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Doctoral Program in Japanese Management

1. Introduction

The Department of Business Administration of the Graduate School of International Social Sciences (GSISS) at Yokohama National University (YNU) offers a Ph.D. degree program taught entirely in English: the Doctoral Program in Japanese Management.

Japanese firms and Japanese management practices have become well known all around the world. Japanese management covers many areas of business administration, including strategy, organization, management of technology, accounting, and management science. The many characteristics of Japanese management offer the opportunity to obtain meaningful insights through in-depth study and comparison with management characteristics of other countries and regions.

Our Japanese management program seeks to admit applicants who have a deep interest in Japanese management, sufficient masters degree level understanding of the relevant field(s) and have the potential to conduct high-level original research that furthers the understanding and the application of such management to new contexts. Graduates of the program will be well positioned to become either academic researchers who are deeply familiar with the essence of Japanese management and its relationship with global business or a business professionals with robust analytical skills.

2. Program Requirements

In order to obtain a Ph.D. in Business Administration, a student must successfully complete 20 credits or more, as described below, and then undertake the successful proposal, submission, and oral defense of a doctoral dissertation. An overall GPA of 2.0 (max: 4.5) or better for courses taken at YNU is also required for graduation.

Of the 20 credits:
Eight or more credits must be from lectures.

Eight credits must be from mandatory Seminars Ia, Ib, IIa, and IIb.

Four credits must be from Workshops I, II, III, and IV or Fieldwork.

3. Admission

The following webpage explains the procedure for applying to the Doctoral Program in Japanese Management.
//www.b.ynu.ac.jp/english/programs/japanese-management/admission.html

4. Doctoral Thesis Advisor

A student's doctoral thesis advisor is the faculty member whose Seminar serves as the primary vehicle for obtaining doctoral research guidance. The faculty members potentially available to become a thesis advisor to doctoral students in this program are as follows:

Business Administration AOKI Hiroshi KUMON Kurato TAKAI Ayako
FUTAGAMI Shiho MANABE Seiji TAKEUCHI Ryosuke
KISHI Naoko OGAWA Shinichi YAMAOKA Toru
KOBAYASHI Masayoshi YOKOZAWA Kodo KONO Hideko
SUN Ying SASAKI Hidetsuna ONUMA Masaya
KONDO Kumiko YANG Yunyue
Marketing TERAMOTO Takashi TSURUMI Hiroyuki MOTOHASHI Eiji
Accounting HARA Toshio MAEYAMA Nobuyuki SAITO Shinya
IZUMI Hiroyuki NAKAMURA Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI Masaru
KIMIJIMA Mikiko OMORI Akira OTAKA Satoru
TAKASU Yusuke
Finance ITO Yuki MORITA Hiroshi
Management Science GUO Peijun TANABU Motonari KURATA Hisashi
SUZUKI Kaori

*Details about each faculty member can be found via the following website.
http://www.b.ynu.ac.jp/english/faculty/index.html


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