Professor has degrees in political science (MA Oregon) and Economics (Phd Washington), and has taught at University of Washington, University of Michigan and University of Illinois before assuming his position at Western Washington University.
Email: tom.roehl@wwu.edu
He has done research on Japanese interfirm business relationships and on Japanese foreign investment that has been published in Journal of International Business Studies, Managerial and Decision Economics and Strategic Management Journal, among others. His book with Hiroyuki Itami, Mobolizing Invisible Assets (Harvard UP), is an oft-cited reference in the resource based theory of the firm in strategy. He will present current work on trading companies at the conference.
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Evolving Trading Company Relationships in the Globalized Japanese Economy. Utilizing information from work on trading company relationships over the past thirty years, the paper looks at how the trading companies have suceeded (and failed) to adjust to the changing corporate and government regulatory environment in Japan over the period. Rather than a substitute, the relationships often were able to find ways to complement the increasing efficient and standardized environmental elements of the Japanese economy.
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