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Ken Sakai

Section

Graduate School of Economics and Management

Job title

Associate Professor

Degree

博士（商学）（一橋大学）
修士（経営）（一橋大学）

researchmap

https://researchmap.jp/ken_sakai

J-GLOBAL ID

201801010963776598

e-Rad No.

60757061

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2359-1408

Research History 3

2024/07 - Present

Copenhagen Business School　Visiting Researcher
2023/04 - Present

Hitotsubashi University　Graduate School of Business Administration Department of Business Administration　Associate Professor
2019/10 - Present

Tohoku University　Graduate School of Economics and Management　Associate Professor

Education 3

Hitotsubashi University

2012/04 - 2015/03
Hitotsubashi University

2010/04 - 2012/03
Waseda University　School of Law

1999/04 - 2003/03

Committee Memberships 11

Business History Society of Japan　Japanese Research in Business History Editor in Chief

2025/01 - Present
組織学会　総務委員

2023/10 - Present
組織学会　編集委員

2023/10 - Present
組織学会　『組織科学』シニア・エディター(SE)

2021/09 - Present
経営史学会　富士コンファレンス・国際交流委員会委員

2019/01 - Present
経営史学会　JRBH編集委員

2023/01 - 2024/12
組織学会　大会委員

2021/10 - 2023/10
2022年度組織学会研究発表大会実行委員会委員

2021/08 - 2022/06
経営史学会　第57回全国大会実行委員

2021/11 - 2021/12
経営史学会　第2回世界経営史会議実行委員会委員

2019/01 - 2021/12
組織学会　企画定例委員会委員

2019/10 - 2021/10

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Professional Memberships 7

European Business History Association
European Group for Organizational Studies
企業家研究フォーラム
一橋商学会
BUSINESS HISTORY SOCIETY OF JAPAN
Japan Academy OF Business Administration
THE ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION FOR ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCE

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Research Interests 9

組織の記憶
uses of the past
Professionals
Historical organization studies
正統性
イノベーション
Small and Medium Enterprises
経営史
組織論

Research Areas 1

Humanities & social sciences / Business administration /

Awards 2

Award of the Academic Association for Organizational Science

2021/06　The Academic Association for Organizational Science
Award of Business History Society of Japan

2020/12　Business History Society of Japan　Thriving in the shadow of giants: The success of the Japanese surgical needle producer MANI, 1956–2016

Papers 15

Reinterpreting Medical Innovation: The Social Adoption of Automated Multiphasic Health Testing and Services in Japan, 1938–2023 International-journal Peer-reviewed

Sakai, K., Tsuboyama, Y., Fujiwara, M.

Enterprise & Society　, forthcoming　2025/09
Rhetorical Strategies that Legitimized Exploitation: Lessons from Assistant Nursing in Japan, 1951-2000 Peer-reviewed

Ken Sakai, Yuki Tsuboyama, Ryo Izawa, Nidhi Srinivas

Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business　10　(2)　13-29　2025/07/11
Publisher: Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona
DOI： 10.1344/jesb.42581 　

eISSN： 2385-7137

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Japan's national health insurance system controls health care prices, in a country where many private hospitals and clinics are owned by physicians. These physicians, as managers, need to minimize their labor costs while simultaneously appealing that they work for the public benefit. This paradox forms an essential aspect of Japanese hospital history. However, it has not been well studied. We shed light on this aspect by analyzing how private hospitals approach cost-control measures. We argue that, despite nurses and major mass media widely calling for the abolition of assistant nursing due to low wages and oppressive work conditions, the physicians' professional association pursued a rhetorical strategy, declaring that maintaining assistant nursing was in the public benefit. This study shows how the association veiled its financial self-interests through a rhetorical strategy of criticism and persuasion. We make three contributions. First, we broaden the historical understanding of global health care by studying Japanese medical management history. Second, we address the broader issue of the consequences of rhetorical strategies when used by those in power. Third, through an inductive approach, we contribute to expanding business history methodologies.
Housewives and the Growth of the Japanese Electrical Appliance Industry, 1950–1990 Peer-reviewed

Takashi Hirano, Ken Sakai, Pierre-Yves Donzé

Business History Review　98　(2)　389-416　2024/10/31
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI： 10.1017/s000768052400028x 　

ISSN： 0007-6805

eISSN： 2044-768X

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This article challenges the prevailing narrative surrounding the Japanese manufacturing industry in the post-World War II era, which predominantly centers on large corporations and male engineers. It sheds light on the vital role played by Japanese housewives in shaping product innovation. It argues that the exclusion of consumers, particularly women, from existing industrial models carries a gendered dimension. By presenting Japanese housewives as active stakeholders who defy stereotypes and enhance their lives by expressing their opinions, we aim to offer a fresh perspective on innovation and product development. The article specifically focuses on the electric appliance industry and draws upon a diverse range of sources, including women’s magazines and corporate archives, to uncover the hidden aspects of gender within the Japanese economic miracle. It shows that housewives have played an active role in product innovation and that women’s magazines have made this possible by acting as intermediaries between women and companies.
Organizing Professionalism: Comparative Case Studies of Japanese Hospitals Peer-reviewed

Yanatori, M, Sakai, K

Organizational Science　56　(3)　46-62　2023/03
The trail of the historic turn; in management and organization studies, the path forward Invited

Sakai, K, Izawa, Ryo

Organizational Science　55　(4)　4-14　2022/06
Chance favors the prepared mind:The confluence of BørneLund’s business strategy and unintended consequences of educational policies 1977-2020 Invited

Ken Sakai

Japanese Research in Business History　38　25-42　2021/12
Publisher: Business History Society of Japan
DOI： 10.5029/jrbh.38.25 　

ISSN： 1349-807X

eISSN： 1884-619X
Institutional Change as Historical Confluence: The Development of the Nursing Profession in Japan Invited

Sakai, Ken

In Maclean, M., Clegg, S., Suddaby, R., & Harvey, C. (Eds.), Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications　188-206　2020/11
Publisher: Routledge
The Role of Facial Expressions in Repairing Organizational Legitimacy: A Comparative Case Study Peer-reviewed

Ken Sakai

組織科学　53　(4)　64-78　2020/06
Thriving in the shadow of giants: The success of the Japanese surgical needle producer MANI, 1956–2016 Peer-reviewed

Sakai. K.

Business History　61　(3)　429-455　2019/04

DOI： 10.1080/00076791.2018.1424833 　

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Published online: 08 Feb 2018
R&D and Diffusion of the Innovative Stainless Surgical Needle: The Making of MANI Peer-reviewed

Ken Sakai

(15)　61-77　2018/07
A Critical Review on Crisis Communication Management Theory: Mainstream Views, Recent Trends, and Future Outlook Peer-reviewed

Ken Sakai

Hitotsubashi Review of Commerce and Management　13　(1)　52-60　2018/05
AN INFLUENCE OF SELECTING SUPPORTERS AND FRAMING ON THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY : AN EXAMPLE OF SLOPE REINFORCEMENT TECHNIQUE Peer-reviewed

酒井健

組織科学　50　(2)　69-81　2016
Publisher: 白桃書房
DOI： 10.11207/soshikikagaku.50.2_69 　

ISSN： 0286-9713
RIGIDITY IN INNOVATION FRAMING Peer-reviewed

Sakai Ken

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT　37　(0)　40-50　2016
Publisher: 日本経営学会
DOI： 10.24472/keieijournal.37.0_40 　

