Faculty Information - NATSUDA Kaoru

■ Education

1.	2000/02～2005/12	〔Doctorial Course〕 Ph.D in Economics (Political Economy), School of Economics and Political Science, The University of Sydney, Completed, Ph.D in Economics (Political Economy)
2.	1998/09～1999/12	〔Master Course〕 MA in International Development Studies, Development and Project Planning Centre, The University of Bradford, UK, Completed, MA in International Development Studies

■ Academic and professional experience

1.	2023/04～	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Studies, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies Professor
2.	2019/03～2020/09	Budapest Business School (BGE) Hungary Faculty of International Management and Business Visiting Professor
3.	2015/10～2016/03	Charles University in Prague Czech Republic Institute of East Asian Studies Visiting Scholar
4.	2016/04～2023/03	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of International Management, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies Professor
5.	2010/04～2016/03	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of International Management, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies Associate Professor
6.	2007/04～2010/03	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Management Assistant Professor
7.	2005/06～2007/03	Ernst & Young Shin Nihon ODA Department International Consultant
8.	2001/03～2005/04	AICL Education Marketing Manager
9.	1996/04～1998/05	Hitachi Metals Ltd. Production Control Department Production Controller
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■ Current specialized field

International Development Studies, International Political Economy, International Management, Area studies (Key Word：Industrial Development, Industrial Policy, Global Value Chain, Automotive Industry, Apparel Industry, Regional Development, Social Capital, One Village One Product, Southeast Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Japanese Firms and FDI)

