Kazuhiro Asakawa, Ph.D.

  Research Interest

Global strategy, global innovation strategies of multinational corporations; More specifically, global innovation and R&D management of multinational corporations, cross-border knowledge sourcing and leveraging, subsidiary evolution, and autonomy-control dynamics.

 Fellow

2015/03/02      Elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB)

Selected Award

Academy of Management (AOM) IM Division HKUST Best Paper Award Finalist. AOM Chicago, August 2024

Winner, Organizational Design Community-Accenture Annual Prize for Best Research Paper, Journal of Organization Design, 2023

Academy of International Business (AIB) 2014 "Relevance for Practice" Recognition, (Co-authored with Alvaro Cuervo-Cazzura),  Academy of International Business (AIB) Annual Meetings, Vancouver, BA, Canada, 2014

Academic Award, The Japanese Association of International Business Studies, Tokyo, Japan, 2012

Academic Award, the 40th Anniversary of Association of Multinational Enterprises (AMNE), Tokyo, Japan, 2012

California Management Review Best Paper Finalist for 2004

AIB Best Paper Finalist, Academy of International Business, Monterrey, CA. 2003

Academic Award, The 30th Anniversary of Japan Academy of Multinational Studies, Tokyo, Japan. 2002

 Chairship

Mitsubishi Chair in Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University (Appointment for two three-year terms) 2013-2019

 Selected Academic Leadership

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

Program Chair for the AIB Annual Meeting in Warsaw, July 2023

Pre-conference Chair, AIB Annual Meeting in Miami, FL, July 2022

Program Chair, Asia Academy of Management (AAOM) Conference, Tokyo, Japan, December, 2006.

 Selected Journal Editorial Leadership

Area Editor

Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), June, 2025 -

Associate Editor

Global Strategy Journal (Strategic Management Society, USA),  2009 – 2014.

Senior Editor

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2009- 2010.

Consulting Editor

Journal of International Management, 2019-present.

Advisory Editor

Research Policy, 2014-present.

 Senior Advisory Board

Global Strategy Journal, 2020-presemt

International Journal of Commerce and Management (renamed from 2016 as Review of International

Business and Strategy) April, 2015 -present

Editorial Board

Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), 2005-2007; 2010 -2022.

Journal of World Business (JWB), 2016-present

Journal of International Management (JIM),  2006 –2019

Journal of Organization Design (JOD), January, 2018--present

Academy of Management Perspective (AMP), 2011- 2015

Canadian Journal of Administrative Science,  2012 -2013

Selected Visiting Scholarship

Visiting Faculty, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Notheastern University, Boston, MA. (November, 2025 - February, 2026)

Visiting Scholar, Said Business School, Oxford University, UK (October-November, 2025)

Visiting Professor, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France (September, 2025)

Visiting Scholar (Invited), University of Sydney Business School, Sydney, Australia (November, 2024)

Visiting Scholar (Invited), University of Sydney Business School, Sydney, Australia (March, 2024)

Visiting Scholar, Northeastern University, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Boston, MA. (2014)

Visiting Scholar, MIT-Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA. (2004-2005)

Faculty Fellow, the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), Japan (2005 - 2010)

Visiting Government Researcher, National Research Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP),The Ministry of Education (2011-2013)　

Visiting Professor, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France  – Global Strategy and Management course (September, 2015)

Visiting Professor, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria - Global Strategy course, 2012

Visiting Professor, Global MBA, Yonsei university, Seoul, Korea. – Multinational Strategy and Organizations, 2010

Visiting Associate Professor, McGill University Business School Japan MBA Program, McGill University - “Managing Innovation” (Second Year Elective), January through March 2000, 2001, 2002.

Selected Industry Experience

The Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd. Tokyo, Japan. (Long-term credit bank playing the role of corporate finance and investment banking). 1985-1989

Selected Scholarship

Mitsubishi Foundation Endowed Chairship; JSPS grant-in-aids; Renault Foundation grant; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation program;  RIETI Faculty Fellowship; NISTEP visiting scholarship; MEXT grant for innovative teaching; NEDO research grant; Koizumi scholarship; Sfp-endowed INSEAD doctoral fellowship; among others.

Background

Earned High school diploma from both US (Albany, NY) and Japan (Tokyo, Japan), College degree from Japan (summa cum laude in Political Science, Waseda University Faculty of Political Economy, Tokyo, Japan), Master’s Degrees from both US (MBA, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA) and France (M.Sc. INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France), and Ph.D. Degree from France (INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France); Visiting MIT Sloan School of Management and Center of International Studies (Cambridge, MA) and Northeastern University (Boston, MA) as Visiting Scholar; Teaching and giving lectures at Yonsei (Korea), JKU Linz (Austria), Vienna (Austria), Aalto (Finland), McGill (Canada), U Rhode Island (USA), Suffolk (USA), among others. Invited talk at numerous universities in the world; Examined and supervised doctoral dissertations at Aalto University (Finland), University of Victoria (NZ), ESSEC Business School (France), University St. Gallen (Co-chair) (Switzerland), University of Otago (NZ), and examiner for Habilitation (a qualifying exam for the professorship) for WU Vienna (Austria). Faculty tenure promotion external reviewer for Cornell University (USA), Montclair State University, New Jersey (USA), Northeastern University (USA), ESADE (Spain) , U SYdney (Australia) and Aalto (Finland).