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Dr Maki Umemura
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Maki Umemura
Reader in International Management and Business History
Overview
Maki is a Reader in International Management and Business History. Her research has been concerned with the evolution of industries at the technological frontier. Maki has expertise in the political economy of biomedical innovation and the healthcare industry. A new strand of her research concerns green energy, energy transitions, and the strategies East Asian firms and government have adopted in the context of climate change.
Maki has attracted funding on projects relating to different aspects of innovation, including the Wellcome Trust, the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee and the Michelin Fellowship. She also been a visiting researcher at the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Maki is the Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History at Harvard Business School for 2023.
Maki teaches Asian Management Systems for final year undergraduates, International Management for postgraduates, and advises MSc and PhD students.
Maki is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, the Business History Conference, the Association of Business Historians and the Academy of Management. She is also on the editorial board of the journal, Business History. She is Chair of the Business School's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Forum and a member of the People Committee.
Publication
2022
- Smith, A. and Umemura, M. 2022. The defence of cosmopolitan capitalism by Sir Charles Addis, 1914-1919: a microhistorical study of a classical liberal banker in wartime. Business History 64(9), pp. 1666-1683. (10.1080/00076791.2020.1726891)
2021
- Ergen, T. and Umemura, M. 2021. Shifting patterns of expectations management in innovation policy: a comparative analysis of solar energy policy in the United States, Japan and Germany. Energy Research and Social Science 79, article number: 102177. (10.1016/j.erss.2021.102177)
- Morrison, M. and Umemura, M. 2021. Japan: A case study of national “readiness” for regenerative medicine. Open Access Government
- Umemura, M. and Morrison, M. 2021. Comparative lessons in regenerative medicine readiness: learning from the UK and Japanese experience. Regenerative Medicine 16(3), pp. 269-282. (10.2217/rme-2020-0136)
- Umemura, M. and Slater, S. 2021. Institutional explanations for local diversification: a historical analysis of the Japanese Beer Industry, 1952-2017. Journal of Strategic Marketing 29(1), pp. 71-92. (10.1080/0965254X.2019.1685567)
2019
- Smith, A. and Umemura, M. 2019. Prospects for a transparency revolution in the field of business history. Business History 61(6), pp. 919-941. (10.1080/00076791.2018.1439019)
- Umemura, M. 2019. Challenging the problem of 'fit': advancing the regenerative medicine industries in the United States, Britain and Japan. Business History 61(3), pp. 456-480. (10.1080/00076791.2018.1476496)
2017
- Umemura, M. and Slater, S. 2017. Reaching for global in the Japanese cosmetics industry, 1951 to 2015: the case of Shiseido. Business History 59(6), pp. 877-903. (10.1080/00076791.2016.1274735)
2013
- Umemura, M. 2013. Crisis and change in the system of innovation: the Japanese pharmaceutical industry during the lost decades, 1990-2010. Business History (10.1080/00076791.2013.847428)
2012
- Umemura, M. and Fujioka, R. eds. 2012. Comparative responses to globalization: Experiences of British and Japanese enterprises. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Umemura, M. 2012. Crisis and change in the system of innovation: the Japanese pharmaceutical industry since the 1990s. Presented at: Globalization of the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry: Strategies, Innovations, and Future Trends [NESACS symposium], Woburn, MA, USA, 13 September 2012.
- Kaizer, A., Umemura, M., Delbridge, R. and Morgan, G. 2012. Japanese management twenty years on: The contemporary relevance of Japanese management practices. Project Report. [Online]. London: Advanced Institute of Management Research. Available at: http://www.aimresearch.org/uploads/file/Publications/Executive%20Briefings%202/AIM_Japan_EB_FINAL.pdf
2011
- Umemura, M. 2011. Reviving tradition: patients and the shaping of Japan's traditional medicines industry. In: Francks, P. and Hunter, J. eds. The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 176-203.
- Umemura, M. 2011. A second-tier performance: reflections on Japan's pharmaceutical industry, 1945-2005. Japan Forum 23(2), pp. 207-233. (10.1080/09555803.2011.599122)
- Umemura, M. 2011. The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: its evolution and current challenges. Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia Vol. 101. Abingdon: Routledge.
