quarterly refereed and peer reviewed journal published by Inderscience Publishers, Geneva.
• International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, Sage publications. Appointed to the editorial board, October, 1999.
• Organizational Research Methods, journal sponsored by the Academy of Management, Sage publications. Appointed to editorial board, November, 1998.
• Administrative Science Quarterly, adhoc reviewer since September 1998. Served as board-appointed reviewer for the special edition on Organizational Control, 1996-97.
• Adhoc reviewer for Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, and the Journal of Asian Studies, since 1996.
• Academy of Management — reviewer for the following divisions: Organization and Management Theory, International Management, and Research Methods, since September, 1993.
• Academy of International Business — reviewer for the following divisions: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Marketing, Strategy, and Operations; and Organizational Sociology and Political Science, since September 1990.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP:
• AMD/Fujitsu Term Chair reinvestment 2005: $50,000.00
• AMD/Fujitsu Endowed Chair awarded January 2004: $125,000.00 annually.
• Qualcomm Sponsorship of the International Organizational Network Annual Meeting, February 18-22, 2004: $15,000.00.
Provost's sponsorship of same: $4,500.00.• College of Business Summer Research Grants (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003).
• California State University Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (Summer 1999).
• Abe Research Fellowship Award (Social Science Research Council, New York) granted for research leave 1997 - 1999 for project entitled “Negotiated Culture and Transnational Firms:Theoretical Implications of Globalization on Organizational Change.” Total amount: $90,111.00.
• Research funding from Ford Motor Co. Product Development Process Leadership (extension of the National Science Foundation Transformation to Quality Organizations Program at Wayne State University) to study cross-cultural differences in team effectiveness at Ford and Mazda. Total amount: $30,000.
• Joel Tauber Manufacturing Institute Faculty Fellowship (with Professor Jeff Liker, University of Michigan School of Engineering) to study the social and cultural dynamics in the process of implementing lean manufacturing. Awarded March 1995 to cover a three year research period beginning May, 1995. Total amount: $120,000.00.
• Center for International Business Research Award, January 1995.
• Japan Technology Management Research Grant Renewal through May, 1996 to study technology transfer between Japan and the U.S. and expatriate management selection, adaptation, and repatriation.
Total amount: $15,000.00.• Japan Technology Management Research Grant, September, 1993.
• Center for International Business Research Award, January, 1993.
• Japan Technology Management Research Grant, November, 1992.
• Research funding from Kanzaki Speciality Papers : May 1992; January- December 1988
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS:
•Visioning
Workshop -- Key Facilitator for Spansion Ltd. at their new research facility
in Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan, in
the capacity as Endowed Chair of Multicultural Integration for AMD and Fujistu June 11-14, 2006.
• Invited Distinguished Lecturer Stanford Center for Professional Development Managing Global Initiatives: Strategy and Execution October, 2006.
• Invited Scholar Participant: Working Conference on Organizational Identity and Corporate Strategy, Stockholm School of Economics, June 2006.
• Sabbatical Leave - Fall 2003
• Keynote Speaker – Identifying Culture Conference, Svennsgaard, Sweden. Invitation by the Stockholm School of Economics.
• Invited Scholar – Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR), Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. One of thirteen international business scholars invited to the organizing workshop for a new intellectual forum between practitioners and academics on New Forms of Global Firms and Innovation. Professors Ikujiro Nonaka (Hitotsubashi University/ UC Berkeley) and Yves Doz (INSEAD), founders.
• Dean′s Faculty Research Award – Awarded for outstanding contributions to the field of Organization Managements Theory, May 2001.
• Breaking the Frame Award – Journal of Management Inquiry award for most innovative contribution for the academic year 1999-2000, sponsored by the Academy of Management.
• Invited Scholar-in-Residence – China Zen Founders Tour, Sept. 26-Oct.16, 2000. Sponsored by the San Francisco City Zen Center. Invited to document the process of cultural change in the organization and practice of Zen Buddhism in China.
• Invited Scholar – Stanford University workshop on process in the international transfer of managerial technology at Green Gulch Zen Center hosted by Professor Thomas Rohlen, Sept. 23-26, 1996.
• Invited participant in the International Junior Faculty Consortium of the Academy of Management Meetings, Dallas, August, 1994.
• Invited participant in the Junior Faculty Consortium of the Academy of International Business, Maui, Hawaii, October, 1993.
• Elected to the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, April 1992.
