Transforming Japanese Business

I The Societal and Economic Outlook.- 1 Why Japan's digital transformation is inevitable (Anshuman Khare, Kriti Khare and William W. Baber).- 2 Rating Japan's Readiness for an Evolving Digital Economy (Jerry Platt).- 3 Digital Transformation Execution in Japan (Kieran Gane).- 4 Digital Transformation challenges in the Japanese Financial Sector: A practitioner's perspective (Raja Karim).- 5 The Japanese B2C Retail Industry in the Digital Age (Philippe Huysveld).- 6 Does the Japanese Work Ethic Conflict with the needs of Retail in the Digital Era? (Hiroki Ishikura and Anshuman Khare).- II Innovations in Businesses.- 7 Business Model Innovation: A Japanese SME driven to full digitalization by corporate philosophy (William W. Baber, Makoto Sarata and Muga Tsukamoto).- 8 A Study of a Three-part Entrepreneurial Strategy in an MRO e-Procurement Platform in Japan (Yutaka Mizuno and Nobutaka Odake).- 9 The Beginnings of Automated Loan Decisioning During Japan's Lost Decades ? The Case of Gate Finance (James Howard).- 10 Innovation of Small and Medium-sized Manufacturers in the Digital Age (Nobutaka Odake).- 11 Digitalization and evolution of business model pathways among Japanese software SMEs (William W. Baber, Arto Ojala and Ricardo Martinez).- 12 Digital Disruption in Japanese Market Research: Disrupters and a Startup Connecting Incumbents with New Technology (Genjiro Kosaka).- 13 Recovery from Significant Adversity: How Japanese Retailers Deal with Digital Disruption (Katrin Horn and Sierk Horn).- 14 Foreign investors' acceptance and usage of PropTech in the Japanese real estate market (Daniel J. Mills and David Gotsill).- III The Future.- 15 Artificial Intelligence in Japan: Policy, prospects and obstacles in the automotive industry (Faith Hatani).- 16 The Evolution and Strategic Operations Perspective on 3D Printing ? The Global and Japanese Experience (Abubaker Haddud, Anshuman Khare and Hiroki Ishikura).- 17 The future of Fintech in the context of the Japanese main

Anshuman Khare is a professor for Operations Management at Athabasca University, Canada. He joined Athabasca University in January 2000. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and has completed two post-doctoral terms at Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany. He is also a former Monbusho Scholar, having completed his postdoctoral assignment at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. He has published a number of books and research papers on a wide range of topics. His research focuses on environmental regulation impacts on industry, just-in-time manufacturing, supply chain management, sustainability, cities and climate change, online business education, etc. He is passionate about online business education. Anshuman serves as the editor of IAFOR Journal of Business and Management and associate editor of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education published by Emerald and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Applied Management and Technology.
Hiroki Ishikura is a professor at the Faculty of Commerce in Osaka Gakuin University, Japan, and used to be an assistant professor in Kyoto University. He received a Doctor of Engineering degree from Kyoto Institute of Technology and graduated from Fukui University textile engineering department. His research interests lie in manufacturing systems. He is closely involved with academic societies such as the International Journal of the Japan Society for Production Management (editor in chief), International Journal of Standardization (editor in chief), International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management (UK) (editorial board member), the Society for Standardization Research (Vice Chairman), the Japan Society for Production Management (President), the Textile Machinery Society of Japan (Fellow), International and Domestic Technologies, Japan (Secretariat), and Textile Research Journal, USA (reviewer).
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