Pierre-Yves Donzé

Professor of Business History, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Japan

Visiting professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2024), at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (since 2017) and at EM Normandie Business School, France (since 2022).

Former visiting positions at EPFL (2016), CUNEF Madrid (2023) and Harvard Business School (2023).

Co-editor of Business History and associate editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business.

Member of the councils of the European Business History Association (EBHA) (since 2016) and the Business History Society of Japan (since 2017).

Last publications (2023 and 2024):

1.   La fabrique de l’excellence : Histoire de Rolex, Neuchâtel : Alphil, 2024. 

2. With Julia Yongue, Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2024. 

3. “Japanese Trading Companies and Hospital Business in Asia Since 2000”, in Paloma Fernandes Pérez (ed.), Business History of Hospitals in the 20th Century: Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Finances, Cham: Springer, 2024, pp. 147-159. 

4. With Juxuan Zhang, The internationalisation of Chinese apparel companies, 1990-2020,  Discussion Paper in Business and Economics, Osaka University, April 2024. 

5. "Birkenstock in Japan", in Andrea H. Schneider-Braunberger (ed.), Birkenstock: The Evolution of a universal Purpose and Zeitgeist Brand, Munich: Prestel, pp. 345-352. 

6. "The Healthcare Industry: Evolving National Systems", in M. Kipping, T. Kurosawa and E. Westney (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics, 2024, online first view.

7. With Sabine Pitteloud, “Swiss Multinationals Versus the French Welfare State?  The Social Security Deficit, European Integration, and the Battle for “Fair” Drug Prices (1970-1990)”, Contemporary European History, online prepublication, 2024.

8. “Temps”, Clément Fabre (ed.), Les mondialisations des années 1880 au milieu des années 1930, Paris : Atlande, 2023, pp. 424-426.  

9. With Juxuan Zhang, “Knowledge upgrade in the Chinese apparel industry, 1980–2020”, Enterprise & Society, online prepublication, 2023.  

10. Histoire sociale et économique de la chronométrie, Neuchâtel : Alphil, 2023. 

11. 「ジーメンス―収益性の向上をめざす選択と集中の戦略―」谷口明丈編『総合電機企業の形成と解体』有斐閣，2023年，314-340頁．

12. “Collective entrepreneurship and the development of private clinics in Geneva, 1860-2020”, in Paloma Fernández Pérez and Elena San Román (eds.), Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries: A Long Term Approach, Emerald Publishing, 2023, pp. 23-45. 

13. With Qing Xia, “Innovation in the Japanese tea industry, 1970-2020”, Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business, vol. 8, no. 2, 2023, pp. 106-137. 

14. With Pedro Araujo and Eric Davoine, “Banking elites and the transformation of capitalism in Switzerland: A prosopographic analysis (1890–2020)”, Business History, online prepublication, 2023. 

15. ピエール=イヴ・ドンゼ，クロード・ハウザー共編『駐日スイス公使が見た第二次世界大戦―カミーユ・ゴルジェの日記―』大阪大学出版会，2023年 

16. Selling Europe to the World: The Rise of the Luxury Fashion Industry, 1980-2020, Bloomsbury, 2023.

17. “From the ‘yellow peril’ to ‘cool Japan’: Country’s image and global competitiveness of the Japanese manufacturing industry since the Meiji period”, in Nikolas Glover and David M. Higgins (eds.), National Brands and Global Markets: An Historical Perspective, London and New York; Routledge, 2023, pp. 168-184. 

Last participations in conferences (2019-2024):

1. “Housewives and the growth of the Japanese electrical appliance industry, 1950-1990”, Annual Conference of the European Business History Association, Oslo (Norway), with Takashi Hirano and Ken Sakai, 26 August 2023.

2. “Waiting for Better Days”: Nestlé’s Human Resource Management in the post-colonial world (1950-1990)”, Annual Conference of the European Business History Association, Oslo (Norway), with Sabine Pitteloud, 26 August 2023.

3. 「時計産業におけるデザインの経営史―ロレックスとセイコーの比較研究」企業家研究フォーラム，大阪, 8 July 2023.

