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B.A.& M.A. Toronto); M.A. and Ph.D. (Princeton)
Scotiabank Professor of International Business
Area(s):
Organization Studies
E-mail:
ewestney@schulich.yorku.ca
Telephone:
416-736-2100 ext. 20685
Fax:
416-736-5687
Office:
Room N328, SSB
              
RESEARCH
Areas of Expertise
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Organizing multinational enterprises: strategic design of MNEs; coordination and control of cross-border business; internationalization of R&D; institutional theory and the MNE
Japanese business and social change
Cross-border organizational learning
Japanese business and social change
Cross-border organizational learning |
TEACHING
2007 - Present
Teaching Area/s
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Organization Studies |
Courses Taught
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iBBA Cross-cultural Organization Behaviour
At MIT:
Organization Processes (MBA core)
Strategy (MBA Core)
People and Organizations (Undergraduate minor core)
International Dimensions of Management (Sloan Fellows core)
Strategy and Organization (MBA elective)
International Management (MBA elective)
Comparative Management (MBA elective)
The Japanese Business System (MBA elective)
International Management Theory and Research (Ph.D. course) |
Previous Appointments
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Yale University, Assistant Professor of Sociology 1978-1982
MIT Sloan School of Management 1982-2007
Sloan Fellows Chair in Management 1998-2007
Professor Emerita 2007-present |
Visiting Professorships
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University of Tokyo, Visiting Researcher 1987
Hitotsubashi University Institute of Business Research, Visiting Professor 1989, 1996-97
University of Michigan, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies 1989-90
University of Toronto Faculty of Management, Visiting Professor 1994 |
Professional and Teaching Awards
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Doctor of Economics (honoris causa) Stockholm School of Economics, 2007
Fellow, Academy of International Business, 1998-present
Dean of Fellows, Academy of International Business, 2008-2010.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Yale University, Assistant Professor of Sociology 1978-1982
MIT Sloan School of Management 1982-2007
Sloan Fellows Chair in Management 1998-2007
Professor Emerita 2007-present
Canadian Department of External Affairs, Information Canada, Japan, 1972-73
PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
Gunnar Hedlund Dissertation Award Committee 2006-2008
Institute of International Business, Stockholm
School of Economics
Terry Book Award Committee, Academy of Management 2004
Executive Council, International Management 2002-07
Division, Academy of Management
Professional Development Workshop Chair,
Annual Meeting, Seattle
Program Chair, AOM Annual Meeting, New Orleans 2003-04
IM Division Chair 2005-06
IM Division Past Chair
2006-07
Richard Farmer Dissertation Award Committee AIB
Member, 2002- 05
Chair 2005
Track Chair, Org. Theory, Academy of International 2002
Business Annual Meeting
Editorial Advisory Board of the Sloan 2000- 2007
Management Review Editorial Advisory Board
Fellow, Academy of International Business 1998-present
John Whitney Hall Prize Committee, member 1999-2001
Association for Asian Studies
Council for International Exchange of Scholars 1995-2000
(Fulbright Fellowship awards)
American Advisory Committee, Japan Foundation 1991-1999
Nominating Committee of Organisations 1992
Section, American Sociological Association
National Science Foundation Doctoral 1990
Dissertation Awards in Sociology Committee
Chair, Program Committee for Annual Meeting, 1989-90
Association of Japanese Business Studies
Programme Committee, AIB Annual Meeting 1988
Academy of International Business
Board of Directors, Association for Asian Studies 1988-1990
Chair, Northeast Asia Council, Association 1987-1990
of Asian Studies
Co-Chair of Program Committee, Eastern Sociological 1981
Society Annual Meeting
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes (co-author with Deborah Ancona, Thomas B. Kochan, Maureen Scully, and John Van Maanen). Southwestern Press, 1996; second edition, 1999; third edition 2005.
Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation (co-edited with Sumantra Ghoshal). London: Macmillan, 1993. Second edition 2005.
Smart Globalization: Designing Global Strategies, Creating Global Networks (co-edited with Anil K. Gupta). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan. Harvard University Press, 1987.
“The Lost Decade and Japanese Business Studies” Asian Business and Management 5 (2006): 167-185.
“Organisational Evolution of Multinational Enterprise: An Organisational Sociology Perspective”, Management International Review Special Issue 1999 (Vol. 29-1): 56-76.
“Research on the Global Management of Technology” Hitotsubashi Business Review 46-1 (August 1998): 1-21.
“The Evolution of the Japanese Business System” Journal of Asian Business 12-1 (1996): 21-50.
“What is International Business? A Sociologist’s View” in Peter Buckley, ed., What is International Business? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
“Geography as a Design Variable”. In Julian Birkenshaw et al., eds., The Future of the Multinational Corporation (John Wiley and Sons, 2003), pp. 128-142.
“Japan”. Chapter in Handbook of International Business, edited by Alan Rugman and Tom Brewer (Oxford University Press, 2001): pp. 623-651.
“The Multinational Corporation as an Organization” (with Srilata Zaheer). In Ibid., pp. 349-379.
“Japanese Enterprise in the 21st Century” in Paul DiMaggio, ed.,The Twenty-first-Century Firm (Princeton University Press, 2001): pp. 105-143.
“Multinational Enterprises and Cross-Border Knowledge Creation” in Ikujiro Nonaka and Toshihiro Nishiguchi, eds., Knowledge Emergence (Oxford University Press, 2001): pp. 147-175.
“Knowledge Creation and the Internationalization of Japanese Companies: Front-line Management Crossing Borders” (with Kenichi Yasumuro) in Ibid., pp. 176-193
“Organization Theory Perspectives on the Cross-Border Transfer of Organizational Patterns” in Paul Adler, Mark Fruin, and Jeffrey Liker, eds., Re-Made in America (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 385-408.
“Changing Perspectives on the Organization of Japanese Multinational Enterprises” in Alan Bird and Schon Beechler, eds., Japanese Multinationals Abroad: Individual and Organizational Learning (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 11-29.
"Organisation Theory Perspectives and International Business" in Brian Toyne and Douglas Nigh, ed., Perspectives on International Business (University of South Carolina Press, 1997): pp. 296-312.
"International Product Development of Japanese Firms: Product Group Coherence and Internal Isomorphism" (with Kiyonori Sakakibara and Masaru Kosaka), in Toshihiro Nishiguchi, ed., Managing Product Development (Oxford University Press, 1996): pp. 57-71.
"Japanese Mass Media as Business Organizations" for Susan Pharr, ed., Politics and the Japanese Mass Media (University of Hawaii Press, 1996)
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name
Eleanor Westney
Publications
Books
Refereed Full Journal Papers
Refereed Conference Proceedings
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