This website introduces Kaz Asakawa's research and professional activities in the areas of global innovation, R&D, and global knowledge sourcing.

Bio

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 is an Area Editor of Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), and he 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, Journal of International Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Organization Design, Transnational Corporations, Canadian Journal of Administrative Science, Cross-Cultural & Strategic Management, Review in  International Business and Strategy, Journal of Asia Business Studies, and Southeast Asian Journal of Management. 

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

For AIB, Kaz was a Program Chair for the AIB 2023 Program in Warsaw, a Track Chair for the AIB 2020 Program, a Track Chair for the AIB 2016 Program; a Track Chair for the AIB 2011 Program, and a Teaching Track Chair for the AIB 2005 Program.  He served as the Chair of the AIB Japan Chapter (2012-2018).  He served as the Chair of the Temple AIB Best Paper Award Selection Committee in 2014.  He served as a committee member of the AIB Fellows Executive of the Year in 2018.  He also served as a Program Chair for the Asia Academy of Management Meetings in 2006.  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.