午夜剧场

I teach business administration at 午夜剧场. While business administration is a discipline that focuses on corporations, it also includes a wide range of organizations such as universities, hospitals, and NPOs in its analysis. Within business administration, my specialties are business strategy and organizational theory. In these fields, I conduct theoretical and empirical research (both quantitative and qualitative) on "organizational change, strategic transformation, and organizational inertia."

When I was a graduate student, I was instructed to "look for good role models when conducting research." Since writing academic papers is not easy for undergraduate or graduate students, this advice suggests that it is helpful to proceed with research by referring to a role model.

Finding a role model is particularly useful when taking on new challenges, and I feel this applies not only to research but to other things as well. For example, when joining a different organization than before, it is meaningful to look for a role model because it is often ambiguous how one should behave. In this case, colleagues could be candidates for role models. If possible, by finding multiple good role models, you might be able to take the best parts from each of them.

In the field of business administration, it is generally said that there are three types of research, and there was a time when I looked for papers to serve as role models for my own research according to each type. The first of the three types is quantitative research. Quantitative research often involves analyzing data collected through surveys or secondary data using statistical methods. The second is qualitative research. In many cases, interview surveys or participant observations are conducted on single or multiple cases. The third is theoretical research. Unlike qualitative or quantitative research, theoretical research does not require the use of secondary data or interview data. There are several further cases within this type, such as research that develops new theories.

When looking for a role model, it is important to find a "good role model" as much as possible, but I think it is difficult for undergraduate and graduate students to judge what should be used as a role model. Therefore, the advice of faculty members and senior researchers is important in a university.