James R. Lincoln
Warren E. and Carol Spieker Professor
Walter A. Haas School of Business (F499),
University of California at Berkeley
Former Director, Institute of Industrial Relations
2521 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
tel: 510-643-5863; 510-642-3657
fax: 510-642-6432
lincoln@haas.berkeley.edu

A short bio

I am a faculty member in the Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations group of the Walter A. Haas School of Business and Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California at Berkeley. My primary research and teaching interests include organizational design and innovation, Japanese management, and interorganizational networks. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1974.  I have taught at the Universities of Wisconsin, Southern California, Arizona and Indiana University. I have also has been a visiting scholar at Doshisha, Hitotsubashi, and Ritsumeikan Universities in Japan, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Philipps Universitat in Germany. My recent research is on Japan’s changing business networks and corporate governance system.

Curriculum vitae

Some publications

Book:

James R. Lincoln and Michael L. Gerlach: Japan’s Network Economy: Structure, Persistance, and Change. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

James R. Lincoln and Arne L. Kalleberg: Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the US and Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Paul Ong and James R. Lincoln (editors): The State of California Labor.  Berkeley and Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, 2001.

Articles:

Christina  L. Ahmadjian and James R. Lincoln, “Keiretsu, governance, and learning: Case studies in change from the Japanese automotive industry.” Organization Science 12 (November-December, 2001):683-701.

James R. Lincoln and Christina L. Ahmadjian: ”Shukko (employee transfers) and tacit knowledge exchange in Japanese supply networks: The electronics industry case.”  In Ikujiro Nonaka and Toshihiro Nishiguchi (eds.): Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Michael L. Gerlach and James R. Lincoln: “Economic organization and innovation in Japan: Networks, spinoffs, and the creation of enterprise.” Pp. 151-198 in Georg Von Krogh, Ikujiro Nonaka, and Toshihiro Nishiguchi  (eds.): Knowledge Creation: A New Source of Value.  London: Macmillan, 2000.

James R. Lincoln, Michael L. Gerlach, and Christina Ahmadjian: ”Evolving patterns of keiretsu organization and action in Japan.” Pp. 307-343 in B. M. Staw and L. L. Cummings (Eds.) Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 20.  Greenwood, NJ: JAI Press, 1998.

James R. Lincoln, Christina L. Ahmadjian, and Eliot Mason: “Organizational learning and purchase-supply relations in Japan: Hitachi, Matsushita, and Toyota compared.” California Management Review 24 (Spring, 1998): 241-264.  Special Issue on Knowledge and the Firm. Edited by Robert E. Cole.

James R. Lincoln and Yoshifumi Nakata: "The transformation of the Japanese employment system: nature, depth, and origins.”  Work and Occupations 24 (February, 1997): 33-55.  Reprinted in F. Ackerman, N. R. Goodwin, L. Dougherty, and K. Gallagher (eds.): The Changing Nature of Work.  Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1998.

 James R. Lincoln and Arne L. Kalleberg: "Commitment, quits, and work organization in the U. S. and Japan." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 50 (October, 1996): 39-59.

James R. Lincoln, Michael Gerlach, and Christina Ahmadjian: "Keiretsu networks and corporate performance in Japan." American Sociological Review 61 (February, 1996): 67-88.

Course syllabi

BA 105: Organizational Behavior
BA 259B: Topics in Macro-Organizational Theory
BA 296: International Business and Japan

My leadership style: building organizational culture at IIR