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Organization
Undergraduate School School of Business Administration Associate Professor
Title
Associate Professor
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Degree

  • Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology ( 1997.5   University of New Mexico )

Research Interests

  • Anthropology of Work

  • Japan

  • Organizational Culture

  • Glocalization

  • USA

  • International Management

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Business administration  / 経営学(Business Administration)

Education

  • University of New Mexico   Graduate School, Division of History and Anthropology   Cultural Anthropology

    - 1997

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    Country/Region: United States

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  • University of New Mexico   Graduate School, Division of History and Anthropology   Cultural Anthropology

    - 1986

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  • Keio University   Faculty of Economics

    - 1983

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    Country/Region: Japan

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Research History

  • University of North Carolina Charlotte   Belk College of Business   Researher Postdoc   Visiting Research Scholar

    2022.4 - 2024.3

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    Country/Region:United States

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  • Meiji University   School of Business Administration   Associate Professor   Dedicated Associate Professor

    2021.4

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    Country/Region:Japan

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  • Meiji University

    2010.4 - 2021.3

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  • Meiji University   Professor

    2009.4 - 2010.3

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  • Lecturer

    2005.9 - 2009.5

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  • テンプル大学日本校   課程科目担当   非常勤講師   非常勤講師(Adjunct Faculty)

    2005.9 - 2009.5

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  • The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training

    2003.10 - 2007.3

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  • 日本労働研究機構   助手   研究助手 雇用戦略担当

    2002.6 - 2003.9

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  • Research Assistant

    2002.6 - 2003.9

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  • Lecturer

    2000.8 - 2001.5

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  • 米国ニューメキシコ大学   人類学部、及び経営大学院   非常勤講師

    2000.8 - 2001.5

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  • 米国サザン・メソジスト大学   人類学部   非常勤講師   客員講師

    1999.8 - 2000.5

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor

    1999.8 - 2000.5

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  • 米国ニューメキシコ大学   人類学部   非常勤講師

    1998.8 - 1999.5

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  • Lecturer

    1998.8 - 1999.5

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  • 米国ニューメキシコ大学   日米センター   助手   研究助手

    1993.8 - 1993.12

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  • Research Assistant

    1993.8 - 1993.12

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  • 米国ニューメキシコ大学   日米センター   助手

    1993.6 - 1993.8

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  • Research Assistant

    1993.6 - 1993.8

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  • Research Assistant

    1987.9 - 1989.12

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  • 米国ニューメキシコ大学   助手

    1987.9 - 1989.12

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Professional Memberships

  • Standing Conference of Organizational Symbolism (SCOS)

    2019.4

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  • Business History Society of Japan

    2017.4

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  • Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)

    2003.9

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  • The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

    2001.10

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  • The American Anthropological Association

    1996.10 - 2015.9

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Committee Memberships

  • Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)   Executive Committee Member  

    2005.4   

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  • Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)   Executive Committee Member  

    2005.4   

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Papers

  • Gurobaruka to Seizogyo no Henka: gurokarizeshon no shiten karano kosatu (Globalization and Changes in the Manufacturing Industry from the Perspective of Glocalization), Nihon Rodo Kenkyu Zasshi (The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies). June, No. 743, The Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training (JILPT).

    The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies   743 ( 6 )   62 - 79   2022.6

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  • Rohlen, Thomas P., For Harmony and Strength - the Japanese White-Collar Organization in the Anthropological Perspective. Invited

    669 ( 4 )   28 - 31   2016.4

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  • Is Sony Turning Around? (Case Study) International journal

