Books
Japan Re-Emerges, Amazon Kindle 2024.
Shin Nihon no Keiei シン日本の経営：悲観バイアスを排す , Nikkei BP Premiere 2023
The Digital Transformation and Japan’s Political Economy (with Kay Shimizu), Cambridge University Press 2022 [also available here]
The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why it Matters. Stanford University Press, 2020 [also available here]
in Japanese: 再興 THE KAISHA 日本のビジネス・リインベンションNikkei Tankobun, 2022
両利きの組織をつくる (Ryōkiki no soshiki o tsukuru: Daikigyōbyō o daha suru “seme to mamori no keiei”)(Creating Ambidextrous Organizations: Exploration and Exploitation for Overcoming Inertia), with Masanori Kato and Charles A. O’Reilly III, Tokyo: Eiji Shuppan (in Japanese)
Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century. Cornell University Press, 2008
Japan’s Managed Globalization: Adapting to the 21st Century, co-edited, with William W. Grimes; Armonk N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003
Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan; Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000
Der neue japanische Kapitalmarkt ‑ Finanzfutures in Japan (The New Japanese Capital Market ‑ Financial Futures in Japan), Wiesbaden: Gabler, 1990 (in German)
Geldpolitik in Japan 1950‑1985 (Monetary Policy in Japan 1950‑1985), Marburg: Marburger Japan‑Reihe Bd.1, 1989 (in German).
Select Book Chapters
“U.S.-Japan Business Relations and the Trade War with Asia”, in: Charting a Path for a Stronger U.S.-Japan Economic Partnership, The National Bureau of Asian Research, NBR Special Report #75, February 2019, pp.11-27
“The Impact of Japan on Western Management: Theory and Practice”, in: Nigel Holden, Snejina Michailova and Susanne Tietze (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management, New York: Routledge, 2015, pp. 49-57, with Christina L. Ahmadjian
“Corporate Governance Reform in Japan - Building a System for Long-Term Value Creation”, in: Kurt Sogner and Andrea Colli (eds.), The Emergence of Corporate Governance: People, Power and Performance, Routledge International Studies in Business History, London (2021), pp.152-169
“System Change and Corporate Reorganization in Japan: The Strategic Logic of Business Groups and Main Banks, Revisited”, in: , Syncretism: The Politics of Economic Restructuring and System Reform in Japan, edited by Kenji E. Kushida, Kay Shimizu and Jean E. Oi, Stanford: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2013, pp. 77-113.
“From Developmental State to the New Japan: The Strategic Inflection Point in Japanese Business”, in Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’: Causes, Legacies, and Issues of Transformative Change, edited by W. Miles Fletcher III and Peter W. von Staden, London: Routledge, 2012, pp.31-52.
“Changes in Main Bank Rescues during the Lost Decade: An Analysis of Corporate Restructuring in Japan, 1981-2007”, in Japan's Bubble, Deflation and Long-term Stagnation, edited by Anil Kashyap, David Weinstein, Koichi Hamada, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011, pp. 343-374, with Takeo Hoshi and Satoshi Koibuchi
Select Papers
“Of Substitutes and Complements: Trade Credit v. Bank Loans in Japan, 1980-2012”, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 2019, p.1-22, with Chim Lau
“The Decline in Bank-Led Corporate Restructuring in Japan: 1981-2010”, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 47, 2018, pp.81-90, with Takeo Hoshi and Satoshi Koibuchi
“The Market for Corporate Subsidiaries in Japan: An Empirical Study of Trades Among Listed Firms”, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies Vol. 31, 2014, pp. 36-52, with Tatsuo Ushijima [read RIETI version]
“Self-Employment in Japan: A Micro-Analysis of Personal Profiles”, Social Science Japan Journal Vol. 16 No.1, Winter 2013, pp. 1-28, with Jess Diamond
“From developmental state to the New Japan: The strategic inflection point in Japanese business”, Asia Pacific Business Review, Vol. 18 No. 2, 2012, pp. 167-185
“Globalization and the Reorganization of Japan’s Auto Parts Industry”, International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, Vol. 10 No. 2/3, 2010, pp. 270-288.
“The ‘Middle-Risk Gap’ and Financial System Reform: Small Firm Financing in Japan”, Monetary and Economic Studies, Vol. 23 No. 1, 2005, pp.149-176
“What Happened to the Japanese Model”, Review of International Economics, Vol.12 No.2, May 2004, pp.277-294
“The 'Old Boy' Network and Government-Business Relationships in Japan”, in: Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol.21 No.2, Summer 1995, pp. 293-317
“Understanding Corporate Governance in Japan: Do Classical Concepts Apply?”, in: Industrial and Corporate Change Vol.3 No.2, 1994, pp.285-323
“Specialist vs Saitori – Market Making in New York and Tokyo”, Financial Analysts Journal, July/August 1992, pp. 48-57, with Richard Lindsey
“Black Monday in New York, Blue Tuesday in Tokyo: The October 1987 Crash in Japan”, California Management Review, Vol. 22 No. 2, Winter 1991, pp. 39-57
“The Introduction of Commercial Paper (CP): A Case Study in the Liberalization of the Japanese Financial Markets”, Japan Forum, Vol. 2 No. 2, October 1990, pp.215-234
“Forwards and Futures in Tokugawa period Japan: A New Perspective on the Dojima Rice Market”, Journal of Banking and Finance, 13, 1989, pp. 487 513
On Health and Health Care
“Sunshine and Suicides: Revisiting the Relevance of Economic Determinants of Suicides in Japan”, Contemporary Japan Vol. 25 No. 2, 2013, pp. 105-126.
“Shared Decision-Making and Patient Satisfaction in Japanese Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A New ‘Preference Fit’ Framework for Treatment Assessment”, Rheumatology and Therapy 2019, Vol. 6(2), pp. 269-83, with Jörg Mahlich and Rosarin Sruamsiri.
“Shared Decision-Making in Patients with Prostate Cancer in Japan: Patient Preferences Versus Physician Perceptions”, Journal of Global Oncology, 2017, pp.1-9, DOI: 10.1200/JGO.2016.008045 (lead author; with 8 others)
