Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics
Entrepreneurship Course
Kyosuke Inagaki
Professor
Management of SME’s and Start-up Organizations
Relational approach of entrepreneurial and institutionalized process in indusrial cluster formation
Yongdo Kim
Professor
Japanese Management System, Japanese Business History, Japanese Economic History
Comparative study of Japanese and American business corporation systems, and intercorporate relations theory
Yoshinori Konno
Professor
Innovation Management
Innovation and Corporate Relationship,Corporate Strategy
Eishi Fukushima
Professor
Strategic Decision-Making
Corporate strategy and organization; research on technological innovation
Kenji Yoshida
Professor
Corporate Strategy
Formulation and implementation of corporate strategy
Yukinori Nikaido
Professor
Business History of Japan, Economic History of Japan
Historical Studies of Railway Industry and Transport Policy in Japan
Jaehyang Han
Professor
Modern Economic History of Japan
History of industry
Human Resources and Organizational Management Course
Norihiko Ogawa
Professor
Business Administration, Organizational Behavior, Career
How individuals adjust to organizations, organizational socialiation ractics, and recruitment
Yoshio Okunishi
Professor
Labor Economics, Economics of Personnel and Organization
International comparison of employment and human resource management systems, mainly using statistical methods
Mariko Kishi
Professor
Management and Information Systems,Organization Theory
Organizational capability through information technology, organizations and communication technoloty
Tetsu Sano
Professor
Industrial Sociology, Labour Market Policy, Labour Supply and Demand Adjustment System
Research on the current state of and future measures for the issue of foreign workers in Japan
Yoshihide Sano
Professor
Human Resource Management, Industrial Sociology
Management of diversified forms of work, HRM and employment relations in the retail sector
Takeru Nagaoka
Professor
Sociology of Organization Management Learning
Organizational ethnography in workplace learning and unlearning,from the social
constructionistic perspectives
Makiko Nishikawa
Professor
Organizational Behavior, Economic Sociology
Gender and employment, quality of work life, work attitudes
Marketing Course
Junko Kimura
Professor
Consumer Culture Theory, Services Marketing
Luxury consumption, hospitality, self-concept and consumption
Toshie Takeuchi
Professor
Marketing, Advertising, Consumer Behavior
Effectiveness of advertising communication, brand management, and ecological behavior of consumers
Noriko Taji
Professor
Management of Product Development
Management of Technology, Global strategy of high-tech startups
Takashi Niikura
Professor
Consumer Behavior Theory
Consumer Information processing model, consumer perception, brand marketing
Hidehiko Nishikawa
Professor
Market Research Theory
Internetmarketing, User Innovation
Narimasa YOKOYAMA
Professor
Marketing and Distribution
Retail management
Ryosuke IGARI
Associate professor
Statistical science
Statistical modeling in marketing
Shohei HASEGAWA
Associate professor
Marketing research
Quantitative analysis of consumer purchasing history data
Accounting and Finance Course
Kenji Kamiya
Professor
Financial Accounting
Comparative analysis of financial accounting standards in Japan and U.S.,Performance measurement of non-profit organizations, accounting program and teaching methods at university
Kenji Kawashima
Professor
Financial accounting
Empirical research on fair value measurements in Japan, Graph usage in financial reporting,
Disclosure practice of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Naoki Kishimoto
Professor
Finance
Pricing theory of options, futures, and other derivatives; economic analyses of asset securitization; mortgage repayment before due dates
Yong-Jin Kim
Professor
Finance
Option pricing, stock splits, initial public offerings
Manabu Sakaue
Professor
Financial Accounting
Expansion of accounting disclosure by event approach; research on analytical characteristics of financial figures
Mioko TAKAHASHI
Professor
Financial accounting, Business valuation
Accounting based business valuation
Tomohiko Tsutsui
Professor
Accounting Policy Theory
Corporate accounting and profit calculation
Junji Fukuda
Professor
Management Accounting Theory, Cost Accounting Theory
Research into the effects management accounting system design has on the transfer of expertise among business divisions; research into the roles, expertise, and experience of management accountants
Hiroshi Fukuda
Professor
Business Analysis
Phase analysis of Japanese and U.S. companies’ financial activities
Akira Yamazaki
professor
Finance
Financial engineering, mathematical finance
Hirotsugu Kitada
Associate Professor
Management Accounting
Environmental and Social Management
Common to All Courses
Naoki Ando
Professor
Multinational Corporate Strategy
Strategies of multinational corporations, Strategies in transition economies, inter-and intra-organizational trust
Ryoko OKI
Professor
Industrial organizations, law and economics
Economics of competition policy
Mitsuru KATAGIRI
Associate professor
Monetary Economics, Firm Dynamics
Transmission mechanism of monetary policy, firm dynamics and productivity
Yasushi Kodama
Professor
Educational Technology, Information Systems
Data mining; business modeling of large-scale remote delivery of class lessons
Makoto Takahashi
Professor
Financial Econometrics
Statistical analysis of financial time series data
Rika Takahashi
Professor
International Economics, Economic Theory
Theoretical and empirical research on trade policy
Ken Nittono
Professor
Computer Science, Computational Statistics, Computer Network Technology
Stochastic simulation models, text mining, collective intelligence
Hideaki Hirata
Professor
Japanese Economy
Japan’s business cycles and financial systems, formulation of expectations and economic policies
Haruo Horaguchi
Professor
International Business, Strategic Management, Foreign Direct Investment by Japanese Firms
Theoretical and empirical research on innovation, clusters, and FTA.
Shinjiro Miyazawa
Professor
Corporate Finance, Industrial Organization
Interactions between financing and competition strategies
Masao Yokouchi
Professor
History of Finance and Global Financial Theory
Historical research into the activities of East Asian branches of U.K. banks, empirical research into global currency crises, research related to Hong Kong’s financial system
Ruixue Li
Professor
Logistics Management, International Business, Strategic Management
Theoretical and empirical research on logistics strategies in emerging markets