Yuko Aoyama
Professor, Geography
Associate Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Studies
Scholarly Interests
Economic Geography; Technological and Social Innovation; Industrial Organization, Autonomous Vehicles; Japan, India, United States, Spain
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Professor Yuko Aoyama is an economic/industrial geographer with expertise in globalization, industrial organization, technological innovation, and cultural economy. Her research interest lies in developing geographic understandings of global capitalisms from institutional and comparative perspectives. Her work demonstrates how various industrial sectors and entrepreneurs sustain economic distinctiveness in spite of globalization, in the USA, Japan, Spain, and India. She has conducted research in a variety of industries, ranging from electronics, video games and logistics to autonomous vehicles, wind energy, and tourism. Her recent work on India focused on cross-domain collaborations between for-profit and non-profit organizations that induce social innovation. She is currently interested in advancing research on technological and institutional aspects of the mobility revolution.
Professor Aoyama received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been awarded an Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, Bellagio Academic Residency from the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as research grants form the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, and the Association of Asian Studies.
Professor Aoyama currently serves as the Associate Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, for which she is responsible for managing the Office of Sponsored Programs and Research; providing oversight for graduate programs in Arts and Sciences and research centers; designing and launching workshops for faculty and graduate students; coordinating with Corporate and Foundation Relations (University Advancement) and Marketing and Communications to raise the profile of research on campus; providing strategic inputs to Research Board, Graduate Board and the provost management group; and serving as administrative representatives for faculty search committees.
Courses offered:
GEOG 016: Introduction to Economic Geography
GEOG 152: Geography of Globalization
GEOG 107: Miracles of Asia — Economic Growth in Global Contexts
GEOG 256: Global Economic Geographies
GEOG 257: Internet Geography
GEOG 314: Proposal Writing
GEOG 362: Seminar on Globalization
GEOG 365: Graduate Seminar in Economic Geography
GEOG 396.3: Distributive Political EconomyDegrees
- Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
- M.A. in Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990
- B.A. in Liberal Arts (Social Sciences), International Christian University, 1986
Affiliated Department(s)
- Geography Department
- Marsh Institute
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Industry Emergence and Market Capture: The Rise of Autonomous Vehicles
Published in Technology Forecasting and Social Change
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2022
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Vol. 180
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Published in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
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2021
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Vol. 14
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Issue #2
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Urban Governance and Autonomous Vehicles
Published in Cities
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2021
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Vol. 119
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Globalisation, uneven development and the North–South ‘big switch’
Published in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
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2018
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Vol. 11
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When Both the State and Market Fail: Inclusive Development and Social Innovation in India
Published in Area Development and Policy
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2018
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Vol. 3
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Issue #3
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Published in Energy Research and Social Science
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2018
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Vol. 41
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When both the state and market fail: inclusive development and social innovation in India
Published in Area Development and Policy
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2018
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Vol. 3
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Issue #3
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Fragmented authorities, institutional misalignments, and challenges to renewable energy transition: A case study of wind power curtailment in China
Published in Energy Research & Social Science
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2018
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Vol. 41
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The Rise of the Hybrid Domain: Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation
AAG Review of Books
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2018
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Vol. 6
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Issue #2
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Nature, Choice and Social Power
AAG Review of Books
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2017
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Vol. 5
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Collaborative Social Innovation in the Hybrid Domain
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2017
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The Rise and Fall of Urban Economics: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles
AAG Review of Books
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2017
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Vol. 5
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Deploying ICTs for Development: An Evolutionary Perspective
Published in Information Technologies & International Development
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2017
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Vol. 13
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Choudrie, J. et a. (eds.) IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technologies
Chapter: Collaborative Social Innovation in the Hybrid Domain: Organization and RationalityPublished by Springer
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2017
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Reorienting the drivers of development: alternative paradigms
Published in Area Development and Policy
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2016
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Vol. 1
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Issue #3
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The rise of the hybrid domain: Collaborative governance for social innovation
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2016
Edward Elgar Publishing
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Insurgencies and Revolutions: Reflections on John Friedmann's Contributions to Planning Theory and Practice
Chapter: Business in the public domainPublished by Routledge
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2016
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Area development and policy: An agenda for the 21st century
Published in Area Development and Policy
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2016
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Vol. 1
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Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development
The AAG Review of Books
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2015
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Technologies for Development: What is Essential?
