"Covid-19 and telework: An international comparison" Demographic Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Consequences, Wittgenstein Centre Conference December 1, 2020

Does Knowledge Transfer Influence Host Country Local's Turnover?: In the Context of a Korean MNC. SMS Virtual Conference, October 29, 2020

Dynamic process model of digital transformation: Process Details. Japan Marketing Academy, Marketing Conference, October 17, 2020

Lifetime Advantage at the Top? The Norm of Lifetime Employment and CEO Succession in Japan, 13th Annual People and Organizations Conference, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Online), October 2-3. 2020

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While much research has examined how corporate governance affects employment relations, the present study is one of very few that explores how the latter affects the former. Specifically, we examine how the changing nature of employment relations affects CEO succession in Japan. While known for their strong norm of lifetime employment, Japanese firms began to depart from it after the country's economic bubble burst in the early 1990s. We argue that the ensuing transformation of employment relations has had a long-term impact on executive succession, because it has altered the composition of groups competing for executive positions and fueled intra-organizational power struggles. Analyzing careers of all executive board members at all non-financial firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange from 1992 to 2012, we find that despite the weakening of the norm of lifetime employment, board members who were lifetime employees (lifetimers) enjoyed some premium in the competition for CEO succession. The relative advantage of this group, however, significantly declined in the 2000s. More strikingly, outsiders, defined as those who joined the company as executive board members, came to enjoy a larger premium than lifetimers, especially when the company's board consisted of few lifetimers. Our analysis demonstrates the utility of studying CEO succession as part of the broader labor market and as the result of cumulative processes that push up certain groups of employees over others.

"Taylor Rule Yield Curve" presented at 2020 Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting (Virtual Conference) on October 2, 2020

Taylor rule yield curve, European Economic Association Annual Congress 2020 Online, August 25, 2020

The Effects of Diversity on New Product Creativity, 27th Innovation and Product Development Conference (IPDMC) , Online, June 7-9, 2020

Welfare States and the Redistribution of Happiness. Presented at Deutsche Institute of J apan, DIJ Forum