PUBLICATION

 

Books (in Japanese)

1.     Shioji, H., & Tanaka, A. (Eds.). (2020). Higashi-Ajia yui sangyo [East Asian industrial leadership: Diversifying global production networks]. Chuokeizai-sha.

2.     Tanaka, A. (2012). Sengo Nihon no shigen bijinesu [Postwar Japan’s mineral industry: A comparative history of its procurement system and sogo shosha]. The University of Nagoya Press.

3.     Shimada, K., Huang, X. C., & Tanaka, A. (2003). Sogo shosha: Shoken no kozo henka to 21 seiki senryaku [Sogo shosha]. Minerva Publishing.

 

Book Chapters

1.     Tanaka, A., & Wang, Y. (2023). Procurement systems and industry dynamics: The case of the steel industry. In M. Kipping, T. Kurosawa, & E. Westney (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190933463.013.11 New!

2.     Tanaka, A., & Wang, Y. (2012). Transferring home-grown management practices: The case of Toyota in China. In A. K. Gupta, T. Wakayama, S. Rangan (Eds.). Global strategies for emerging Asia (115-138). Jossey-Bass.

3.     Tanaka, A., & Wang, Y. (2010). Understanding business group governance in China. In Y. Wang & P. Ramburuth (Eds.). Thirty years of China's economic reform: Institutions, management organizations and foreign investment (87-95). Nova Science Publishers.

 

Articles

1.     Wang, Y., Tanaka, A., & Huang, X. C. (2020). From long-term contract to market: An RBC perspective on international negotiations of iron ore prices in the Asia-Pacific region, 2009-2010. International Negotiation, 25(2), 345-371. (Refereed) New!

2.     Tanaka, A. (2013). The changing business models of postwar Japan's sogo shosha. Japanese Research in Business History, 30, 65-84.

3.     Wang, Y., & Tanaka, A. (2011). From hierarchy to hybrid: The evolving nature of inter-firm governance in China's automobile groups. Journal of Business Research, 64(1), 74-80. (Refereed)

4.     Tanaka, A. (2008). Why were sogo shosha needed?: Japan's develop-and-import scheme of iron ore in the 1960s. Oikonomika, 44(3&4), 171-194.

 

Conference Papers

1.     Tanaka, A. (2021, September 10-12). The Competitiveness of industries: From the viewpoint of the “maker-base standard” [Paper presentation]. The 2nd World Congress of Business History (WCBH), Nagoya, Japan.

2.     Isomura, M., & Tanaka, A. (2021, September 10-12). Highly competitive steel industry in East Asia: Analysis by the “Japan model” [Paper presentation]. The 2nd World Congress of Business History (WCBH), Nagoya, Japan.

3.     Tanaka, A. (2019, June 18-19). International comparison of resource procurement system: Vertical integration vs. long-term contract [Paper presentation]. 15th Conference of International Federation of East Asian Management Associations, Kyoto, Japan.

4.     Isomura, M., & Tanaka, A. (2019, June 18-19, 2019). Highly competitive steel industry in East Asia [Paper presentation]. 15th Conference of International Federation of East Asian Management Associations, Kyoto, Japan.

5.     Huang, X. C., & Tanaka, A. (2017, July 12-14). Industrial organization of China’s steel industry and the restructuring of Asia-Pacific iron ore market [Paper presentation]. 29th Annual Conference of Chinese Economics Society of Australia (CESA), Perth, Australia.

6.     Tanaka, A., & Huang, X. C. (2016, August 25-27). Structural changes in mass-procurement systems: China’s iron and steel industry and the global iron ore market [Paper presentation]. 1st World Congress on Business History/ 20th Congress of European Business History Association (WCBH/EBHA), Bergen, Norway.

7.     Tanaka, A., (2015, November 7). A comparative history of resource networks: Japan and Korea, seeking iron ore [Conference session]. Korea Association or Maritime Business (KAMB), Fall International Symposium, 2015, “Maritime networks and trade issue in Asia, Seoul, South Korea.

8.     Tanaka, A. (2015, August 6). Resource nationalism and the supply of iron ore to the US and Japanese steel industry [Paper presentation]. XVIIth World Economic History Congress (WEHC), Kyoto, Japan.

9.     Tanaka, A. (2014, September 20). Recent strategies of Japanese general trading companies [Conference session]. Japan Society for Distributive Sciences (JSDS) and Korea Distribution Association (KODIA) Joint Conference, Seoul, South Korea.

10.  Tanaka, A., (2014, September 12). A comparative historical study of resource networks: The case of ferrous raw materials, Japan and Korea [Paper presentation]. 2014 Japan-Korea Business History Conference, Tokyo, Japan.

11.  Tanaka, A., (2009, February 19). The role of sogo shosha in mass procurement system of resource: Japan's develop-and-import scheme of iron ore in 1960s [Paper presentation]. Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference 2009 (APEBH 2009), Tokyo, Japan. (Refereed)

12.  Wang, Y., & Tanaka, A. (2008, August 12). Understanding inter-firm relationships in business groups in China [Poster presentation]. 2008 AOM Annual Meeting, Academy of Management (AOM), Anaheim, CA, United States.

13.  Tanaka, A., & Wang, Y. (2008, June 19-22). Business group governance in China: The case of Tianjin Automotive Group [Paper presentation]. 3rd IACMR (International Association for Chinese Management Research) Biennial Conference, Guangzhou, China. (Refereed)

 

… And a lot of book chapters, articles and other works IN JAPANESE (See my CV) and Japanese-language pages.

 

 

Updated on April 1, 2023.

 

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