Asia Research Community
Northeast Asia
Although China’s economic development has led to a gradual westward shift in East Asia’s economic center of gravity, Japan and South Korea remain important global players. Japan is the world’s third largest economy; Korea ranks as number eleven. Per capita incomes in Japan and South Korea are between four and five times higher than in China, and the concentration of purchasing power in cities like Tokyo and Seoul is rare even in a global perspective. The Northeast Asia research unit studies the economic and business development in Japan and South Korea from several different perspectives. Projects look at Japan and Korea as markets and investment destinations, analyze the institutional, cultural, demographic, and political changes in the national economies, and study Japanese and Korean firms as global and regional actors. The regional perspective – with an emphasis on the relationship with China – is of special interest. Several members of ARC also have particular experience of work focusing on North Korea.
Ari Kokko (ako.int@cbs.dk)
Activity
Professor Tomoko Kawakami from Waseda University will be visiting CBS and ARC in the fall of 2022, funded by a grant from Otto Mønsted Foundation. Read about prof. Kawakami's visit here
The Sasakawa Foundation has funded a lecture series on “Japan in the current world order” lecture series with prominent scholars and officials from Japan and the USA
On March 10th, The Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly (JARA) was held at CBS
In March 2022, CBS and ARC hosted the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation's conference on contemporary Japanese Studies funded by the Scandinavian-Japan Sasakawa Foundation (SJSF) and the Nippon Foundation entitled “Japan and Japanese Studies in the 21st Century,”
In December 2022, SJSF held a meeting in its Coordination Committee at Stockholm School of Economics
Faith Hatani speaks on panel at the International Conference on “Asia and Africa in Transition” at the University of Copenhagen: “Japan’s involvement in African ports: A global value chain perspective”.
Faith Hatani receives a grant from the Japan Foundation’s Intellectual Exchange Conference Grant Program. The grant will support her in organising a conference on “Transforming Business for the Post-Pandemic Society” in Japan, in collaboration with Kyoto University.
ARC researchers in the Northeast Asia Research Unit
Publications on Northeast Asia
2022
Fuller, D. B. (2022). The Increasing Irrelevance of Industrial Policy in Taiwan, 2016-2020 In: Taiwan During the First Administration of Tsai Ing-wen: Navigating in Stormy Waters. . ed. /Gunter Schubert; Chun-yi Lee. Abingdon: Routledge 2022, p. 128-141 (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series, Vol. 5)
Hatani, F. (2022). JAPAN’S ‘ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE HOSPITAL’ PROJECT: CAN IT HELP THE AGEING POPULATION? In J. M. Munoz & A. Maurya (Eds.), International Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 43–51). Anthem Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv270kv9x.10
Kasteng, J., Kokko, A.& Tingvall. P. G. (2022). / Who Uses the EU's Free Trade Agreements? A Transaction-Level Analysis of the EU-South Korea FTA. In: World Trade Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2.2022, p. 93-108
Walravens, T., O’Shea, P., & Ahrenkiel, N. (2022, March). ‘Let's eat Fukushima’: communicating risk and restoring ‘safe food’after the Fukushima disaster (2011-2020). In Japan Forum (pp. 1-24). Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09555803.2022.2046131
2021
Clausen, L. (2021). Team Dynamics and Diversity: Japanese Corporate Experiences. (2. ed.) Copenhagen Business School Press.
Hatani, F. (2021). Renewable energy for a sustainable future. In Japanese Business Operations in an Uncertain World (pp. 62–75). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003216049-6
Walravens, T. (Performer), & Desatova, P. (Producer). (2020). The Global Sushi Hype: The Nordic Asia Podcast. Sound/Visual production (digital), NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/the-global-sushi-hype-with-tine-wa...
2020
Hatani, Faith 2020; Artificial Intelligence in Japan : Policy, Prospects and Obstacles in the Automotive Industry.
In: Transforming Japanese Business: Rising to the Digital Challenge. .Anshuman Khare; Hiroki Ishikura; William W. Baber (eds.) Singapore : Springer, 211-226 ( Future of Business and Finance)
Kazuhara, Kristina 2020; ”Differentiating Culture and Language – An ethnographic case study of how biculturals and bilinguals contribute to knowledge sharing in foreign pharmaceutical subsidiaries in Japan”, Poster Presentation, ION Annual Meeting, February 13-16 at The Burn, Glenesk, Scotland.
Walravens, T. (Performer), & Desatova, P. (Producer). (2020). The Global Sushi Hype: The Nordic Asia Podcast. Sound/Visual production (digital), NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/the-global-sushi-hype-with-tine-wa...
2019
Walravens, Tine 2019. Recalibrating risk through media: Two cases of intentional food poisoning in Japan. Food and Foodways, 27:1-2, 74-97, DOI:10.1080/07409710.2019.1568852
2017
Aradhna Aggarwal 2017. Towards An Integrated Framework for Special Economic Zones (SEZs): A Dynamic Institutional Approach. Copenhagen Discussion Paper Series. No. 53, November.
2016
Clausen, Lisbeth; Maria H. Keita 2016. Bicultural Resourcefulness in Global Management : From Education to Corporate Collaboration. Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1, p. 58-80
Hatani, F. 2016 Institutional plasticity in public–private interactions: Why Japan’s port reform failed. Journal of World Business, 51(6): 923–936.
