Ulrike Schaede
Ulrike Schaede (Japanese: ウリケ・シェーデ) is Professor of Japanese Business at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) at the University of California, San Diego. She is a leading scholar of Japanese business, management, and the Japanese economy, and specializes in Japanese business organization, employment practices and management strategies, Japan's industrial groups and political economy, antitrust, financial system and corporate governance, entrepreneurship and innovation.[1][2][3][4] She is the Founding Director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT) and head of the International Management track at GPS. She has written seven books and over 50 articles on Japanese corporate strategy, business and management. Her current interest is the changing business models of large Japanese companies and their pursuit of an “aggregate niche strategy” – a concept she developed in her 2020 book “The Business Reinvention of Japan” (Stanford Business Books).[5] She is a Fellow at the Mitsubishi Research Institute and advisor to the Innovation Network for Co-Creating the Future (INCF), as well as to the Life Science Innovation Network Japan (LINK-J).
Her website is www.thejapanologist.com, where she writes blogs about current events in Japan, mostly with a business connection. She is the host of Japan Forum Webinars, a weekly JFIT webinar series that invites experts and opinion leaders on Japan for weekly discussions of current events in Japan, Asia, and the world.
In 1991, Schaede was awarded the OAG Prize, for the best book written on Japan in 1990-1991, by t he Ostasiatische Gesellschaft Tokyo.
Background
Schaede received her Ph.D. in Japanese Studies/Economics (1989) from University of Marburg, Germany and an M.A. in Japanese Studies/Economics (1987) and a Translator's Diploma in Japanese (1985) from University of Bonn, Germany. Schaede is trilingual (German, English, and Japanese). She has lived in Tokyo, Japan for a total of more than nine years. She has been invited as a visiting professor to Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, and the Harvard Business School. She has been a visiting scholar at the research institutes of the Bank of Japan, Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the Development Bank of Japan. She has served on the academic advisory boards of the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ, Max-Weber-Stiftung) in Tokyo, and the IN-EAST program at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.
Books
- The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why it Matters. Stanford University Press. 2020. ISBN 9781503612365.
- Creating Ambidextrous Organizations: Exploration and Exploitation for Overcoming Inertia (Ryōkiki no soshiki o tsukuru, 両利きの組織をつくる: 大企業病を打破する攻めと守りの経営) with Masanori Kato and Charles A. O’Reilly III. Tokyo: Eiji Shuppan. 2020. (in Japanese)
- Choose and Focus: Japan’s Business Strategies for the 21st Century. Cornell University Press. 2008.
- Japan’s Managed Globalization: Adapting to the 21st Century. co-edited with William W. Grimes. 2003.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan. Oxford University Press. 2000.
- Der neue japanische Kapitalmarkt – Finanzfutures in Japan [The New Japanese Capital Market – Financial Futures in Japan]. 1990. (in German).
- Geldpolitik in Japan 1950–1985 [Monetary Policy in Japan 1950–1985]. 1989. (in German)
References
- ^ NBC San Diego: San Diego's Brightest Minds Discuss Artificial Intelligence at UCSD, April 27th, 2018
- ^ GPS News: Helping one woman at a time, JFIT’s new immersion program for female executives in Japan equips participants with the skills and confidence to be managers on a global scale, November 18th, 2016
- ^ The Atlantic: Japan's Oldest Businesses Have Survived for More Than 1,000 Years, February 12th, 2015
- ^ The Economist: The strange thing about Toyota's latest recalls, January 26th, 2011
- ^ GPS News: Ulrike Schaede and the business reinvention of Japan, May 28th, 2020
External links
- Ulrike Schaede at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Global Policy and Strategy
- Director's message from Schaede, Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT UCSD)
- The Japanologist
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