Visiting Researcher,
Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (2023.3.20 – 2023.5.7)
Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology
https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/rudi-bekkers/
【Recent Research Themes】
The origin of technological innovation
●Forum 2023
2023.12.14
Ramya K Murthy
(Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
”Digital Platform Ecosystem Design: A Configurational Approach to Understanding Heterogeneity in Platform Meta-Organizations”
2023.11.15
Israr Qureshi
(Professor, The Research School of Management, Australian National University)
”Digitally Enabled Social Intermediation: A Research Framework”
2023.10.25
Thomas Åstebro
(Professor, HEC Paris and KU Leuven)
”Death and Turmoil in R&D Teams”
2023.7.4
Yoichi Matsumoto
(Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)
”Internal Redeployment Versus External Recruitment of Inventors”
2023.6.7
Anoop Madhok
(Professor, York University)
”Value creation in corporate-startup alliance portfolios: The attention-based view”
2023.4.12
Nadine Scholz
(PhD Student in Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation, King’s College London)
”Looking for allies: how individuals organize collaboration for experimentation outside routine work in corporate firms”
Prof. Dezso, Cristian L.
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research (2023.1.10 – 2023.5.22)
Visiting Associate Professor,
Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (2023.1.10 – 2023.5.22)
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/directory/cristian-dezso
【Recent Research Themes】
Gender differences in ambition
Gender and authenticity
●Brown bag lunch seminar 2023
#009 2023.11.15
Lee, Kidong
(Professor, Incheon National University/
Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
”Transformation of the Automobile Industries on Societal Impacts -Inroads of Self-Driving Machines”
#008 2023.10.4
Emre Yildiz
(Associate Professor, Mälardalen University, Sweden)
”Reconsidering Distance in International Business Research”
#007 2023.9.20
Savu Rovanto
(Assistant Professor, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study)
”Sustaining circular economy entrepreneurship at small businesses in China, Japan and Finland”
#006 2023.9.13
Ilir Haxhi
(Associate Professor of Strategy & International Business,
Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam)
”Conflicts between Firms and Communities: A Configurational”
#005 2023.7.12
Kristina Kazuhara
(Associate Professor, Copenhagen University / PhD Fellow, Copenhagen Business School)
”Metaphorical Translation – A Case Study of Strategic Change at Novo Nordisk in Japan”
#004 2023.5.31
Navruz Khotamov
(Hitotsubashi U, Institute of Innovation Research)
”Exports and FDI under Uncertainty: Multinational Exposure and Innovation”
#003 2023.5.24
Prof.Meindert Flikkema
(Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam)
”Innovators’ propensity to apply for trademarks”
#002 2023.5.10
Cristian Dezso
(Associate Professor, University of Maryland)
”Are there gender differences in ambition? Some experimental evidence”
#001 2023.4.28
Benjamin Büttner
(Doctoral Candidate, Eindhoven University of Technology)
”Demystifying knowledge diffusion: Exploring the effects of technological advancements on knowledge flows and the real-life implications”
Vol.70 No.3 WIN. 2022 (In Japanese)
A leading management journal in Japanese,
which builds a bridge between theory and practice.
EDITED BY
Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research
PUBLISHED BY
Toyo Keizai Inc.
Revisiting “Design” as an Essential Concept of Business Management
Kazufumi Nagai
“Fundamentals of Design: A Linkage between the Stone Age and the Age of Design-driven Management“
Shunji Yamanaka
“A Transition of Boundaries of Design“
Yasufumi Morinaga
“Perceived by Retina or Grasped by Brain?: How to Understand ‘Management by Design’“
Fumie Shibata
“What the Term ‘Design’ Means? From the Perspective of a Product Designer“
Masatoki Toyama
“Design Thinking in the Public Sector: Insights from Design-driven Management Project in Japan Patent Office“
Koji Kimita
“Service Design and Management in Manufacturing Companies“
Nanami Furue
“The Popularization of Industrial Design and the Evolving Marketing“
●New Market Creation through Effectuation (3)
Mari Yoshida
●Managerial Insights from Innovation Management Studies (8)
Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi
●Entrepreneurs Who Change the World (13)
Tetsuo Yasaka
Interviewed by Yaichi Aoshima / Masatoshi Fujiwara
Atsushi Akiike / Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi / Takatoshi Murayama
“Log-house series “BESS” (RC Core, Co. Ltd.): A house makes you original“
●Management Forum
Kazuo Tanaka
(CEO, GK Design Group, Inc.)
Interviewed by Seiichiro Yonekura / Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi
Book Title:
Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation: Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes
Authors:
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Published by Springer Nature Singapore in 2022, 372 pages, part of the book series: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics (AJBE, volume 31)
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-4896-1
About this book:
This book explores how a long-term innovation can take place based on historical analyses of the development of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane from the early 1950s to the mid-2010s. The RO membrane is a critical material for desalination that is a key to solve water shortages becoming serious in many places of the world.
The authors conducted in-depth field studies as well as analyses of rich archival data to demonstrate how researchers, engineers, managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers interacted each other for this material innovation to be realized. A series of historical analyses in this book uncovered that initial government supports, strategic niche markets, emergence of breakthrough technology, and company-specific rationales played significant roles for companies to overcome four types of uncertainty, technological, market, competition, and social/organizational ones, and enabled the companies to persistently invest in the development and commercialization of the RO membrane.
This book depicts that innovation does not arise on a sudden, but that it is actualized through long lasting process with turns and twists, which is driven by many non-economic rationales beyond economic motives.
Table of contents (15 chapters)
Introduction: The Objectives and Research Questions of This Book
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 1-21
■Overview
Front Matter
Pages 23-23
The Increasing Demand for Water Treatment and Reverse Osmosis
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 25-38
Technical Overview of the RO Membrane
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 39-52
■The Development of RO Membranes in the United States
Front Matter
Pages 53-53
The Beginnings of Research in the Public Sector
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 55-66
Development for Commercialization by Private Companies
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 67-84
■The Development of RO Membranes in Japan
Front Matter
Pages 85-85
The Rise of Japanese Companies
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 87-103
Toray: Development Aimed at Seawater Desalination
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 105-129
Toyobo: Focused Development in Cellulose Acetate Hollow Fiber Membranes
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 131-153
Nitto Denko: Development Under Earnings Pressure
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 155-181
■Analysis
Front Matter
Pages 183-183
Policy Support and Spillover Effects: Initiation of Development in the United States and Japan
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 185-209
Exploration of Initial Markets: Application of Unbalanced Performance Bundles
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 211-242
Emergence of Breakthrough Technologies and Convergence of Technological Approaches
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 243-266
Company-Specific Rationales
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 267-282
Long-Term Development Mechanisms Under Uncertainty
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 283-307
Contributions and Future Research
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Yaichi Aoshima
Pages 309-331
Topic:
“A Conservation of Resources Perspective on Analyzing Founders’ Emotional Support: Performance Implications for East Asian New Ventures”
Speaker:
Martin Hemmert
(Professor, Korea University Business School)
Date：
December 14th (Wednesday) 2022
from 17:00 to 18:30
Venue:
HYBRID: onsite & online
IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite) & Zoom meeting (online)
Organizer:
Yaichi Aoshima
This forum is jointly organized by AAOS (The Academic Association for Organizational Science).
Abstract:
Research on entrepreneurs’ emotional support by families and friends has mostly focused on personal-level outcomes, and the relevance of emotional support for new venture performance is not well understood.
Building on the conservation of resources (COR) perspective, we conceptualize emotional support by families and friends as a key resource for entrepreneurs that enables them to enhance the performance of their new ventures. Furthermore, we theorize that entrepreneurs’ personal conditions and constructive resources, macro resources, and instrumental support resources influence the relevance of emotional support for new venture performance.
Analyzing survey data from 2,776 new ventures in China, South Korea and Japan, we find that families’ and friends’ emotional support is positively related to new venture performance.
The relationship between emotional support and new venture performance is stronger for female than for male entrepreneurs, and for South Korean than for Chinese and Japanese entrepreneurs.
Furthermore, entrepreneurs’ leadership experience diminishes the relevance of emotional support for new venture performance.
Deadline:
9:00, December 14, 2022
For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below.
Topic:
“Licensing Life-Saving Drugs for Developing Countries: Evidence from the Medicines Patent Pool”
Speaker:
Alberto Galasso
(Professor, University of Toronto)
Date：
October 26th (Wednesday) 2022
from 16:30 to 18:00
Venue:
IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building
Organizer:
Atsushi Ohyama
Vol.70 No.2 AUT. 2022 (In Japanese)
A leading management journal in Japanese,
which builds a bridge between theory and practice.
EDITED BY
Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research
PUBLISHED BY
Toyo Keizai Inc.
Resilience of the Tourism Industry
Hirotaka Yamauchi / Toshiya miyazaki
“Tourism Industry Renaissance: Transcending Traditional Targets, Scope,and Status“
Ryuji Sawada
“Creative Solutions for Hotel Businesses After COVID-19“
Wataru Uehara / Hiromi Kamata / Hiroyuki Fukuchi
“Crisis Management of Hotel Operators in Japan“
Fumiko Kano
“A Cross-cultural Analysis of Risk Perceptions, Attitudes, and Intentions towards Traveling during Corona-crisis:Japan and Italy“
Hiromi Kamata / Wataru Uehara
“Residents’ Attitude towards Tourism during the COVID-19 Pandemic“
Tomohiro Muraki / Akiko Mitsui
“Creating Demand for Tourist Destinations Essential for the Revival and Future Growth of the Tourism Industry“
●New Market Creation through Effectuation (2)
Mari Yoshida
●Managerial Insights from Innovation Management Studies (7)
Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi
●Entrepreneurs Who Change the World (12)
Nobuaki Takahashi
Interviewed by Yaichi Aoshima / Masatoshi Fujiwara
Takashi Maruyama / Tomoyuki Shimanuki
“Tokio Marine & Nichido Systems: Human resource management approaches to retain employees with disabilities“
●Management Forum
Yoshiharu Hoshino
(CEO, Hoshino Resort Holdings Inc.)
Interviewed by Seiichiro Yonekura / Masatoshi Fujiwara