    Marcus Schuetz, Claudia H.L. Woo

    Asia Case Research Center, The University of Hong Kong   11/477C   2011.4

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    Instead of adopting the more commonly used standards that appeal to the larger consumers' taste, Sony's traditional focus on its own technologies has trapped itself in the state of "Galapagos-ization" (garapagosu-ka) that segregates the company from global competition. Since the mid 1990s, the company has been struggling with unstable profit and sales in its core electronics business while it aggressively expands into the entertainment content sector. A number of restructuring strategies had been implemented, but the effect hardly sustained due to various internal conflicts within the company. In mid 2005, a non-Japanese, Sir Howard Stringer was appointed as the first Western CEO and chairman of Sony. Stringer pushed forward a series of operational restructuring and placed a greater focus on software and content development than did Sony's tradition on hardware technology. Even though Stringer's change efforts had brought a blink of hope for Sony's comeback, the situation turned sour in early 2009 when the company announced its first operating loss in 14 years. While different voices about the problems of Sony arose and the leadership of Stringer was questioned, another round of restructuring attempts was pushed forward by Stringer. How could Stringer overcome the deep-rooted internal resistance that his predecessor had failed to overcome? What had gone wrong with the iconic electronics giant? Were all those restructuring and change efforts necessary and useful to Sony's turnaround?

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  • Is Sony Turning Around? (Teaching Note) International journal

    Marcus Schuetz, Claudia H. L. Woo

    Asia Case Research Center, The University of Hong Kong   11/477TN   2011.4

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  • "Ethnography at Work" by Brian Moeran

    Social Science Japan Journal(SSJJ)   2 ( 1 )   165-168   2008.4

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  • 生産技術の仕事―J2エンジニアリングの事例

    石田光男, 小野晶子, 富田義典, 三谷直紀, 山下充

    自動車産業の労使関係と国際競争力―生産・生産技術・研究開発の観点から』労働政策研究・研修機構(JILPT)労働政策研究報告書   76   131-147   2007.3

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  • "Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America" by Aviad E. Raz

    Social Science Japan Journal(SSJJ)   8 ( 2 )   309-312   2005.11

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  • 「事例分析」、「海外における農業労働事情」

    奥津眞里, 土門秀樹, 殿垣内城司

    『農業と雇用―活力ある労働力の確保に向けて』労働政策研究・研修機構(JILPT)労働政策研究報告書   26   27-47, 83-93   2005.4

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  • "Steel Butterflies: Japanese Women and the American Experience" by Nancy Diggs

    Journal of Anthropological Research   55 ( 2 )   159-160   1999.8

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Books

  • Chapter 6: 2. Localization of the Japanese Management

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    2019.6 

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    Responsible for pages:86-87   Language:Japanese   Book type:Scholarly book

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  • Chapter 6: 3. When you get an oversea's assignment all of a sudden.

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    2019.6 

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    Responsible for pages:88-89   Language:Japanese   Book type:Scholarly book

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  • 「キッコーマンとアメリカ進出:雇用・労働・地域から」安部悦生編著『グローバル企業:国際化・グローバル化の歴史的展望』所収第5章

    安部悦生( Role: Sole author)

    文眞堂  2017.1 

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    Total pages:39ページ   Responsible for pages:206-244   Language:Japanese   Book type:Scholarly book

    キッコーマンを「経営」のみならず, 「雇用」と「労働」、「地域」−千葉県野田市−を考察の視野に入れ, キッコーマンの「日本的」経営とアメリカ進出の考察をした。アメリカ進出の成功を通して, グローバル企業として成長したと同時に, キッコーマンは, 雇用の安定という「日本的企業」としての特徴をアメリカでも維持することに務めており, それが国際競争力の源泉の(少なくとも)一つとなっているというのが論文の主張である。

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  • Globalization and the Establishment of Manufacturing Bases Overseas: A Case Study of the "J Automobile Company," in Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization: An Angthropological Approach to Business Administration (2016) Reviewed

    Hirochika Nakamaki, Koichiro Hioki, Izumi Mitsui, Yoshiyuki Takeuchi( Role: Sole author)

    Springer  2016.4  ( ISBN:9784431549154

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    日系自動車メーカーの海外進出における工場生産ラインの立ち上げの例に基づき、本論文は、グローバル競争に対処する中で、企業の海外戦略に重要な変化が起きつつあることを明確にした。それは、製品の輸出を中心に、ある特定の事業部や部署のみを国際化させていくという従来の国際戦略から、条件の合致する立地に、地球的規模で、積極的に、プロフィットセンターとしての生産拠点を作り出すという、グローバル戦略への変化である。

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  • 会社文化のグローバル化-経営人類学的考察

    中牧弘允, 日置弘一郎( Role: Sole author)

