New Trends of Global Innovation Research: Disruption and Resilience

Workshop for HDR Students and Junior Faculty

Presenter

Professor Kazuhiro Asakawa
Keio Business School
Keio University
Japan

Abstract

Today’s business world is challenged by unprecedented global disruptions, such as pandemic and geopolitical tensions.  Such global disruptions affect the nature of innovation in international business. Resilience, a capability to anticipate and cope with various kinds of disruptions in agile manners, has become crucial for multinational corporations (MNCs) to engage in innovation.

The main purpose of this research workshop is to explore new research opportunities on disruption and resilience in the context of global innovation.  How can MNCs maintain global innovations under economic, geopolitical tensions?  What are new sources of competitive advantage of firms in the age of global disruption?  Building on current studies on disruptions and innovation, we will explore our thoughts on promising research agenda and approaches on global innovation management.

Biography

Kaz Asakawa is Professor of Global Innovation Management at Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University, Japan. 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. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2015. He was elected Vice President Program of AIB in 2021.

Kaz 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, and he served on the editorial board of many scholarly journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal and Research Policy.

Kaz served as Program Chair of AIB 2023 Warsaw, a Track Chair and a Teaching Roundtable Chair at AIB meetings, and AIB Japan Chapter Chair. He served as President of Japan Academy of Multinational Enterprises (AMNE). He served as a Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan.