Akira TAKEISHI

Professor
Kyoto University

Akira Takeishi is Professor at Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University. His research primarily focuses on the management of inter-firm division of labor, innovation process, and the music industry and technological changes. His papers have appeared in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Soshiki Kagaku, and Hitostubashi Business Review.

Research themes: Management of inter-firm division of labor, innovation process, and the music industry and technological changes

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Collaboration with FFJ

Visiting researcher
Stay: October 2015 – July 2016

Akira Takeishi has been visiting researcher at FFJ in 2015-2016. During his stay he participated to the FFJ visiting researcher seminar and wrote a Research Statement and a Discussion paper with Yoshihisa Noro (Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.): “Keiretsu Divergence in the Japanese Automotive Industry: Why Have Some, But Not All, Gone?”.

FFJ seminar

Research Statement

Discussion Paper

Selection of publications

Aoshima Y., Karube M., Takeishi A., Reasons for Innovation: Creating Legitimacy for Resource Mobilization, Yuhikaku, 2012

Itami H., Kusunoki K., Numagami T., Takeishi A., Dynamics of Knowledge, Corporate Systems and Innovation, Springer, 2010