    東方出版  2007.10  ( ISBN:9784862490643

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    Responsible for pages:第10章 310-347   Language:Japanese   Book type:Scholarly book

    日本の労働研究では、企業組織の制度やルールの機能を極めて詳細かつ緻密に提示することを特色とする個別的実証研究が伝統的であり、問題の所在や調査手法に関して、組織の文化に関連する問題が最初に提起される研究は多くは存在しないのが現状であると言わねばならない。この論文の目的は、コンセンサス・アプローチとコンフリクト・アプローチと呼ばれる組織の文化の考察のための2つの分析視点を明確にし、各々の視点の分析手法としての有用性を考察することである。第2の目的は、両アプローチの統合に向けて、組織の文化の考察の新たな視点を探索することである。さらに、組織の文化の考察と実証的労働研究との接点がここで重要な手がかりとなる得ることを明確にすることである。(著者:鷲見淳、38頁)

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  • Japanese Industrial Transplants in the United States: Organizational Practices and Relations of Power

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    Garland Publishing  1998.11  ( ISBN:0815332114

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    アメリカ中西部、カリフォルニア州にある日系製造工場でのインタビュー、及びニューメキシコ州にある日系企業1社での事例研究を基に、在米日系製造企業の職場組織を対象とした実地調査を行い、いわゆる「日本的職場組織」形態の海外への移転可能性の問題や、生産現場でのアメリカ人従業員(管理者、ライン作業者)と日本人社員(主に経営者と技術者)との間の権力抗争を含めたやり取りの過程を工場レベルでの「第3の文化」形成の可能性という観点から考察した。 (著者:SUMI Atsushi,Japanese Industrial Transplants in the United States: Organizational Practices and Relations of Power、全320頁)

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MISC

  • A Study on the Effectiveness of the Concept of Glocalization

    Meiji Business Review   68 ( 2/3 )   55 - 77   2021.3

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  • The Concept and Practice of Glocalization

    Meiji Business Review   68 ( 2/3 )   79 - 123   2021.3

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  • The Role of Culture in the Study of Japanese Organizations: Incorporating the Two Methodological Approaches

    経営論集   66 ( 3/4 )   79 - 106   2019.3

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Presentations

  • “The Development of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) in Business Management,” An oral presentation delivered for the Session 2, Innovations in social science teaching – Curriculum and skills.

    Australia-Japan Business Education Symposium  2022.3  Meiji University and Griffith University. (Online Conference)

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    Venue:Griffith University、Queensland, Australia   Country/Region:Austria  

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  • “A Study on the Effectiveness of the Concept of Glocalization for the Theories of Multinational Enterprises,” An oral presentation delivered for the Joint Conference of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (JSCOS) and Japan Academy of Strategic Management (Online)

    The 4th conference of JSCOS with Japan Academy of Strategic Management  2020.12 

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    Venue:ZOOM ONLINE MEETING   Country/Region:Japan  

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  • “The Japanese Ghost and the Intersection of Anthropological Approach and Japanese Labor Studies,” An oral presentation delivered for the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS). International conference

    The Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS)  2019.7  The Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS)

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    Venue:York University, York, UK   Country/Region:United Kingdom  

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  • “Globalization and the Establishment of Manufacturing Bases Overseas of Japanese Companies,” An oral presentation delivered for the program, “Asian Capitalism.” International conference

    The International Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics  2018.6  The International Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

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    Venue:Doshisha University. Kyoto   Country/Region:Japan  

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  • “Inside and Outside of a Company?: Two Sides of a Japanese Company as a Community,” An oral presentation delivered for the panel, “Differences in Global and Local in Business Practices as Communities.” International conference

    Spring Meeting of the Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)  2018.4  Anthropology of Japan in Japan

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    Venue:Meiji University, Surugadai Campus, Tokyo   Country/Region:Japan  

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  • “Japanese Management at Work?: Kikkoman’s Advancement to the United States,” An oral presentation delivered for the panel, “Going Global: Reeducating the Business Mind.” International conference

    Annual Meeting of the Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)  2017.12  Anthropology of Japan in Japan