Chapter: Innovating for the bottom of the pyramid: Case studies in healthcare from IndiaPublished by Springer Verlag
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2015
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Sir Peter Hall: From Kondratieff Waves to the Soul of the Delta
Published in Built Environment
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2015
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Vol. 41
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The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region
Chapter: The IT industry in Japan: entrepreneurship and servicizationPublished by Routledge
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2013
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Handbook of Industry Studies and Economic Geography
Chapter: Innovation, industry evolution and cross-sectoral skill transfer in the video game industry: a three-country studyPublished by Edward Elgar
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2013
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Research and development facilities of multinational enterprises in India
Published in Eurasian Geography and Economics
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2012
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Vol. 53
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Issue #6
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Emerging themes in economic geography: outcomes of the economic geography 2010 workshop
Published in Economic Geography
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2011
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Vol. 87
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Teleology, contexts, and agency in Sheppard's sociospatial ontology
Published in Dialogues in Human Geography
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2011
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Vol. 1
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Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth
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2011
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World development report 2009: Reshaping economic geography, by the World Bank
Journal of Regional Science
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2010
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Vol. 50
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Issue #5
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Key concepts in economic geography
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2010
Sage
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Limits to FDI-driven growth in Ireland: a newspaper content analysis for investment, upgrading and divestment
Published in Irish Geography
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2009
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Vol. 42
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A Review of Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific -- PW Daniels and JW Harrington, eds.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
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2009
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Vol. 99
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Artists, tourists, and the state: Cultural tourism and the flamenco industry in Andalusia, Spain
Published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
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2009
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Vol. 33
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Entrepreneurship and regional culture: The case of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, Japan
Published in Regional Studies
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2009
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Vol. 43
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Consumption-Centered Research for Diverse Urban Economies
Published in Urban Geography
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2009
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Vol. 30
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User-led innovation and the video game industry
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2008
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Locating backup facilities to enhance supply chain disaster resilience
Published in Growth and Change
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2008
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Vol. 39
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Societies and Cities in the Age of Instance Access
Chapter: Inter-firm relations in the age of instant access: Case of the US logistics industryPublished by Springer
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2007
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Oligopoly and the structural paradox of retail TNCs: an assessment of Carrefour and Wal-Mart in Japan
Published in Journal of Economic Geography
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2007
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Vol. 7
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Trust, transactions, and information technologies in the US logistics industry
Published in Economic Geography
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2007
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Vol. 83
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The role of consumption and globalization in a cultural industry: The case of flamenco
Published in Geoforum
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2007
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Vol. 38
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From software services to R&D services: local entrepreneurship in the software industry in Bangalore, India
Published in Environment and Planning A
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2006
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Vol. 38
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Organizational dynamics of the US logistics industry: an economic geography perspective
Published in The Professional Geographer
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2006
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Vol. 58
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Industry evolution and cross-sectoral skill transfers: a comparative analysis of the video game industry in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom
Published in Environment and planning A
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2006
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Vol. 38
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Wal-Mart World
Chapter: The myth of Wal-Martization: retail globalization and local competition in Japan and GermanyPublished by Routledge
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2006
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Modeling the impact of business-to-business electronic commerce on the organization of the logistics industry
Published in Geographical Analysis
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2005
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Vol. 37
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Retail and Distribution in the Information Age: A Research Agenda for Economic Geography
Published in Annals of the Japanese Economic Geographers
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2005
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Vol. 51
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Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture
Chapter: Creative resources of the Japanese video game industryPublished by Routledge
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2004
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Chapter: New digital geographies: Information, communication, and placePublished by Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2004
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From mail order to e-commerce: Competition, regulation, and politics of nonstore retailing in Germany
Published in Urban Geography
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2004
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Vol. 25
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Hardware gimmick or cultural innovation? Technological, cultural, and social foundations of the Japanese video game industry
Published in Research policy
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2003
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Vol. 32
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Sociospatial dimensions of technology adoption: recent M-commerce and E-commerce developments
Published in Environment and Planning A
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2003
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Vol. 35
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Theorizing Globalization: A Prospective for Economic Geography
