Category: Award

Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Assistant Professor and Junya Kataoka, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, received Best Paper Award at 38th Annual Conference of Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management. Organization: Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award: Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Best Paper Award Date: October 29, 2023 Award Winner: Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi (Assistant Professor, IIR) Junya Kataoka (Specially Appointed Assistant professor, IIR) Kazuki Yokota (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University) Sotaro Shibayama (The University of Tokyo) Mari Kawamura (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) Article Title: “What increases job satisfaction of doctoral graduates? An empirical study of effects of…

Professor Masaru Karube received the Japan Academy of Business Administration Award (Best Paper). Award Winner:Professors Daisuke UCHIDA (Keio University Faculty of Business and Commerce), Michiko ASHIZAWA (Keio Business School) and Masaru KARUBE Organization:The Japan Academy of Business Administration Award:The Japan Academy of Business Administration Award (Best Paper) Date:September 5, 2023 Achievements:“Startup Acceleration: An Empirical Analysis of Accelerator Programs in Japan”https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/keieijournal/50/0/50_59/_article/-char/ja Abstract:Business creation through the founding of new firms can drive significant economic growth, just as business creation by established firms can. Hence, fostering startups is indispensable for economic development. In Japan, since the beginning of the 2010s, much attention has been paid to startups, and their business environment has changed…

Geer He, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, received Alan M. Rugman Young Scholar Award 2023. Organization: Academy of International Business (AIB) Award: Alan M. Rugman Young Scholar Award Achievements: “Enhancing entrepreneurial orientation through inter-organizational matching: Insights from advanced market firms under emerging market ownership” Abstract: Previous literature on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of advanced market firms (AMFs) by emerging market firms (EMFs) has suggested how such M&As enable EMFs to strengthen their organizations. By contrast, scant attention has been paid to the organizational changes of the acquired AMFs, and the idea that AMFs acquired by EMFs tend not to change organization-wise prevails. Addressing this research void, this study challenges the mainstream…

Professor Kentaro NAKAJIMA received the Homer Hoyt Institute Best Paper Award for his paper “From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Historical Lot Fragmentation Shapes Tokyo” (co-authored with Junichi Yamasaki (Kobe University) and Kensuke Teshima (Hitotsubashi University)). Organization: The Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES), the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC) and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) Award: Homer Hoyt Institute Best Paper Award Date: July 2021 Achievements: “From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Historical Lot Fragmentation Shapes Tokyo” (co-authored with Junichi Yamasaki (Kobe University) and Kensuke Teshima (Hitotsubashi University)). https://hermes-ir.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/hermes/ir/re/71546/ Website of AsRES https://www.asres.org/index.html

Professor Kentaro NAKAJIMA received the AREUEA National Conference Best Paper Award for his paper “Consumption Access and the Spatial Concentration of Economic Activity: Evidence from Smartphone Data” (co-authored with Yuhei MIYAUCHI (Boston University) and Stephen REDDING (Princeton University)). Organization: The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) Award: AREUEA National Conference Best Paper Award Date: June 2021 Achievements: “Consumption Access and the Spatial Concentration of Economic Activity: Evidence from Smartphone Data” (co-authored with Yuhei MIYAUCHI (Boston University) and Stephen REDDING (Princeton University)). Website of Princeton University https://www.princeton.edu/~reddings/papers/Cellphone_Paper.pdf Website of AREUEA https://www.areuea.org/national-meeting-best-paper

Professor Yaichi Aoshima received Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award. Organization: The Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award: Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award Date: October 31, 2020 Award Winner: Professor Yaichi AOSHIMA (with Professor Kazunari MATSUSHIMA (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) and Naoki TAKADA (Yokohama National University)) Article Title: “Influences by Involvement of Supported and Supporting Organizations on Publicly Supported Private-sector R&D Projects” Abstract: This paper explored the factors leading to the success of publicly-funded private R&D projects by analyzing survey data obtained from 506 projects supported by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). We particularly examined how involvement…

Professor Min Yong-Ki of Sungkyunkwan University, Professor Lee Sang-gun of Sogang Business School（Visiting Professor from Dec. 2017 to Mar. 2018 at IIR）and Professor Yaichi Aoshima of IIR were chosen as the winners of the 2020 ‘Highly Commended Paper Award’ by Emerald Publishing in the U.K. Emerald Publishing, a British publisher, annually grants the ‘Emerald Paper Prize’ to world researchers producing distinguished papers. Organization: Emerald Publishing Award: Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence 2020 Date: December 2020 Award Winner: Professors Yong-Ki Min, Sang-Gun Lee and Yaichi Aoshima http://wwwe.sogang.ac.kr/front/cmsboardview.do?siteId=wwwe&bbsConfigFK=3646&pkid=863715 Article Title: “A Comparative Study on Industrial Spillover Effects among Korea, China, the USA, Germany and Japan,” Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 119,…

Hideto Koizumi, Adjunct Post-doctoral Fellow, received Encouragement Award 2020 from the Japan Institute of Public Finance. Organization: Japan Institute of Public Finance Award: Encouragement Award Achievements: “Optimal Uniform Capital Taxation in A Partially Automated Society” Abstract: Recent automating technologies have sparked discussions on “robot taxes,” aimed to dissuade the displacement of labor and to generate revenue to redistribute to displaced laborers. Implementing such taxes is challenging, however, in part because of the difficulty in clearly separating which technologies substitute for labor from those which complement it. Modeling automating technologies as intermediate goods, I consider the optimal tax policy in this environment. As in standard models, non-linear labor taxes are assigned…

PADRÓN-HERNÁNDEZ, Ivar, Assistant Professor, received The Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award 2020. Organization: Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) Award: The Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award Achievements: “When International Strategy Meets Local Institutions: Subsidiary Influence in the Context of Headquarter Initiatives” Abstract: What do foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises do when strategies proposed by headquarters clash with local ways of doing business? Through 105 interviews at AB Volvo, Tomra and DeLaval, this dissertation explores, unpacks, and widens our understanding of the dilemmas and implications of subsidiaries’ dual belonging to corporate and local contexts. Findings on how subsidiaries in the United States, Japan, Germany, and France handled institutional friction…

Professor Yaichi AOSHIMA received the 60th Mainichi Shimbun Economist Prize. Organization: Mainichi Shimbun Award: Mainichi Shimbun Economist Prize Date: March 30, 2020 Award Winner: Professor Masatoshi FUJIWARA and Yaichi AOSHIMA Book Title: Mechanisms for the Long-term Innovation: A History of the RO Membrane’s Technological Development, Tokyo: Toyokeizai, August 2019, 456 pages Each year, the Mainichi Shimbun Economist Prize, under the auspices of Mainichi Shimbun Economist editorial department, is awarded to the authors of a book that has significant empirical and theoretical contributions. Selected from books published between January and December 2019, the 60th Economist Prize was awarded to Professors Fujiwara and Aoshima for Mechanisms for Long-term Innovation: A History of…