ISSN： 1882-0271

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This paper's goal is to study the reason for rigidity in innovation framing. Entrepreneurs, typically firms in the modern society, frame innovative techniques to motivate their supporters in the market (in other words, outside of the organization). However, the framing is not always effective. Sometimes important interest groups are not in sync with the framing, and these then refuse to support the innovation. Nevertheless, firms seem to persist in ineffective innovation framing. Why does this phenomenon persist?<br> The answers to this question differ depending on the methodological perspectives of the analyzer. Allison (1971) provided three fundamental perspectives to consider when analyzing an organization's actions: The rational actor model, the organizational process model, and the governmental politics model.<br>We propose three explanations for the rigidity in ineffective innovation framing. The rational actor and the organizational process models are important, but not sufficient because they disregard the political processes and conflicts in organizations, whereas the governmental politics model sees the organization as a combination of groups that have particular values. It also pays attention to the inequality of power that exists within an organization.<br>The following is our rationale for choosing the governmental politics model. First, entrepreneurial groups in organizations frame innovative techniques toward their markets. Second, in spite of the fact that important interest groups in the market are not in sync with the framing, other interest groups with greater power in the organization are in support. Third, entrepreneur groups cannot revise the framing because of the influence of power groups. This is the political explanation for the rigidity in ineffective innovation framing.
The emergence of "unexpected" supporters in innovation and its influence: A case study of a slope reinforcement method Peer-reviewed

Ken Sakai

Hitotsubashi University　2015/03

DOI： 10.15057/27288 　
HOW SERVICE CAPABILITIES ARE RENDERED INEFFECTIVE DUE TO COMPETITION Peer-reviewed

Sakai Ken

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT　34　(0)　15-25　2014
Publisher: 日本経営学会
DOI： 10.24472/keieijournal.34.0_15 　

ISSN： 1882-0271

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Manufacturing firms, in recent times, have acquired after-sales service capabilities to address complaints and concerns of customers. However, some service capabilities are soon rendered ineffective by those that are even more effective. Therefore, all after-sales service capabilities do not necessarily promise a competitive advantage. This paper sheds light on the destructive tendencies incurred through both rapid obsolescence and replacement of service capabilities. We hypothesise that the service capabilities of a company to resolve a certain issue at point in time t_i will be largely ineffective when a competing company appears with a service capability to solve the same issue at point in time t_<i-x>, i.e. within a shorter time span from the sale to the occurrence of the problem, perhaps by using different methods. Even if such situation occurs, the former company will persist with its own existing service capability (at t_i). This is because if it shifts to match the service capability of competing companies (at t_<i-x>,), it will render its own existing service capability ineffective. As a result, the company's standing in the market could suffer. To further illustrate the aforementioned theoretical framework, we will discuss our results of a case analysis pertaining to competition between Komatsu and Caterpillar, manufacturers of construction machinery, within the Chinese market. We will exhibit how Komatsu's service capability of troubleshooting machine problems rendered Caterpillar's service capability ineffective and why the latter could not occupy the leading position in the market.

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Misc. 21

Sakyu: Interaction between tradition and business innovation

Sakai, Ken, Fujioka, Shion, Tsuboyama, Yuki, Endo, Takahiro

Hitotsubashi Business Review　73　(1)　2025/06
Why Does MUJI Sell at Higher Prices Overseas? Series: Narrative Management for High Value Creation — Part 6

Sakai, Ken

Diamond Harvard Business Review (the Japanese edition of Harvard Business Review)　2025/05/02
How Should Leaders Leverage History as a Managerial Resource? (Series: Narrative Management for Creating High Added Value, Part 3

Sakai, Ken

Diamond Harvard Business Review (the Japanese edition of Harvard Business Review)　2025/04/10
How Should Japanese Companies Break Away from the “High-Functionality, Low-Price” Strategy? Series: Narrative Management for Creating High Added Value – Part 2

Sakai, Ken

Diamond Harvard Business Review (the Japanese edition of Harvard Business Review)　2025/04/04
Where Management Meets History (4)

Sakai, Ken

Seisansei Shimbun　3-3　2025/02/25
Where Management Meets History (3)

Sakai, Ken

Seisansei Shimbun　3-3　2025/02/13
The Intersection of Management and History (2) Invited

Sakai, Ken

Seisansei Shimbun　3-3　2024/12/13
Review of Selected Books on Business History Published in Japan in 2023: Taniguchi, Akitake, ed. 2023. Sōgō denki kigyō no keisei to kaitai: 'Senryaku to Soshiki' no shinwa, 'Sentaku to Shūchū' no wana [The formation and disintegration of general electrical enterprises: 'Strategy and Structure' as a myth, 'Selection and Concentration' as a trap]. Tokyo: Yuhikaku Publishing.

