立教大学

NISHIHARA Ayano
Associate Professor

DBA (Business Administration) Hitotsubashi University

NISHIHARA AyanoAssociate 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

International Business Department of Business Administration,
Graduate School of International Management Department doctoral master's course
Graduate School of Business Administration Department of Doctoral Program in Business Administration

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

Nishihara, AH. (2021). Revisiting Nonaka's Organizational Knowledge Creating Theory for during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic. Kindai Management Review, Vol. 9.
Ayano (Hirose) Nishihara, Hideo Yamazaki (2019). New Development of Knowledge Creation Theory in the AI Era: Comprehensive Knowledge Creation Process of Artificial Intelligence and Human Knowledge” “Knowledge Management Research No. 17”,1-16
Ayano Nishihara (Hirose) (2019). “The role of human beings in the AI era as shown by the theory of organizational knowledge creation” “Research Technology Plan” Vol.34, No.1 2019, 58-66.
Ayano Nishihara (Hirose). (2018). "Business Case No. “147 Kyowa Hakko Bio : Innovation toward "good purpose" "Hitotsubashi Business Review" Vol. 66,No. 2, 164-177.
Hirose Nishihara, A. (2018). Creating Knowledge and Promoting Innovation in Logistics Services with “Personal-Touch”: A Case of Yamato Transport. Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 16 (4), 498–507.

Professional Activities

Director, Knowledge Management Society of Japan,
Director, Yunus Yoshimoto Social Action Co., Ltd.

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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