Research field (3)：
Business administration
, Agricultural sociology
, Tourism studies
Research keywords (7)：
Inter Organization Relations
, Disadvantaged Areas
, Agribusiness
, Social Business
, Community Business
, Tourism
, NPO
Research theme for competitive and other funds (8)：
2021 - 2025 What is the competency of Social Innovators creating shared value - in the contexts of two crisis and SDGs
2021 - 2024 The Comparison of Tourism as Social Business between Japan and South Korea : Focus on the reality of local revitalization and the shared benefits
2020 - 2022 The research for resolving the mismatch of the assistance in disaster settings.
2019 - 2022 Resource Procurement Model of the Managers of Social Business and Community Business in disadvantaged areas
2019 - 2021 Future Image of Community through Exchanges between Foreign Tourists and Community based in Guest Houses
2017 - 2021 Development of social capital-based educational methods that enable the sustainable production of social innovators
2014 - 2016 Collaboration among Local Government, Nonprofit Organization and Residents for Community Building in the Reconstruction Process after Earthquake: The case of Miyagi Prefecture
2011 - 2015 Next Generation Development and Leadership of NPO in Asia: From A Social Capital Perspective
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Papers (14)：
Koichi Nakao. An exploratory study of the growth process of the firm entering the agricultural industry: Focusing on knowledge creation of NOUEN Co. Journal of The Japan Association of Regional Development and Vitalization. 2023. 18. 41-49
Koichi Nakao. Community Business in Less-Favoured Areas in Japan : A Review focusing on Japanese Literature. The Nonprofit Review. 2022. 21. 1&2. 35-46
Koichi Nakao. What is the created value through the Public Nonprofit Collaboration: The case study of the management of the public facilities of Hagi-city, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Journal of The Japan Association of Regional Development and Vitalization. 2021. 15. 173-182
YAMAKAWA Takuya, NAKAO Koichi. Guesthouses Connecting Local Residents and Foreign Guests:-The Analysis on the Functions of Mediators and Intermediaries and the Influence of COVID-19-. The Tourism Studies. 2021. 32. 2. 81-93
Koichi Nakao, Yuko Nishide. The development of social entrepreneurship education in Japan. Entrepreneurship Education. 2020. 3. 1. 95-117
Nakao Koichi, Takeshi Urayama. How COVID-19 affected the finance of Art Nonprofit Organizations?. The 24th annual conference of the Japan NPO Research Association Abstract Collection. 2022. 67-67
Nakao Koichi. What is the created values of the collaboration between Local Government and NPOs in the 100-year life :The exploratory research of Hagi City, Yamguchi Prefecture. The transactions of Japan Association of Regional Development and Vitalization. 2020. 12. 157-160
Exploratory Research on Resource Procurement Activities of Japanese Tourism NPO in Disadvantaged Areas. 2019. 34. 305-308
Nakao Koichi. How NPO Corporations Grasp Regional Development and Vitalization:The Text Analysis on Articles of Corporations. The Japan Association of Regional Development and Vitalization. 2019. 11. 195-197
The exploration of the cross-cultural collaborating learning
(Social Innovation Symposium 2021:The way for education, learning, and work of Social Innovators 2021)
How we can grasp “regional development and vitalization” in the contexts of the Nonprofit Organizations?: The comparison of text analysis of articles of the organizations and relevant research journals
(The 12th Annual conference of the Japan Association of Regional Development and Vitalization 2020)
Resource Exploration and Exploitation of Nonprofit Corporations in Disadvantaged Areas: From the aspects of Bricolage, Causation, and Effectuation
(Research Conferences on 2020, The Academic Association for Organizational Science 2020)
Social Entrepreneurship Education: A Study on the Resource Acquisition of Community Business Entrepreneurs
(Social Innovation Symposium:How can we grow students to be social innovators, continuously? - aspects of social capital and well-being- 2020)
Exploratory Research on Resource Procurement Activities of Japanese Tourism NPO in Disadvantaged Areas
(The 34th JITR Annual Conference 2019)
1996/04 - 2012/03 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
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Awards (4)：
2021/07 - University of Hyogo Excellent Teaching Activity Award 2021
2019/03 - Keiwakai Memorial Foundation Research Encouragement Award "The process of the residents independence in community building - A research focused on reconstruction from an earthquake-"
2018/03 - Tohoku University President's Award
2014/11 - The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action(ARNOVA) Emerging Scholars Award
Association Membership(s) (7)：
Japan Marketing Academy
, JAPAN INSTITUTE OF TOURISM RESEARCH
, THE ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION FOR ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCE
, International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR)
, The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action(ARNOVA)
, The Japan Association of Regional Development and Vitalization
, JAPAN NPO RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
