Asakawa, Kazuhiro

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Affiliation

Graduate School of Business Administration (Hiyoshi)

Position

Professor
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  • Kazuhiro Asakawa is Professor of Global Innovation Management at Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University, Japan, where he teaches international management and global innovation. He has held the Mitsubishi Foundation Chairship at Keio Business School. Kaz received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from INSEAD, France, his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his BA summa cum laude in Political Economy from Waseda University, Japan. His research interest lies in the areas of global innovation and global R&D management of multinational corporations, cross-border knowledge sourcing and leveraging, subsidiary evolution, and autonomy-control dynamics. He is best known for his work on global R&D management of Japanese MNCs. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) in 2015. In 2021, he was elected Vice President Program for AIB.

    His research appeared in the numerous leading international journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Research Policy, Journal of World Business, and Journal of Product Innovation Management.

    Kaz has served as an Associate Editor of Global Strategy Journal and a Senior Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He is a Consulting Editor of Journal of International Management, an Advisory Editor of Research Policy and serves (has served) on the editorial board of numerous academic journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of World Business and Academy of Management Perspectives,

    Kaz taught at many international business schools including ESSEC, McGill, Yonsei, JKU Linz and WU as a visiting faculty, and was a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management and Northeastern University and University of Sydney. He has supervised and examined PhD candidates in many countries, and has reviewed faculty tenure promotion decisions in the US, Europe, and Asia.

    Kaz was the Program Chair for the AIB 2023 Program in Warsaw, the Chair of the AIB Japan Chapter (2012-2018), the Chair of the Temple AIB Best Paper Award Selection Committee in 2014, and the Program Chair for the Asia Academy of Management Meetings in 2006. He served as a committee member of the AIB Fellows Executive of the Year in 2018. He is a founding member of Industry Studies Association (ISA) in the US and was a representative-at-large for SMS Global Strategy Interest Group.

    In Japan, he served as President of Japan Academy of Multinational Enterprises (AMNE) (2015-2019) and is an Executive Board Member of the Academic Association of Organizational Science (AAOS) and Japan Academy of International Business Studies (JAIBS). As an internationally-trained IB scholar currently based in Japan, he is committed to bridging the gaps between the Japanese and international academic communities.

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  • His research interests are focused on innovation and R&D management of multinational corporations, cross-border knowledge sourcing and leveraging, subsidiary evolution, and autonomy-control dynamics.

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Career 【 Display / hide 】

  • 1995.04
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    1996.03

    Assistant Professor, Keio Business School (Exec Ed Division)

  • 1995.04
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    1996.03

    Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University

  • 1996.04
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    1997.03

    Assistant professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, keio University

  • 1996.04
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    1997.03

    Assistant Professor, Keio Business School (Exec Ed Division)

  • 1997.04
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    Present

    Associate Professor, Keio Business School UExec Ed Division) (Tenured)

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Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

  • 1985.03

    Waseda University, Faculty of Political Economy, BA summa cum laude, 1985, Political Science

    University, Graduated

  • 1991.06

    Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration (MBA), Management

    United States, Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 1993.06

    INSEAD, Graduate School of Business Administration (M.Sc.), Management Science

    France, Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 1996.06

    INSEAD, Graduate School of Business Administration (Ph.D.), Management

    France, Graduate School, Completed, Doctoral course

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Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

  • MBA, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Coursework, 1991.06

  • M.Sc., INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), Coursework, 1993.06

  • Ph.D. (in Management), INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), 1996.06

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Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Business administration

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Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

  • International Management

  • Managing Global Innovation

  • Global R&D Management

  • Global Strategy

  • Open Innovation

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Books 【 Display / hide 】

  • 未来の多国籍企業

    浅川 和宏(監修)伊田 昌弘(監修)臼井 哲也(監修)内田 康郎(監修)多国籍企業学会(著/文), 文真堂, 2020.02

  • Studying International Management by Cases (Yuhikaku) (In Japanese)

    ASAKAWA KAZUHIRO Yoshihara, Shiraki, Shintaku, and Asakawa (Eds.), Yuhikaku, 2013.12

  • Global R&D Management, (Keio University Press).

    ASAKAWA KAZUHIRO, Keio University Press, 2011.10

    Scope: 323

  • Introduction to Global Management (Nikkei Publishing Co.)

    ASAKAWA KAZUHIRO, 東京：日本経済新聞社 (Nikkei Publishing Co.), 2003.11

  • learning Strategic Management through Managers' Remarks (Nikkei Publishing Co.)

    ASAKAWA KAZUHIRO, Nikkei Publishing Co., 2013.09

    Scope: 169-178

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Papers 【 Display / hide 】

  • Foreign and domestic university collaboration for outbound open innovation

    Aliasghar O., Un C.A., Asakawa K., Haar J., Wu S.

