The Science of
Corporate Management for a
ICC
International Research
Centre of Centennial
Management
Sustainable Society :
Exploring Management That Is Old yet New
Head of the center
Dr.Shigemi Furuta
Visiting Scholar, Roger King Center of Family Business and Family Office, HKUST Hong Kong, China
After studying at Hong Kong's graduate school at public expense, Dr. Shigemi Furuta became the first Japanese to join the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), a quasi-governmental agency of the Hong Kong government, where she received training in Hong Kong industry and world trade. After working in export support services to Eastern Europe and the Australian market, she was engaged in Hong Kong's export activities to Japan, which began in the 1980s. As part of the Japan Section of the Council, she was involved in the Japan-led development and importation from major distributors of Hong Kong, and dramatically expanded Hong Kong's functions for Japan.
Later, as Director of Japan, Dr. Furuta was engaged in multilateral trade between Japan, Hong Kong and China. During this time, she has provided many know-hows and tips to Hong Kong and Japanese companies on how to develop trade between Hong Kong and Japan.
She will share her experience and knowledge to help Hong Kong and Japanese companies to further develop and prosper in international trade.
Operating Members
Dr. Ayako MORISHITA
Professor, Japan University of Economics, School of Management
Tokyo,Japan
Ph. D in engineering, she teaches mathematics, worked in R&D in manufacturing sectors of Japan, where she became interested in the business continuity of Japanese firms, began intensive research on Shinise with Prof. T. Goto
Dr.Tomohiro SEKI
Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Doshisha University
Kyoto,Japan
Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Doshisha University
Specializes in: Small Business Studies, Entrepreneurship, Small Business Management
Main research themes: Small-scale businesses, entrepreneurship, small business management, craft beer
Research field: Humanities & social sciences / Business administration / SMEs and Entrepreneurship
Career: Professor, Doshisha University (April 2018 - present), Associate Professor, Doshisha University (April 2015 - March 2018), Professor, Hannan University (April 2014 - March 2015), Associate Professor, Hannan University (April 2009 - March 2014), Full-time Lecturer, Hannan University (April 2006 - March 2009)
Education: Doctoral Program, Kobe University of Commerce (April 2002 - March 2006), Master's Program, Kobe University of Commerce (March 2000 - April 2002), Undergraduate, Kobe University of Commerce (April 1997 - March 2000)
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Herdecke University
Witten,Germany
Dr.Tom A. Rüsen
Prof. Dr. Tom A. Rüsen
honorary professor at the Faculty of Economics at Witten/Herdecke University
CEO of the non-profit WIFU Foundation
Visiting professor at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Board Member of the International Family Business Research Academy (IFERA)
member of the commission of the Governance Code for Family Businesses and the editorial
advisory board of the Journal for Family Business and Strategy.
In 2024 he was named by Family Capital to be one of the World Top 25 Family Enterprise
Acade
He is an expert of family business, succession, crisis management, the development of family
strategies and family-internal (self-)management systems. Conducts open and in-house
programmes for shareholder competence development in business families.
Dr. SHEN, Ye
Professor, School of Management, Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Shen Ye, Doctor of Education from Tsinghua University, Assistant Secretary-General of the International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE) of UNESCO, Secretary-General of the Global Partnership Committee; Director of the Editorial Board of EER (Engineering Education Review) English International Journal, and Research Director of the Cultural Economy Research Institute of Tsinghua University.
Main research areas: brand development and family inheritance of time-honored enterprises, global leadership of expatriate managers from Chinese enterprises, and industry-university cooperation in engineering education. Author of 'Global Leadership - The Excellence Path of Expatriate Managers from Chinese Enterprises'.
Dr.Tomasz Olejniczak
Professor, Department of Management, Kozminski University
Warsaw,Poland
dr hab. prof. ALK Tomasz Olejniczak is an associate professor at the Department of Management, Kozminski University, and Director of Center for Business History. He is a graduate of Japanese studies at the University of Warsaw and management at the University of Tokyo. In 2012, he started working at the Department of Management at Kozminski University, where he obtained his PhD in 2014 and habilitation in 2021. He is a fellow of the Japanese Ministry of Education and the Japan Foundation. His research interests include organizational longevity, continuity, business history, and business archives.
Advisory Board Members
Prof. Toshio GOTO
Representative Director, Research Institute of Centennial Management, Professor, Japan University of Economics, School of Management
Tokyo,Japan
Toshio Goto is Research Professor, Japan University of Economics, Tokyo, Japan,
with an established background in both academia and business management in various capacities worldwide. He is concurrently Representative Director, Research Institute of Centennial Management,& Executive Director, Japanese Civilization Institute. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from Harvard University. His background is in business strategies and his research focuses on strategies for sustainable growth, specializing in family businesses. In April 2011,he was appointed as the first Dean of Faculty of Management at Japan University of Economics Shibuya Campus Tokyo. His business background includes marketing, sales, corporate entrepreneurship,and strategic management in both Japan and the United States. His publications include the Family Business Yearbook (2015, 2018, 2022), which he edited and co-authored, Public-minded ethical life of family businesses in Japan as a key factor of community resilience in times of crisis. In East Asian Ethical Life and Socio-Economic Transformation in the Twenty-First Century, 2024, Routledge. and many others.
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