Hatani, F. 2016 Does a multilateral forum work for Africa? Daunting tasks of Japan’s TICAD initiative. International Journal of Development Issues, 15(1): 62–75.
2015
Clausen , Lisbeth 2015 Team Dynamics and Diversity - Corporate Experiences in Japan. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press
2012
Aggarwal Aradhna 2012 SEZ-led Growth in Taiwan, Korea, and India: Implementing a Successful Strategy, Asian Survey 525 : 872–899.
Clausen, Lisbeth 2012 The Global-Local in News Production Tales from Field in the "Shoes" of Journalists In: The Handbook of Global Media Research. ed. /Ingrid Volkmer. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell 2, p. 485-503 (Handbooks in Communication and Media
2011
Clausen, Lisbeth. 2011. Corporate Communication across Cultures : A Multi-level Approach. In: Cross-Cultural Management in Practice: Culture and Negotiated Meanings. ed. /Henriett Primecz; Laurence Romani; Sonja Sackmann. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2009, Chicago, United States. 2011, p. 77-88
Vesa Peltokorpi; Lisbeth Clausen. 2011 Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Intercultural Communication in Foreign Subsidiaries. In: Asian Business & Management, Vol. 10, No. 4, p. 509-528
2010
Clausen, L. 2010. Moving beyond stereotypes in managing cultural difference: Communication in Danish-Japanese corporate relationships. Scandinavian Journal of Management. vol. 26, Issue 1, March, Pages 57-66
Clausen, Lisbeth. 2010. Globalisation of News : Distribution, Production and Reception. In: Norden och världen: Perspektiv från forskning om medier och kommunikation: en bok tillägnad Ulla Carlsson. . ed. /Porbjörn Broddason; Ullamaija Kivikuru; Birgitte Tufte; Lennart Weibull; Helge Østbye. Göteborg : Göteborg Universitet 2010, p. 335-344 (Göteborgsstudier i journalistik och masskommunikation, No. 61)
Worm, Verner 2010. Corporate Cross-Cultural Collaboration the Contextual Challenges of Multi-cultural Teams in China and Japan.(2010) With L. Clausen. Association for Computing Machinery. Pp. 239-242.
2009
Clausen, Lisbeth. 2009. International News Flow. In: The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. ed. /Stuart Allan. London : Routledge 2009, p. 127-136
Kokko, Ari, Kenji Suzuki, and Kenji Tanimoto 2009. ‘Does Foreign Investment Matter? Effects of Foreign Investment on the Institutionalization of Corporate Social Responsibility by Japanese Firms’. Asian Business and Management 9 (3): 379-400.
2007
Clausen, Lisbeth. 2007. Corporate Communication Challenges : A "Negotiated" Culture Perspective.
In: International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2007, p. 317-332
2006
Clausen, Lisbeth. 2006. Intercultural Organizational Communication: Five Corporate Cases in Japan. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press.
2005
Kokko, Ari 2005. ‘Economic reforms and skill requirements in DPRK’, paper presented at Conference on Future Multilateral Economic Cooperation with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, The Stanley Foundation and the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, June 15-17, 2005.
Kokko, Ari 2005. ‘Economic reforms and skill requirements in DPRK’, paper presented at Conference on Future Multilateral Economic Cooperation with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, The Stanley Foundation and the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, June 15-17, 2005.
2004
Clausen, Lisbeth. 2004. Anmeldelse af Barbara Sato: The new Japanese woman. Modernity, media and women in interwar Japan. Duke University Oress: Durham and London, 2003, xiii, 242 pp. ISBN:0-8223-3044 In: Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, No. 19, p. 114-116
Clausen, Lisbeth. 2004. Localizing the global : "Domestication" processes in international news production. In: Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 26, No. 1, p. 25-44
Kokko, Ari and Nanhee Lee 2004. ‘North Korea: From crisis to tentative reform’, paper prepared for International Policy Conference on Transition Economies, Hanoi: UNDP, May 31-June 1, 2004.
2003
Clausen, Lisbeth. 2003. Global News Communication Strategies : 9.11.2002 around the World.
In: N O R D I C O M Review, No. 1, p. 105-115
Clausen, Lisbeth. 2003 Global News Production. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press.
2001
Aggarwal Aradhna 2001 Technology Policies and Acquisition of technological Capabilities in the Industrial Sector : A Comparative Analysis of the Indian and Korean Experiences, Science, Technology and Society 2001, vol. 6, No. 2, July-December 2001, 255-304.
Blomström, Magnus and Ari Kokko 2001. ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers - Views on Japan and Asia Pacific’. International Journal of Technology Management 22 (5/6): 435-454.
Globerman, Steven and Ari Kokko 2001. ‘A New Millenium for Japanese-North American Economic Policy Relations?’ In M. Blomström, B. Gagnes, and S. LaCroix, (Eds.) Japan's New Economy: Continuity and Change in the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 263-285.
Kokko, Ari, Bruce Lambert, and Fredrik Sjöholm 2001. ‘Japan as Number Three: Effects of European Integration’. In M. Blomström, B. Gagnes, and S. LaCroix, (Eds.) Japan's New Economy: Continuity and Change in the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 286-306.