2010
- Umemura, M. 2010. Reconsidering Japan's underperformance in pharmaceuticals: evidence from Japan's anticancer drug sector. Enterprise and Society 11(3), pp. 560-593. (10.1093/es/khq063)
Articles
- Smith, A. and Umemura, M. 2022. The defence of cosmopolitan capitalism by Sir Charles Addis, 1914-1919: a microhistorical study of a classical liberal banker in wartime. Business History 64(9), pp. 1666-1683. (10.1080/00076791.2020.1726891)
- Ergen, T. and Umemura, M. 2021. Shifting patterns of expectations management in innovation policy: a comparative analysis of solar energy policy in the United States, Japan and Germany. Energy Research and Social Science 79, article number: 102177. (10.1016/j.erss.2021.102177)
- Morrison, M. and Umemura, M. 2021. Japan: A case study of national “readiness” for regenerative medicine. Open Access Government
- Umemura, M. and Morrison, M. 2021. Comparative lessons in regenerative medicine readiness: learning from the UK and Japanese experience. Regenerative Medicine 16(3), pp. 269-282. (10.2217/rme-2020-0136)
- Umemura, M. and Slater, S. 2021. Institutional explanations for local diversification: a historical analysis of the Japanese Beer Industry, 1952-2017. Journal of Strategic Marketing 29(1), pp. 71-92. (10.1080/0965254X.2019.1685567)
- Smith, A. and Umemura, M. 2019. Prospects for a transparency revolution in the field of business history. Business History 61(6), pp. 919-941. (10.1080/00076791.2018.1439019)
- Umemura, M. 2019. Challenging the problem of 'fit': advancing the regenerative medicine industries in the United States, Britain and Japan. Business History 61(3), pp. 456-480. (10.1080/00076791.2018.1476496)
- Umemura, M. and Slater, S. 2017. Reaching for global in the Japanese cosmetics industry, 1951 to 2015: the case of Shiseido. Business History 59(6), pp. 877-903. (10.1080/00076791.2016.1274735)
- Umemura, M. 2013. Crisis and change in the system of innovation: the Japanese pharmaceutical industry during the lost decades, 1990-2010. Business History (10.1080/00076791.2013.847428)
- Umemura, M. 2011. A second-tier performance: reflections on Japan's pharmaceutical industry, 1945-2005. Japan Forum 23(2), pp. 207-233. (10.1080/09555803.2011.599122)
- Umemura, M. 2010. Reconsidering Japan's underperformance in pharmaceuticals: evidence from Japan's anticancer drug sector. Enterprise and Society 11(3), pp. 560-593. (10.1093/es/khq063)
Book sections
- Umemura, M. 2011. Reviving tradition: patients and the shaping of Japan's traditional medicines industry. In: Francks, P. and Hunter, J. eds. The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 176-203.
Books
- Umemura, M. and Fujioka, R. eds. 2012. Comparative responses to globalization: Experiences of British and Japanese enterprises. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Umemura, M. 2011. The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: its evolution and current challenges. Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia Vol. 101. Abingdon: Routledge.
Conferences
- Umemura, M. 2012. Crisis and change in the system of innovation: the Japanese pharmaceutical industry since the 1990s. Presented at: Globalization of the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry: Strategies, Innovations, and Future Trends [NESACS symposium], Woburn, MA, USA, 13 September 2012.
Monographs
- Kaizer, A., Umemura, M., Delbridge, R. and Morgan, G. 2012. Japanese management twenty years on: The contemporary relevance of Japanese management practices. Project Report. [Online]. London: Advanced Institute of Management Research. Available at: http://www.aimresearch.org/uploads/file/Publications/Executive%20Briefings%202/AIM_Japan_EB_FINAL.pdf
- Smith, A. and Umemura, M. 2022. The defence of cosmopolitan capitalism by Sir Charles Addis, 1914-1919: a microhistorical study of a classical liberal banker in wartime. Business History 64(9), pp. 1666-1683. (10.1080/00076791.2020.1726891)
- Smith, A. and Umemura, M. 2019. Prospects for a transparency revolution in the field of business history. Business History 61(6), pp. 919-941. (10.1080/00076791.2018.1439019)
- Umemura, M. 2019. Challenging the problem of 'fit': advancing the regenerative medicine industries in the United States, Britain and Japan. Business History 61(3), pp. 456-480. (10.1080/00076791.2018.1476496)
- Umemura, M. and Slater, S. 2017. Reaching for global in the Japanese cosmetics industry, 1951 to 2015: the case of Shiseido. Business History 59(6), pp. 877-903. (10.1080/00076791.2016.1274735)
- Umemura, M. 2013. Crisis and change in the system of innovation: the Japanese pharmaceutical industry during the lost decades, 1990-2010. Business History (10.1080/00076791.2013.847428)
- Umemura, M. and Fujioka, R. eds. 2012. Comparative responses to globalization: Experiences of British and Japanese enterprises. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Umemura, M. 2012. Crisis and change in the system of innovation: the Japanese pharmaceutical industry since the 1990s. Presented at: Globalization of the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry: Strategies, Innovations, and Future Trends [NESACS symposium], Woburn, MA, USA, 13 September 2012.