Sakai, Ken

Japanese Research in Business History　41　76-76　2024/12
Where Management Meets History Invited

Sakai Ken

Seisansei Shimbun　3-3　2024/11/25
The significance of narrating history in management today: How historical narratives shape organizations Invited

Sakai, Ken

Diamond Harvard Business Review (the Japanese edition of Harvard Business Review)　2024/10
Book review of “Entrepreneurship” and “Innovation,” Yuhikaku.

Sakai Ken

59　(2)　57-60　2024/10
An Indian-American New Yorker in Japan

Sakai Ken

Organizational science　2023/12
Review of Selected Books on Business History Published in Japan in 2022: Pierre-Yves Donzé. Ragujuarī sangyō: Kyūseichō no himitsu [The Luxury Industry: Secrets of a Rapid Growth]. Tokyo: Yuhikaku Publishing, 2022. Invited

Sakai, Ken

Japanese Research in Business History　40　102-102　2023/12
Publisher: Business History Society of Japan
DOI： 10.5029/jrbh.40.102 　

ISSN： 1349-807X

eISSN： 1884-619X
Slight courage in my heart Invited

Ken Sakai

Hitotsubashi Business Review　2022　(Winter)　33-33　2022/12
When a top manager's facial expression is fatal: A comparative case study of press conferences on corporate scandals Invited

Ken Sakai

2022 September　14-17　2022/09
Making another form of yesterday: Family business regeneration in mnemonic disruption

Ken Sakai, Yuki Tsuboiyama, Takahiro Endo

Paper presented at the 38th EGOS Colloquium (Vienna University of Economics and Business)　1-23　2022/07
Preface to Special Issue: The Trail of the "Historic Turn" in Management and Organization Studies, the Path Forward

Sakai, K, Furuse, K

Organizational Science　55　(4)　2-3　2022/06
Thriving in the shadow of giants: The success of the Japanese surgical needle producer MANI, 1956–2016 International-journal Invited

Sakai, Ken

The Business of Health New Approaches to the Evolution of Health Systems in the World (Edited By Pierre-Yves Donzé, Paloma Fernández Pérez. Chapter 3. Reprinted from Business History)　2022/02
Publisher: Routledge
Dynamic rhetorical history in a growing company: A case study of a Japanese toy company

Sakai, Ken

Paper presented at Sub-theme 33: Historical Organization Studies in Action: Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation of the 37th EGOS Colloquium Amsterdam 2021　2021/07
Dodging punches with institutional work: Japanese doctors’ discursive strategies regarding assistant nursing

Sakai, K, Tsuboyama, Y

2020/07
Confluence of histories in institutional change: A case study on the management of surgical needles in Japanese hospitals

Sakai, K.

Paper accepted for a presentation at the 35th EGOS Colloquium, University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom　1-24　2019/07

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Books and Other Publications 1

戦略分析ケースブック vol.2

沼上幹, 一橋MBA戦略ワークショップ

東洋経済新報社　2012/12

ISBN: 9784492522066

Presentations 37

Meet the Editors Invited

Sakai, Ken

2025 EBHA (European Business History Association) Conference　2025/06/26
Inheriting for What? The Value of Company History Compilation Projects in Japanese Firms

Izawa, Ryo, Sakai, Ken

2025 EBHA (European Business History Association) Conference　2025/06/27
Rethinking Social Evaluation in and through Business History: Toward the "Reasonably Universal"

Sakai, Ken, Wang, Tao

2025 EBHA (European Business History Association) Conference　2025/06/27
Agency and Structure in Strategic Uses of the Past

Adam Frost, Ken Sakai

Seminar at the Centre for Business History, Copenhagen Business School　2025/04/08
BørneLund - Otherness as Brand and Identity International-presentation International-coauthorship

Sakai, Ken, Popp, Andrew

Nordic Marketing History Workshop　2025/02/07
Longing for Europe and European-style Business in Japan

