【Specialized Fields】

Strategy, Organization Theory, R&D management, and Entrepreneurial Behaviors

【Background】

Graduated from the Faculty of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Commerce from Hitotsubashi University in 1998. Associate Professor at the Center for Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University in 2002, and promoted to Full Professor at the Graduate School of Commerce and the Center for Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University in 2017. 2006-2007 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Bryn Mawr College and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Received the 14th Takamiya Prize from the Organization Studies Association of Japan in 1998, the 19th Takamiya Prize from the Organization Studies Association of Japan in 2003, and the 55th Nikkei-Keizai Book Culture Award ("Nikkei Keizai Tosho Bunka Sho") in 2012.

【Publications】

Please refer to Researchmap（link below）

【Message】

My research focuses on the process of innovation (challenge, failure, and learning) and institutionalization of deviant behaviors through resource mobilization and the process of establishing legitimacy by diverse individuals, groups, and firms, which link the "foolish" and "impossible" in advance and the taken-for-grandness afterward. I conduct my research by regarding environmental actions by companies not only as passive compliance with laws and regulations but also as a proactive process for reforming existing business models.

【Website】

Researchmap