■ Books and theses

1.	2023/09	Article	Global Value Chains and Knowledge Spillover to Local Economy in Visegrad 4 Countries Society and Economy (Journal of the Corvinus University of Budapest) 45(3),pp.293-312 (Collaboration)
2.	2023/04	Book	National Cars and Product Champions: Ways Forward for Vietnam’s Automotive industry? in Tribe, M and Kararach, G (eds.) The Political Economy of Global Manufacturing, Business and Finance pp.121-145 (Collaboration)
3.	2023/04	Article	Challenges in the Development of the Extractive Industries Sector in Tajikistan: The Case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative RCAPS Working Paper RWP-23001 (Collaboration)
4.	2022/12	Article	Developing a Supply Chain Network: The Case of Magyar Suzuki in Hungary Acta Oeconomica (AK Journals - the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 72(4),pp.531-552 (Collaboration)
5.	2022/03	Article	Industrial Policy and Automotive Development: A Comparative Study of Thailand and Czechia Eurasian Geography and Economics (Routledge) 63(2),pp.212-238 (Collaboration)
6.	2021/02/09	Article	The Drive for Electric Vehicles in Asia East Asian Forum (Australian National University) Online(9 February 2021) (Single)
7.	2020/11	Article	Backward Linkages in the Hungarian Automotive Industry: Where Are the Links Concentrated? 1st International Conference on Automotive Industry 2020 pp.100-111 (Collaboration)
8.	2020/10	Book	Automotive Industrialisation: Industrial Policy and Development in Southeast Asia (Collaboration)
9.	2020/04	Book	Digitalization in International Trade and E-Commerce (Collaboration)
10.	2020/03	Article	Transfer of Japanese-Style Management to the Czech Republic: The Case of Japanese Manufacturing Firms Asia Europe Journal (Springer Nature) 18(1),pp.75-97 (Collaboration)
11.	2019/11	Article	The Thai Apparel Industry at a Crossroads: Industrial Decline, Restructuring, and Functional Upgrading Faculty of Economics, Kansai University Working Paper F-96 (Collaboration)
12.	2019/10	Book	Globalisation & Public Policy (Collaboration)
13.	2019/07	Article	The Textile and Clothing Industrialization Cycle Marmara University Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences 41(1),pp.256-277 (Collaboration)
14.	2019/04	Article	How to Conduct Effective Industrial Policy: a Comparison of Automotive Development in the Philippines and Indonesia Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (Routledge) 23(4),pp.657-682 (Collaboration)
15.	2018/10	Article	Entrance-Exit Dynamics of Suppliers and the Repercussions for Reshaping the Structure of GVCs/GPNs European Planning Studies (Routledge) 26(12),pp.2364-2386 (Collaboration)
16.	2018/08	Article	Industrial Policy and the Development of the Automotive Industry in the Philippines Canadian Journal of Development Studies /Revue canadienne d'études du développement (Routledge) 39(3),pp.371-391 (Collaboration)
17.	2018/03	Article	'New Development of The Thai Apparel Industry:Structural Change and Functional Upgrading in the Apparel Industry' in Goto Kenta (ed.), Development of Global Value Chains Led by Southeast Asia pp.7-26 (Collaboration)
18.	2017/03	Article	The Current Issues of Inward FDI in Japan, in Goto Kenta (ed.) New Development of Middle Income Countries pp.8-21 (Single)
19.	2016/09	Article	The Competitive Factors of the Bangladeshi Garment Industry in the Post-MFA Era Canadian Journal of Development Studies /Revue canadienne d'études du développement (Routledge) 37(3),pp.316-336 (Collaboration)
20.	2016/09	Article	The Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in the Malaysian Automotive Industry: Are Government Policies Upgrading Technological Capacity? The Singapore Economic Review (World Scientific) 61(4),pp.1550046-1-18 (Collaboration)
21.	2016/08	Book	‘Comparative Policies for Automotive Development in Southeast Asia’, in Alve Hansen and Bo Nielsen (eds), Wheels of Change: Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia pp.17-36 (Collaboration)
