Hitoshi Iwashita

Dr. Hitoshi Iwashita is a management scholar who specializes in management, organization, and leadership. He earned a Ph.D from Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Wales the UK and International MBA from ie Business School, Madrid Spain. As a management consultant. Dr. Hitoshi formerly delivered adviroy services of corporate and business strategy, organizational change, internationalization, and leadership to large Japanese multinational corporations. 

As for teaching, he has taught Organizational Behaviour, Cross Cultural Management, International Management, Strategy, and Leadership at various academic institutions, such as Cardiff Business School (the UK), Globis University (Japan), Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business (Japan), British University Vietnam (Vietnam), Vietnamese-German University (Vietnam), RMIT University Vietnam (Vietnam). 

His research interests lie at the intersection of management, organization, and leadership and those through cross-cultural contexts. Actual topics he currently works on are organizational change, internationalization, historical analysis, time and temporality, emotions, and organizational forgetting, categorization, and organizational imprinting.

2023 May: Published a paper “Legitimacy versus efficiency: implementation of in-person work in Japanese companies during the COVID-19 pandemic” coauthored with Hara, Yoritoshi to Journal of Asian Business Studies, https://doi.org/10.1108/JABS-03-2022-0095. (ISI Scopus Q1; ABDC C; ABS 1)

2022 May: Published a paper “Globalization of A State Own Enterprise: An Evidence of Japan Tobacco Inc” to Business History, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2072487, (ISI Scopus Q1; ABDC A; ABS 4)

2021 Dec: Published a paper “The Future of Remote Work in Japan: Covid-19’s implications for International Human Resource Management” Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, Vol 9 No 4 (2021): December 2021, https://doi.org/10.15678/EBER.2021.090401. (ISI/Scopus Q2)

2021 Aug: Published a paper “Language and Identity in the Shadow:  A Multi-Case Study of a Japanese Multinational Corporation” to International Business Review, Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2021.101913. (ISI/Scopus Q1; ABDC A; ABS 3)

2021 Aug: Published a paper “Multilingual Mediators in the Shadow: A Case Study of a Japanese Multinational Corporation”, International Journal of Human Resource Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2021.1965008. Online. (ISI/Scopus Q1; ABDC A; ABS 3)

2019 Dec: Published a journal paper “The Regional Nature Of Japanese Firms: Antecedents and Consequences” to Asia Pacific Business review (ISSN: 1360-2381) Volume 26, 2020 - Issue 3 Pages 265-285, https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2019.1703390  (ISI/Scopus Q2; ABDC B; ABS 2)

2019 Dec: Published a journal paper “Transferring Family Logic Within A Multinational Corporation: Japanese Subsidiaries In The US And Thailand” Cross Cultural and Strategic Management (ISSN: 2059-5794) Vol. 26 No. 4, p. 639-663, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1108/CCSM-12-2018-0212 (ISI/Scopus Q1; ABDC B; ABS 2)

2016 Nov: Published a book titled “Japanese Management: International Perspectives”, Routledge: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315308272

Book Review, published by Tom Roehl (2018): International Journal of Cross Cultural Management: Volume: 18 issue: 1, page(s): 108-111