Professor Schaede is an authority on Japanese business organization and strategy and management. She is currently writing a book about Japan’s corporate renewal and changing business strategies. Ongoing research also includes venture capital and startups, as well as welfare policies and small-sized companies in a changing Japan. Previous research has addressed regulation and government-business relationships in Japan; corporate governance, both in Japan and Germany; as well as the structure of Japanese markets; and the role of trade associations and antitrust policy in Japan. In 2000, Schaede published Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan. A co-edited volume with William Grimes, Japan's Managed Globalization: Adapting to the 21st Century (M.E. Sharpe 2003) analyzes the effects of changing Japan on international political economy. Other publications include articles on regulation such as “The ‘Old Boy’ Network and Government-Business Relationships in Japan" and "Cooperating to Compete: Determinants of a Sanctuary Strategy Among Japanese Firms”. Her research on Germany includes a paper titled “Functional Change and Bank Strategy in German Corporate Governance”. Schaede is fluent in Japanese and has spent a total of more than six years of research and study in Japan. She has been a visiting scholar at the research institutes of the Bank of Japan, Japan's Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Before joining IR/PS in 1994, Schaede held positions at the Philipps-Universtät in Marburg, Germany, and the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.