Current Position

Department of Business Administration
Graduate School of Business Administration Department of Business Administration Master's Program

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), "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. (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.
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

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

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.

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