WATANABE Shu

Last updated: Sep 28, 2019 at 02:41

Name	WATANABE Shu
Affiliation	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Section	World Language and Society Education Centre
Job title	Assistant Professor
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy in Commerce and Management(Hitotsubashi University), Master of Commerce and Management(Hitotsubashi University), Bachelor of Commerce and Management(Hitotsubashi University)
Other affiliation	Aoyama Gakuin University
Research funding number	90754408

Research Interests

Strategic Management(53) , Organizational Theory(17)

Research Areas

Management / Management /

Academic & Professional Experience

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Apr 2019

Mar 2020

Part time lecturer, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Aoyama Gakuin University

Apr 2017

Today

Assistant Professor, World Language and Society Education Centre, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Feb 2016

Mar 2017

Assistant Professor, World Language and Society Education Centre, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Apr 2015

Jan 2016

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Manangement, Hitotsubashi University

Feb 2014

Mar 2014

Research Assistant, Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School

Education

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Apr 2012

Mar 2015

Business Management and Marketing, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University

Apr 2010

Mar 2012

Business Management and Marketing, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University

Apr 2006

Mar 2010

Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University

Awards & Honors

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Jun 2018

Escalation of Commitment Caused by Strict Monitoring: Dysfunctional Effects of Increased Number of Outside Directors on the Recognition of Bad Loans, 34th Takamiya Award (Best Paper Award), the Academic Association for Organizational Science

Winner: Watanabe, Shu

Published Papers

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The Effects of Board Composition on the Escalation of Commitment: An Organizational Behavior Approach to the Japanese Banking Crisis

Watanabe, Shu

Ph.D Thesis, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University Jul 2018

Escalation of Commitment Follows Monitoring: The Dysfunctional Effects of Increasing Outside Directors on the Recognition of Bad Loans

Watanabe, Shu

Annals of Organizational Science 50(4) 54-65 Jun 2017 [Refereed]

This research employs the escalation theory and demonstrates that monitoring by outside directors leads to the commitment escalation. We discuss outside directors will increase the complexity inherent in the acknowledgment of fault by management ...

Resource Dependencies, Power Imbalance, and Board Cooptation: An Empirical Synthesis and Reexamination of Japanese Main Bank System and Resource Dependence Perspective

Watanabe, Shu

Annals of Organizational Science 50(3) 42-56 Mar 2017 [Refereed]

The effects of CEO demography and personality on the decision making: A review and synthesis of upper echelons perspective

Watanabe, Shu

Hitotsubashi review of commerce and management 10(2) 2-18 Nov 2015 [Refereed]

In this paper, we contribute to the upper echelons perspective by showing new theoretical directions. First, we divide existing literature into two groups: the papers that show the effects of CEO demographics and the papers that examine the effect...

Firm Performance, Evaluation of CEO by Shareholders, and Voting at General Meeting

Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Sciences 40(1) 13-32 Apr 2015

Conference Activities & Talks

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Revisiting Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan Ten Years After the Great Financial Crisis

Watanabe, Shu

30th SASE Annual Conference 23 Jun 2018 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Accountability Trap: Agency Prescription on Governance Reform Leads to the Escalation of Commitment

Watanabe, Shu

European Group for Organizational Studies Pre-Colloquium PhD Workshop 30 Jun 2014

Governance Reform and the Escalation : Dysfunctional Effects of Increasing Outside Executives on the Recognition of Bad Loans

Shu Watanabe

Cardiff-Meiji Research Workshop 14 Mar 2014

Association Memberships

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics(8) , Japan Academy of Strategic Management(7) , European Group for Organizational Studies(12) , Hitotsubashi Academy of Commerce and Management(3) , Japan Academy of Business Administration(172) , The Academic Association for Organizational Science(303)