YASUHIRO OCHIAI
y.ochiai@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp
PERSONAL DATA
Date of Birth: Apr. 2nd, 1973

EDUCATION
Apr. 2008 – Mar. 2014
Ph. D., Graduate School of Business Administration, KOBE UNIVERSITY
Apr. 2005 – Mar. 2007
MBA, Graduate School of Business Administration, KOBE UNIVERSITY
Apr. 1993 – Mar. 1997
Faculty of Commerce, KANSAI UNIVERSITYWORK EXPERIENCE
Apr. 2020 – present
Professor, Faculty of Management and Information, University of Shizuoka
Apr. 2018 – Mar. 2020
Associate Professor, Faculty of Management and Information, University of Shizuoka
Apr. 2014 – Mar. 2018
Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, Japan University of Economics
Apr. 1997 – Aug. 2011
Daiwa Securities Group Inc.

HONORS & AWARDS
2017 Japan Academy of Family Business Best Book Award
2017 Japan Society for Applied Management Nato Award

DOCTORAL THESIS“Business Succession Research of Family Businesses: Business Succession and Successor's
Behavior in Japanese Long-lived Companies”, Graduate School of Business Administration,
Kobe University doctoral thesis, 2014 (in Japanese)
PUBLICATIONS“Business Succession Management; How Companies Train Successors? ”, HAKUTO-SHOBO
publishing company, 2019 (in Japanese)

“Successor’s Dilemma; How do successors manage dilemma between constraints and autonomy
under predecessor’s generation?”, HAKUTO-SHOBO publishing company, 2016

(inJapanese)''Chapter13 Trans-generational entrepreneurship and survival of Japanese family businesses'', TheRoutledge Companion to Asian Family Business: Governance, Succession, and Challenges in
the Age of Digital Disruption, Routledge, 2021.

“ White Paper on Family Business 2022”, HAKUTO-SHOBO publishing company, 2022

(inJapanese)“ White Paper on Family Business 2018”, HAKUTO-SHOBO publishing company, 2018

(inJapanese)“White Paper on Family Business 2015”, DOYUKAN publishing company, 2015 (in Japanese)
JOURNAL ARTICLES''Proactive Behavior of Successors in Japanese Business Succession'', Entrepreneurship and Social
China, Japan, and South Korea, Nanjing University Press, pp.174-196, 2017.
“Succession and Generativity ”, Journal of Business Succession, 6, pp.18-29, 2017 (in Japanese)“Business Succession and Successor Legitimacy in Well-Established Family Companies in Japan”,
International Journal of Business and Information, 11 (3), pp.316-340, 2016.
“Succession and Transgenerational Behavior in Japanese Longevity Company: Case Study of
Yamatogawa Brewing Company in Fukushima”, Journal of Business Succession, 4, pp.64-79,
2015 (in Japanese)“Theoretical Studies in Business Succession of Japanese Well-established Companies : Challenges
and Implications from previous research, and Research Outlook”, The Bulletion of Graduate
School of Business JAPANUNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS, 3 (1), pp.143-161, 2014 (inJapanese)“The literature on business succession in family business”, Journal of Business Succession, 3, pp.5566, 2014 (in Japanese)“Business Succession and Proactive Behavior of Successor in Family Business ”, OrganizationalScience, 47 (3), pp.40-51, 2014 (in Japanese)“The Role of Manager in Business Succession”, Rokkodai Ronshu, 60 (3・4), pp.1-16, 2014 (inJapanese)“A Study on the Business Succession of Long-Established Family Firm”, journal of PracticalBusiness, 7 (1), pp.85-94, 2012 (in Japanese)

REGULAR COURSES AT UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA
Graduate School of Management and Information
Business Strategy Theory

Family Business Theory
School of Management and Information
Business Strategy Theory
Corporate Theory
Entrepreneurship Theory