Sakai, Ken, Popp, Andrew

Seminar at the Centre for Business History, Copenhagen Business School　2024/11/26
Towards a More Critical Business History! Exploring “Rhetorical Strategies that Legitimized Exploitation” Invited

Sakai, Ken Ken

BHSJ conference (University of Tokyo, October 26), Plenary Session: “New methodologies and approaches in business history”　2024/10/26
A Healthcare Technology Renaissance in a Different Context: The Mass Production of Health Checkups in Japan, 1967-2023

Sakai, Ken, Tsuboyama, Yuki, Fujiwara, Masatoshi

European Business History Association　2024/07/12
Strategy, Structure, and Social Evaluation: Integrating Social Perspectives into Chandler’s Framework

Sakai, Ken, Wang, Tao

Workshop for Business History Special Issue on Chandler Redux? Looking Back to Move Forward　2024/06/29
Institutionalization of Japan's 'Ningen Dock' Health Service: Confluence of Physicians’ Evangelism, Technological Innovation, and Corporate Welfare, 1954-2023

Sakai K, Tsuboyama, Y, Fujiwara, M

2024/03/07
Bridging organization theory and business history: An encounter with the Management for Physical Education and Sport Invited

Sakai, Ken

Japanese Society of Management for Physical Education and Sport　2023/12/16
Housewives and the growth of the Japanese electrical appliance industry, 1950-1990

Hirano,Takashi, Sakai, Ken, Donzé, Pierre-Yves

The 26th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association 2023　2023/08/26
Historic turn in management and organization studies: Fad from the West? Can it be re-turned?

Ken Sakai

2022/11/12
Historic Turn in Management and Organization Studies: Past, Present and Future Invited

Ken Sakai

2022/11/08
長き対話の現在地と針路：経営学の歴史的転回（Historic Turn）への招待 Invited

酒井健, 井澤龍

2023年度組織学会年次大会（武蔵大学）　2022/10/01
Toward a fulfilling life as a researcher Invited

Ken Sakai

2022/06/30
Playing with history? Invited

Ken Sakai

2022/02/24
Uses of the past in Management and Organization Studies Invited

Ken Sakai

Economic seminar at Musashi University　2022/01/19
Changing the uses of history strategically: A case of a Japanese company Invited

Ken Sakai

Economic and Business History Seminar joint with Management Seminar　2021/06/30
「組織の正統性修復における経営者の表情ー期限切れ食肉事件の比較事例分析」を巡って Invited

酒井健

2021年度組織学会研究発表大会高宮賞受賞者セッション　2021/06/06
The historical construction of power in institutional change Invited

Ken Sakai

2019/12/13
専門職化のダイナミクス：歴史的組織研究によるアプローチ

酒井健

経済史経営史研究会（第28回経営史学会東北ワークショップ共催）　2019/11/23
「近くて遠い国」なのか？―組織論と経営史の架橋に向けた努力によせて

酒井健

経営史学会関西部会大会（コメンテーター）　2019/08/08
歴史的組織研究(historical organization studies)の可能性：看護師のプラクティスを事例として Invited

酒井健

産業と企業のイノベーションに関する研究会　2019/07/26
Confluence of histories in institutional change

Ken Sakai

2019/06/05
プロフェッショナリゼーションと技術革新の歴史的合流による働き方の変化：看護職の縫合針管理の事例から

酒井健

経営史学会関東部会　2019/01/26
Work Style Innovation in Japanese Hospitals

Ken Sakai

2018/09/24
Beyond Relativism: Open Ended Approach in Business History

Ken Sakai

IIR Summer School 2018　2018/08/26
Silent Impact on Normalizing Accounts in a Crisis of Legitimacy: Comparative Case Analyses of the Accounts for the Shanghai Husi Crisis. International-presentation

Ken Sakai

Mitsubishi Bank Foundation International Conference　2017/03/18
企業家・逸脱者・説得者の同盟によるイノベーションの推進：医療用縫合針を事例として

