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’