Japanese HRM Research
Mendenhall, M.E., Oddou, G., Stevens, M.J., Bird, A., Osland, J.S., & Furuya, N. (in press). Developing global competencies in Japanese managers: Research, process, and recommendations. Journal of the International Academy of Strategic Management
Furuya, N., Stevens, M., Bird, A., Oddou, G. & Mendenhall, M. (2009). Managing the learning and transfer of global management competence: Antecedents and outcomes of Japanese repatriation effectiveness. Journal of International Business Studies, 40, 200–215
Pudelko, M., & Mendenhall, M.E. (2009). The contingent nature of best practices in national competitiveness: The case of American and Japanese innovation processes. European Management Journal, 27, 456-466.
Furuya, N., Bird, A., Stevens, G., Oddou, G., & Mendenhall, M. (2009) Critical issues of international business management research in the 21st Century and the challenges facing Japanese companies. Rikkyo Business Review, 2, 22-28.
Furuya, N., Stevens, M.J., Oddou, G., Bird, A., & Mendenhall, M. (2007) The effects of HR policies and repatriate self-adjustment on global competencies transfer. Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management, 45(1), 1-18.
Miah, K. & Bird, A. (2007). The impact of culture on HRM styles and firm performance: Evidence from Japanese parents, Japanese subsidiaries/joint ventures and South Asian local companies. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18 (5): 908-923.
Furuya, N.(2004) Organizational and HR issues of Japanese MNCs, “Strategic Modern Accounting” pp. 67-88, Sosei Publishing, Japan.
Oddou, G., Derr, B. & Gregersen, H. (2001) Building global managers: Strategy similarities and differences among U.S., Japanese, and European MNCs in developing global business leaders. In Mendenhall, M., Kuhlmann, T., & Stahl, G. (eds.) Developing Global Business Leaders: Policies, Processes, and Innovations. Westport, CT: Quorum Books.
Bird, A., Taylor, S. & Beechler, S. (1998). A typology of international human resource management in Japanese MNCs: Organizational Implications. Human Resource Management., 37: 159-172.
Bird, A., Kennelly, J.J & Beechler, S. (1998). Managing across cultures: How American and Japanese managers who work together perceive each other. Journal of the Institute of International Relations, 5: 92-123.
Baba, M., Granrose, C. & Bird, A. (1996). Career planning and development of managers employed in Japanese firms and US subsidiaries in Japan. Journal of Asian Business, 11: 71-96.
Bird, A. & Wiersema, M. (1996). Underlying assumptions of agency theory and implcations for non-US settings: The case of Japan. Advances in Research on the Sociology of Organizations, 14: 149-180.
Wiersema, M. & Bird, A. (1996). Universalizing upper echelon theory: Contrasting US theory with Japanese firm performance. Journal of Asian Business, 12: 1-30.
Bird, A. & Beechler, S. (1995). Links between business strategy and human resource management strategies in U.S.-based Japanese subsidiaries: An empirical investigation. Journal of International Business Studies, 26: 23-45.
Kotha, S., Dunbar, R. & Bird, A. (1995). Strategic action generation: A comparison of emphasis placed on generic competitive methods by U.S. and Japanese managers. Strategic Management Journal, 16: 195-220.
Oddou, G. (1995) Preparing decision-makers for global competition: European, Japanese, and U.S. Strategies. Northern California Executive Review, Summer/Fall Issue.
Wiersema, M. & Bird, A. (1993). Organizational demography in Japan: Group heterogeneity, individual dissimilarity and top management team turnover. Academy of Management Journal, 36: 996-1025.
Bird, A. & Lehrman, W. (1993). The effects of major information technology adoption in Japanese corporations. Journal of Japan and the World Economy, 5: 217-242.
Bird, A., Heinbuch, S., Dunbar, R., & McNulty, M. (1993). The effectiveness of Japanese area studies training programs: An empirical investigation of three types of knowledge acquisition. International Journal of Intercultural Research, 17: 415-435.
Black, J.S., & Mendenhall, M. (1993) Resolving Conflicts with the Japanese: Mission impossible? Sloan Management Review. 34(3), 49-5
Kotha, S., Bird, A., Kennelly, J., Negoro, T. & Fujita, S. (1993). Managerial perceptions of competitive methods and manufacturing technologies: American and Japanese contrasts. Technologie and Management, 42: 111-119.
Bird. A. (1992). Career advancement in Japanese top management teams: Who gets to the top? Kodo Kagaku Kenkyu (Behavioral Science Research).
Bird, A. (1990). Power and the Japanese CEO. Asian Pacific Journal of Management, 7, 1-21.
Bird. A. & Mukuda, M. (1989). Expatriates in their own home: A new twist in the human resource management strategies of Japanese MNCs. Human Resource Management, 28, 437-454.
Mendenhall, M., & Gale, J. (1988) Teaching about Japanese management: A white-feathered arrow. Organizational Behavior Teaching Review. 12(4),1-11.
Mendenhall, M., & Oddou, G. (1986) The cognitive, psychological and social contexts of Japanese management practices. Asia- Pacific Journal of Management, 4(1), 24-37.
Bird, A. (1982). Internationalization of Japanese subsidiaries — An inside approach. Godo kenkyukai happyo rombunshu, 4, 331-346.
Bird, A. (1982). A comparison of Japanese and western management. Management Japan, 3, 21-24.
Bird, A. (1982). Kokunai ni okeru nihon kigyo no gaikokujin no koyo jittai chosa [Survey of the current state of foreigner employment in Japanese firms in Japan]. Rosei Geppo, 2611, 51-64.
Ooishi, T. Bird, A., Yamazaki, K., & Aritomi, H. (1982). Gaikokujin koyo ni kansuru kihon doko chosa [Survey on the basic directions of foreign employment in Japan]. Godo kenkyukai happyo rombunshu, 4, 163-174.
Bird, A. (1981). Beikoku kigyo ni okeru nihonteki keiei no tekiyo [Applications of Japanese-style management in American enterprises]. Godo kenkyukai happyo rombunshu, 3, 277-286.