Ulrike Schaede Japanologist

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at UC San Diego, at School of Global Policy and Strategy. She is the Director of JFIT (Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology), and head of the International Management track at the school. Even though her research lies squarely in the fields of business and applied economics, with a focus on Japan, she is in fact a certified “Japanologist”, with M.A. and Dr. Phil. degrees in Japan Studies and Economics at the Universities of Bonn and Marburg, respectively. Click here for her bio and CV .

Her core research interest is to analyze and juxtapose different systems of capitalism and ways of organizing business, in order to identify the social and economic efficiency consequences of these differences. Her mode of exploration is to study in great detail the business strategies and surrounding institutions of political economy and business culture — a system well-known to differ from the U.S. along important dimensions.

Ulrike is the author of 8 books and more than 50 papers on Japanese business organization, strategy and management. Her research interests include Japan’s changing corporate strategies in light of globalization and Japan’s business culture, as well as financial market reorganization, corporate governance, employment, manufacturing, and innovation in the new digital economy. She has spent more than nine years of research and study in Japan.

She currently serves as an Advisory Board member of IGPI, Inc. Japan, as well as a Fellow and Advisor to the “Innovation Network for Co-Creating the Future” (INCF) at Mitsubishi Research Institute, and the Life Science Innovation Network Japan (LINK-J) in Tokyo. She is also an Advisory Board member of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR Asia) in Seattle.

Ulrike is an Associate Editor of The Journal of the Japanese and International Economies.

At UC San Diego, she teaches classes on Business Strategy, Negotiation, Managing Reinvention in a Disrupted World, and Business and Management in Japan. 

Books & Papers

 

Books

  • The Digital Transformation and Japan’s Political Economy (with Kay Shimizu), Cambridge University Press 2022 [also available here]

  • The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why it Matters. Stanford University Press, 2020 [also available here]

  • 両利きの組織をつくる (Ryōkiki no soshiki o tsukuru: Daikigyōbyō o daha suru “seme to mamori no keiei”)(Creating Ambidextrous Organizations: Exploration and Exploitation for Overcoming Inertia), with Masanori Kato and Charles A. O’Reilly III, Tokyo: Eiji Shuppan (in Japanese)

  • Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century. Cornell University Press, 2008

  • Japan’s Managed Globalization: Adapting to the 21st Century, co-edited, with William W. Grimes; Armonk N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003

  • Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan; Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000

  • Der neue japanische Kapitalmarkt ‑ Finanzfutures in Japan (The New Japanese Capital Market ‑ Financial Futures in Japan), Wiesbaden: Gabler, 1990 (in German)

  • Geldpolitik in Japan 1950‑1985 (Monetary Policy in Japan 1950‑1985), Marburg: Marburger Japan‑Reihe Bd.1, 1989 (in German).

Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka nighttime illuminations

Select Book Chapters

  • “U.S.-Japan Business Relations and the Trade War with Asia”, in: Charting a Path for a Stronger U.S.-Japan Economic Partnership, The National Bureau of Asian Research, NBR Special Report #75, February 2019, pp.11-27

  • “The Impact of Japan on Western Management: Theory and Practice”, in: Nigel Holden, Snejina Michailova and Susanne Tietze (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management, New York: Routledge, 2015, pp. 49-57, with Christina L. Ahmadjian

  • “System Change and Corporate Reorganization in Japan: The Strategic Logic of Business Groups and Main Banks, Revisited”, in: , Syncretism: The Politics of Economic Restructuring and System Reform in Japan, edited by Kenji E. Kushida, Kay Shimizu and Jean E. Oi, Stanford: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2013, pp. 77-113.

  • “From Developmental State to the New Japan: The Strategic Inflection Point in Japanese Business”, in Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’: Causes, Legacies, and Issues of Transformative Change, edited by W. Miles Fletcher III and Peter W. von Staden, London: Routledge, 2012, pp.31-52.

  • “Changes in Main Bank Rescues during the Lost Decade: An Analysis of Corporate Restructuring in Japan, 1981-2007”, in Japan's Bubble, Deflation and Long-term Stagnation, edited by Anil Kashyap, David Weinstein, Koichi Hamada, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011, pp. 343-374, with Takeo Hoshi and Satoshi Koibuchi

Ulrike Schaede Japan Research Papers

Select Papers

On Health and Health Care

  • “Sunshine and Suicides: Revisiting the Relevance of Economic Determinants of Suicides in Japan”, Contemporary Japan Vol. 25 No. 2, 2013, pp. 105-126.

  • “Shared Decision-Making and Patient Satisfaction in Japanese Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A New ‘Preference Fit’ Framework for Treatment Assessment”, Rheumatology and Therapy 2019, Vol. 6(2), pp. 269-83, with Jörg Mahlich and Rosarin Sruamsiri.

  • “Shared Decision-Making in Patients with Prostate Cancer in Japan: Patient Preferences Versus Physician Perceptions”, Journal of Global Oncology, 2017, pp.1-9, DOI: 10.1200/JGO.2016.008045 (lead author; with 8 others)