Job title:
Representative Member
Other affiliations (1):
Japan Family Business Institute
Board member
Research field (1):
Business administration
Research keywords (4):
Pragmatism
, Organizational Study
, Family Business Research
, Entrepreneurship
Research theme for competitive and other funds (11):
2013 - 2015 A Research Methodology for Family Businesses Using Genealogical Life Stories
2005 - 2007 The Research of Knowledge Networks for Sustaining Business Innovations
2006 - ファミリービジネス研究
2006 - Family business Study
2003 - 2005 Innovation through For-profit and Nonprofit Collaboration Research Project
2001 - 2003 Mutual Evolution of the Knowledge Network and Corporate Model in the 21st Century.
2002 - 2003 Entrepreneurship and Growth of innovative Enterprise -Empirical Study by historial, econometrical and Case-study Research-
2000 - ベンチャービジネス戦略
1999 - 企業家ネットワーキング
1997 - アントレプレナーシップ研究
1997 - Entrepreneurship Study
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Papers (16):
Hikari AKIZAWA. Corroborating the Entrepreneurial Intentions and Business Development Process of the Founder of Fukagawa Seiji Through Publicly Available Information from His Time. Journal of the Japan Academy of Family Business. 2023. 11. 5-20
AKIZAWA Hikari. A Triad Method of Narrative Interpretation for Understanding Family Business Practices:Research Method and its Application to an Intergenerational Life Story. Journal of the Japan Academy of Family Business. 2018. 7. 29-41
AKIZAWA Hikari. The Research of Kanehori Juki Co.: An Intergenerational Life Story Reconstructed from the Narratives of Two Generational Successors. Journal of the Japan Academy of Family Business. 2018. 7. 43-51
Yuko Kamishima, Bart Gremmen, Hikari Akizawa. Can Merging a Capability Approach with Effectual Processes Help Us Define a Permissible Action Range for AI Robotics Entrepreneurship?. Philosophy of Management. 2018. 17. 1. 97-113
AKIZAWA Hikari. Family Entrepreneurship Process Seeking Perpetuation. Journal of the Japan Academy of Family Business. 2017. 6. 5-19
Inclusive Survival and Innovation Through Householding: Interpreting Narratives of a Japanese Family Firm
Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 ISBN:9781801175791
La Cognition Entrepreneuriale: Methodes de Recherche
Paris: Éditions ESKA 2012
Archetypal Legacy: A longitudinal Case Study of a Porcelain Maker in Japan
(Family Enterprise Reserch Conference 2025)
How Does Family Entrepreneurship Work under Environmental Discontinuity? Business-model Transformations of the Takenaka Corporation over 150 Years
(UWA Family Business Symposium 2018)
Understanding Complex Narratives in a Japanese Family Business through the Institutional Logics Perspective
(IFERA 2018 Annual Conference 2018)
Trust-based Network for International Collaborations & Family Business Advantage
(IFERA Global Conference in Taiwan 2017)
Methodological study of the intergenerational analysis of life story on Family business study
2013 -
Professional career (1):
Ph.D. (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Work history (5):
2015/10 - 現在 Oikos Research, GK. Representative Member
2009/09 - 現在 Japan Family Business Institute Board member
2007/04 - 2015/03 Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University Full Professor
2001/04 - 2007/03 Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University Associate Professor
2000/04 - 2001/03 Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University Lecturer
Committee career (3):
2012/09 - 現在 Japan Family Business Institute Board Member
2010/09 - 現在 The Japan Academy of Family Business Board Member
2015/09 - 2019/08 The Japan Academy of Family Business President
Association Membership(s) (8):
European Group for Organizational Studies
, Japan Institute of Family Business
, The Japan Academy of Family Business
, Academy of Management
, International Family Enterprise Research Academy
, 企業家研究フォーラム
, ベンチャー学会
, 組織学会