Ulrike Schaede
uschaede@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-2357
Fax: (858) 534-3939
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Office: #1317
Education
Ph.D., Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, 1989
(summa cum laude, Japanese studies/economics)
M.A., Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany, 1987
(Japanese studies/economics)
Translator's Diploma in Japanese,
Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany, 1985
Programs and Centers
Japan Regional Concentration Program
Biography
Professor Schaede is an authority on Japanese business organization, strategy, and management. Her new book, Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century (Cornell UP, 2008) argues that Japan has undergone a strategic inflection point so fundamental that relying on what we used to know about Japan from the 1980s is insufficient to understand the new Japanese competitiveness. In addition to analyzing this recent shift away from diversification to focused, lean organizations among Japan's leading companies, Schaede's research also includes the newly emerging takeover market in Japan, venture capital and startups, as well as changing employment practices. Previous research has addressed regulation and government-business relationships in Japan; financial markets; corporate governance; welfare policies and small-sized companies in a changing Japan; and the role of trade associations and antitrust policy.
In 2000, Schaede published Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan (Oxford UP). 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.
Expertise
Schaede is an authority on Japanese business organization, management and strategy. She also works on Japanese financial markets and venture capital; corporate governance, employment practices and antitrust in Japan.
Current Projects
Schaede's ongoing research concerns corporate renewal and changing business strategies towards refocusing and competitiveness, as well as entrepreneurship in 21st century Japan.
Background Notes
Schaede is trilingual (German, English, and Japanese). She has lived in Japan for a total of more than six years, and has been a visiting scholar at the research institutes of the Bank of Japan, Japan's Ministry of Finance and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Before joining IR/PS in 1994, she held positions at Marburg University in Germany, and the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.
Professional Activities
Member, International Editorial Board, Asien, 2004-present.
Research Associate, Columbia Business School, Center on Japanese Economy and Business (1999-present).
Member, Editorial Advisor Board, The Japanese Economy (2002-present).
Member, Academy of International Business.
Member, Association of Japanese Business Studies.
Member, Association of Asian Studies.
Executive Member, Science Advisory Board, German Society for Asian Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde, Wissenschaftsbeirat) (2000-2004).
Member, Japan Task Force, Pacific Council on International Policy (2001-2003).
Research Interests
Schaede has written multiple books and papers on Japanese business organization and Japan's financial system. Her recent book, Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century, was published in 2008. Recent working papers discuss changes in Japan’s main bank system and corporate restructuring, entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as Japan in the current economic crisis.
Recent Papers
"Show Me the Money: Japan's Most Profitable Companies of the 2000s," Working Paper and Presentation, February 2011.
"Globalization and the Reorganization of Japan's Auto Parts Industry," Forthcoming in: International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, 2009.
"Crisis as Opportunity: Japan and the 2008 Global Meltdown," Harvard Asia Quarterly, Winter 2009, Vol. XII, No. 1.
"Changes in Corporate Restructuring Processes in Japan, 1981-2007," Working Paper, Center on Japanese Economy and Business.
"Poverty and Politics: Evaluating Public Assistance in Japan"
Paper prepared for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association in San Diego. Please do not cite without our permission.
"Venture Capital as Industrial Policy"
Prepared for the Association of Asian Studies, 2005 Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Publications of Note
Op-Ed Pieces
"Let Tepco Go Bankrupt, If it Must" with Takeo Hoshi and Anil Kashyap. The Wall Street Journal. April 19, 2011.
For a complete list of publications, please refer to Schaede's CV.
