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PROFILE
Takashi NISHIMURA, PhD
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management Tokyo Metropolitan University
Building No. 3 Room 305
1-1 Minamiosawa, Hachioji city
Tokyo 192-0397 Japan
Dr Takashi Nishimura is an associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University at Graduate School of Management in Japan and specialised in Strategic Human Resource Management. During 04/2021-03/2022, he was the visiting academic of International Business and Strategy at Henley Business School, the University of Reading.
His broad research interests focus on how human resource management practices have impacts on working behaviours, social capital and organisational capability, which may ultimately influence organisational performance. He can also deal with both quantitive and qualitative ways and combining with multiple data. His recent research interests are written below:
1. The effects of flexible work arrangements on work attitudes under the COVID-19.
2. Strategic HRM: new types of HPWS and examining the black box between HR practices and organisational performance.
3. The effect of HRM on social capital formation from the view of micro-foundation.
4. The effect of perceived HRM Strength on individual performance.
His papers were accepted in peer-reviewed journals in Japan, such as the Japan Association of Industrial/Organizational Psychology Journal (in Japanese), and Organizational Science (in Japanese).
He has PhD from Hitotsubashi University (Commerce and Management), and before starting his academic career, he had worked at Hitachi Co., Ltd, in Human Resource Section for four years. Before becoming a faculty of Tokyo Metropolitan University at Graduate School of Management, he was an associate professor of the University of Tokushima at the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, and then an associate professor of the School of Management, Tokyo University of Science.
Professional Positions:
2018–Present Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management, Tokyo Metropolitan University
2013–2018 Associate Professor, Graduate of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
2011–2013 Associate Professor, School of Management, Tokyo University of Science
2008–2011 Associate Professor, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, University of Tokushima
2007 Assistant, Center for Japanese Business Studies, Center of Excellence (COE), Hitotsubashi University
2007 Research Assistant, Hitotsubashi University
Education:
2009 PhD, Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University
Dissertation Title: The Effect on Human Resource Management to the Social Capital Formation
(completed the doctoral programme without a PhD degree in 2008)
Major: Human Resource Management (HRM), Organisational Behaviour (OB)
Minors: Organisation Theory, Competitive Strategy
2001 MA, Business Administration, Rikkyo University
Dissertation Title: Competition and Order—A Consideration of Inter-firm Network Organisation
Major: Organisation Theory
1999 BA, Economics, Rikkyo University
Teaching and Research Fields:
Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour
Grants Received: ($1 = ¥100)
04/2021-03/2022 The Kurata Grants, The Hitachi Global Foundation (Research Representative: Takashi Nishimura), $10,000.
04/2020-03/2025 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) # 20H01536, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Representative: Takashi Nishimura), $134,000 (five years in total)
10/2019-10/2021 Nomura School of Advanced Management Grant, $10,000
08/2019–07/2020 Labour Research Center Grant, $5,000
04/2018–03/2021 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) #18K01814, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Representative: Yumi Nishioka, Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University), $6,000 (two years in total)
04/2017–03/2020 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) #17K03937, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Representative : Takashi Nishimura), $34,000
04/2015–03/2020 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) #15H01964, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Representative: Kotaro Kuwada, Professor, Graduate School of Management, Tokyo Metropolitan University), $13,000 (from 2017, three years in total)
04/2014–03/2017 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) #26380514, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Representative: Takashi Nishimura), $35,000
08/2013–07/2014 Labour Research Center Grant, $7,000
04/2012–03/2014 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) #24683011, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Representative: Takashi Nishimura), $63,000
04/2009–03/2012 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) # 21730302, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Representative: Takashi Nishimura), $34,000
07/2009–06/2010 Japan Productivity Center Grant, $10,000
07/2008 Tokushima University, Faculty Project Grant, $7,500
07/2007 COE Grant for Young Researcher, Graduate Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, $4,000
07/2006 COE Grant for Young Researcher, Graduate Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, $3,000
Awards/ Honours
2008 Social Science Japan Data Archive Award for the most published manuscripts, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo
Research Interests:
