Christina Ahmadjian
Professor
International Business Strategy
Education
Professor Ahmadjian received an A.B., magna cum laude, in East Asian Studies, from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations from the University of California at Berkeley.
Positions held
She was Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School from 1995 to 2001, where she taught management and international management. She joined Hitotsubashi University's Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy as an Associate Professor in 2001, and became a Professor in 2004. During 2000-2001, she was an Abe Fellow and Foreign Research Scholar at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo.
Her business experience includes management consulting work with Bain & Company, as well as positions with Mitsubishi Electric's Kyoto Works and Shearson Lehman Brothers, Tokyo.
Selected papers and publications
Professor Ahmadjian's publications include "Safety in numbers: Downsizing and the deinstitutionalization of permanent employment in Japan" (in Administrative Science Quarterly), "Keiretsu, governance, and learning: Case studies in change from the Japanese automotive industry," (in Organization Science); "Keiretsu networks and corporate performance in Japan" (in American Sociological Review, 1996); and "Organizational learning and purchase supply relations in Japan: Hitatchi, Matsushita and Toyota compared" (in California Management Review).
Current Research and Activities
Professor Ahmadjian's research interests include (a) corporate governance in Japan, Europe and the United States, (b) the effects of global capital markets on Japanese business practices, (c) interfirm networks in Japan and how they are changing, (d) downsizing and changing employment practices in post-bubble Japan.
Courses
- Organizational Behavior (2004/Term 1&2 (Fall&Winter))
- Methodology (2004/Term 3&4 (Spring&Summer))
