Dr Maki Umemura
Lecturer in International Business
- umemuram@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)2920 875 484
- Q07, Adeilad Aberconwy, Rhodfa Colum, Cathays, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
Qualifications
- London School of Economics and Political Science, PhD (Economic History)
Additional activities
- Expert, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
- Referee, Business History, Australian Economic History Review, Japan Forum
- Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Economy, Kings College London
- Visiting Researcher, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (France)
Editorial work
- Editor, H-Business Listserv
2019
- Umemura, M. and Slater, S. 2019. Institutional explanations for local diversification: A historical analysis of the Japanese Beer Industry 1952-2017. Journal of Strategic Marketing (10.1080/0965254X.2019.1685567)
- 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)
2017
- Umemura, M. and Slater, S. 2017. Reaching for global in the Japanese cosmetics industry, 1951 to 2015: the case of Shiseido. Business History, pp. 1. (10.1080/00076791.2016.1274735)
2013
- 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)
2012
- Umemura, M. and Fujioka, R. eds. 2012. Comparative responses to globalization: Experiences of British and Japanese enterprises. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- 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.
- Kaizer, A.et al. 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
2011
- 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.
- 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. 2011. The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: its evolution and current challenges. Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia Vol. 101. Abingdon: Routledge.
2010
- 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)
Teaching commitments
- International Business
- International Economic History
- Japanese and Asian Management Systems
Primary research interests
- Asian business
- Comparative business history
- Innovation, regulation, and the impact of globalisation
PhD supervision research interests
- Comparative business history
- Innovation, regulation, and the impact of globalisation
- Japanese business
Research projects
Maki has lead the following projects
- Building innovative competences through public innovation policy: technological frontiers in biomedicine and renewable energy
1 May 2015 to 30 September 2016
Sponsored by the Michelin Fellowship
Led by Dr Maki Umemura
Award type: Research
- Innovative capacities of R& D in the regenerative medicine industry in Japan and the UK through case studies of therapeutic developments, such as in stem cell therapy
1 January 2014 to 30 March 2015
Sponsored by The Great Britian Sasakawa Foundation
Led by Dr Maki Umemura
Award type: Research