- Kaizer, A., Umemura, M., Delbridge, R. and Morgan, G. 2012. Japanese management twenty years on: The contemporary relevance of Japanese management practices. Project Report. [Online]. London: Advanced Institute of Management Research. Available at: http://www.aimresearch.org/uploads/file/Publications/Executive%20Briefings%202/AIM_Japan_EB_FINAL.pdf
- Umemura, M. 2011. Reviving tradition: patients and the shaping of Japan's traditional medicines industry. In: Francks, P. and Hunter, J. eds. The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 176-203.
- Umemura, M. 2011. A second-tier performance: reflections on Japan's pharmaceutical industry, 1945-2005. Japan Forum 23(2), pp. 207-233. (10.1080/09555803.2011.599122)
- Umemura, M. 2011. The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: its evolution and current challenges. Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia Vol. 101. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Umemura, M. 2010. Reconsidering Japan's underperformance in pharmaceuticals: evidence from Japan's anticancer drug sector. Enterprise and Society 11(3), pp. 560-593. (10.1093/es/khq063)
Research
Primary research interests
- Evolution of frontier industries (ex. biomedicine, renewable energy)
- Expectations in shaping technological development
PhD supervision research interests
- Evolution of frontier industries
- Innovation in East Asian firms
Teaching
Teaching commitments
- Asian Management Systems (final year undergraduate)
- International Management (second year undergraduate)
- PhD supervision
Biography
Qualifications
- London School of Economics and Political Science, PhD, Economic History
- Yale University, BA, History
Fellowship and Visiting Scholar positions
- Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar (2023), Business History Unit, Harvard Business School
- Visiting Fellow (2013-2015), Department of Political Economy, Kings College London
- Visiting Researcher (2015-2016), Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (France)
Honours and awards
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Professional memberships
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
Business History Conference (BHC)
Association of Business Historians (ABH)
Academy of Management (AOM)
Committees and reviewing
Academic and Professional Service
Committee activities
Chair, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Forum
Member, People Committee
Peer Review activities
- Journal Reviews: Business History, Enterprise & Society, Economic History Review, Energy Research & Social Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies
- Funding Reviews: U.S. National Science Foundation, Wales Heart Research Institute (WHRI) Cardiovascular Fund
Editorial work
- Editor, H-Business Listserv (2008-2019)
- Editorial board member, Revue d'histoire de l'énergie (2018- ), Business History (2020- )
Invited Talks & Lectures
- "Shifting Perceptions: Comparative Perspectives on Regenerative Medicine Development," European Tissue Repair Society, Cardiff (Upcoming, 3–5 September 2025).
- "Translational Medicine Pathways in the UK and Japan," School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University (11 July 2022).
- "Enhancing Business History Connections in the Post-COVID Era: Methodologies and Public Engagement," Mid-Year Business History Conference (28 September 2021).
- Earlier invited talks include engagements with the American Chemical Society (Northeastern Section, 2012) and the Korean Health Industry Development Institute (2013).
Advisory work
- Advisor, BBSRC project on Nanoscale Structural Characterisations of Ocular Tissues Derived from Human iPS Cells
- Expert, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
- Expert Advisor, Japanese Government-Supported Business History Projects (via Kreab)
Contact Details
UmemuraM@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 75484
Aberconway Building, Room Q07, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
+44 29208 75484
Aberconway Building, Room Q07, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Research themes
Specialisms
- 21st century
- Business and labour history
- Innovation
- International business