4. “Drug's fair price. From bilateral trade negotiations to the “drug single market” (1969-1993)”, International Conference on Business History, Paris (France), with Sabine Pitteloud. 

5. "The Healthcare Industry”, Industry Dynamics, Schulich School of Business, Toronto (Canada), 24 September 2022.

6. “Global competition and knowledge transfer in a high-tech industry: Western medtech multinational enterprises in East Asia, 1970-2020”, Industrial Policy and Technology Transfer in East Asia during the Cold War: A Comparative History, Tonji University (Shanghai, China) and Osaka University (Japan), international conference on Zoom, with Qing Xia and Raphaël Imer, 3 September 2022.

7. “Continuity & Discontinuity in the Capitals Legitimating Business Elites: A Diachronic Analysis of the Swiss Banking Elite During the 20th century (1890-2020)”, Conference of the European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS), Calgiari (Italy), online, with Pedro Araujo and Eric Davoine, 7 July 2022.

8. "Hospital equipment for world markets: The development of CT scanners by General Electric, 1970-2000", Annual conference of the European Business History Association, Madrid (Spain), 23 June 2022. 

9. "Fashion as a Business System", Annual conference of the European Business History Association, Madrid (Spain), 23 June 2022. 

10. Keynote speech: “Capitalism and Global Health in Modern History”, Health, Body, and the Profit Motive: Medicine as a Business in History, Tokyo (Japan) (online), 19 November 2021.

11. “Adidas’ Fashionalization: Transformation into a Global Sportswear and Fashion Business”, 2nd World Congress on Business History, Nagoya (Japan) (online), with Ben Wubs, 11 September 2021.

12. “Japanese investment in Africa since the 1970s – and the opportunities for consulting firms”, 2nd World Congress on Business History, Nagoya (Japan) (online), with Matthias Kipping, Takafumi Kurosawa and Nahashon Nzioka, 11 September 2021.

13. "The birth of medtech big business, 1960-2014”, 2nd World Congress on Business History, Nagoya (Japan) (online), 10 September 2021.

14. "La transformation de l’horlogerie suisse en industrie de luxe", Vers le haut de gamme made in France, Paris (France), 22 November 2019.

15. 「中立スイスの競争優位―1945-1970年間アジアにおけるネスレの成長戦略ー」経営史学会第50回全国大会,，慶応義塾大学, 27 October 2019. 

16. 「シーメンス：収益性の改善を目指した選択と集中の戦略」経営史学会第50回全国大会,，慶応義塾大学, 27 October 2019.

17. “The lost competitiveness of the French watch industry (1970-1990): a contribution to the study of the de-industrialization of France”, International Congress of French Business History, Paris (France), 12 September 2019. 

18. “The Swiss watch industry in China since the early 19th century”, East China Normal University, Shanghai (China), 4 September 2019.

19. “The Transformation of Sportswear into a Global Fashion Business: the Case of Adidas”, Congress of the European Business History Association, Rotterdam (Netherlands), with Ben Wubs, 30 August 2019.

20. “The competitive advantage of the German medtech industry, 1960-2015”, Annual Conference of the Association of Business Historians, Sheffield (UK), 6 July 2019.

21. “History as a marketing resource: Luxury watchmaking in Geneva since 1815”, Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences, University of Zurich (Switzerland), 5 June 2019.

22. "The nation as a collective brand: the collective promotion of Swiss watches on world markets since 1870 ", National brands – international markets, University of Uppsala (Sweden), 25 April 2019.

23. “When Global History Meets Business History: The International Chamber of Commerce as a Business Opportunity, 1920–1960”, Business History Conference, Cartagena (Colombia), with Thomas David and Pierre Eichenberger, 15 March 2019.  

24. “Patent Strategy and Global Competition in the Electric Appliance Industry: Siemens, 1880–1945”, Business History Conference, Cartagena (Colombia), with Shigehiro Nishimura, 15 March 2019.

25. “The Globalization and the Fashionalization of a Sportswear Brand: Adidas”, Globalizations of Sportswear: Brand Marketing, Technology and Cultural Agenda, 20th and 21st Centuries, University of Warwick (UK), with Ben Wubs., 22 February 2019.

