Research

Research Interests

My research interests have broadened over the years. Starting previously from comparative Corporate Governance research between Japan and Germany, I became interested more and more in many aspects of International Business. Speaking in this sense, I am interested in whatever comes into Japan, whether it is people, money or products. Therefore, my research area covers the following four areas:

Corporate Governance : especially research on board room issues
Human Resource Management: especially expatriates and leadership issues
Marketing: especially foreign firms coming to Japan, cross country and multi country research
Finance: especially M&A research, banking issues

Research related lectures

Elected Professor for teaching at Kobe University at the MBA program, Teaching SESAMI program since 2013: Advanced International Business.
From 2010 until 2012 Ordinary lecture at PhD and Master level at Business Faculty of Kobe Univesity: International Business.
From 2005 to 2009 Ordinary lecture: Oushuukeizairon (Theory of European Economics and Business). These lectures for 5 consecutive years were deliverd completely in Japanese language.

Long term guest professorships in Japan:

Specially appointed professor at Kyoto university
Ritsumeikan University (from 2009 until 2019): International Business (in English)
Osaka University of Economics (from 2015 until today, 2019) Mergers and Acquisitions (in Japanese language, click here: (Lecture Plan 2017)
Ryukoku University: International Business (in Japanese)
Konan University (from 2006 until 2015 about Corporate Governance and M&A,

Long term guest professorships and invitations to universities in other countries:

Harvard University, invitation to a sabbatical research leave at the Harvard law school in 2016
Several invitations to Taiwan National Normal University, Taipei for human resource development program.
Often long term teaching appointments for several years at several universities in Germany. For example: LMU Muenchen, Tuebingen University, Kassel University, Goettingen University, Hamburg University, Hamburg Harburg technical University and Kiel University.

Research related membership at research associations:

International:

Academy of Management (AOM)
Academy of International Business (AIB)
Australian New Zealand Management Association (ANZAM)
Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS)

National (in Japan):

Management Association (Keiei Gakkai)
Japanese Finance and Management Association (Nihon keiei kanri kenkyu gakkai)
Japanese Business History Association (Keiei Gakushi gakkai)