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Biography

Dr. Takahiro Endo joined the ������Ƶ as associate professor at Peter B. Gustavson Business School and Jarislowsky CAPI chair in East Asia (Japan) in September, 2021. Previously, he was an associate professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo and Kobe University after completing a 2-year postdoctoral research position at Cardiff University. He obtained PhD from Cardiff University, Wales, UK and an MA and BA from Hitotsubashi University. He has been a research fellow at Kobe University, RIEB (Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration) and a governing board member at King’s College London’s FinWork Future Research Centre.  

His scholarly interests lie in the translation of sustainability ideas and practice in business and management, legal structure and business organizations, commensuration processes and their impacts, and innovation and invention of tradition. As the principal investigator, he has conducted two JSPS (Japanese Society for Promoting Science) funded research projects examining corporate lobbying and its impacts in traditional and new economic sectors. Moreover, he has joined several inter-disciplinary and internationally funded projects examining the translation of renewable energy, commensuration in higher education and gender issues in professional service firms.

Selected publications

Journal publications

Azambuja, R., Baudot, L., Matsubara, S., Endo, T., & Wallace, D. (2026). ‘Unbecoming’ a professional: The role of memory during field transitions in Japan and the USA. Journal of Management Studies, 63(4), 1837–1873.

Azambuja, R., Baudot, L., Endo, T., & Matsubara, S. (2025). Closing the books or keeping them open? Identity work in partner retirement from Big 4 accounting firms. Contemporary Accounting Research, 42(3), 1839–1869.

Nicklich, M., Endo, T., & Sydow, J. (2023). Relational distance and transformative skills in fields: Wind energy generation in Germany and Japan. Management and Organization Review, 19(4), 685–714.

Wood, G., Finnegan, J. J., Allen, M. L., Allen, M., Cumming, D., Johan, S., Nicklich, M., Endo, T., Lim, S., & Tanaka, S. (2020). The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions. Socio-Economic Review, 18(1), 257–294.

Morris, J., Hassard, J., Delbridge, R., & Endo, T. (2019). Understanding managerial work in the modern Japanese firm: The influence of new organizational forms and changing human resource management practices. Economic and Industrial Democracy.

Morris, J., Delbridge, R., & Endo, T. (2018). The layering of meso-level institutional effects on employment systems in Japan. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 56(3), 603–630.

Matsubara, S., & Endo, T. (2018). The role of local accounting standard setters in institutional complexity: “Explosion” of local standards in Japan. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 31(1), 96–111.

Spence, C., Zhu, J., Endo, T., & Matsubara, S. (2017). Money, honour and duty: Global professional service firms in comparative perspective. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 62, 82–97.

Endo, T. (2017). Legal structure, business organisations and lobbying: The Japanese publishing sector, 1990–2001. Business History, 60(4), 492–511.

Endo, T., Tsuboyama, Y., & Hara, Y. (2016). Beyond taxation: Discourse around energy policy in Japan. Energy Policy, 98, 412–419.

Hara, Y., Endo, T., & Kobayashi, H. (2015). The hidden abode of network orchestration: The case of de-legitimated diesel cars in Japan. Industrial Marketing Management, 49, 15–21.

Endo, T., Delbridge, R., & Morris, J. (2015). Does Japan still matter? Past tendencies and future opportunities in the study of Japanese firms. International Journal of Management Reviews, 17(1), 101–123.

Aoki, K., Delbridge, R., & Endo, T. (2014). Japanese human resource management in post-bubble Japan. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25(18), 2551–2572.

Aoki, K., Delbridge, R., & Endo, T. (2011). Continuity and change in Japan’s automotive industry. Ivey Business Journal, January–February, 1–11.

Book chapters

Kosaka, G., Tsuboyama, Y., & Endo, T. (2025). Idea work beyond organizational boundaries: Framing and reframing projects on a crowdfunding platform. In Spaces for Creativity and Innovation Within and Across Organizational Boundaries (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 91, pp. 179–203). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Sydow, J., Schreyögg, G., & Endo, T. (2022). Industry dynamics and path dependencies: Wind energy in Europe and Asia. In M. Kipping, T. Kurosawa, & D. E. Westney (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics. Oxford University Press.

Endo, T., Fujiwara, M., & Tsuboyama, Y. (2021). Travelling management ideas: Agility in Japan. In The Agile Imperative (pp. 175–201). Palgrave Macmillan.

Delbridge, R., Endo, T., & Morris, J. (2019). Entrepreneurs or employees? The emergence of “disciplining entrepreneurialism” in subsidiary organizations at CyberAgent. In Managing Inter-organizational Collaborations: Process Views (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 64, pp. 163–183). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Matsubara, S., & Endo, T. (2017). The change and continuity of accounting professionals. In T. Nakano (Ed.), Japanese Management in Evolution: New Directions, Breaks, and Emerging Practices (pp. 278–292).