酒井健

日本比較経営学会第41回全国大会WS「戦略論」　2016/05/07
制度的企業家によるフレーミングが制度変革に及ぼす影響

酒井健

日本経営学会第89回大会自由論題報告　2015/09/04
特定の価値観と共鳴するフレーミングが制度変革に及ぼす影響

酒井健

日本比較経営学会第40回全国大会WS「戦略論」　2015/05/09
制度変革における「予期せざる」支持者の出現とその影響：斜面補強「ノンフレーム工法」の普及過程を事例として

酒井健

日本経営学会関東部会　2014/07/19
革新的技術の普及と制度変革 ―斜面補強工法に関する社会制度の変革を事例として―

酒井健

2014年度組織学会研究発表大会　2014/06/21
製造業のサービス能力の無効化 Invited

酒井健

組織学会ドクトラル・コンソーシアム　2013/11/08
中国市場におけるコマツの「予防的」サービス－キャタピラーとの比較に基づくコマツの競争優位の源泉－

酒井健

2013年度組織学会研究発表大会　2013/06/15
クリティカル・レビュー: 『総合電機企業の形成と解体』について

酒井健

経営史学会第47回東北ワークショップ（谷口明丈編『総合電機企業の形成と解体 ―「戦略と組織」の神話、「選択と集中」の罠』有斐閣、合評会）　2024/04/20

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Research Projects 9

戦略的資源としての痛ましい過去の記憶：鉄道会社・航空会社の事例研究

坪山雄樹, 遠藤貴宏, 酒井健

Offer Organization: 日本学術振興会

System: 科学研究費助成事業

Category: 基盤研究(B)

Institution: 一橋大学

2024/04 - 2028/03
Transnational rhetorical history: the strategic uses of the past in international business

Ken Sakai, Andrew Pop

Institution: Hiiotsubashi University

2024 - 2026
企業文化と労務管理の形成・変化・継承―上田市鐘紡丸子工場の設立から閉鎖まで―

結城武延, 平野恭平, 酒井健, 小林延人

Offer Organization: 日本学術振興会

System: 科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(C)

Category: 基盤研究(C)

Institution: 東北大学

2021/04 - 2025/03

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2021（令和3）年度は新型コロナウィルスの蔓延により資料調査先の受け入れが困難となり、資料調査自体を行うことができなかった。したがって、2020年に研究代表者・結城と研究分担者・小林が資料調査・撮影して得られた資料群を他の研究分担者・協力者と共有して、資料調査する上での研究計画や論点を議論した。具体的には次の通りである。 ①図面資料に基づいた建築史的研究：明治・大正期の鐘紡との比較、②本社―工場間の関係：企業文化の形成と変容、鐘紡経営の工場の位置づけと運営方法、③鐘紡における従業員教育・女子教育など労務管理、④③と関連して労働運動に関する研究、⑤統制経済との関連：鐘紡は国策会社同然となったが丸子は軍需品は造らなくてもよい工場であったといわれている、⑥地域社会・経済との関係、⑦⑥と関連して同地域同業他社との関連：とくに製糸結社「依田社」や「信濃絹糸紡績」（依田社の子会社―現「シナノケンシ」）が重要であると考えられる、⑧丸子鐘紡が日本で最後の絹糸紡績工場となるが、なぜ、丸子が最後まで存続しえたのか、⑨⑧に関連して、鐘紡・日本経済の変遷を丸子工場を通じて定点観測等である。くわえて、絹糸紡績の工場であるという点が重要な論点になることが確認された。同じ絹から生産されるが、長繊維（生糸）と短繊維（絹糸紡績）で肌触りや製法が異なっており、生糸は和服に使われるが絹糸紡績はそうではない。他方、海外ではこだわりはない。また絹糸紡績では化学薬品を大量に用いるので、製法や必要となる人材も異なる可能性がある。
Exploring the Potential of Historical Organization Studies in Japan

Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Institution: Tohoku University

2021/04 - 2025/03
Rhetorical History in International Business

Offer Organization: Nomura Foundation

Institution: Hiiotsubashi University

2024 - 2025
Management Challenges and Solutions for NGOs: International Joint Research on NGOs in Tohoku

