Category: Forum

Innovation Forum 2019.4.16 Christopher L. Tucci Topic: “Putting “dumb money” to good use? Corporate venture capital as a complement   to internal R&D (With Henry Chesbrough and Vareska van de Vrande)” Speaker: Christopher L. Tucci (Professor of Management of Technology,  the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)) Date: April 16th (Tuesday)  2019 from 16:00 to 17:30 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Yaichi Aoshima  Abstract:  The role of corporate venture capital (CVC) programs inside the firm has received relatively little scholarly attention. Do these programs substitute for traditional corporate investments, such as R&D? Or do they complement internal R&D? To further explore this phenomenon, we…

Innovation Forum 2019.3.18 Donal Crilly Topic: “Corporate Social Counterpositioning” Speaker: Donal Crilly (Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, London Business School) Date: March 18th (Monday)  2019 from 11:45 to 13:30 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Masaru Karube 

Innovation Forum 2019.1.25 Ning Li Topic: “Social Network Perspectives in Organizational Research: Past, Present, and Future” Speaker: Ning Li (Associate Professor, Tippie College of Business, The University of Iowa) Date: January 25th (Friday)  2019 from 13:00 to 15:00 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Abstract: Over the past decade, social network research has been a powerful tool to understand important organizational phenomena spanningdifferent research areas, such as leadership (Carter, DeChurch, Braun,& Contractor, 2015), teamwork (Li, Zhao, Walter, Zhang, & Yu, 2015), creativity and innovation (Perry-Smith & Shalley, 2003), career (Seibert, Kraimer, & Liden, 2001), power and influence (Ibarra & Andrews, 1993). A social network approach allows organizational…

Innovation Forum 2019.1.25 Helen Zhao Topic: “Social Network Research Method Workshop” Speaker: Helen Zhao (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong) Date: January 25th (Friday)  2019 from 10:00 to 12:00 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Abstract:  Social network analysis workshop in the morning will introduce  the theory and the method of social network analysis. We will  together go through   (1) What is social network analysis?   (2) What are the commonly used indicators to describe a social network?   (3) What is the theoretical rationale behind these social network indicators?  We will demonstrate social network analysis with UCINET software.  Interested participants can download…

Innovation Forum 2018.12.12 Martin HEMMERT Topic: “Why not internationalization? A longitudinal study of IT start-ups in China, South Korea and Japan” Speaker: Martin HEMMERT (Professor, School of Business, Korea University／ Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Date: December 12th (Wednesday)  2018 from 17:00 to 18:30 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Yaichi Aoshima 

Innovation Forum 2019.1.8 Vili Lehdonvirta Topic: “The Evolving Digital Economy: Towards a Platform Society” Speaker: Vili Lehdonvirta (PhD., Associate Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) Date: January 8th (Tuesday)  2019 from 15:00 to 17:00 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Byeongwoo Kang 

Innovation Forum 2018.11.28 ElHassan ELSABRY Topic: “High Cost of Academic Journals as a Potential Barrier to Knowledge Transfer to SMEs” Speaker: ElHassan ELSABRY (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Date: November 28th (Wednesday)  2018 from 15:00 to 16:30 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Yaichi Aoshima 

Innovation Forum 2018.10.10 Martin HEMMERT Topic: “Managing the Paradoxical Tension between Exploration and Exploitation in Inter-organizational Relations: The Case of University-industry Research Collaborations” Speaker: Martin HEMMERT (Professor, School of Business, Korea University／Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Date: October 10th (Wednesday)  2018 from 17:00 to 18:30 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Yaichi Aoshima 

Innovation Forum 2018.7.11 Wen Pan Fagerlin Topic: “Participation, Facilitation and Empowerment – A Study of Top Managers’ Involvement in Control Practices of Innovation Processes,” Speaker: Wen Pan Fagerlin (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Visiting Researcher at Hitotsubashi University) Date: July 11th (Wednesday)  2018 from 11:00 to 12:15 Place: AV Conference room (Room#215) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer: 　Masaru Karube

Innovation Forum 2018.6.27 Ivar Padrón-Hernández Topic: “MNC Subsidiary Strategy and Institutional Responses in PET Bottle Reverse Vending” Speaker: Ivar Padrón-Hernández (Affiliated Researcher, European Institute of Japanese Studies,Stockholm School of  Economics) Date: June 27th (Wednesday)  2018 from 12:40 to 14:00 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer: 　Masaru Karube  Abstract:How do host country institutions affect strategic choice and institutional responses by subsidiaries in multinational corporations (MNCs)? This paper addresses the above question through a comparative study of three subsidiaries within Tomra, a Norwegian recycling machinery firm. Specifically, I contrast regulative, cognitive and normative institutions surrounding deposit versus non-deposit reverse vending of PET ｂottles in the United…