About
Parissa Haghirian is an Associate Professor of International Management at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University in Tokyo. Parissa grew up in Austria, where she obtained her MA in Japanese Studies from Vienna University (1998), she was awarded a MA (2000) and PhD in International Management (2003) by Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
After her PhD, she became an Assistant Professor of International Management in the Department of International Management at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka. She joined Sophia University, one of Japan’s leading universities in Tokyo, in April 2006.
Today, Parissa teaches and researches in the field of Japanese Management, Strategic Management and International Management. Besides her professorship at Sophia University, she is also a visiting professor at Groupe HEC in Paris, Helsinki School of Economics, Keio Business School and an adjunct professor at Temple University in Tokyo.
Parissa’s research and consulting interests include Japanese management, Asian comparative management, market entries of Western firms into the Japanese market, and Japanese consumer behavior.