• Invited participant of the Doctoral Consortium for International Business at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August, 1990.
• Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher's Award, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May, 1990.
• Graduated with Distinction in General Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, June, 1981.
• Dean's List, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-1981.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND APPOINTMENTS:
• San Jose State University
University Level
• Appointed to the University Assessment Committee June 2001-ongoing
Global Studies Task Force–worked with the task force appointed by the Provost in establishing a centralized data-base on international programs at SJSU. Primary responsibility with Professor Nakiye Boyacigiller in exploring the possibility of a SJSU application for a CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research) grant through the U.S. Department of Education.
• Nominated to the Academic Senate, San José State University, Fall 2000
College Level
• Elected to the Research and Development Committee Fall 2001-ongoing
• Elected to the Curriculum Committee Spring 2001-ongoing
• Elected to the Organization and Management Departmental Review Committee
Department Level
• Elected to the RTP Committee, 2002-2003.
• Elected to the Curriculum Committee 1999 - 2000, 2001-2002.
• Research Committee 1999-ongoing
• Recruitment Committee for Organizational Behavior and International Business
• International Business Committee 1999-ongoing
• Co-Chair of International Organization Network (ION) Annual Meeting, College of Business, February 18-22, 2004.
• Founding member of the International Organization Network (ION) sponsored by the McIntire School of Business at the University of Virginia.
• Appointed division co-chair for Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management for the 1999 Academy of International Business.
• Serve on the Research Committee of the Department of Organization and Management, College of Business, San José State University, 1999-.
• Serve on International Business Committee, College of Business, San José State University, 1998-.
• Served as chair of the Curriculum Committee of the Department of Organization and Management, College of Business, San José State University, 1998-99.
• Appointed Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan to serve as doctoral committee member for Julia Gluesing and serve as an intellectual resource linking anthropology with organizational theory for the department. November 21, 1995 - October 1, 1998.
• Faculty Participant in International Business Doctoral Consortium, Academy of International Business, Monterrey, Mexico, October 1997. Faculty Participant in International Management Doctoral Consortium, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, August, 1995.
• Appointed President of the Beta Gamma Sigma Society University of Michigan chapter of, 1994-97.
• Selected jurist for the Hiromi Arisawa Book Award for the best book on Japan. Sponsored by Columbia University Press. March, 1994.
• Appointed to Executive Board of the Asian Studies Program Committee at The University of Michigan, October 20, 1993 - August 31, 1995.
• Work Family Task Force, University of Michigan, appointed January 1993.
• Faculty appointment, Center for Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 1992-present.
• Faculty appointment, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992-present.
PUBLISHED WORK:
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
• "Negotiated Culture in Multinational Teams, with Jane E. Salk. Entry in the Encyclopedia of Executive Governance forthcoming in French and English, by Editions ECONOMICA, Frank Bournois, ESCP-EAP and Jérôme DUVAL-HAMEL (Eds), 2005.
• "Dialogue on Identifying Culture," International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, with Matts Alveson, Gustav Jahoda, Mary Jo Hatch, and Lena Zander, editorial introduction to the special issue on Identifying Cultures edited by Lena Zander, pp. 1-43, Fall, 2004.
• When Mickey Loses Face: Recontextualization, Semantic Fit and the Semiotics of Foreignness,² Academy of Management Review, special issue on Language and Organization edited by Jeffrey Ford, Vol. 29. No. 4, pp. 593-616. October, 2004
• "A Global Review of Semiotic Consumer Research: Progress, Problems, and Prospects," with James Burroughs, Patrick Hetzel and David Mick, Semiotica, 152‹1/4, pp: 1-74, 2004.
• “Partnering Across Borders: Negotiating Organizational Culture in a German-Japanese Joint-Venture,” with Jane E. Salk, Human Relations, Tavistock Institute, London, Vol. 53 No. 4, pp. 451-487, June 2000.
• “National Culture, Networks and Individual Influence in a Mulitnational Management Team,” with Jane E. Salk, the Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 191- 202, April, 2000.
• “Cultural Alienation in Today′s Multinational Work Arenas: Behavioral Fallout from Globalization,” with W. Mark Fruin, in “Anthropologists and the Globalization of Business,” Special Edition (Tomoko Hamada, ed.) Practicing Anthropology, Vol. 21(4) Fall, 1999.
