Forum 2001.04-2002.03

■26 March, 2002
Susanne Royer
Associate Professor, Institute of Organization and International Management,
University of Paderborn
‘Value Creation in the Portal Industry‘
■4 December, 2001
Atsushi Oshima and Kenichi Sakurai
Nisso Corporation
‘The Role of In-customer Staffing Industry: In Search of a New Form of Manufacturing’
■26 November, 2001
Tadashi Aoyagi
Business Researcher (Former Executive Director), KDDI Corporation
‘Will “3G” Succeed?’
■22 November, 2001
Toshiyoshi Yamamoto, Misako Miyake, and Yuko Okuzaki
Okami-juku
‘Okami-juku (A Private School for Professional Landladies): Innovations for Old Ryokan (Japanese-style Inn)’
■13 November, 2001
Shumpei Takemori
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
‘Will Japan Lag behind Korea: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of a Transition to New Economy’
■29 October, 2001
Magnus Boman and Jarmo Laaksolahti
Swedish Institute of Computer Science
‘GeoNotes: Social and Navigational Aspects of Location-based Information Systems’
‘Evaluating Believability in an Interactive Narrative,’ etc.
■28 September, 2001
Jianhuai Shi
Associate Professor, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
‘Financial Innovation and the Development of Economics’
■1 August, 2001
Kazuyuki Motohashi
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
‘Economic Analysis of Information Network Use: Organizational and Productivity Impacts on Japanese Firms’
■16 July, 2001
Jianhuai Shi
Associate Professor, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
‘Financial Innovation in China during the Past Decade’
■4 June, 2001
Kaoru Mamiya, Director and Hiroshi Nagano
National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Japan
‘Recent Trend of Science and Technology Policy in Japan’
■31 May, 2001
Sirkka Jarvenpaa
Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
‘Mobile Commerce: Implications to Online Business Models and Information Infrastructure Capabilities’
■April 24, 2001
Shujiro Urata
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Waseda University

‘Business Startups and Productivity in Japan’