Published in Annals of the Japanese Economic Geographers
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2003
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Vol. 49
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The dialectics of geographic and virtual spaces
Published in Environment and Planning A
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2003
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Vol. 35
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Estudio empirico de la sociedad de la informacion. Composicion del empleo en los paises del G7 de 1920 a 2000
Published in Revista Internacional del Trabajo
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2002
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Vol. 121
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Une evaluation empirique de la soci\'et\'e informationnelle: structures de I'emploi dans les pays du G7, 1920--2000
Published in Revue internationale du travail
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2002
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Vol. 141
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An empirical assessment of the informational society: Employment and occupational structures of G-7 countries, 1920-2000
Published in International Labour Review
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2002
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Vol. 141
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Mapping Globalization
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
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2002
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Vol. 92
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JSTOR
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Worlds of Electronic Commerce
Chapter: The Information Society, Japanese Style: Corner Stores as Hubs for E-Commerce AccessPublished by Wiley
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2001
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Worlds of e-commerce: Economic, geographical, and social dimensions
Chapter: The information society, Japanese style: corner stores as hubs for e-commerce accessPublished by John Wiley
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2001
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Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific: Contested Territories
Economic Geography
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2001
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Vol. 77
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Structural foundations for e-commerce adoption: A comparative organization of retail trade between Japan and the United States
Published in Urban Geography
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2001
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Vol. 22
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Cities in the telecommunications age: the fracturing of geographies
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2000
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Cities in the telecommunications age: The fracturing of geographies
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2000
Routledge
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Networks, keiretsu, and locations of the Japanese electronics industry in Asia
Published in Environment and Planning A
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2000
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Vol. 32
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Cities and Telecommunications at the Millennium's End: Exclusion and Empowerment for Real and Virtual Communities
Published in Urban Geography
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1999
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Vol. 20
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Policy interventions for industrial network formation: contrasting historical underpinnings of the small business policy in Japan and the United States
Published in Small Business Economics
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1999
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Vol. 12
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The location of foreign direct investment: Geographic and business approaches
The Professional Geographer
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1997
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Vol. 49
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Local economic revitalization or national industrial growth? A comparative overview of small business policy in Japan and the US
Published in Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies
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1996
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Vol. 8
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From fortress Japan to global networks: locational Specificity of Globalization for the Japanese Electronics Industry in the 1990s
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1996
University of California, Berkeley
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Small business policy in Japan and the United States: a comparative analysis of objectives and outcomes
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1996
Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
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Integrating Business and Location: An Overview of Two Theoretical Frameworks on Multinational Firms
Published in Berkeley Planning Journal
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1996
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Vol. 11
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Vers la societe de l'information: structures de l'emploi dans les pays du G-7 de 1920 a 1990
Published in Revue internationale du travail
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1994
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Vol. 133
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Paths towards the informational society: Employment structure in G-7 countries, 1920-90
Published in International Labour Review
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1994
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Vol. 133
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Hacia la sociedad de la informaci\'on: Estructura del empleo en los pa\'\ises del G-7 de 1920 a 1990
Published in Revista internacional del trabajo
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1994
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Vol. 113
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Paths towards the informational society: A comparative analysis of the transformation of employment structure in the G-7 countries, 1920-2005
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1993
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Japanese investment in the United States: the case of real estate investment in downtown Los Angeles
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1990
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California's Asian Population: Past Trends and Projections for the Year 2000
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1989
Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
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Awards & Grants
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Institutional Project Support (IPS) Program
Japan Foundation
Jan. 1, 2023 - Dec. 31, 2025
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Salary Assistance for Japanese Language Courses
Japan Foundation
Jan. 1, 2022 - Dec. 31, 2022
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The Global Shift in R&D Alliances: Multinational Enterprises and the Quest for the "Base of the Pyramid" Markets
National Science Foundation
Aug. 8, 2011 - Jun. 30, 2016
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The Global Shift in R&D Alliances (REU Supplement
National Science Foundation
Aug. 31, 2014 - Jun. 30, 2016
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Academic Writing Residency
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center
Jun. 19, 2015 - Jul. 12, 2015
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Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Logistics Industry: Inter-firm networks, Technology and Globalization
National Science Foundation
Jun. 7, 2004 - May. 31, 2008
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Geography of Cultural Production in the Age of Globalization
National Geography Society
Jul. 1, 2005 - Aug. 31, 2007
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Entrepreneurship in the Information Age
National Science Foundation
Jan. 1, 2001 - Jun. 30, 2004
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Abe Fellowship
Social Science Research Council
Jul. 1, 2001 - Dec. 31, 2002
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