■25 March, 1998 Richard Coopey Associate Professor, The London School of Economics and Political Science ‘Automation Empire? Reassessing Science and Technology Policy in Post-war Britain’ |
■18 March, 1998 Mar Schon Beechler Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University ‘Successfully Managing Overseas Operations: Data from Japanese and American Companies in Southeast Asia’ |
■23 February, 1998 Hiroyuki Chuma Professor, Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University ‘Human Resource Formation Systems and the ‘On-Site’ Principle in Japanese Industry: The Cases of Nine Machine Tool Makers’ |
■9 February, 1998 Walter Kummerle Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School ‘Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Exploitation in Foreign Environments – An Investigation into the Drivers of Foreign Direct Investigation in R&D by Multinational Companies’ |
■6 February, 1998 Sigrun Caspary Lecturer, Witten-Herdecke University ‘Development of the Japanese Aeroplane Industry: An Example of Failure of Industrial Policy?’ |
■20 January, 1998 Hongru Liu Professor, The Graduate School of the People’s Bank of China, Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University ‘Prospects for the Chinese Economy in 1998’ |
■5 December, 1997 Masaomi Kadoya Managing Director, Japan Aircraft Development Corporation ‘Innovation in the Aeroplane Industry: Self-reform at Boeing as seen in the development of the B777’ |
■3 December, 1997 Hongru Liu Professor, The Graduate School of the People’s Bank of China Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University ‘Chinese Economic Reform: In Retrospect and Future Prospects’ |
■28 November, 1997 Masataka Ikeda Professor, Department of Economics, Chuo University ‘Structural Reforms and System Suppliers of the Automobile Industry in Japan and Europe’ |
■18 November, 1997 Theresa M. Greaney Assistant Professor, Syracuse University ‘Righting Past Wrongs?’ |
■5 November, 1997 Steven White Research Associate, Institute of Research, Kobe University ‘Technology Acquisition Choices by Chinese Pharmaceutical Firms’ |
■28 October, 1997 Christina Boari Professor, University of Bologna ‘The Intra-organisational Ecology of Alliance Formation’ |
■27 October, 1997 Douglas Engelbart Professor of Stanford University Director, Bootstrap Institute ‘Collective IQ and the Knowledge Community’ |
■22 October, 1997 Hyungoh Lee Doctoral Programme Student, Division of Economics, The University of Tokyo ‘The Evolution Process of Inter-firm Relations: Focusing on the PT system of Toray’ |
■26 September, 1997 Qikan Zhou Tien-tsin Academy of Social Science ‘The State of Japanese Research in China’ Yunjing Guo ‘General State of Economic Development in Tenshin since Reforms and Openness’ |
■24 September, 1997 Charles Weathers Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ‘Japanese Industrial Relations Formation: Towards a Comparative Institutional Approach’ |
■30 July, 1997 Kazuhiro Taniguchi Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ‘Corporate Culture and Comparative System Analysis: An Examination of System Innovation‘ Masaru Karube Doctoral Programme Student, Division of Commerce, Graduate School, Hitotsubashi University ‘Direct Technological Progress and Roundabout Technological Progress : Research into American and Japanese Progressive Styles in Semiconductor Processing Techniques’ |
■16 July, 1997 Simon Collinson and Martin Fransman Professors, University of Edingburgh ‘The Strategic Management of R&D and Innovation, Knowledge and Expertise: British and Japanese Firms Compared’ |
■20 June, 1997 Satoshi Akutsu Ph.D.Candidate, University of California, Berkley, Haas Business School ‘Awareness Patterns of Concepts of Fairness in Negotiation’Akira Takeishi Ph.D.Candidate, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘Strategic Management of Inter-firm Relations: Effective Supplier Management in Product Development in the Auto Industry’ |
■19 May, 1997 Xielin Liu State Science and Technology Commission, China National Research Centre of Science and Technology for Development ‘Innovation in China’s Automobile Industry’ |