• “The Practices and Uses of Field Research in the 21st Century Organization,” with Anselm L. Strauss, Stephen R. Barley, Robert J. Thomas, and William N. Kaghan, Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 67-81, March 1999. Awarded the journal′s “Breaking the Frame Award.”
• “Negotiated Culture in Binational Contexts: A Model of Culture Change,” in Anthropology of Work Review, Volume XVIII, 2, Winter/Spring 1998.
• "Ethnographic Method and the Development of Strong Constructs," in The Handbook of International Business Research edited by B.J. Punnet and Oded Shenkar, Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996.
• “Recontextualization and Internationalization: Lessons in Transcultural Materialism from the Walt Disney Company,” with James M. Wilson III, in CEMS (Community of European Management Schools) Business Review, First Edition, March 1996. 2000 word adapted version published in the London Financial Times in the “Mastering Management” section, April 26, 1996.
• "Japanese and U.S. Leadership: Issues in Current Research," with Mark F. Peterson and Peter B. Smith, in Advances in International and Comparative Management, Vol. 9, edited by S.B. Prasad, JAI Press, 1994.
• "Culture, the Critical Factor in the Successful Implementation of Statistical Quality Control: A Case Study in Intercultural Change," Business Horizons, Nov.- Dec. 1991, edited by John D. Daniels.
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS:
• "Understanding Global Contexts," Invited section for the edited volume, Handbook of Global Management: A Guide to Managing Complexity, Henry W.Lane, Martha L. Maznevski, Mark Mendenhall, Jeanne McNett, eds., Blackwell, 2004.
• "Current Developments in the Culture Construct in Anthropology–Relevance to Business," Invited chapter for the edited volume Crossing-Cultures: A Product of a Master Teacher Workshop, Routledge: forthcoming, 2003.
• “Images of Japanese Management and the Development of Organizational Culture Theory,” with Jill Kleinberg. Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, edited by Neal M.Ashkanasy, Mark Peterson and Celeste P.M. Wilderom, Sage Publishing, pp. 387-400, 2000.
• "When Japanese and Other Nationals Create Something New: A Comparative Study of Negotiated Work Culture in Germany and the U.S.," with Jane E. Salk, in Japanese Multinationals Abroad: Individual and Organizational Learning edited by Schon Beechler and Alan Bird, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999: 33-62.
• “Cultural Misunderstanding: Effective Communication in Globally Diverse Organizations,” with Pyrra Alnot, in Pressing Problems of Organizations (That Keep Us Up at Night): Transforming Agendas for Research and Practice, edited by Robert Quinn, Regina O′Neill and Lynda St. Clair, New York: AMACOM, 1999.
• “Recontextualization and Factory-to-Factory Knowledge Transfer from Japan to the U.S.: The Case of NSK,” with Jeffrey K. Liker and W. Mark Fruin, in Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Production Systems edited by Jeffrey K. Liker, W. Mark Fruin, and Paul S. Adler, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999: 117-154.
• " Does Culture Matter? Negotiating a Complementary Culture to Successfully Support Technological Innovation," in Engineered in Japan: Japanese Technology Management Practices edited by J. Liker, J. Ettlie and J. Campbell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Awarded the 1996 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research in the book category.
• "Bwana Mickey: Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disneyland," Remade in Japan:Consumer Tastes in a Changing Japan, edited by Joseph Tobin. New Haven:Yale University Press, 1992. Favorably reviewed by Ian Buruma in The New York Review of Books, March 25, 1992.
• Case Study: "The Nomizu Sake Company" in Creative Organization Theory, edited by Gareth Morgan, 311-315. Beverly Hills:Sage Publications, 1989.
INVITED PUBLICATIONS:
• "Negotiated Culture in Multinational Teams," with Jane E. Salk. Entry in the Encyclopedia of Executive Governance forthcoming in French and English, by Editions ECONOMICA, Frank Bournois, ESCP-EAP and Jérôme DUVAL-HAMEL (Eds), 2005.
• " Bottom-up decision making process,"pp. 50-51, and "Suggestion system," pp.425-426. Two entries in Bird, A.(Ed.) 2001.The Encylopedia of Japanese Business and Management.London: Routledge, 2001.
