Associate Professor

Ryoko Toyama (2001-)

<Degrees> Bachelor and Master degrees in commerce from Hitotsubashi University (1987,1989), Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Michigan (1997) <Professional Career> Associate, JAIST (1998-2001)

[Japanese/ English ]

Specialties

International Business, Cooperate Strategy, Technology Management

Research Interests

My research interest is in how a firm manages its technologies and innovation process. A firm can build a firm-specific resources that give the firm competitive advantages, and my research is about how a firm can build such resources through its technology strategy. Enspecially, how a firm builds its technological competence by conducting global R&D.

Selected Publications

• “Catch up of semiconductor latecomers in China.”, Chen, D. C. and Toyama, R., International Journal of Emerging Markets. 1(3). pp.247-261, 2006
• “Knowledge Creation as a Synthesizing Process.”, Nonaka, Ikujiro and Ryoko Toyama, in Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka eds., Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management. John Wiley & Sons, 2003
• “The Knowledge-creating theory revisited: knowledge creation as a synthesizing process.”, Nonaka, Ikujiro and Ryoko Toyama, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 1, 1, pp2-10, 2003
• 「研究開発の国際化」, 遠山亮子, 野中郁次郎編著、イノベーションとベンチャー企業、, 第7章, pp.203-216. , 2002
• “A firm as a dialectical being: towards a dynamic theory of a firm.” , Nonaka, Ikujiro and Ryoko Toyama , Industrial and Corporate Change, 11, 5, pp.995-1009, 2002
• “Emergence of “Ba”: A Conceptual Framework for Continuous and Self-transcending Process of Knowledge Creation.” , Nonaka, Ikujiro, Noboru Konno, and Ryoko Toyama , Nonaka, I. and T. Nishiguchi (eds.), Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation. Oxford University Press. , 2001
• “FIT and ART: An Integrated IT System for Knowledge Creation.” , Nonaka, Ikujiro, Patrick Reinmoeller, and Ryoko Toyama , In Dierkes, M., A. Antal, J. Child, and I. Nonaka (Eds), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge, Oxford University Press. , 2001
• “A Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation: Understanding the Dynamic Process of Creating Knowledge.” , Nonaka, Ikujiro, Ryoko Toyama, and Phillipe Byosiere , In Dierkes, M., A. Antal, J. Child, and I. Nonaka (Eds), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge, Oxford University Press. , 2001
• “A Firm as a Knowledge Creating Entity: A New Perspective on the Theory of the Firm.”, Nonaka, Ikujiro, Ryoko Toyama, and Akiya Nagata, Industrial and Corporate Chang, 9, 1, 1月20日, 2000

Other Activities

• The Academy of Management, Member (1992-),
• The Association of Japanese Business Studies, Member (1995-),

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