Sakai, K, Tsuboyama, Y, Izawa, R, Srinivas, S. N. Rhetorical Strategies that Legitimized Exploitation: Lessons from Assistant Nursing in Japan, 1951-2000. Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business. 2024. forthcoming
Ken Sakai. Chance favors the prepared mind:The confluence of BørneLund’s business strategy and unintended consequences of educational policies 1977-2020. Japanese Research in Business History. 2021. 38. 25-42
Sakai, Ken. Institutional Change as Historical Confluence: The Development of the Nursing Profession in Japan. In Maclean, M., Clegg, S., Suddaby, R., & Harvey, C. (Eds.), Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications. 2020. 188-206
酒井 健. An Indian-American New Yorker in Japan. 組織科学. 2023
Sakai, Ken. Review of Selected Books on Business History Published in Japan in 2022: Pierre-Yves Donzé. Ragujuarī sangyō: Kyūseichō no himitsu [The Luxury Industry: Secrets of a Rapid Growth]. Tokyo: Yuhikaku Publishing, 2022. Japanese Research in Business History. 2023. 40. 102-102
酒井 健. 小さな勇気の灯を胸に(私のこの一冊 From my bookshelf: 江川紹子『勇気ってなんだろう』). 一橋ビジネスレビュー. 2022. 2022. Winter. 33-33
Ken Sakai, Yuki Tsuboiyama, Takahiro Endo. Making another form of yesterday: Family business regeneration in mnemonic disruption. Paper presented at the 38th EGOS Colloquium (Vienna University of Economics and Business). 2022. 1-23
Housewives and the growth of the Japanese electrical appliance industry, 1950-1990
(The 26th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association 2023 2023)