• "Bwana Mickey: Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disneyland," reprinted by request in Cultures of U.S. Imperialism, edited by Donald Pease and Amy Kaplan, Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
• Book Review: Japanese Language for Business, Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 1989.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
• "Innovation Amidst Hypercompetition: Knowledge Sharing Opportunities During Technology Transfer in High Tech Multinational Firms," with Michael Hill from Spansion LLC, Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting Competitive Paper Proceedings, 2005
• "Embedded Cultures: The Negotiation of Societal and Organizational Culture in a Japanese Buyout of a U.S. Manufacturing Plant," In Tom Murtha and C.K. Prahalad (Eds.) Michigan International Organizational Studies Conference Proceedings, Ann Arbor, February, 1994.
• "Cross-Cultural Materialism: Commodifying Culture in Japan," in Meaning, Measure, and Morality of Materialism, edited by Floyd Rudmin and Marsha Richins, Provo, Utah: The Association of Consumer Research, 1992.
• "Learning from Japanese Leadership Research," with Mark F. Peterson, Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, October 25-27, 1991.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
BOOK MONOGRAPH:
GLOBAL MEETING GROUNDS: Negotiating Complex Cultural Contexts Across Organizations,
New York:Oxford University Press, forthcoming.This book represents the culmination of my theory building to date from three in-depth ethnographic studies and several paired, comparative field-studies in five global industries — auto, ball bearings, electronics, entertainment, and paper and pulp.The book advances theory on the process of recontextualization and negotiating work cultures to support new technologies, including insights into extra- and intra-organizational sources of power and influence. These include organizational and individual-level outcomes ranging from synergistic learning to bicultural alienation.
ARTICLES:
• "Merging Without Alienating: Interventions Promoting Cross-Cultural Organizational Melding," with Mark Peterson. Revise and resubmit received January 2005 from the Journal of International Business Studies.
• "Recontextualization, Decontextualization, and Why Knowledge Management Systems Fail," with Yves Doz and José Santos.
• Two comparative cross-sectional studies of U.S., German and Japanese subsidiaries with Marcus Pudelko, one on Organizational Identity and the other on Cross-cultural Conflict and Negotiated Cutlure.
CASES:
• Two comparative cross-sectional studies of U.S., German and Japanese subsidiaries with Marcus Pudelko, one on Organizational Identity and the other on Cross-cultural Conflict and Negotiated Culture.
• "Growing Spansion into an Integrated Business," a case on the merger between Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu in flash memory technology, with Asbjorn Osland, George Whaley and Mike Hill.
• Instructor′s Manual for "Growing Spansion into an Integrated Business," with Asbjorn Osland, George Whaley and Mike Hill.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
San José State University, College of Business:
2000-present Managing Across Cultures - MBA and Executive elective.
Global Technology Transfer - MBA and Executive elective.
1999-present International and Comparative Management - Elective Course in International Business for MBA and Executives.
1998-present Global Dimensions of International Business – Undergraduate Core Course in International Business
University of Michigan, School of Business Administration:
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
1997-2000 Leadership 2000: Sony Corporation custom program; core faculty participant with C.K. Prahalad, and David Ulrich.
1995-present Managing International Operations; core faculty participant with Gunter Dufey, Linda Lim, Joanne Oxley and Aneel Karnani.
1993-present Negotiating with the Japanese, core faculty participant.
1993-1998 Learning from Japan; United Auto Workers/ General Motors Paid Education Leave Program; core faculty participant.
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
2004 - 2005 Michael D. Hill. Fielding Graduate University, External reader for dissertation entitled "ADAPTATION AND INNOVATION DURING TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: THE PERSPECTIVE OF RECEIVING AND GIVING ENGINEERS AND MANAGERS IN A HIGH TECH MULTI-CULTURAL JOINT VENTURE" for partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Human and Organizational Systems. Barbara Mink, Chair. 2001 Laurence Romani, Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of Economics. Serving the role of outside advisor on ethnographic methods. Lena Zander, Chair.
1997-98 Pyrra Alnot, UM Psychology. Faculty mentor for book chapter included in Bob Quinn's
The Pressing Problems of Modern Organizations: Transforming the Agenda for Research and Practice.
1994-96 Nancy Yee Ching Wong, UMBS, Marketing. Served as committee member for dissertation entitled:American Rationality and Chinese Reality: A Study of Regret, Dissonance, and the Self. Rick Bagozzi, Chair. Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
1993-96 Julia Gluesing, Wayne State U.,Anthropology.Served as committee member for dissertation entitled:Fragile Alliances–Negotiating Global Teaming in a Turbulent Environment.Marietta Baba, Chair. Currently on the faculty of Anthropology at Wayne State University.
MASTERS (MBA)
1996-97 MBA (Executive and regular MBA) International Human Resource Management.
1995-97 MBA and Undergraduate Engineering Student team faculty advisorTauber Manufacturing Institute (TMI) Engineering/Business School joint program faculty advisor for four ongoing student interdisciplinary teams.
1995-97 MBA Multi-disciplinary Action Project (MAP) program core faculty advisor.
1995-96 MBA, Organizational Behavior Core course.
1993-97 MBA (Executive and regular MBA), The Japanese Business System .
1993-95 Executive MBA, Interpersonal Dynamics in Management .
UNDERGRADUATE
University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
1989-92 Teaching Assistant – Organizational Behavior.
1990 Research Assistant for Professor Patricia Greenfield in Labor Relations; Spring
1988-89 Research Assistant for Professor Marta Calas; Fall & Spring.
1987-88 Instructor – Japanese Language and Culture for Business Purposes.Spring & Fall 1987, Spring 1988
1986 Teaching Assistant –Introduction to Management, Fall Semester
Smith College, Northampton:
1987 Instructor – Intensive Elementary Japanese, Spring Semester.
Five College Program, Amherst:
Summer of 1987, 1988, 1989 New England Program for Teaching About Japan: Co-director/on-site Japan Specialist for one week pre-departure orientation workshops followed by three week comparative study tours of Japan for New England educators. Funded by a grant from the Japan Foundation.
RECENT ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS:
•"Profiting from Learning and Knowledge Arbitrage: Experiences from a U.S./ Japanese Joint-Venture", Showcase Panel at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Beijing, China June 23-26, 2006.
•"Responses to Changing Competitive Conditions in Japan: Three Perspectives", Invited plenary panel session for the Association of Japanese Business Studies Annual Meeting, Beijing, China, June 22, 2006.
•"Language, Identity, and Strategic Agility with Yves Doz", at the Workshop on "Organizational Identity, Knowledge and Strategic Management", hosted by the Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of Economics, June 7-10, 2006.
• 2005 Innovation Amidst Hypercompetition: Knowledge Sharing Opportunities During Technology Transfer in High Tech Multinational Firms, Paper presented with Michael Hill from Spansion LLC, Orlando, Florida, Strategic Management Society, October.
• 2005 Discussant for Professional Development Workshop entitled
Comparative Approaches in Teaching International Management, Honolulu, Hawaii, August.• 2005 Discussant for session entitled Mergers and Acquisition: Current
Issues, Association of Japanese Business Studies, Quebec, Canada, June.• 2005 Innovation Amidst Hyper competition: Knowledge Sharing Opportunities During Technology Transfer in High Tech Multinational Firms, Paper presented with Michael Hill from Spansion LLC, Orlando, Florida, October.
• 2005 Discussant for Professional Development Workshop entitled Comparative Approaches in Teaching International Management, Honolulu, Hawaii, August.
• 2005 Discussant for session entitled Mergers and Acquisition: Current Issues, Association of Japanese Business Studies, Quebec, Canada, June.
• 2004 Discussion facilitator for panel titled Voices from the Field: A Dialogue with Anthropologists on International Organizing, Academy of International Business, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2004.
• 2004 Discussant for session entitled Current Issues in Organizational Behavior, Association of Japanese Business Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, June.• 2002 Invited faculty participant in the ONE Research Consortium pre conference two day workshop at the Academy of Management annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, August.
• 2002 Invited to discuss the key findings and theoretical contributions of my book monograph, Global Meeting Grounds at an Academy-Wide symposium on knowledge-based competition ath eht Academy of Management, Denver, Colorado, August.
• 2001 Invited participant in panel entitled “Knowledge Based Competition in the Global Economy;Industries, firms, projects, individuals: A Multilevel Perspective” chaired by Professor Yves Doz, Academy of International Business, Sydney, Australia, November.
• 2001 “Recontextualization, Internationalization, and Organizational Knowledge Transfer,” paper presentation for invited pre-conference panel entitled “A Changing Japanese Business System and Its Changing Relationship in Asia,” sponsored by the Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS) and Asia Academy of Management (AaoM) chaired by Professors Tom Roehl, Allan Bird and Shegefumi Makino. Academy of International Business, Sydney, Australia, November.
• 2001 “Recontextualization, Decontextualization, and Why Knowledge Management Systems Fail,” presented at the organizing workshop of New Forms of Global Firms and Innovation, Helsinki, Finland, invited participant, August.
