Asakawa, Kazuhiro

アサカワ　カズヒロ

Asakawa, Kazuhiro

Graduate School of Business Administration/Professor

Basic Information

Specialty

Multinational Management,Organization Theory,Global Innovation and R&D Management

Biography

Researcher profile

Kazuhiro Asakawa is Professor of Global Innovation Management at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University, Japan, where he teaches international management and global innovation. He has held the Mitsubishi Foundation Chair at Keio Business School. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from INSEAD (France), his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his B.A. summa cum laude in Political Economy from Waseda University (Japan). His research focuses on global innovation and R&D management in multinational corporations, cross-border knowledge sourcing and leveraging, subsidiary evolution, and autonomy–control dynamics. He is widely known for his work on the global R&D management of Japanese multinational enterprises. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) in 2015, served as AIB Vice President Program (2021–2024), and was elected Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) in 2025. His research has appeared in leading journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Research Policy, Journal of World Business, and Journal of Product Innovation Management. Professor Asakawa is Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). He previously served as Associate Editor of the Global Strategy Journal and Senior Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He is currently Special Issue Editor of Nature – Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2025–), Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Management, Advisory Editor of Research Policy, and serves or has served on the editorial boards of numerous leading international journals. He has taught as visiting faculty at ESSEC, McGill, Yonsei, Johannes Kepler University Linz, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). He has also been a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management, Northeastern University, the University of Sydney, and the University of Oxford. He has supervised and examined Ph.D. candidates internationally and has reviewed faculty tenure and promotion cases in North America, Europe, and Asia. Within AIB, Professor Asakawa served as Vice President Program (2021–2024), Program Chair of the 2023 Annual Meeting, Track Chair for the 2020, 2016, and 2011 Annual Meetings, and Teaching Track Chair in 2005. He also served as Chair of the AIB Japan Chapter (2012–2018), Chair of the Temple AIB Best Paper Award Selection Committee (2014), and a member of the AIB Fellows Executive of the Year Committee (2018). In addition, he served as Program Chair of the 2006 Asia Academy of Management Meeting. He is a founding member of the Industry Studies Association (ISA) and formerly served as Representative-at-Large of the Strategic Management Society’s Global Strategy Interest Group.

General introduction

His research interests are focused on innovation and R&D management of multinational corporations, cross-border knowledge sourcing and leveraging, subsidiary evolution, and autonomy-control dynamics.