立教大学

NISHIHARA (Hirose) Ayano
Dean and Associate Professor

DBA (Business Administration) Hitotsubashi University

NISHIHARA (Hirose) AyanoDean and Associate Professor

DBA (Business Administration) Hitotsubashi University

Based on the theory of organizational knowledge creation, I am researching new value creation processes and mechanisms. Specifically, companies and communities are about innovation and leadership aiming to realize true goodness and common good, creating a place to create new value and an ecosystem of knowledge, and strategic narratives and stories from the past to the future starting from the present, Project teams, etc. are conducting case studies.
Scrum Inc. Certified Scrum Master (LSM)

Specialized field

Knowledge Creation, Management Strategy, International Management, Open / Social Innovation, Practical Knowledge Leadership

Current Position

Department of Global Business
Graduate School of Business, Master in International Business Program
Graduate School of Business, Doctoral Program in Business

Educational background

Graduated from the Department of Law, Faculty of Law, Nagoya University
Completed the Master's Program at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University (MBA)
Completed the Doctoral Program at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University (DBA)

Major Research Achievements

Ayano Nishihara (Hirose) and Reo Naganawa (2024). BUSINESS CASE No.198 Development of Kao Mosquito Repellent Cream "Bioregard Moss Block Serum", Hitotsubashi Business Review, Vol. 72, No. 4, 154-168.
Nomura, Y. and A. Nishihara (2023). Fast and Slow: The New Frontier of Knowledge Management, Annual Review of Knowledge Management, Vol. 21, 1-14.
Hidekazu Kurimoto, Gen Uai, Yugo Hayashi, Kento Shimizu, Eri Kunieda, and Ayano Nishihara (Hirose), "Collaborative Creation Process of Tacit Knowledge: Modeling Knowledge and Concept Creation by Analyzing Utterance Protocols in an Innovation-initiated Workshop," Journal of Knowledge Management Research, Vol. 20, 1-14.
Nishihara, Ayano and Kawashima, Toshiyuki (2022). The Pursuit of Goodness in Management: A New Dimension through Encounter with the 'Other' Transcending Time and Space", Journal of Philosophy of Management, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2-18.
Nishihara, AH. (2021). Revisiting Nonaka’s Organizational Knowledge Creating Theory for during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic. Kindai Management Review, Vol. 9. 63-74.

Professional Activities

Director, Knowledge Management Society of Japan

Interview media

Foster supple leadership– Cultivating resilient and graceful leadership (Posted on April 9, 2020)
Companies seek the wisdom of college students Project-type lessons that spread a fresh breeze to solve social issues (2)

Books

“Practical Social Innovation ”(Ikujiro Nonaka, Fumino Hirose, Toru Hirata, Chikura Publishing, 2014)

"Organization that causes innovation" (Ikujiro Nonaka, Ayano Nishihara, Nikkei BP, 2017)

"Sympathy Creates the Future: Practical Knowledge of Social Innovation" (edited by Ikujiro Nonaka, Chikura Publishing, 2021) Chapter 5.2 "" Gold "is greater than" Silver ""

Knowledge Creation in Public Administrations: Innovative Government in Southeast Asia and Japan. Ayano Hirose Nishihara (edit), Masaei Matsunaga (edit), Ikujiro Nonaka (edit), Kiyotaka Yokomichi (edit) Palgrave McMillan, 2018.

Knowledge Creation in Community Development: Institutional Change in Southeast Asia and Japan. Ayano Hirose Nishihara (edit), Masaei Matsunaga (edit), Ikujiro Nonaka (edit), Kiyotaka Yokomichi (edit) Palgrave McMillan, 2018.

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