SRINIVAS Sri Nidhi

Offer Organization: JSPS: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

System: JSPS Invitation Fellowship (Short-term)

Category: JSPS Invitation Fellowship (Short-term)

Institution: Tohoku University

2023/03 - 2023/03
Reviving Organizations after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Offer Organization: Tohoku University

Institution: Tohoku University

2021/04 - 2022/03
Historical research on endogenous institutional change Competitive

Sakai Ken

Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Institution: Tohoku University

2019/04 - 2021/03

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This study examined how workers can influence changes in conventional work practices. Through a historical case study of Japanese nursing, moved away from physician-centered to nursing-centered works, I found that, first, the beyond-generational actors' consistent and innovative actions would be essential factors. Second, policy and technological changes may have facilitating effects on the actions as unintended consequences. Thus, this study suggests that changes in conventional work practices would be driven by such "historical confluences" of the external tributaries and the endogenous beyond-generational-action chains.
Repairing organizational legitimacy: Focusing on diversity of social values Competitive

Sakai Ken

Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

2017/04/01 - 2019/03/31

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Whereas most previous studies have focused on the verbal content of strategy for repairing organizational legitimacy, this study stresses the importance of the facial expressions of top management. Case studies of repairing organizational legitimacy by two famous Japanese companies regarding the same food safety incident were conducted. The verbal content of two explanations was considered similar; however, the legitimacy of one company decreased dramatically after the explanation, while the legitimacy of the other was maintained. The important factor was the difference in the evaluation of the facial expressions by stakeholders in the context of Japanese culture.

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Social Activities 12

産学連携ビジネスコンペティション2024 審査員

2024/11/01 - 2024/12/07
日本生産性本部経営アカデミー経営戦略コース講師

2020/06/01 - 2024/03/31
産学連携ビジネスコンペティション2023 審査員

2023/11/01 - 2023/12/15
産学連携ビジネスコンペティション2022 審査員

2022/11/28 - 2022/12/10
セッション「経営・組織論研究における歴史的転回」オーガナイザー

2023年度組織学会年次大会（武蔵大学）

2022/10/01 - 2022/10/01
未来を生き抜く力を求めて：経営学への誘い

学部・学科ガイダンス

2022/06/21 - 2022/06/21
産学連携ビジネスコンペティション2021 審査員

産学連携ビジネスコンペティション2021

2021/11/01 - 2021/12/11
Youtube Channel ”ReHacQ” Commentator

2024/09/25 -
JMAマネジメント・インスティチュート講師

第35期エグゼクティブ・マネジメントコース

2024/09/13 -
企業研修講師

2023/09/13 -
謎解きの経営学

一日大学

2021/11/05 -
「子育てと働き方セッション」セッションリーダー

2019/10/20 -

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Media Coverage 6

「会社の歴史」はパーパスを浸透させる最強ツールである

DIAMOND ハーバード・ビジネス・レビュー編集部　DIAMOND ハーバード・ビジネス・レビュー編集長ブログ

2024/03/30

Type: Internet
パーパスの浸透と企業価値向上（３）

DIAMOND ハーバード・ビジネス・レビュー

2024/03

Type: Internet
パーパスの浸透と企業価値向上（２）

DIAMOND ハーバード・ビジネス・レビュー

2024/03

Type: Internet
パーパスの浸透と企業価値向上（１）

DIAMOND ハーバード・ビジネス・レビュー　DIAMOND ハーバード・ビジネス・レビュー(オンラインイベント佐宗邦威氏との特別対談）

2024/03

Type: Internet
「企業の歴史」の何を語るかで、競争力は変化する：理論×歴史で企業を分析する

ダイヤモンド　DIAMOND ハーバード・ビジネス・レビュー

2022/08

Type: Internet
企業の強みは「長期の時間軸」で解き明かす：理論×歴史で企業を分析する

ダイヤモンド　DIAMOND ハーバード・ビジネス・レビュー

2022/08

Type: Internet

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