22.	2016/04	Article	Social Capital, Household Income and Community Development in Bhutan: a Case Study of a Dairy Cooperative Development in Practice (Routledge) 26(4),pp.467-480 (Collaboration)
23.	2015/09	Article	Can Social Capital Reduce Poverty? A Study of Rural Households in Eastern Bhutan Asian Economic Journal (Wiley-Blackwell) 29(3),pp.243-264 (Collaboration)
24.	2015/05	Article	Indonesia’s Automotive Industry Shifts Up a Gear East Asian Forum (Australian National University) Online(May 2 2015) (Collaboration)
25.	2015/04	Article	Dawn of Industrialisation? the Indonesian Automotive Industry Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (Routledge) 51(1),pp.47-68 (Collaboration)
26.	2014/11	Article	How Much Policy Space Still Exists Under the WTO? A Comparative Study of the Automotive Industry in Thailand and Malaysia Review of International Political Economy (Routledge) 21(6),pp.1346-1377 (Collaboration)
27.	2014/07	Article	Affirmative Action and Economic Liberalisation: The Dilemmas of the Malaysian Automotive Industry Asian Studies Review (Routledge) 38(3),pp.422-441 (Collaboration)
28.	2013/06	Article	Industrial Policy and the Development of the Automotive Industry in Thailand Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (Routledge) 18(3),pp.413-437 (Collaboration)
29.	2013/05	Article	Liberalization, Industrial Nationalism and the Malaysian Automotive Industry Global Economic Review (Routledge) 42(2),pp.113-134 (Collaboration)
30.	2012/09	Article	One Village One Product - Rural Development Strategy in Asia: The Case of OTOP in Thailand Canadian Journal of Development Studies /Revue canadienne d'études du développement (Routledge) 33(3),pp.369-385 (Collaboration)
31.	2011/06	Article	Meeting the Challenge of China: The Vietnamese Garment Industry in the Post MFA Era Global Networks (Wiley-Blackwell) 11(2),pp.355-379 (Collaboration)
32.	2010/09	Article	Challenges to the Cambodian Garment Industry in the Global Garment Value Chain The European Journal of Development Research 　(Palgrave-Macmillan) 22(4),pp.469-493 (Collaboration)
33.	2009/12	Article	States, MNCs and Institutional Arrangements: Economic Interdependence between Japan and Southeast Asia The Japanese Economy　　 (M.E. Sharpe) 36(3),pp.96-127 (Single)
34.	2008/12	Book	Powering up a Nation: Energy Security in Japan and Australia, in Sukhvider (ed.) Global Energy Security: Issues and Country Perspectives. pp.172-187 (Collaboration)
35.	2008/10	Article	Japan's Foreign Economic Policies towards East Asia in the Post War Era Asian Profile 36(5),pp.453-468 (Single)
36.	2008/07	Article	Can Japan Please Stand Up? Japan's bid for a UNSC permanent seat: pipe dream or viability? Japan Inc 78,pp.53-55 (Collaboration)
37.	2008/01	Article	One Village One Product: Japanese Rural Entrepreneurial Scheme Goes Abroad Japan Inc 75,pp.60-61 (Collaboration)
38.	2007/08	Article	East Asian Industrial Development: The Flying Geese or International Production Networks? Asian Profile 35(4),pp.293-312 (Collaboration)
39.	2007/03	Article	The Study on Economic Policy Support in the Kingdom of Cambodia (Collaboration)
40.	2006/12	Book	Cambodia Investment Guidebook (Collaboration)
41.	2006/08	Article	Power Sourcing: Japan's Race for Resources Japan Inc 69,pp.4-8 (Collaboration)
42.	2006/04	Article	The Study on the Restructuring of Water Supply System of Tashkent City in the Republic of Uzbekistan (Collaboration)
43.	2005/12	Article	Building Institutional Capacity in Southeast Asia: Regional Governed Interdependence ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) 22(4),pp.331-339 (Collaboration)
44.	2005/09	Article	Economic Development and Industrial Policies in East Asia Ekonomikusu (Review of Economics) 10(1),pp.59-84 (Collaboration)
45.	2005/03	Book	Leveraging the Economic Benefits of Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia, in Pritchard (ed.)　Regulating Foreign Direct Investment: Southeast Asia at Crossroad pp.87-104 (Collaboration)
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■ Academic or professional association memberships

