Japan
Atsushi Taira got his Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba and holds a professorship at Kagawa University. His research interest covers various management related topics of overseas operations of Japanese-affiliated firms and local industrial clusters in globalization.
Kie Sanada received her Ph.D. in Global and Area Studies from Humboldt University of Berlin. She currently holds a position as an assistant professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and is an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics. Her research focuses on elucidating the mechanisms through which social innovation projects lead to broader regional development. Her recent publications extensively address Japanese smart city projects and issues related to green transformation.
Rolf D. Schlunze is Professor at Ritsumeikan University teaching IB and Constructive Intercultural Management. As the first German geographer he got his doctoral degree from The University of Tokyo. Learn more about his research on hybridization of managerial systems and managerial adjustments. His work has been published in reviewed journals and several books. He promotes agenda of Management Geography at various academic associations and provides with this homepage a new platform for further dissemination among geographers, IB scholars and adjacent disciplines.
William W. Baber hold a professorship at the Business School of Kyoto University. In his work in international business attraction, he frequently encountered cross-cultural conflicts and synergies. Research interests include cross-cultural adaptation and business negotiation. He instructs students on Practical Business Negotiation, Intercultural Management and Management Communication.
Yasuhisa Abe’s interest in industrial location of transnational enterprise and labour migration has seen him contributing to our agenda of management geography with work on industrial location and labor migration in China and Chinese Immigrants in Japan.
Xuesong (Gioia) WANG PhD research project granted by Ritsumeikan University explores Chinese entrepreneur’s success in Japan through multiple case study applying the lens of constructive intercultural management. She investigated the role of proximity, analyzing its impact on management capabilities and network formation. Through her PhD work, she will contribute to a deeper understanding of intercultural business dynamics and strategic relationship-building from a Management Geography perspective.
Rest of the world
Alexander Kristiansen holds a PhD in Economic Geography from the University of Gothenburg. His work on the spatial dissemination of management ideas is published in peer-reviewed journals in the field of IB and Economic Geography. Based at the Stockholm School of Economics his research focuses on digital crypto asset industry in Asia. He is advising European firms on the Chinese market and maintains a strong connection to industry as a non-executive board member.
Andrew Jones’ interest in issues of globalisation has seen him to contribute to our agenda of management geography. His research focuses on the global economy, including firms, governing organisations and the activities of key individuals.
Lech Suwala is professor for urban and regional economics at TU Berlin, Germany. He is a geographer and economist with working experience in science and industry. His expertise includes spatial creativity and innovation research, urban and regional planning, and geographies of management and family businesses.
Patrik Ström is working for European Institute of Japanese Studies at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Business Administration and an Econ. Dr. in Economic Geography. The research interest focuses on the internationalization and development of the East Asian service economy.
Peter Popovics is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Business at Copenhagen Business School and an affiliated researcher at the European Institute of Japanese Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics. Peter’s research focuses on EU-Japan cooperation in green and digital transformation and Japanese FDI in European clean technologies.
Piotr Marciniak – Ph.D. in law, Assistant Professor at Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. From 1999, shareholder and CEO of telecommunications companies. In 2008 a co-founder and until 2017 a leader of the National Chamber of Ethernet Communications. He specializes in chambers of commerce and new technologies. Member and head of several governmental expert groups.
Piotr Pachura is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management at University of Technologyof Częstochowa, Poland. He received PhD in management science and post-doctoral degree (habilitation) in geography. For theory building he combined organizational and managerial aspects with spatial issues. Discovering structure of spaces and new spatial managerial models he developed the idea “TriSpaces”.
Richard Nakamura is Senior Lecturer in International Business Studies and Management at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Research Associate at the European Institute of Japanese Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. He is also Vice President for Europe of the EAMSA and Secretary of the AJBS. His research interest is also concerned with spatial aspects of FDI, Cross-border mergers and acquisitions, IHRM and East Asian management.
Tim Reiffenstein is a Professor in the Geography Department at Mount Allison University. His research focuses on Japanese industrial geography, in particular by exploring how evolving intellectual property policy, regulation, but also food and forest industries and their associated management practices.
Tomasz Dorożyński is a Professor in the Department of International Economics, and the Head of the Institute of Economics (University of Lodz, Poland). He is a member of several research organizations in international economics and international business (e.g., AIB-CEE, EIBA, EAMSA). His current research focuses, inter alia, on internationalization, management geography, governance quality, business environment organizations, and regional development. So far, he has been involved in ca. 20 research projects, also as project manager. He did some of them during research stays (e.g. in Europe, Japan and the Republic of Korea). His research achievements include more than 120 peer-reviewed publications. He has been a visiting scholar at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (2023 – now), a visiting professor at Nihon University in Tokyo (2024) and Ritsumeikan University, OIC (2025).
