The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement in Japanese Print Media: A “Cars-for-Cheese-Deal” or “the Black Ships of European Cheese”?

Walravens, Tine：Ivar Padrón-Hernández
『Asia Europe Journal』 Vol.23 1-22頁 （2025/03/01）

The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EJEPA) entered into force on February 1st, 2019. The agreement was quickly coined the “cars-for-cheese deal”: Agri-food seem…

Correlation aversion in foreign direct investment

Khotamov, Navruz：Naoto Jinj
『Finance Research Letters』 Vol.74 1-5頁 （2025/03/01）

Decisions under risk are often multidimensional, where the preferences of the investor depend on several factors. Investment theory implies that in the presence of different shocks, the correlation between these shocks is important. This study analyzes the relationship between the correlation of two shocks and foreign direct investment…

血肉化するイノベーション：革新を実現する組織を創る

軽部大： 山田仁一郎 （訳）, ベン・Ｍ・ベンサウ （原）Built to Innovate：Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company's DNA
中央経済社（2025/02/26）

イノベーションは身近なものである。イノベーションの実現に必要な活動が日々の活動として習慣化するためには何をすべきか。企業の事例を交えながら具体的な方法を提示する。

How “smart” should smart products look? Exploring boundary conditions of the Most-Advanced-Yet-Acceptable (MAYA) principle

Akiike, Atsushi：Sotaro Katsumata：Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi：Chris Baumann
『Journal of Business Research』 Vol. 189 Article number 115108 （2025/02/01）

This study examines the effect of smart products’ appearance typicality on purchase intentions and the moderation effect of smart product category knowledge. Previous st…

Avoidance and involvement: How MNE subsidiaries leverage local institutions to gain influence in global strategy, Conference peresentation by Padrón-Hernández, Ivar

Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) （2024/12/12）

The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors

Kang, Byeongwoo:Rudi Bekkers:Atsushi Ohyama
『Research Policy』 Vol. 53 Issue 10 pp. 1-16 （2024/12/01）

There is abundant evidence that individuals create similar ideas independently at about the same time. While this phenomenon has often been documented, its underlying mechanisms have been understudied empirically. This study investigates two of such mechanisms implied by the theoretical work of Amabile (1983, 1988), Nonaka (1994), and …

Exports and foreign direct investment in the presence of downside risk

Khotamov, Navruz
『The World Economy』 （2024/11/25）

This study analyses the impact of downside risk on the flow of exports, foreign direct investment (FDI), and their joint pattern. Existing studies in this field have not considered the effects of risk asymmetry or downside risk because they describe risk only by variance; therefore, this study attempts to fill this gap. Downside risk i…

Research: How Should Multinational Firms Navigate Local Rules?

Harvard Business Review （2024/09/19）

By Regnér, P. and Ivar Padrón-Hernández（2024/09/19） When multinational firms enter new markets, they have to choose how to manage the formal and informal local rules th…

Attachment and adjustment in expatriate reactions to the 2011 Tohoku disasters

Padrón-Hernández, Ivar
『Journal of Asia Business Studies』 Vol.18 Issue 4 pp. 1021–1042 （2024/07/23）

【Purpose】 This study aims to develop an extended social attachment model for expatriates, integrating a multiple stakeholder perspective, to understand evacuation decis…

The Impact of Brokerage in a Communication Network on Productivity: Evidence from Sensor Data

Nakajima, Kentaro：Tsuyoshi Tsuru：Katsuhito Uehara
『Connections』 Vol.44 Issue1 1-20頁 （2024/05/29）

Problem-solving effectiveness is key to organizational performance. To solve problems, gathering information from colleagues is critical, and positioning brokerage in communication networks is beneficial. The communication network for problem-solving is formed depending on the nature of the problem. Thus, the problem-solving network i…

Home country influence in cross-border mergers and acquisitions by emerging market firms: A systematic review, Conference presentation: by He, G., and Ivar Padrón-Hernández

Vietnam-Japan International Business Conference （2024/03/27）

【Purpose】 Emerging market firms (EMFs) are increasingly expanding their global presence through cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs). While such deals are dist…

Political embeddedness and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a state-led developing country: evidence from China

Li, Jiarong：Masato Sasaki
『Asian Business & Management』 1-25頁 （2024/02/03）

In many countries, the government plays a regulative role in corporate social responsibility (CSR) as an external overseer of economic and public market sectors. However, owing to the politically embedded nature of extensive corporations in China, the government's influence over CSR is not only exogenous but may even endogenously shape…

R＆D資源の外部調達と企業の研究者の転出

李樹萱：青島矢一
『組織科学』 第57巻 ２号 113-129頁 （2023/12/01）

本稿は、科学技術研究調査から得られたパネルデータを用いて、R＆D資源の外部調達活動が研究者の転出に及ぼす影響を実証した。分析結果は、(1)R＆D資源の外部調達を行うこと自体は研究者の転出を増大させるが、外部調達金額の増大はむしろ研究者の転出を減少させる、(2)多様な社外組織からR＆D資源の調達を行うほど研究者の転出が増える、ことを示して…

Subnational trade dependence and media sentiment on bilateral trade agreements: Findings from prefecture-level Japanese reactions to the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, Conference presentation:by Padrón-Hernández, Ivar and Jinju Lee

Annual Conference of the Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA) （2023/11/24）

The impact of state ownership on corporate social responsibility reporting: A comparison between state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises in China

Li, Jiarong：Masato Sasaki
『Management Communication Quarterly』 （2023/10/23）

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting is a communication channel between companies and stakeholders. As the literature has largely been confined to exploring p…

Enabling Innovation Activities in Standardization: A Dynamic Interplay of Moderating Factors and Firm Innovation Activities in Standard-Setting Organizations

You, Kyoungmin：Hirofumi Tatsumoto
『Organizational Science』 Vol.57 Issue2 93-112頁 （2023/09/01）

Corporations initiate Standard-Setting Organizations (SSOs) and formulate technology standards across diverse sectors. Existing research has yielded contradictory conclusions between SSOs and firm innovation, engendering a complexity for both practitioners and academic researchers in thoroughly understanding this domain. This study inv…

K-pop’s internationalization in the product adaptation and the upstream music supply chain in Korea, China, Japan, and the West

Kim, Byeongsik：Byeongwoo Kang
『Asia Pacific Business Review』 Vol. 29 No. 5 pp. 1369-1393 （2023/06/01）

The success of Korean popular music (K-pop) in foreign markets has attracted considerable attention from researchers. Previous studies have highlighted the factors in K-…

Tomra's institutional challenges

Padrón-Hernández, Ivar:Patrick Regnér, Whittington, Richard:Patrick Regnér:Duncan Angwin:Gerry Johnson:Kevan Scholes（編）『Exploring Strategy, Text and Cases, 13th edition』 In Chapter 10 International strategy
Pearson（2023/05/18）

Telework, Management, and Technology

Ohyama, Atsushi：Ryo Kambayashi
No.375 ESRI Discussion Paper Series （2023/04/01）

We empirically examine what factors facilitate remote work arrangements by using the data from the 2020 JP MOPS. In this study, we exploit variations in establishment ch…

Structure of university licensing networks

Modic, Dolores：Borut Lužar：Tohru Yoshioka‑Kobayashi
『Scientometrics』 Vol. 128 Issue 2 pp. 901-932 （2023/02/01）

We study the structure and evolution of networks of inventors involved in university licensing and patenting. In particular, we focus on networks of inventors that have successfully licensed a university patent (i.e., licensing networks), and investigate levels of their fragmentation, cliquishness, and whether they exhibit the small wo…