About Me
Dr. Parissa Haghirian is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University in Tokyo. She is further a visiting professor at Groupe HEC in Paris, Helsinki School of Economics, KeioBusiness School and an adjunct professor at Temple University in Tokyo. She obtained her Master’s in Japanese Studies from Vienna University (1998) and was awarded a Master’s Degree (2000) and PhD in International Management (2003) by Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. After her dissertation, she first joined the Department of International Management at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka. Since March 2006 Parissa works at the Faculty of Liberal Art at Sophia University. Parissa’s research and consulting interests include knowledge transfer and communication between and within Japanese and Western corporations, market entries of Western firms into the Japanese market, and Japanese consumer behavior.
