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Kristina Kazuhara

Part-time Lecturer

Subjects
Culture Diversity Language Japan

Primary research areas

Bi­cul­tur­al Tal­ent Man­age­ment
I con­duct re­search on bi­cul­tur­al tal­ent man­age­ment. In par­tic­u­lar, I am in­ter­ested in wheth­er and how Ja­pan­ese and Dan­ish mul­tina­tion­al com­pan­ies per­ceive of, ac­cess and use bi­cul­tur­al tal­ent in their day-to-day activ­it­ies.

Primary Re­search areas:

In­ter­na­tion­al Busi­ness and Cross-Cul­tur­al Man­age­ment
Bi­cul­tur­als as the new work­force demo­graph­ic
Know­ledge trans­fer
Cul­ture the­ory

Pro­file de­scrip­tion

The overall aim of my dissertation is to contribute to international business research on bicultural individuals in organizations by refining our understanding of how to better leverage bicultural skillsets of the global talent pool. I do this by teasing out the relationship between biculturalism and bilingualism, and focus on the implication of these two skillsets for the efficiency of knowledge sharing practices within and between multinational companies.

April-September 2019 Visiting Scholar at Keio University, Graduate School of Business Administration (KBS)
March- August 2021 Visiting scholar at Hitotsubashi University, Institute for Innovation Research, Tokyo, Japan
April - August 2022 Visiting researcher at Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan