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Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organization Theory

Business Development, 経営学研究法

Received Ph.D. in Hokkaido University. Held research positions at Hokkaido University and Cranfield School of Management (UK). Held professor position in Osaka City University, and Visiting Professor post at Kyushu University, Bordeaux Management School (France) and Griffith Business School (Australia).

• Yamada, J. and Yoshikawa, T. (2025)  “Coping With Competing Role Expectations: How Do Independent Directors Make Sense of Their Role?”  Journal of Management, forthcoming.
• A Systematic Bibliometric Review of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Domain, Management Research Review 2021
• The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Career Solidarity toward Innovation: An Irreplaceable Relationship in Career Capital Pyramid, the Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education, 2013
• Entrepreneurs’ Intentions and Partnership Towards Innovation: Evidence from the Japanese Film Industry, Creativity and Innovation Management 15(3), 2006
• A multi-dimensional view of entrepreneurship: Towards a research agenda on organisation emergence, Journal of Management Development 23(4), 2004

Success and happy survival, particularly in turbulent and unpredictable environments, is driven by value and decisions anchored to management philosophy. Future of management identify people, purpose, and potential as drivers of entrepreneurship. Our lecture module offers practical suggestions in this domain.

Critical Management Studies, Diversity Management

Ph.D. from Graduate School of Business at Osaka City University; Project Assistant Professor of Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Osaka Prefecture University; prior to the current position at Kyoto University.

• Yanagi, J., Kawamura, N., & Yamada, J. (2020) Systematic Review of “Critical Management Studies”, Akamon Management Review, 19(6), 165-192.

We already live with people of various genders, sexualities, ethnicities, disabilities, and economic situations. In order to survive and pursue a better life for ourselves and with significant others who are somehow connected to us, let us learn and accumulate the knowledge and experiences of people from diverse backgrounds.

General Management, Leadership, Corporate Strategy and Business Strategy, Corporate Succession and Change Management

Business Design

Hold a BA in Theology from Doshisha University, and an MBA from Ross School of Business and an MS from School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, in the US. Provided business consulting services to clients, and developed new businesses at a venture support consulting firm. Then, joined JOHNAN Corporation, and has became its President & CEO in 2010. A Managing Director of Kyoto Shisaku Net.

• “A Proposal for Strategic Execution Organization” to Ross Controls in the US (2006)

I have studied the theories of corporate management, and actually have managed some corporations for approximately 20 years. Challenged by many opportunities and threats, you can learn a lot in the course of changing companies and fostering them to become an entity necessary for a society. “Effectuation” is the key ability in the current and future age, for the next business leaders. I am looking forward to learning together the ability through this course.

Based in Silicon Valley, the VC firm invests in superior technologies in IT, Health IT, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Blockchain, Cloud, Big Data, FinTech, Quantum Computing, and next-generation IT technologies around the world.

Ph.D. is the Founder and CEO of Pegasus Tech Ventures. Graduated from the Department of Development Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. D. from the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University (currently Tokyo Metropolitan University). After working for IBM and other companies, he founded Pegasus Tech Ventures in Silicon Valley, which as of 2023 manages 39 funds with total assets under management of 300 billion yen worldwide and has a track record of promoting innovation within major corporations through partnerships with more than 35 of the world’s leading business companies.

・“Silicon Valley Seeks Japanese Companies: The Strongest Partnership the World Envies” (Diamond Inc.), co-authored with Seiichiro Yonekura, Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University.
・”Startup Bible: How to Create Silicon Valley Style Venture Companies” (Kodansha Ltd.)
・”What Do Investors Around the World Look for in Japanese Companies? (KADOKAWA)
・”What Do Global Investors See in Japanese Companies? (KADOKAWA).

Global innovation is an essential growth factor for companies, and in turn, the growth of companies will pull and develop the economies of the region and Japan. I would like to play a role in connecting innovation by utilizing my experience in nurturing TOP ventures in Japan and the United States. I would like to connect these two innovation cities, Silicon Valley in the U.S. and Kyoto, and establish a more global path from Kyoto University.

Software, Entrepreneurship, MOT, Business Management, and Leadership.

Founder President/CEO, Asteria Corporation (TSE Prime Listing)
President, Blockchain Promotion Council of Japan (BCCC)
Principal, Hitoyoshi-Kuma Nenchu Elementary School, etc.

After dropping out of Kumamoto University’s Faculty of Engineering, he participated in the establishment of a software development venture. He then held marketing positions at Lotus K.K. (now IBM Japan). In 1998, he founded Infoteria (now Asteria) Inc. and became President and Representative Director (current position). Listed on TSE Mothers in 2007; listed on TSE 1st section in 2018.
From 2008 to 2011, he was a visiting professor at the graduate school of Aoyama Gakuin University in addition to his main job.

Raising the software industry’s Hideo Nomo! In Japan, there are far fewer entrepreneurial ventures than in the U.S. and China, both advanced IT countries, and this is the cause of typical business challenges such as a lack of entrepreneurship, future orientation, and global perspective in the society. I would like to contribute to imagining new value through the fusion of technology and management, based on my experiences as a software engineer and in taking a start-up company public.

Business Design

D. in Business Administration from Kobe University. After serving as Assistant Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University (now Tokyo Metropolitan University), Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, and Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan University, he has been Associate Professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Business Administration since 2021. He specializes in marketing theory, with particular interest in the formation process of new product markets and entrepreneurial marketing as a junction area between effectuation and marketing research.

Her main publications include “Marketing Reframing – Value is Created when Perspectives Change” (co-authored, Yuhikaku, 2012), “Digital Work Shift” (co-authored, San-Gaku-Sha, 2018), and her main translations include “Effectuation: An Effective Theory of Market Creation” (co-authored, Shuokusha, 2015).

I have been conducting research with an interest in the process by which new markets are formed through the interaction of multiple companies and entities. In the process, I have deepened my understanding of entrepreneurial behavior that creates new opportunities and research on a mode of thinking discovered from entrepreneurs called effectuation, which I teach in an endowed chair. I enjoy meeting new people and interacting with practitioners to gain new theoretical insights.

Regional Economics, Regional industrial system, Small Business Management, Regional Policy

Business Design

Graduated from the Ryukoku University Graduate School of Policy Science Master’s Course, and the Doctor’s Course. PhD (Policy Science). Contract Researcher of Research Centre for the Local Public Human Resources and Policy Development, and others.

“Management of SMEs Network Organization and Regional Industrial System” Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Human Resources, Doyukan, 2019

I study the development of production systems in which human and robot collaborate, the development of Regional industrial system from the perspective of Strategic Management and Regional Economics. I am looking forward to working with you to create value.