Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at UC San Diego, at School of Global Policy and Strategy. She is the Director of JFIT (Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology), and head of the International Management track at the school. She is a global business researcher trained in the fields of business/applied economics and Japan studies M.A. and Dr. Phil. degrees in Japan Studies and Economics at the German Universities of Bonn and Marburg, respectively. Click here for her bio and CV .

Her core research interest is to analyze and juxtapose different systems of organizing business and capitalism, with the goal of identifying the social and economic efficiency consequences of these differences. Her mode of exploration is to study in great detail the business strategies and surrounding institutions of political economy and business culture of Japan — a system well-known to differ from the U.S. along important dimensions.

Ulrike is the author of 11 books and more than 50 papers on Japanese business organization, strategy and management. Her research interests include Japan’s changing corporate strategies in light of globalization and Japan’s business culture, as well as financial market reorganization, corporate governance, employment, manufacturing, and innovation in the new digital economy. She has spent more than nine years of research and study in Japan, including as a Professor and Visiting Scholar at Hitotsubashi University, the Bank of Japan, the Development Bank of Japan, and the Research Institutes of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and of the Ministry of Finance.

She currently serves as an Advisory Board member of IGPI, Inc. Japan, as well as a Fellow and Supporter of the “Initiative for Co-Creating the Future” (ICF) at the Mitsubishi Research Institute, and the Life Science Innovation Network Japan (LINK-J) in Tokyo. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at RIETI in Japan, and an Advisory Board member of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR Asia) in Seattle.

Ulrike is an Associate Editor of The Journal of the Japanese and International Economies.

At UC San Diego, she teaches classes on “Business Strategy and Negotiation”, “Managing Reinvention in a Disrupted World”, and “Business and Management in Japan”. 

Ulrike was born in Duisburg, a steel and coal town that was central to the industrial heartland of the former West Germany. She is trilingual and moved to the U.S. in the early 1990s. In addition to being a full professor at UC San Diego, in the U.S. she has been a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, Stanford University and Harvard Business School.

Books & Papers

 

Books

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  • “U.S.-Japan Business Relations and the Trade War with Asia”, in: Charting a Path for a Stronger U.S.-Japan Economic Partnership, The National Bureau of Asian Research, NBR Special Report #75, February 2019, pp.11-27

  • “The Impact of Japan on Western Management: Theory and Practice”, in: Nigel Holden, Snejina Michailova and Susanne Tietze (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management, New York: Routledge, 2015, pp. 49-57, with Christina L. Ahmadjian

  • “Corporate Governance Reform in Japan - Building a System for Long-Term Value Creation”, in: Kurt Sogner and Andrea Colli (eds.), The Emergence of Corporate Governance: People, Power and Performance, Routledge International Studies in Business History, London (2021), pp.152-169

  • “System Change and Corporate Reorganization in Japan: The Strategic Logic of Business Groups and Main Banks, Revisited”, in: , Syncretism: The Politics of Economic Restructuring and System Reform in Japan, edited by Kenji E. Kushida, Kay Shimizu and Jean E. Oi, Stanford: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2013, pp. 77-113.

  • “From Developmental State to the New Japan: The Strategic Inflection Point in Japanese Business”, in Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’: Causes, Legacies, and Issues of Transformative Change, edited by W. Miles Fletcher III and Peter W. von Staden, London: Routledge, 2012, pp.31-52.

  • “Changes in Main Bank Rescues during the Lost Decade: An Analysis of Corporate Restructuring in Japan, 1981-2007”, in Japan's Bubble, Deflation and Long-term Stagnation, edited by Anil Kashyap, David Weinstein, Koichi Hamada, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011, pp. 343-374, with Takeo Hoshi and Satoshi Koibuchi

Ulrike Schaede Japan Research Papers

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On Health and Health Care

  • “Sunshine and Suicides: Revisiting the Relevance of Economic Determinants of Suicides in Japan”, Contemporary Japan Vol. 25 No. 2, 2013, pp. 105-126.

  • “Shared Decision-Making and Patient Satisfaction in Japanese Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A New ‘Preference Fit’ Framework for Treatment Assessment”, Rheumatology and Therapy 2019, Vol. 6(2), pp. 269-83, with Jörg Mahlich and Rosarin Sruamsiri.

  • “Shared Decision-Making in Patients with Prostate Cancer in Japan: Patient Preferences Versus Physician Perceptions”, Journal of Global Oncology, 2017, pp.1-9, DOI: 10.1200/JGO.2016.008045 (lead author; with 8 others)

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