• 2001 “Merging Without Alienating: Interventions Promoting Cross-Cultural Organizational Melding,” with Mark Peterson. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August.
• 2000 Session chair and organizer for panel entitled, ""Managing a Truly Interdisciplinary International Business Academic Career" for the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 17-20.
• 2000 Invited Speaker for conference entitled "Rethinking Disney: Private Control and Public Dimensions," Florida Atlantic University, Nov. 9-12.
• 2000 Discussant and Cross-Cultural Facilitator for the Western Academy of Management International Meeting in Shizuoka, Japan. July, 2000.
• 1999 "Advancing the Culture Concept: A Cross-Field Dialogue", organizer and panelist at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting in Charleston, SC, November 21.
• 1999 "Transferring Knowledge, Technology and Processes across Cultures by Global Product Development Teams", with Julia Gluesing, paper presented at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, November 22.
• 1999 Discussant for "Qualitative Fieldwork: Traditions and Methods" session at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 10.
• 1999 "Cultural Complexity in the Workplace: Asian and Hispanic Dialogues on the Journey Toward Pluralism," Panelist at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 9.
• 1999 "Ask the Experts, Qualitative Methods" invited panelist for Research Methods Division pre-conference workshop, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 8.
• 1999 Invited presenter at the C4 Cross-cultural Master's Teaching Conference, UCLA, June 7-10.
• 1999 "Recontextualization and Factory to Factory Knowledge Transfer: The Case of NSK," paper presented by invitation at the College of William and Mary, Richmond, VA, March 1.
• 1999 "Recontextualization and Factory to Factory Knowledge Transfer: The Case of NSK," paper presented at the Japan at the Crossroads conference sponsored by PRISM (Pacific Roundtable on Industry Society and Management), January 29.
• 1999 "Recontextualization and Factory to Factory Knowledge Transfer: The Case of NSK," paper presented at SCANCOR (Scandinavian Consortium on Organizational Research) by invitation of Professor James March, January 27.
• 1998 "Team Interactions andQuality Performance in the Product Development Process: Case Examples from the U.S. and Japan," with Julia Gluesing. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, Philiadelphia, PA, December 2 - 6.
• 1998 "Recontextualization: How Cultural Context Transforms Global Firms (Like it or Not)," Academy of International Business, Vienna, Austria, October 10.
• 1999 Discussant for Geert Hofstede at the Fellow's Panel at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria, October 10.
• 1998 "Globalization and Technology Transfer: Teamwork and the Alignment of Technology Transfer from Japan to the U.S," with Julia Gluesing. Paper presented at the 14th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Williamsburg, VA,July 26-August 1.
• 1998 "Transferring Knowledge, Technology and Processes across Cultures in Global Product Development," with Julia C. Gluesing. Paper presented at the International Business Conference on Managing Economic Liberalization in South Asia: Directions for the 21st Centure, Taj Coromandel, Chennai, India, August 10 -12.
• 1998 “Recontextualization, Internationalization and Organizational Knowledge Transfer," Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Diego, August, 11.
• 1998 “Recontextualization, Internationalization and Organizational Knowledge Transfer," Association of Japanese Business Studies, Chicago, May 29.
• 1997 “Recontextualization and Knowledge Transfer from Japanese to US Factories: The Case of Nippon Seiko Kooji,” with Jeffrey Liker and Mark Fruin, paper presented at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Monterrey, Mexico, October 11.
• 1997 “Formal Position, Individual Attributes and Network Centrality as Determinants of Influence in a Successful Japanese-German Joint-Venture,” with Jane E. Salk, paper presented at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Monterrey, Mexico, October 12.
• 1997 “Measuring Culture: Methods and Comparisons,” discussant for session at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, August 12.
• 1997 “Formal Position, Individual Attributes and Network Centrality as Determinants of Influence in a Successful Japanese-German Joint-Venture,” with Jane E. Salk, paper presented at the Annual Academy of Management Meeting, Boston, August 12.
• 1997 “Translating Cases into Academic Research,” preconference panel for the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, August 10.
• 1997 “The Role and Use of Social Networks in International Management and Organizational Theory Research,” Preconference Workshop core presenter, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, August 9.
• 1997 “Recontextualization and Knowledge Transfer from Japanese to US Factories: The Case of Nippon Seiko Kooji,” with Jeffrey Liker and Mark Fruin (paper presented by Mark Fruin), INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 4.