    Journal of International Management  2025

    Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Accepted,  ISSN  10754253

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    Outbound open innovation, the external commercialization of the firm's knowledge, is important for creating and sustaining its competitive advantage. Surprisingly, limited studies have explained how and why a firm can enhance its likelihood of engagement in outbound open innovation activities by collaborating with universities, especially foreign ones. Building on the knowledge-based view (KBV), first, we differentiate the effects of collaborating with foreign versus domestic universities, since these create scientific knowledge that varies in novelty and ease of transfer. Second, based on these two knowledge dimensions, we argue that foreign university collaboration is more likely to have a higher positive association with outbound open innovation than domestic university collaboration, because the former has higher knowledge novelty than the latter. Third, however, when firms also collaborate with domestic value chain partners, collaborating with domestic universities is likely to have a higher positive association. We tested these arguments on 541 firms in New Zealand and found that collaborating with foreign universities has a positive association, especially when the universities are located in developed economies. Collaborating with domestic universities has a positive association when firms also collaborate with their domestic value chain partners.

  • Control dynamics for R&D units in the MNC: From local to global innovation

    Asakawa, K., Ambos, B. & Ambos, T.

    Organizational Control Handbook (Edward Elgar)   2025

    Part of collection (book), Joint Work, Lead author, Accepted

  • How subsidiaries contribute to MNC’s resilience under global disruptions

    Asakawa K., Aliasghar O., Un C.A.

    Multinational Business Review  2025

    Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Lead author, Accepted,  ISSN  1525383X

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    Purpose: This paper explores how the organizational resilience of multinational corporations (MNCs) can be attained through mitigating the liability of foreignness (LOF) faced by their subsidiaries so that they can navigate challenges more effectively. By bridging the gap between MNC resilience and the liability and advantage of foreignness of their subsidiaries, this study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how MNCs can thrive in volatile and uncertain international markets. Design/methodology/approach: By drawing on the extant literature on resilience and liability/advantage of foreignness, this paper presents a novel perspective on the way resilience of subsidiaries contributes to the resilience of the MNCs as a whole. Findings: Subsidiaries contribute substantially to the resilience of MNCs by creating a network of adaptive responses in their host locations and beyond and by playing crucial roles in challenging uncertain and turbulent environments. Accordingly, the resilience of foreign subsidiaries depends on their organizational capability and certain structural arrangements that enable them to turn LOF into advantage. This intricate interplay emphasizes the importance of subsidiary-level resilience in shaping the resilience of the entire MNC. Originality/value: This paper emphasizes the importance of paying attention to the resilience of the whole MNC while stressing the important role played by the subsidiaries to turn the LOF into the advantage.

  • Foreign and domestic university collaboration and outbound open innovation”

    Aliasghar, O, Asakawa, K, Annique, Un. Haar, J.

    Journal of International Management  2025

    Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Accepted

  • Designing organisational ecosystems & overcoming barriers to implementation "

    Trevor, J. and Asakawa, K.

    The European Business Review July/August, 2024. 2024.07

    Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Accepted

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  • The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy

    Asakawa K., Clegg J.

    Journal of International Business Studies 55 ( 1 ) 37 - 49 2024.02

    ISSN  00472506

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    Recognizing the dearth of attention afforded to global cities in the international business and management journals, Goerzen et al. (J Int Bus Stud 44(5):427–450, 2013) chanced their hand at becoming pioneers. Their gamble paid off. Taking geographic scale down to the city level, questioning why multinationals choose to locate subsidiaries inside or outside of global cities, they jump-started their own conversation, sugaring the pill with the IB staple—liability of foreignness. So well was their inquiry crafted and executed that their insights into the way global connectedness attracts investment into these cities remains instructive. Since then, global cities and firms have undergone a transition. We visualize increasingly multifaceted cities interacting with firms accelerating towards adopting an “ecosystem approach”—characterized by extensive non-equity collaborations and partnerships. We explain why investigation à la Goerzen et al. (J Int Bus Stud 44(5):427–450, 2013) today must grasp multinationals’ diverse relationships to revivify theoretical insights from economic geography for a world of tensions heightened by geopolitics, but above all grappling with the sustainability agenda. We conclude that within an ecosystem of feedback effects, multinationals’ agency can be part of the solution. To deliver, IB must harness emerging novel geographic—“big”—data and techniques to match, in the spirit of the imaginative fusion a decade earlier.

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Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

  • Control dynamics in MNCs”

    Asakawa, K., Ambos, B. and Ambos, T.

    Academy of Management COntrol handbook Workshop, 

    2024.08
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    Oral presentation (general)

  • “Surviving economic disruptions: Examining the resilience factors in MNE subsidiaries.

    Aliasghar, O., Asakawa, K. Mendo, P. and Un, A.

