Allan Bird, Ph. D. holds the Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies in the College of Business Administration, University of Missouri-St. Louis. His Ph.D. (1988) is in Organization Studies from the University of Oregon. He received his his M.A. (1983) in Comparative Culture and International Management from Sophia University in Tokyo.
Allan Bird’s research activities focus on several different areas relevant to managing in a global environment: Japanese top management team, career, and compensation issues; expatriate management, global leadership, and HRM in Japanese overseas affiliates. His work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of International Business Studies and numerous other academic and practitioner journals.
Allan Bird is also the author of a book on Japanese boards of directors, Executive no Kenkyu (in Japanese). Other books include Japanese Multinationals Abroad: Individual and Organizational Learning (Oxford University Press, 1999) and The Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management (Routledge, 2002). He published with Roger Dunbar and Tom Mullen, Bridging Cultures, a CD-ROM and workbook, for expatriates and their families. Bridging Cultures won an International Gold Medal for Interactive Educational Software at the 1998 New York Film Festival. Allan has served as a consultant to Japanese and American companies as well as to the Japanese government and several trade organizations.