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    Venue:Doshisha University   Country/Region:Japan  

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  • “ Chapter 5: Kikkoman,” A oral report for a Chapter 5 in Gurobaru Kigyo:Kokusaika to gurobaruka no rekisitekitenbo (Global Enterprises: Internationalization and globalization in historical perspective)

    September Reginal Meeting of Business History Society of Japan  2017.9  Business History Society of Japan

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    Venue:Musashi University, Egota Campus, Tokyo.   Country/Region:Japan  

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  • Challenges and inspirations when anthropologists and management scientists work together International conference

    A Panel Session "Business Anthropology and its Implications" at 2016 AJJ Annual Meeting  2016.11  Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)

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  • Tourism and Regional Promotion: Preservation of Satoyama and Local Development

    Meiji University Cool Japan Summer Program  2012.7  Meiji University

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  • Globalization and Decline of the Long‐term Employment Practices among the Japanese Corporations

    Japan-Canada Academic Consortium Student Forum  2010.2  Meiji University in collaboration with Prince Takamado Japan Centre forTeaching and Research, University of Alberta

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  • Globalization and the Work of Production Engineers of J1 Automobile Manufacturer in Japan: A Case of the Start-up of the Production Lines in Factories Overseas

    The 16th World Congress of The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), Kunming, PRC  2009.7  IUAES

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  • 農業における雇用労働力の活用と農村地域の変容—中山間地域トマト栽培と里山農業の事例から

    日本文化人類学会第42回研究大会、分科会「Non-native」人類学者による日本の村のフィールドワーク(Michael Shackleton 代表)、京都大学吉田キャンパス  2008.6  日本文化人類学会

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  • What Do We Really Want from the Agriculture Today? Politics of identity and negotiation of local farmers to revitalize the rural regions

    Annual Meeting of the Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ), Temple University Japan  2007.11  The Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)

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  • 農業経営合理化の神話性―日本の農業経営合理化に向けての近年の試みと障壁

    国立民族学博物館共同研究会(日置弘一郎代表)-「会社神話の経営人類学」  2007.10  国立民族学博物館

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  • 組織研究における文化の考察―文化人類学的アプローチと日本の実証的労働研究との接点

    日本文化人類学会第40回研究大会、東京大学駒場キャンパス  2006.6  日本文化人類学会

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  • Conceptual and Methodological Gaps in the Study of Organizations between Japanese and Euro-American Researchers

    Annual Meeting of the Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ), Sophia University, Ichigaya Campus  2005.11  The Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)

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  • 在米日系企業の職場文化:取引、適応、権力概念を導入して観た第3文化形成の可能性

    日本文化人類学会第38回研究大会分科会、東京外国語大学  2004.6  日本文化人類学会

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  • 職場研究における文化概念の位相:取引、適応、権力概念の導入可能性について

    国立民族学博物館共同研究会(中牧弘充代表)-「会社文化と宗教文化の経営人類学的研究」  2003.12  国立民族学博物館

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  • Mexican, Japanese, and U.S. Women at Work: Rethinking Power.

    Dr. Helen Juliette Muller

    Rethinking Gender, Work, and Organizations, Keele University, UK  2001.6  Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK

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  • Moral Economy of Work at Japanese Industrial Transplants in the United States.

    American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, USA  2000.11 

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  • The Unreconstructed American Managers and Issues of Organizational Culture Change.

    American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA  1999.11 

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  • Culture, Conflict, and Control: Tales from the Workplace of a Japanese Transplant in the United States.

    American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA  1998.12 

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  • Competition or Cooperation: Management Practices and the Workplace Dynamics of the Japanese Transplants in the United States

    The Human Side of Technology: An International Symposium  1994.2  The U.S.-Japan Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

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Research Projects

  • Globalization and Localization of the Japanese-Owned Firms in the United States

    2022.4

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  • Globalization and Changes in Managerial Practices

    2010.4

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  • The Anthropology of Work

    2009

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  • The intersection of Japanese labor study and the anthropological study of organizations: Methodological considerations

    2006

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Social Activities

  • 立命館アジア太平洋大学 (APU)、博士論文外部審査員

    2012.4 - 2012.9

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