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写真a

 
SATO AKIKO
 
Organization
Faculty of Economics Department of Business and Technology Management Associate Professor
Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Sciences Department of Automotive Science(Concurrent)
Graduate School of Economics Department of Business and Technology Management(Concurrent)
School of Economics (Concurrent)
Title
Associate Professor
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多国籍企業の国際ビジネスを、国際化プロセス、政治経済学やグローバル全社戦略の視点で、調査、分析することを専門領域としている。特にエマージング・マーケットにて日々事業を行なっている日系多国籍企業に注目している。教育では、ビジネススクールのMBAの学生向けに、国際経営、アジアの産業と企業、ゼミを担当している。授業では、理論と実践の両輪を強力に推進し、学生が卒業後に学んだ理論を実務にて使いこなすことを目標に日々励んでいる。研究では、国際ビジネス、戦略経営、多国籍企業、エマージング・マーケット、制度的問題、を専門として、より実践的かつ実証的アプローチに取り組んでいる。特に企業に直接アプローチし、深く掘り下げるケーススタディに取り組んでいる。世界は広く、沢山のビジネスチャンスが転がっている。地方の中小企業も世界に進出する時代である。しかし、チャンスもリスクも国際規模になる為、しっかりとした準備、特に綿密な戦略を練ることは喫緊の課題である。ダイナミックな国際ビジネスの世界、特に複雑なエマージング・マーケットの制度的環境において、日系企業を中心とした勝ちパターンを追求している。

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Business administration

Education

  • Saint Petersburg State University   Graduate School of Management  

    - 2022.6

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    Country:Russian Federation

  • SKEMA Business School    

    - 2007.8

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    Country:France

Research Interests・Research Keywords

  • Research theme: Internationalization process and global strategy of Japanese multinational enterprises (MNEs)

    Keyword: Japanese MNEs, Internationalization of firms, Global strategy, Parent-subsidiary relationships

    Research period: 2018.9 - Present

  • Research theme: Institutional issues and non-market strategies in emerging markets

    Keyword: Institutions, emerging markets, non-market strategies, Informal institutions, Government-firms relationships

    Research period: 2018.9 - Present

Awards

  • 2nd prize, the Annual Conference of Eastern Perspectives

    2018.3   School of Asian Studies, Faculty of World Economy, and World Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University)   Entry Strategy of Japanese Companies in Russia

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    Award type:Award from international society, conference, symposium, etc.  Country:Russian Federation

Papers

  • Causal mechanisms of COVID-19 disruptive effects on liability of foreignness and the emergence of new firm-specific advantages Reviewed International coauthorship

    Akiko Sato, Andrei Panibratov

    International Business Review   32 ( 4 )   2023.8   ISSN:0969-5931

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    Authorship:Lead author, Corresponding author   Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)  

    There is the need for comprehensive research on the disruptive effects of COVID-19 on international business (IB) in preparation for future disruption. However, we know little about the causal mechanisms of the phenomenon which impacted IB. Based on a case study of a Japanese automotive firm in Russia, we investigate how firms tackle institutional entrepreneurship with firm-specific advantages to overcome the disruptive effects. Consequently, the pandemic increased institutional costs due to greater uncertainty in Russian regulatory institutions. To manage this, the firm developed new firm-specific advantages to deal with the increasing uncertainty of regulative institutions. The firm united with other firms to motivate public officials to advocate for semi-official debates. Our study contributes to extending intersecting studies on the liability of foreignness and firm-specific advantages through the lens of institutional entrepreneurship. We propose a holistic conceptual process model of the causal mechanisms and a novel construct for new firm-specific advantages.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102142

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    Open data URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123000422?via%3Dihub

  • Transforming the liability of outsidership into assets of outsidership: a comparative study of Japanese automotive subsidiaries in Russia Reviewed International coauthorship

    Akiko Sato, Andrei Panibratov

    Asia Pacific Business Review   30 ( 1 )   72 - 93   2022.5   ISSN:1360-2381 eISSN:1743-792X

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    This study investigates the mechanisms that transform the liability of outsidership into assets of outsidership. Debates on transforming the liability of foreignness into assets of foreignness have been emerging, but transforming the liability of outsidership into assets of outsidership remains unclear. Drawing on organizational learning perspectives, we provide a comparative study of Japanese automotive subsidiaries in Russia. We suggest that advanced economy multinational enterprises in emerging markets benefit from local networks with a local partner but not from non-experience-based firm-specific advantages. Our study contributes to current debates in the literature by presenting the novel concept of ‘assets of outsidership’ and discussing the mechanisms of this transformation.

    DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2022.2079280

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    Open data URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602381.2022.2079280

  • Revisiting the concepts of liability of foreignness and liability of outsidership from foreign subsidiary management perspective Reviewed

    Akiko Sato

    Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Management   21 ( 1 )   19 - 46   2022.6   ISSN:1605-7953 eISSN:2587-5868

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    Authorship:Lead author, Corresponding author   Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:Saint Petersburg State University  

    The concepts of liability of foreignness and liability of outsidership have been central in international business research. The Uppsala model explains that firms often face obstacles and opportunities in management practices in a host market when internationalizing abroad. International business scholars discussed these concepts redundantly but vaguely in the literature. Only a few literature sources defined and utilized the concepts clearly over the last decade, however, it has not been demonstrated how the key constructs help to explain firms’ foreign subsidiary management. Therefore, the study reconsiders the concepts and identifies a proper utilization of the concepts in the texts drawing on an intensive systematic literature review in the leading international business and strategy journals from 2011 to 2021. The study also analyzes the articles in which the authors find ambiguous and overlapping use of the concepts by clarifying key constructs as identifiers. The study integrates defensive and offensive options for overcoming liability of foreignness and liability of outsidership into our conceptual model of operational structures from the foreign subsidiary management perspectives. The study contributes by providing a novel intensive literature review of the concepts over the last decade; by clarifying the key identifiers to distinguish the concepts in the leading international business and strategy journals; by proposing newly integrated conceptual models of defensive and offensive options from foreign subsidiary management perspectives with the focus on intra-organizational structures for operational aspects.

    DOI: 10.21638/11701/spbu08.2022.102

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    Repository Public URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2324/7360329

Presentations

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Academic Activities

  • Ad-hoc reviewer International contribution

    Role(s): Peer review

    Asia Pacific Business Review (5-year IF: 2.6 in 2023)  2022.8 - Present

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  • Reviewer International contribution

    Role(s): Peer review

    Academy of Management Annual Meeting  2018 - Present

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  • Reviewer International contribution

    Role(s): Peer review

    Academy of International Business Annual Meeting  2018 - Present

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  • Reviewer International contribution

    Role(s): Peer review

    European International Business Academy  2018 - Present

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Class subject

  • アジアの産業と企業

    2025.10 - 2026.3   Second semester

  • プロジェクト演習

    2025.4 - 2026.3   Full year

  • 国際経営

    2025.4 - 2025.9   First semester

  • グローバル経営

    2025.4 - 2025.9   First semester

Visiting, concurrent, or part-time lecturers at other universities, institutions, etc.

  • 2018  The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy, and Public Administration (RANEPA)  Classification:Part-time lecturer  Domestic/International Classification:Overseas 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration:Winter-Spring semester

Social Activities

  • ロシアにおける人材マネジメントと、サンクトペテルブルグ国立大学の研究センターのご紹介

    Role(s):Lecturer

    サンクトペテルブルグ日本商工会  月次会議  2018.12

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    Audience:Company, Governmental agency

    Type:Lecture