1. Strategic HRM: with specific focus on fit between HR policy and practice.
2. The effect of HRM on social capital formation.
3. The effect of HRM Strength on individual performance.
4. The effects of pay dispersion on organisational performance from the view of micro-foundation.
5. The transformation of internal labour market and the bridging system to other employment categories in Japan.
6. The ambidexterity of HR fit and flexibility.
Peer-reviewed Journal Publications:
Nishimura, T. and Nishioka, Y. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on the Relationship between Working Conditions and Work Engagement, Japan Association of Industial/Organizational Psychology Journal (in Japanese).
Nishimura, T. (2020). Empirical Study of Micro-foundation in Strategic HRM: Using J1 League Data from 2014 to 2018, Organizational Science (in Japanese).
Nishimura, T. (2010). The Effect on Introducing Human Resource Practices under Depression and Corporate Governance putting: Emphasis on Shareholders to the moral in the workplace, Works Review, 5, 126-137 (in Japanese)
Nishimura, T. (2009). Determinative Factors among Employee Forms and the ‘Wall’ of Conversion to Another Employee Form, Works Review, 4, 130-153 (in Japanese)
Nishimura, T. (2008d). Research on Internal Fit from the View of Human Resource Policies: Performance Based-Pay Re-Analysis, Japanese Journal of Administrative Science, 21(3), 215-227 (in Japanese).
Nishimura, T. (2008b). Three Types of Human Resource Policies: The Differences of Employee Cognition and Work Motivation, Frontier of Japanese Business Studies, 4, 206-222 (in Japanese).
Nishimura, T. (2008a). Diversification of Employee Forms and the Transformation of a Corporate Labour Market: Re-Analysis of the Working Person Survey, 2006, The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies, 571, 145-157 (in Japanese).
Nishimura, T. (2007). Integration of Turnover and Organizational Socialization Research: Using the Example of Division ‘X’, Organizational Science, 41(2), 69-81 (in Japanese).
Teaching Experience/ Work Experience:
Tenure Track/Full-time:
Tokyo Metropolitan University (04/2013–Present)
HRM, Action Learning in HRM, Seminar in HRM (Undergraduate)
HRM, Case Study, Seminar in HRM (MBA)
HRM, Seminar in HRM (PhD)
Tokyo University of Science (04/2011–03/2013)
HRM, OB, Introduction to Business Management, Seminar in HRM (Undergraduate)
HRM, OB, Seminar in HRM (MA)
Tokushima University (04/2008–03/2011)
HRM, OB, Business Strategy, Introduction to Business Management, Seminar in HRM (Undergraduate)
Business Management (MA)
Hitachi Co., Ltd. (04/2001–03/2005)
The Division of Information and Telecommunication, Human Resource Section (Domain: Appraisal, Turnover, Organisation Planning and Recruitment)
Part-time Teacher/Researcher:
Rikkyo University (04/2012–08/2012)
HRM (MA)
Japan Human Resources Co., Ltd. (08/2016–01/2017)
Guest Researcher
COACH A Co., Ltd, Coaching Research Institute LLP (06/2010–03/2011)
Guest Researcher
Hitotsubashi University (04/2009–03/2013)
Fellow at Center for Japanese Business Center (G-COE)
RECRUIT Works Institute (04/2008–03/2010)
Guest Researcher
Professional Affiliations:
Academy of Management
The Academic Association for Organizational Science
European Group for Organizational Studies
Japan Academy of Business Administration
Japan Industrial Relations Research Association
Japan Society of Human Resource Management
The Japanese Association of Administrative Science
Japanese Association of Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Hitotsubashi Academy of Commerce and Management
Editorial Boards:
Academic Association for Organizational Science, Senior Editor (2019–2022, expected)
Academic Association for Organizational Science, Senior Editorial Manager (2011–2015)
Japan Academy of Business Administration (2016–2020)
Japan Society for Human Resource Management (2016–2018)