1.	2016/01	International Journal of Development Issues (Emerald Publishing)
2.	2016/01～	∟ Editorial Advisory Board Member
3.	2016/06	PSU Research Review: An International Journal (Emerald Publishing)
4.	2016/06～	∟ Senior Associate Editor
5.	2017/01	IJOPEC Publication (London, Istanbul)
6.	2009/06	Japan Association for Asian Studies
7.	2012/01～2014/06	∟ Editorial Board Member: Aziya Kenkyu (Asian Studies)
8.	2005/04	The Regional Science Association International
9.	2005/04	The Japan Section of the Regional Association International
10.	2010/04	International Association for Asia Pacific Studies
11.	2013/11～2019/03	East Asian Economic Association
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■ Conference presentations

1.	2022/10/10	Industrialisation in the Era of Uncertainty: The Case of the Automotive Industry (Smart Economic Planning and Industrial Policy Conference (SEPIP) in 2022)
2.	2022/06/30	Automotive Industrialisation: Industrial Policy and Development in Southeast Asia (Asialics Conference 2022)
3.	2022/06/29	Industrialisation in the Era of Uncertainty: The Case of the Automotive Industry (Asialics Conference 2022)
4.	2022/06/24	Industrialisation in the Era of Uncertainty: The Case of the Automotive Industry (13th International Conference of Political Economy (ICOPEC))
5.	2021/06/25	Tajikistan’s Apparel Industry in the Global Value Chains: Industrial Upgrading and Challenges to Covid-19 (12th International Conference of Political Economy (ICOPEC))
6.	2021/05/07	Tajikistan’s Apparel Industry in the Global Value Chains: Industrial Upgrading and Challenges (2021 OBIC Conference)
7.	2021/02/26	The Case of Magyar Suzuki Corporation (Economic cooperation and Investment between V4 and Japan)
8.	2020/09/19	Magyar Suzuki Corporation and the Hungarian Automotive Industry (RIEB Seminar, Kobe University)
9.	2020/09/01	Magyar Suzuki Corporation and the Hungarian Automotive Industry (1st International Conference on Automotive Industry: Institute of World Economy, Hungary Academy of Sciences and Budapest Business School)
10.	2020/08/31	Backward linkages in the Hungarian automotive industry: where are the links concentrated? (1st International Conference on Automotive Industry: Institute of World Economy, Hungary Academy of Sciences and Budapest Business School)
11.	2020/03/03	Japanese FDI and Management Transfer to Czechia (European Union, Visegrad 4, and Japan Tradition and Prospects for Cooperation: Institute of International Relaions Prague and Ministry of Foregin Affairs of Japan)
12.	2019/12/01	Industrial Policy and the Development of the Automotive Industry: A Comparative Study of Thailand and Czechia (17th Asia Pacific Conference, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific university)
13.	2019/11/14	Technological Changes and the Automotive Industry (Cerebration of Hungarian Science 2019: Multiple Paths to Digitization, Budapest Business School, Hungary)
14.	2019/11/13	Science & Technology Policy and Academia-Industry Relations in Japan (New Paradigms in Industry-University Cooperation, Szechnyi Istvan University, Hungary)
15.	2019/06/26	State Capacity, Industrial Policy and Policy Space: A Comparative Study of Automotive Development in Southeast Asia and Central Europe (10th International Conference of Political Economy: ICOPEC 2019, Istanbul Turkey)
16.	2019/06/06	Japanese Management Transfer to the Czech Republic (Japanese Subsidiaries in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, Kozminski University, Poland)
17.	2018/05/11	State Capacity, Industrial Policy and the Automotive Industry: Comparative Study of Southeast Asia and Central and Eastern Europe (Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication: Approaches in Research and Teaching)
18.	2017/11	How to conduct effective industrial policy: a comparison of automotive development in the Philippines and Indonesia (RCAPS Working Paper)
19.	2017/06/15	Transfer of Japanese-Style Management to the Czech Republic: The Survey on Japanese Manufacturing Firms (5th MBD Conference)
20.	2017/02/16	Automotive Industrialisation: Comparative Perspective of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (BGE Workshop)
21.	2017/01/27	The Automotive Industry in the Philippines: Ready for Take-Off Yet? (RCAPS Working Paper)
22.	2015/11/13	Industrial Policy in East Asia (Smart Economic Planning and Industrial Policy Conference)
23.	2015/06/12	The Textiles and Clothing Cycle and the Industrial Cycle (EconAnadolu 2015)
24.	2014/01	Dawn of Industrialisation? the Indonesian Automotive Industry (RCAPS Working Paper)
25.	2013/09	Impact of Social Capital on Poverty: A Case of Rural Households in Eastern Bhutan (RCAPS Working Paper)
26.	2013/09	The Competitive Factors of the Bangladeshi Garment Industry in the Post-MFA Era (RCAPS Working Paper)
27.	2013/06	How Much Policy Space Still Exists Under the WTO? A Comparative Study of the Automotive Industry in Thailand and Malaysia (RCAPS Working Paper)
28.	2012/04/24	Globalisation and the Malaysian Automotive Industry: Industrial Nationalism, Liberalisation, and the Role of Japan (RCAPS Working Paper)
29.	2011/12	Industrial Policy and the Development of the Automotive Industry in Thailand (RCAPS Working Paper)
30.	2011/08	One Village One Product - Rural Development Strategy in Asia: The Case of OTOP in Thailand (RCAPS Working Paper)
31.	2009/07	Challenges to the Cambodian Garment Industry in the Global Garment Value Chain (RCAPS Working Paper)
32.	2008/04/01	Deliberation Councils in Southeast Asia: How Three-party Institutional Arrangements Benefit MNCs and State Development (RCAPS Woking Paper)
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■ Research topic, funded research and KAKENHI

1.	2021/04～2024/03	Enviromental Regulations in EU and New Development of the Automotive Industry (Key Word : )
2.	2018～2020	Comparative Study on the Automotive Industry in Southeast Asia and Central and Eastern Europe: Industrial Policy, Production Networks and Regional Development (Key Word : Automotive Industry, Industrial Development Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia)
3.	2015/04～2019/03	Comparative Study on the Automotive Industry in Southeast Asia and Central and Eastern Europe: Industrial Policy, Production Networks and Regional Development (Key Word : )
4.	2013～2015	Automotive Industry in Indonesia (Key Word : Automotive Industry, Industrialisation, Indonesia)
5.	2012	東南アジア自動車部品生産ネットワークの展開：域内貿易と地場産業の国際競争力調査 (Key Word : )
6.	2009～2011	A Comparative Study of OVOP-Type Grassroot Entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia (Key Word : )
7.	2007～2009	The Sustainability of Garment Production among New Asian Exporters in the Post-MFA Era (Key Word : Garment and Textile Industry, Global Value Chain, Vietnam, Cambodia)
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■ Awards and honors

1.

2017/05

Emerald Publishing Emerald Literati Awards (Best Reviewers)

■ Professional contribution to Society

1.

2016/03～2018/03

Researcher at Asia Pacific Institute of Research

■ Committee and society

1.	2019/05～	OSTİM Technical University, Turkey　 International Advisory Board Board Member
2.	2008/04～2009/03	Kyushu – Indo-China Economic Cooperation Committee Member

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■ External Researcher ID

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8034-5137