Current Position

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

Educational background

BA: Keio University, Faculty of Economics
MPA: Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, Program for Economic Policy Management
Ph.D.: Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies

Major Research Achievements

Murashima, M. (2024). Do Tragic Events Make Investors More Pro-social? Evidence from Japan. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, ahead-of-print.
Murashima, M. (2024), "Understanding how investors respond to different social responsibility communications: an empirical analysis of Japan", Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.
Murashima, M. (2023), "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on motivating factors affecting individual investors’ socially responsible investment decision: a comparative analysis of the USA, Germany and Japan", Corporate Governance, Vol. 23 No. 5, pp. 1063-1084.
Murashima, M. (2022). Do investors’ reactions to environmentally friendly news announcements differ across industries? A comparative analysis of Japan’s food and automotive industries. Journal of Business Economics and Management, 23(6), 1315–1333.
Murashima, M. (2020). Do investors' reactions to CSR-related news communication differ by shareholder? An empirical analysis from Japan. Corporate Governance (Bingley), 20 (5), 781-796.

Award Funding

AKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists), "The Impact of COVID-19 on the Relationship between Corporate ESG performance and Organizational Resilience”（2024 – 2027）
KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists), "The Impact of Pandemics on Consumers' Purchasing Behavior and Evaluation of Socially Responsible Companies” (2021 – 2023)
KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up), "How Pandemic Affects Investors' Preferences toward Firm's CSR?"(2020-2021)

Professional Activities

Invited Researcher: Waseda University, Organization for Regional and Inter-regional Studies (2021-Present)
Scientific Committee Member: The International Scientific conference EMAN (2021-Present)
CSO Network (Volunteer)

Interview media

The Asia-Pacific Social Science Review: Summary description of the published paper

Books

Murashima (2024). 'Changing Values: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Purchasing Behavior Toward Socially-Oriented Products,' Hitotsubashi Business Review, Autumn 2024 Edition, Vol. 72, No. 1, pp. 6-19, Innovation Research Center, Hitotsubashi University, Toyo Keizai Inc.

Murashima, M. (2021). How Do Japanese Investors Respond to Gender-Related News Communications?. In Eweje, G. and Nagano, S. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Gender Equality in Japan". Springer.

Izumi Ohno, Kenichi Ohno, Miho Murashima, et al. (2015) "From Town Factory to Global Companies in Asia-Overseas Expansion Strategies and Support Measures for Small and Medium Enterprises", Chuoh Publishing

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