Articles

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Differences in Individualistic and Collectivistic Tendencies Among College Students in Japan and the United States (with Emiko Kobayashi and Susan F. Sharp), International Journal of Comparative Sociology (2010)

It is a worldwide stereotype that Japanese, compared to Americans, are oriented more toward collectivism....

 

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Punishment for Noncompliance and Reward for Compliance: A Comparison of Japanese and American Workers (with Emiko Kobayashi), NUCB Journal of Economics and Information Science (2009)

In a recent series of articles, Kobayashi and Grasmick have applied an extended model of...

 

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Employee Commitment in U.S. and Japanese Firms in Thailand (with Richard A. Colignon, Chikako Usui, and Robert Slagter), Asian Social Science (2007)

Foreign direct investment from transnational corporations across Southeast Asia provides an opportunity to examine the...

 

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Foreign Investment and Disparities in Economic Development and Poverty Reduction: A Comparative-Historical Analysis of the Buddhist Countries of Southeast Asia, International Journal of Comparative Sociology (2005)

To remain economically competitive in the 21st century a nation must be able to secure...

 

Contributions to Books

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Social Problems (with James W. Coleman), 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook (2006)
 

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Social Stratification, 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook (2006)
 

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Japan: Politische Karriere zwischen Ministerialburokratie und parlamentarischen Erbhofen (with Claudia Derichs), Politik als Beruf : die politische Klasse in westlichen Demokratien (1999)