Research

CURRENT POSITION

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin School of Business                 2024-present

Assistant Professor, Management and Human Resources



EDUCATION

University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business                                    2024

Ph.D. in Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship


Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

M.A. Commerce and Management                                                2016

B.A. Commerce and Management                                                 2014



PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (* Equal contribution)

*Balasubramanian, Natarajan, Evan Starr and Shotaro Yamaguchi. (2024). “Employment Restrictions on Resource Transferability and Value Appropriation from Employees”


*Ganco, M., Liu, J., Wang, H., and Yamaguchi, S. (2024). “Strategic Restraint: When do Human-Capital-Intensive Companies Choose (Not) to Use Noncompete Agreements?” SSRN.

Yamaguchi, Shotaro, Serguey Braguinsky, Tetsuji Okazaki and Takenobu Yuki. (2023). “Resource allocation and growth strategies in a multi-plant firm: Kanegafuchi Spinners in the early 20th century.” Strategic Management Journal, 1-35.


Yamaguchi, S., Nitta, R., Hara, Y., & Shimizu, H. (2021). “Who Explores Further? Evidence on R&D Outsourcing from the Survey of Research and Development ”. R&D Management, 51(1), 114-126.


PAPERS UNDER REVIEW AND WORKING PAPERS (* Equal contribution)

*Frake, Justin, Anthony Gibbs, Brent Goldfarb, Takuya Hiraiwa, Evan Starr and Shotaro Yamaguchi. (2024). “From Perfect to Practical: Partial Identification Methods for Causal Inference in Strategic Management Research” (September 24, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4228655


“Moving versus being moved: Selection into external and internal mobility and innovation outcomes.”


Yamaguchi, S., Nitta, R., Hara, Y., and Shimizu, H. (2022) “Firm Age, Proximity to the Past R&D, and Innovation”. Available at SSRN.


Yamaguchi, Shotaro, Hiroyasu Inoue, Kentaro Nakajima, Tetsuji Okazaki, Yukiko Umeno Saito and Serguey Braguinsky. (2022). “Invention by College Graduates in Science and Engineering during Japan's Industrialization” RIETI Discussion Paper Series 22-E-104.


Yamaguchi, S., Braguinsky, S., and Nakajima, K. (2021). “Science and Engineering Education and Invention in Japan’s Industrialization” Ed Snider Center Working Paper Series No.3.


WORKING PAPERS IN JAPAN

Nitta, R., Yamaguchi, S., Shimizu, H. (2019). “Business Case—Naoshima: Corporate Identity and Local Promotion” Hitotsubashi Business Review, Vol.66 No.4, Toyo Keizai, March 2019.


Yamaguchi, S., Nitta, R., Hara, Y., and Shimizu., H. (2018). “Staying Young at Heart or Wisdom of Age: Longitudinal Analysis of Age and Performance in US and Japanese Firms” IIR Working Paper, WP#18-41 Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University, June 2018


Yamaguchi, S. and Kim, D. (2017). “Exploring Memories from Narrative: Methodology of Oral History for Innovation Research” (in Japanese) (with Donghoon Kim) IIR Working Paper, WP#17-02, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University, February 2017.


Yamaguchi, S. and Shimizu, H. (2015). “Business Case —Olympus: Development of Gastro-scope and Fiber-scope” Hitotsubashi Business Review, Vol.63 No.2, Toyo Keizai, September 2015. 

PRESENTATIONS (only as a presenter)

“Moving versus being moved: selection and outcome of individual mobility and firm reallocation” (Job Market Paper)

–      Strategic Management Society 43rd Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 2023

–      Academy of Management 83rd Annual Meeting, Boston, August 2023

–      Academy of Management Dissertation Consortium, Online, 2023

–    Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation, University of St. Gallen, June, 2023

–    Kauffman Doctoral Consortium at the Smith Entrepreneurship Research Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, May, 2023

“Relaxing identifying assumptions: An application to first patents and employee mobility” (with Justin Frake, Takuya Hiraiwa, Brent Goldfarb, Anthony Gibbs, Evan Starr)

–      15th Annual People & Organizations Conference, Philadelphia, October 2022

“Internal Human Capital (Re-)allocation and Unit-level Growth Strategies: Evidence From the Japanese Cotton Spinning Company” (with Serguey Braguinsky, Tetsuji Okazaki, Takenobu Yuki).

–      Strategic Management Society 42nd Annual Conference, London, UK, September 2022

“Science and Engineering Education and Invention in Japan’s Industrialization” (with Serguey Braguinsky, Kentaro Nakajima)

–      IIR Summer School, Tokyo, Japan, August 2022 (Best Presentation Award)

–      NBER Japan Project Meeting, Online, December 2021

“Bundling Postemployment Restrictive Covenants: When, Why, and How It Matters” (with Natarajan Balasubramanian and Evan P. Starr)

–      14th Annual People & Organizations Conference, Online, September 2021

–      Strategic Management Society 41st Annual Conference, Online, September 2021

–      Academy of Management 81th Annual Meeting, Online, August 2021

–      WEAI Virtual 96th Annual Conference, Online, July 2021

–      SIOE 25th Annual Conference, Online, June 2021

–      APPAM 42nd Annual Fall Research Conference, Online, November 2020

“Staying Young at Heart or Wisdom of Ages? Longitudinal Analysis on R&D Stickiness and Age of the Firm in the U.S. and Japan.” (with Ryuji Nitta, Yasushi Hara, and Hiroshi Shimizu)

–      The 18th International Schumpeter Society Conference, Seoul, Korea, July 2018

–      Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, March 2017

“Does Inter-and Intra-Firm Mobility Promote Innovation? Comparative Analysis between Japan and the U.S.”

–      The 7th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, November 2016

“Should Japanese Government Improve Intra-firm Mobility?: Quantitative Analysis of Patent Inventors”

–      Soshiki Gakkai (The Academic Association for Organizational Science) Annual Meeting, Hyogo, Japan, June 2016

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS/AWARDS

Nancy S. and Edward F. Ebert Graduate Award in Free Enterprise, Ed Snider Center, University of Maryland (2024)

Frank T. Paine Doctoral Award for Academic Achievement, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (2024)

UMD Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award (awarded, 2024)

Best Conference Paper Award, Strategic Human Capital Interest Group at the Strategic Management Society 2023 (awarded)

UMD Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award Nominee (2022-2023) 

IIR Summer School Best Presentation Award, Hitotsubashi University (2022)

Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant (for the SMS conference 2022, $600)

Faculty-Student Research Award from the Graduate School, University of Maryland (with Rajshree Agarwal; the amount of $10,000, 2022-23)

Overseas graduate student scholarship from Japan Student Services Organization (government-sponsored scholarship; the amount of 1,416,000 JPY on an annual basis, 2021-)

Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets Doctoral Fellowship (2020-)

Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets Research Grant (the amount of $5,000, November, 2019)

The PINE Foundation Research Grant (2018-)

REFERRING FOR

Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Strategic Organization, Strategic Management Society 2023 (Strategic Human Capital), 2022 (Research Method), Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2023 (STR), 2022 (STR/TIM)


ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

Academy of Management (STR/TIM)

Strategic Management Society (Strategic Human Capital Interest Group)