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Topic: “Imprinted Language Policy in Post-Colonialism: Unraveling the Tapestry of Language Policies in MNEs and Their Efficiency Paradigms” Speaker: Hang Yuan (Ph.D. candidate in Management Studies, Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University) Date： October 23（Wednesday), 2024 from 16:30 to 18:00 Venue: onsite IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Masaru Karube This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline: 9:00, October 23, 2024 For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below. Innovation Forum

Topic:“Strategic Redeployment of Intrafirm Patent Ownership” Speaker:Dr. Jung H. Kwon(Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Daniels College of Business) Date：October 15（Tuesday), 2024from 10:00 to 11:30 Venue:Online(Zoom) Organizer:Masaru Karube This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline:16:00, October 11, 2024 For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below. Innovation Forum

Date:October 22 (Tuesday), 2024from 12:40 to 14:00 Topic:“Anxiety that Drives Kaizen: A Strategic Blueprint for Kaizen Implementation Across Borders” Speaker:Kodo Yokozawa, Ph.D(Professor, Graduate School of International Social Sciences,Yokohama National University) Venue:onsiteIIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite) Organizer:Masaru Karube This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline:9:00, October 22, 2024 For registration, please click on “IIR Brown bag lunch seminar” below IIR Brown bag lunch seminar

Date:September 10 (Tuesday), 2024from 12:40 to 14:00 Topic:“After the Collapse: Spontaneous Institutionalization and the Emergence of Market Institutions” Abstract:We explore how, and under which conditions, market institutions can spontaneously arise after an institutional collapse. Drawing on emergence theory, we develop a multi-level model of institutional emergence after an extreme collapse, where only the individuals’ memories remain from pre-collapse institutions. We start with individuals seeking to transact, looking to decrease cost and increase trust in their transactions. At the micro-level, the multiplication of transactions can trigger processes of amplification-convergence and cancelation, through an activity- and a cultural-cognitive-based driver of institutionalization. At the meso-level, these processes result in the spontaneous emergence of…

Topic: “Measuring Societal Impacts of Standards” Speaker: Paul Wiegmann (Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology) Date： July 8 (Monday), 2024 from 15:30 to 17:00 Venue: onsite IIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building Organizer: Byeongwoo Kang Abstract: Society faces existential challenges, such as global warming, demographic change and digital innovations. Standards help solving problems and reaping opportunities. They have long been recognised as important, from technological, business, and economic perspectives, but clear evidence about their societal impact is still missing. Against this background, we carried out this project to get a clearer view of how standards impact society. We conducted a pre-study of 48 standards,…