Invited talks and contributions to media:

1. “Swiss Watchmakers in Japan Since 1864: Actors, Local Partners, and Changing Demand”, Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan, Tokyo, 6 June 2024.

2. "When mountains unite across borders: a cultural and business history of Swiss-Japanese relations”, Swiss Embassy, Tokyo, 29 May 2024.

3. "Can Japan come back? The decline of the Japanese manufacturing industry", Swiss Embassy, Tokyo, 16 April 2024.

4. Interview on Rolex on Swiss national TV RTS, 27 March 2024.

5. 「ラグジュアリービジネス史の歴史」シンポジウム『日本からラグジュアリーブランドを送り出す』FashionStudies®主催，東京，2023年2月13日。

6. Discussion with Ariel Adams about the history of the global watch industry, A Blog to Watch, 12 October 2022.

7. 「ラグジュアリー産業の歴史と現状」大阪大学経済学部同窓会，大阪，2022年10月5日。

8. 「時計業界サプライヤー遍歴」，「ムーブメントサプライヤー発展史」 『クロノス日本版』（vol.103），2022年11月。 

9. 「スイス時計産業のラグジュアリー化：工業と戦略のチャレンジ（2000-2022年）」 日本時計学会 ，特別講演 ，2022年9月14日 。

10. 週刊エコノミストでのインタビュー，2022年1月17日．

11. “A promising market and a rival industry: Swiss watchmakers in Japan, 1860-1930”, Swiss-Japanese Society and Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Zurich, Switzerland (online), 27 November 2021. 

12. Interview on Swiss national radio RTS on the management of the hospital system and the COVID crisis, 12 January 2021.

13. Interview in the Swiss newspaper Le Temps, 18 May 2020.

14. “The distribution strategy in luxury business”, Nissan Hall, Yokohama (Japan), 23 August 2019. 

15. "Wie chinesisch ist die chinesische Uhrenindustrie?", Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ, 27 September 2018.

16. "Innover dans l'horlogerie de luxe à Genève de 1815 à nos jours", Société des Arts, Geneva, Switzerland, 20 March 2018.

17. "Les origines historiques de la crise hospitalière contemporaine", Auditoire de Pourtalès, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 19 March 2018.

18. "From electronic watches to nanotechnology: technology convergence and diversification in the Swiss microtechnics industry since the 1960s", 50 Years of Microelectronics on the Wrist - From the First Wearable to a Hyperconnected World, CSEM and Swissnex China, Shanghai (China), 27 November 2017.

19. "La construction de la valeur patrimoniale dans l’industrie contemporaine du luxe", Le Luxe, quelle valeur patrimoniale pour nous?, Grand Hôtel Kempinski, Geneva (Switzerland), 14 November 2017.

20. 「ラグジュアリーブランドの創造と経営― オメガの事例」 早稲田ビジネススクール，東京，2017年5月27日．

21. "Catch up with and surpass Switzerland: the Japanese watch industry, 1945-1985", talk at the Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Zurich (Switzerland), 22 September 2016.

22. 「スイス時計産業の復活（1985年以降）～ニコラス・G・ハイェックとジャン・クロード・ビバー（スウォッチグループ）を中心に」 『講座・企業家学』，企業家研究フォーラム・大阪商工会議所，大阪，2016年6月25日．

23. "L’horlogerie suisse face à la globalisation des systèmes de production (1960-2015)", opening conference at the Journée d'étude of the Société suisse de chronométrie, Lausanne, 16 September 2015.

24. Interview on Chosun TV (South Korea), 1 May 2015 (around 21'30).

25. 「ムーブメント闘争」『Chronos』第56号，2015年1月.

26. « Déclin japonais », Le Temps, 15 avril 2014.

27. Participation to a roundtable on the Swiss watch industry, St-Imier (Switzerland), 19 November 2013.

28. "La globalisation des systèmes de production dans l'industrie horlogère : enjeux et conséquences", Conférence annuelle de l’Association suisse pour la recherche horlogère, Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 30 October 2013.

29. "L'industrie horlogère dans un monde globalisé", Minovarc, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), 29 May 2013.

Contact:

Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University

1-7, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan

donze [A] econ.osaka-u.ac.jp