Dr Maki Umemura

Articles

• 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. 2020. The defence of cosmopolitan capitalism by Sir Charles Addis, 1914-1919: a microhistorical study of a classical liberal banker in wartime. Business History (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. 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)

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.

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.

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