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Masahiro KOTOSAKA

Associate Professor
Keio University, Hitotsubashi University

Masahiro Kotosaka is an expert in Strategy and Internationalization, and advisor to several global start-up companies. Before moving to Keio, he was a faculty at Ritsumeikan University, a junior faculty at University of Oxford, and was a consultant at McKinsey & Company (Frankfurt/Tokyo).

Research themes: Internationalization Strategy, Global Value Chain, Institutional Logic

Research seminar

Collaboration with FFJ

Associate researcher of the Theme 1

Masahiro Kotosaka is an associate researcher of FFJ in the framework of its Theme 1: Diversity of Capitalisms and Institutional Changes. From 2015 to 2019, he took part in the FFJ's INCAS research programme on institutional change in Asia. In this programme framework, in collaboration with Mari Sako (University of Oxford) he published a Discussion Paper entitled “The evolution of the ICT start-up eco-system in Japan: from corporate logic to venture logic?”.

INCAS Project Discussion Paper

Selection of publications

Masahiro Kotosaka, The impact of IoT technologies on the Boundaries of the Firm, Harvard Business Review, 2016

Masahiro Kotosaka, The Discipline of Cross Borders – A genealogy of Global Management Fundamentals, Diamond, 2014