Endowed Lectures
Japanese Traditional Culture and Global Leadership
Installation period
2025年10月1日～2027年9月30日
Donor
Egon Zehnder International Ltd.
Sumitomo Corporation
YANMAR Holdings Co., Ltd.
Hakuhodo Inc.
Hakuten Corporation
Overview
Japan has traditional “mastery” such as the tea, the incense, and the flower arrangement, which have been continuously passed down and developed as “ways.” Those masteries have own philosophy of “way,” establish and develop distinctive techniques and settings that embody their “way”, and the cultivate practitioners as a family. Efforts have also been made to nurture successors.
This can be viewed as analogous to the modern corporate framework encompassing mission, vision, value, or purpose, alongside strategy, organization, talent.
This lecture explores those masteries of Japan's “way” culture from the perspective of Kyoto University's renowned management studies, focusing on Kyoto as its central hub in Japan. This lecture will also identify the implications for corporate management and leadership.