• 1996 “Partnering Across Borders: Negotiating Organizational Culture in a German-Japanese Joint Venture,” paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 21.
• 1996 “Teaching Culture, Teaching Duality: Pedagogical and Ethical Issues in the Teaching of Cross-Cultural Management,” Panelist at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Banff, Canada, September 28.
• 1996 “Putting Japanese and Germans Together: Negotiated Culture in a German-Japanese Joint Venture,” with Jane E. Salk, paper presented at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Banff, Canada, September 28.
• 1996 “Managing Culture: Issues of Value and Conflict,” session discussant at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 13.
• 1996 “Negotiated Culture and Control: Power and Influence in Complex Cultural Systems," with W. Mark Fruin. Presented at the Association of Japanese Business Studies Annual Meeting, Nagoya, Japan, June 10-12.
• 1995 “Negotiated Culture and Recontextualization: Rethinking Resource Alignment and Fit in Internationalization,” The Copenhagen Business School, October 9.
• 1995 "The Practice and Uses of Field Research in the 21st Century Organization," invited panelist with Anselm L. Strauss, Stephen R. Barley, and Robert J. Thomas, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver,August 9.
• 1995 "Cultural Replication and Negotiation in Bicultural Joint Venture Teams: A Theoretical Framework," with Jane E. Salk, to be presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, August 8.
• 1995 "Transferring Core Competencies Abroad in People-Dependent Industries: A Lesson in Semiotics from the Walt Disney Corporation," with James M. Wilson, to be presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, August 8.
• 1995 "Research Methods Roundtable," discussion leader for Analyzing Qualitative Data, for the Academy of Management pre-conference program for the Research Methods Division, Vancouver, August 6.
• 1995 "Publishing Qualitative Research," invited panelist for pre-conference session for the Research Methods Division, Vancouver, August 6.
• 1995 "The Social Negotiation of Working Culture: A Comparative Study of Japanese-American and Japanese-German Top Management Teams," with Jane E. Salk, presented at the Association of Japanese Business Studies Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, June 4.
• 1995 "When Mickey Loses Face: Negotiated Culture and a Semiotic Analysis of Internationalization";presented at the Anderson Graduate School of Management faculty seminar, February 24.
• 1994 "Global Versus Local Strategies in Transcultural Materialism: A Semiotic Analysis of the Cases of Euro and Tokyo Disneyland" with James M. Wilson III. Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting in Paris, France, September 20-23.
• 1994 "Teaching Practices Roundtable" discussion leader for Internationalizing Organization Studies, for the Academy of Management pre-conference program for the Organization and Management Theory Division, Dallas, August 14.
• 1994 "Cross-Societal Emulation in the Case of Tokyo Disneyland," paper presented at the Academy of Management annual Meeting in Dallas, August 14-17.
• 1994 "Learning to be Members: Socializing for Changing Organizational Contexts," panel presentation at the Association of Japanese Business Studies Annual Meeting, Vancouver, January 7-9.
• 1994 "Ethnographic Method and the Development of Strong Constructs," paper presented at the Association of Japanese Business Studies Annual Meeting, Vancouver, January 7-9.
• 1993 "Bicultural Alienation in Japanese-Owned Companies: A Preliminary Study in Scale Development," with Abhijit Sanyal. Paper presented at the Academy of International Management Meetings in Maui, October 21-24.
• 1993 "Doing Qualitative Research: Beyond the Boundaries," presented at the pre-conference workshop joint-sponsored by the Research Methods, OMT and Organizational Behavior divisions, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 8.
• 1993 "Ethnographic Method and the Development of Strong Constructs: Understanding Cultural Change in the Wake of a Japanese Takeover of a U.S. Production Facility," at the Academy of Management Meetings, Atlanta, August 8-11.
• 1993 "Embedded Cultures: The Negotiation of Societal and Organizational Culture in a Japanese Buyout of a U.S. Manufacturing Plant," paper presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, Atlanta Oct. 8-11.
• 1993 "Does Culture Matter? Negotiating a Complementary Culture to Successfully Support Technological Innovation," presented at the workshop on Technology and Management: America and Japan, at the University of Michigan Business School, July 27.
• 1993 "Organizational Culture Revisited: A Contribution from the Japanese/American Experience," presented at the Interdisciplinary Committee in Organizational Studies Seminar (ICOS) at the University of Michigan, March 5.
