【Cancelled】KGRI Great Thinker Series: (Mar.11, 2020)"Dynamic Capabilities, Innovation, and Strategic Management: Lessons for Japanese Companies and the Nation State"
2020.03.11Due to the current spread of infections by Covid-19 (coronavirus disease), we have cancelled the event. We deeply apologize to everyone who intended to participate.
Keio University Global Research Institute (KGRI) aims to promote international research and educational exchange and invites those working in the forefront of research and education in Japan and overseas to give lectures.
On this occasion, Professor David J. Teece of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, who is going to be conferred with an honorary doctorate by Keio University on the recommendation of the Graduate School of Business and Commerce, will be giving a talk for his commemorative lecture on the topic of "Dynamic Capabilities, Innovation, and Strategic Management: Lessons for Japanese Companies and the Nation State".
Date & time: Wednesday, March 11, 13:00-14:30 (Open 12:30)
After the lecture, which will last for roughly 1 hour, Vice-President Jiro Kokuryo will interview Professor Teece and the floor will be opened for questions.
Venue: North Hall, Mita Campus, Keio University
Host: Keio University Global Research Institute (KGRI)
Language: English (Simultaneous interpretation to Japanese provided)
Other: Open to anyone. No admission fee, Pre-registration not required.
Summary of Lecture:
As we all know today, Professor Teece spearheaded the dynamic capabilities perspective, defined as "the firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments."
This idea has become one of the most popular in the field of strategic management. Many academics have devoted themselves to "dynamic capabilities" research. Even in Japan, the dynamic capabilities perspective is gradually becoming known. However, in Japan, the perspective is considered esoteric and is not yet fully understood.
So what is the dynamic capabilities perspective? What is the relationship with innovation and strategic management? And is the dynamic capabilities perspective necessary and effective for Japanese companies as well? Professor Teece will explain these.
Biography：
Professor Teece was born in New Zealand in 1948. He graduated from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and went on to obtain a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. He is presently the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business and Director of the Tusher Center on Intellectual Capital at the Haas Business School. He spearheaded the dynamic capabilities perspective, defined as "the firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments." He is one of the hottest researchers in the world today.
According to Science Watch, Professor Teece is the lead author on the most cited article in economics and business worldwide from 1995 to 2005. He is also one of the top-ten cited scholars for the last decade. He is a winner of the Best Paper Prize Award of the Strategic Management Journal for his article, "Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management" (2003). He was also awarded the Viipuri International Prize in Strategic (Technology) Management and Business Economics in 2003.
Additionally, Professor Teece received the Herbert Simon Award in 2011 and he is among the "A-List of Management Academics 2011," an honorary group of thirty accomplished and distinguished US business professors. In 2013, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours for his services to New Zealand-United States relations. He also received the Academy of International Business Eminent Scholar Award the same year. In 2018, the Strategic Management Society presented him with the Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award.
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