Dr Kazuo Inamori’s Management Praxis and Philosophy: A Response to the Profit-Maximisation Paradigm

Kimio Kase, an ex-president of International University of Japan, of which he is emeritus professor. Doctorate of Business Administration, Manchester University. Degrees from IESE, ICADE, etc. A visiting professor at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Rikkyo University, Yonsei University, and International Christian University (I.C.U.), etc. Author of varied management topics.

Eugene Choi, a professor of innovation and business history at Ritsumeikan University. A PhD and M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge and an M.B.A. from Bayes Business School, University of London, and a B.A. from Waseda University. Corporate education and regional triple helix projects in Japan, the U.K., and Southeast Asia. The research director at the Ritsumeikan Inamori Research Center. A visiting professor at the National Tsinghua University, etc. Currently a senior faculty affiliate at Marshall Business School of the University of Southern California.

Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University. A widely recognised pioneer in the theory of Knowledge-based Management. A Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar of the University of California since 1997 and belongs to the Fellows Group of the Academy of Management in the United States since 2002, as its first Asian scholar. Ex-Dean of the Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. A professor (1982-95) and Director (1995-98) at the Institute of Business Research, Hitotsubashi University.