• 1993 "Adhoc Procedures for Selecting Expatriate Groups for Technology Implementation," presented at the Japanese Technology Management Program, University of Michigan, School of Business, February 12.
• 1993 "Bicultural Alienation in Japanese-Owned Companies: A Preliminary Study in Scale Development," with Abhijit Sanyal presented at the Association of Japanese Business Studies Annual Meeting, New York City, January 8-10.
• 1992 "Negotiating Culture: A Conceptual Model of Organizational Dynamics in Bicultural Workplaces," presented as a part of the invited session entitled "Organizational Ethics and Anthropologists: Moral Practices of Private and Public Organizations in the Global Economy," at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 1-6.
• 1992 "Culture Revisited: Negotiating Culture at a Japanese-Owned Company in the U.S.," delivered at the annual meeting of the Academy of International Business, Brussels, November 20-22.
• 1992 "Cross-Cultural Materialism: Commodifying Culture in Japan," presented at the Workshop on Materialism and Other Consumption Orientations at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, June 25-28.
• 1992 "Culture Revisited: A Theoretical Contribution From the Japanese/ American Organizational Experience," presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Japanese Business Studies, Denver, January 6-8.
• 1991 "Bwana Mickey: Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disneyland," invited paper presented at the "Cultures of U.S. Imperialism" interdisciplinary conference at Dartmouth College, Hanover, November 22-24
• 1991 "Learning from Japanese Leadership Research," with Mark F. Peterson, presented at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, October 25-27.
• 1990 "Culture as a Key Variable in Operationalizing Quality Control: A Case Study in Intercultural Change at a U.S. Production Plant," delivered at the annual meeting of the Academy of International Business, Session entitled – "Culture and Strategy," Toronto, Canada, October 13.
• 1990 "Women in Japan," panel discussion, Japan Week, Smith College, Northampton, March 26.
• 1990 "The Japanese Firm in the United States," invited speaker for the Business Organization and Technical Leadership seminar, Depart. of Economics, Tufts University, March 13.
• 1989 "Bwana Mickey: Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disneyland," delivered at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Session entitled – "Magic Kingdoms;The Reality of Illusion," Washington, D.C., November 15.
• 1989 "Japan's Reshaping of an Aging American Paper Industry: A Case Study," delivered at the 29th International Institute of Management Science meeting in Osaka, Japan, July 26.
• 1989 "Television Commercials–A Popular Culture Learning Tool for Gaining "Knowledge" of Japan Today: A Postmodern Critique," delivered at the 26th annual meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management, Portland, ME, May 16.
• 1986 "Intercultural Communication: Identifying and Working With One's Own Cultural Shield," paper delivered for the Japan Society at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, April.
• 1985 "The Place of the 'Gaijin' in International Business," paper delivered for the Japan Society at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, November.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE:
1978-present Cross-Cultural Business Consultant (Clients include HEWLETT/PACKARD, AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, Applied Materials, Honeywell, Motorola, Proctor and Gamble, Sony Japan, sony electronics, sony usa, Toyota Motor company, Ford Motor company, Fuji/XeroX, The Walt Disney Company )
1987-1992 KANZAKI SPECIALTY PAPERS, Ware, Massachusetts; interculturalconsultant to the Japanese President and the executive staff;intercultural workshops; pre-departure training.
1986-88 INTEL CORPORATION, Chandler, Arizona; consultant – Japaneselanguage and culture, intercultural management, Japanesenegotiation styles, and pre-departure training.
1984-87 ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, INC., Scottsdale, Arizona;Consultant to the president on international business procedures and cross-cultural communications for Europe and Asia.
1982-84 BERKELEY INSTITUTE, Berkeley, California; Foreign Exchange Program Director.
1978-80 NUMANO SAKE CO., Berkeley, California; Interpreter, Cross-cultural Trainer.
1975-76 NIKKO SECURITIES, INC., San Francisco, California; Bookkeeper/ Secretary.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
• The International Organization Network
• The American Academy of Management
• The Academy of International Business
• American Anthropological Association
• The Association of Japanese Business Studies
• Pacific Roundtable on Industry Society and Management
• The Association of Asian Studies
• Society for Urban Anthropology
HOBBIES:
Master Diver, Horseback Riding, Dressage, Skiing, Go-cart Racing, and Japanese Calligraphy.