Tish Robinson

Associate Professor
International Business Strategy

Contact information

E-mail: probinson@ics.hit-u.ac.jp

Education

Tish Robinson received her MBA and PhD from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and her Japanese language training from the Stanford University Center in Yokohama. Her PhD thesis received awards for best dissertation in international business from both the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business, as well as two Fulbright fellowships.

Positions held

Professor Robinson has taught Management and International Business at New York University, and Corporate Strategy and Japanese Economics at Harvard University. She has been a visiting researcher at Hitotsubashi University, Japan Institute of Labor, UC Berkeley's Institute of Industrial Relations (Haas School of Business), and NTT, under the auspices of the Fulbright, Japan Foundation, and Shintaro Abe Fellowships.

Selected papers and publications

Professor Robinson has published "Japanese CEO Priorities as a Window on Environmental and Organizational Change" (with Norihiko Shimizu, Academy of Management Perspectives, 2006), "The Social Embeddedness of Japanese HRM Practices: The Case of Recruiting in Japanese Firms and American Firms in Japan" (Human Resources Management Review, 2002), and "Safety in Numbers: The Spread of Downsizing in Japan" (with Christina L. Ahmadjian, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2001).

Professor Robinson's PhD thesis, Applying Institutional Theory to the Study of American Multinationals in Japan: Parent-Subsidiary Relations and Isomorphism in Personnel Practices (Sloan School of Management, MIT, 1994) received the Farmer Award for best doctoral dissertation in International Business at the Academy of International Business, 1994, and the Richman Prize for best doctoral dissertation in International Business at the Academy of Management, 1995.

Current research and activities

Professor Robinson's research interests include (a) organizational change, (b) mental models, and (c) the cross-cultural adaptation of American firms operating in Japan. She is a founding member of the Society of Organizational Learning Japan and is very active in raising scholarship donations through Friends of Hitotsubashi ICS.

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