    Academy of International Business Annual Meetings,, 

    2024.07
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    Oral presentation (general)

  • Dynamics of MNC control

    Asakawa, K., Ambos, B. and Ambos, T.

    Australian National University, 

    2024.03

  • Dynamics of MNC control

    Asakawa, K., Ambos, B. and Ambos, T.

    University of Sydney Business School Research Seminar, March 2024., 

    2024.03

  • Researching National Innovation Ecosystems for Startup Success,

    Asakawa, K.

    Academy of Management, 

    2023.08

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

  • 多国籍企業によるローカルからグローバル・イノベーションへの進展の研究

    2015.04
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    2019.03

    MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Principal investigator

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Works 【 Display / hide 】

  • Can multinationals corporations innovate? Global Economics Trends, Nikkei Newspaper Online, February 23, 2020

    Asakawa, K.

    Nikkei Newspaper Online, 

    2020.02
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    Single

  • 浅川・慶大教授「新製品開発、新興国に成長の芽」日本経済新聞電子版６月１日号に掲載

    浅川和宏

    東京, 

    2014.06
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    Other, Single

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    日本経済新聞電子版６月１日号

  • Distinctiveness of Japan's IB research: What makes it so unique? Japan MNE Insights, Vol.1. Issue 1, April, 2014

    Kazuhiro Asakawa

    Tokyo, Japan, 

    2014.04
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    Other, Single

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    Japan MNE Insights, Vol.1, Issue 1, April, 2014 (Posted on the homepage of JMNE (www.mne-jp.org/news_letter.html)

  • 「顧客は世界に広がる：総括」日本経済新聞朝刊・経済教室面・経営塾に５回にわたり連載(2013.1.18-25)

    ASAKAWA KAZUHIRO

    2013.01
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    Other, Single

  • 企業の国際競争力を支える海外現地知識の獲得・活用戦略『世界経済評論』2012, 56(5) 9/10月号: 38-41.

    ASAKAWA KAZUHIRO

    2012.09
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    Present
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    Other, Single

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Awards 【 Display / hide 】

  • AIB Fellow, The Academy of International Business (AIB)

    2015.03, Academy of International Business (AIB)

    Type of Award： International academic award (Japan or overseas)

  • Academy of Management (AOM) IM Division HKUST Best Papers in Global Strategy Finalist

    2024.06

    Type of Award： Award from international society, conference, symposium, etc.,  Country： United States

  • Winner, Organization Design Community - Accenture Annual Award for Best Research Paper in Journal of Organization Design

    2023.01

    Type of Award： International academic award (Japan or overseas),  Country： United States

  • Finalist, Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS) Best Paper Award 2017.

    2017.06, AJBS

    Type of Award： International academic award (Japan or overseas)

  • The Best Reviewer's Award, IM Division, cademy of Management (AOM)

    2015.08, Academy of Management

    Type of Award： Award from international society, conference, symposium, etc.,  Country： United States

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Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • ORGANIZATION AND HUMAN MANAGEMENT (EMBA)

    2025

  • ISSUES ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

    2025

  • GLOBAL INNOVATION

    2025

  • ADVANCED STUDY IN MULTINATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGY

    2025

  • ADVANCED RESEARCH SEMINAR IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 3

    2025

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Courses Previously Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • Multinational organizations and Strategy

    Keio University

    2014.04
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    2015.03
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    Autumn Semester, Lecture, Within own ｆaculty

    Managing Multinational Corporations

  • Managing Global Innovation

    Keio University

    2014.04
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    2015.03
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    Spring Semester, Lecture, Within own ｆaculty

    Managing Global Innovation

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Social Activities 【 Display / hide 】

  • Academic Member, Business Standardization COmmittee, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

    2012.12
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    2013.03

  • Visiting Scholar, NISTEP, Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology

    2011.07
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    2013.03

  • Global Searvice Industry Promotion Forum, the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), Japan

    2009.06
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    2010.03

  • Academic Member, Global Service Committee, the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), Japan

    2008.09
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    2009.03

  • Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA

    2005.09
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    2010.09

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Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

  • Academy of Management, 

    1993.08
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    Present

  • Strategic Management Society (A "Frined" of SMS since 2009), 

    1995.09
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    Present

  • Academy of International Business (Vice President, 2021-2024) , 

    1993.06
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    Present

  • Founding Member, Industry Studies Association (ISA), U.S.A., 

    2011.07
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    Present

  • Asia Academy of Management, 

    1997.12
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    Present

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Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

  • 2019.12
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    Consulting Editor, Journal of International Management

  • 2019.01
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    Present

    Editorial Board, Transnational Corporations

  • 2018.04
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    Present

    Editorial Board, Joournal of Organization Design

  • 2016.04
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    Present

    Editorial Board, Journal of World Business

  • 2015.04
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    Present

    Senior Advisory Board, Review of International Business Strategy

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