Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research
Address:2-1 Naka, Kunitachi City, Tokyo 186-8603 Japan
Phone:042-580-8411
FAX:042-580-8410
Email:G Institute of Innovation Research<>
Director Karube, Masaru Professor
History
November 1944
Established as an organization within the Tokyo University of Commerce to
conduct theoretical and empirical research on business management
May 1945
Name changed to Institute of Research in Business Efficiency, Tokyo
University of Commerce
May 1949
Name changed to Hitotsubashi University Institute of Business Research
June 1953
Business Review, the institute’s official journal, published its first issue
April 1957
Reorganized into an administrative entity as a management research facility
affiliated with the Hitotsubashi University Faculty of Commerce
April 1997
Reorganized into a cooperative teaching and research facility and established
as Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research
September 2000
Began publication of Hitotsubashi Business Review, the institute’s new official
journal