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UDAGAWA Motokazu
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Economics

Researcher information

■ Research Keyword
  • Organisation Theory
  • Corporate Strategy
■ Field Of Study
  • Humanities & social sciences, Business administration
■ Career
  • Apr. 2016 - Present, Saitama University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Science, Associate Professor
  • Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2022, Hosei University, Graduate School Hosei Business School of Innovation Management, Visiting Associate Professor
  • Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2016, Seinan Gakuin University, Department of Commerce
  • Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2010
  • Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2008
  • 2008, April, 2008 - March, 2010 Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Nagasaki University
  • Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2007, Waseda University, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
  • 2007, April, 2007 - March, 2008 Senior Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Nagasaki University
  • Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2006, Meiji University, School of Business Administration
  • 2006, April,2006 - March,2007 Research Associate,Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
  • 2005, April,2005- March,2006 Research Associate,School of Business Administration, Meiji University
■ Award
  • Jan. 2025, 2024年下半期TOPPOINT大賞
  • Nov. 2020, HRアワード2020書籍部門最優秀賞
  • 2008, 2007年度経営学史学会賞論文部門奨励賞
    Japan

Performance information

■ MISC
  • 巻頭シリーズ Share & Dialogue 今こそ対話を・3 組織の背後の厄介な課題に迫る「対話」とは-行き詰まりから一歩抜け出すための方法論               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:32, Number:3, First page:173, Last page:178, 10 Mar. 2022
    Japanese
    DOI ID:10.11477/mf.1686202099, ISSN:0917-1355, eISSN:1345-8590, CiNii Books ID:AN10268153
  • 特別記事 -【クロストーク】-組織において新たな意味を紡ぐ,豊かな「対話」とは               
    坂本 すが; 宇田川 元一; 池田 真理
    Volume:32, Number:3, First page:230, Last page:237, 10 Mar. 2022
    Japanese
    DOI ID:10.11477/mf.1686202108, ISSN:0917-1355, eISSN:1345-8590, CiNii Books ID:AN10268153
  • 3つのパズル解きとしての研究 : 素人的研究の方法 : シリーズ : 研究の技法 : 大学院生のための実践的ガイド(第2回)               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:19, First page:3, Last page:9, 2022
    type:text
    Japanese
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.24561/00019624
    DOI ID:10.24561/00019624, ISSN:1349-3558
  • (特別講演)「わかりあえなさ」から始める組織論               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:16, Number:1, First page:50, Last page:50, 31 Mar. 2021
    東京女子医科大学看護学会第16回学術集会
    Japanese
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.20780/00032780
    DOI ID:10.20780/00032780, ISSN:1880-7003, CiNii Articles ID:120007053422, CiNii Books ID:AA12136821
  • 組織を変える対話とナラティヴ : 持続的な変革に向けて—メディカル・ヒューマニティとナラティブ・メディスン ; ナラティブ・メディスンを読み解く               
    宇田川 元一
    Number:12, First page:72, Last page:78, Jan. 2021
    Japanese
    ISSN:1884-6343, CiNii Articles ID:40022516033, CiNii Books ID:AA1252104X
  • ビジネス・ケース(No.175)NEC : 新事業開発を起点とした企業変革へのチャレンジ               
    佐々木 将人; 宇田川 元一; 黒澤 壮史
    Volume:69, Number:3, First page:164, Last page:176, 2021
    Japanese
    ISSN:1345-9953, CiNii Articles ID:40022786804, CiNii Books ID:AA11479006
  • 巻頭 あしたのマネジメントを考えるヒント, このひとに聞く・12 宇田川元一氏               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:30, Number:7, First page:591, Last page:595, 10 Jul. 2020
    Japanese
    DOI ID:10.11477/mf.1686201619, ISSN:0917-1355, eISSN:1345-8590, CiNii Articles ID:40022305407, CiNii Books ID:AN10268153
  • 自著を語る 組織論研究者、自著を語り合う : 『はじめての経営組織論』(有斐閣ストゥディア)刊行によせて[高尾義明/著]               
    高尾 義明; 宇田川 元一
    Number:667, First page:39, Last page:45, Jan. 2020
    Japanese
    CiNii Articles ID:40022116152, CiNii Books ID:AN00001871
  • 組織のナラティヴの溝に橋を架ける               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:51, Number:2, First page:110, Last page:115, 2020
    Japanese
    ISSN:0023-2807, CiNii Articles ID:40022288430, CiNii Books ID:AN00092141
  • 経営イノベーション・メジャーへの招待               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:152・153合併号, First page:21, Last page:30, 2018
    type:text
    Japanese
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.24561/00018126
    DOI ID:10.24561/00018126, ISSN:0559-7056, CiNii Articles ID:120006471389, CiNii Books ID:AN00109186
  • 物語る経営学史研究
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:第25輯, First page:65, Last page:81, 2018
  • 個人・組織・社会にとって価値ある働き方の創造(7)組織を変えたければ進んで苦労を語れ 真の改革は"語り(ナラティヴ)"からはじまる               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:5, Number:10, First page:16, Last page:19, Oct. 2017
    Japanese
    ISSN:2187-1019, CiNii Articles ID:40021349748, CiNii Books ID:AA12672850
  • 協働する組織への変革
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:41, Number:夏燕, First page:132, Last page:138, Jul. 2017
    Japanese
    CiNii Articles ID:40021306424
  • 【討論者1】サブテーマ1:「社会的課題と企業戦略論」               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:87, First page:D1-1, Last page:D1-2, 2017
    Japanese
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.24472/abjaba.87.0_d1-1
    DOI ID:10.24472/abjaba.87.0_d1-1, ISSN:2432-2237, eISSN:2424-2047, CiNii Articles ID:130007716282
  • Why Organizational Scholars and Practitioners Should Discuss Narrative Seriously?               
    UDAGAWA Motokazu
    Transactions of the Academic Association for Organizational Science, Volume:6, Number:2, First page:53, Last page:59, 2017
    The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of narrative approach in organization studies and practice. Narrative or story has discussed organization studies and practitioners in several years. Each of the studies clarify the life world among organizations, or invent tools of organizational change. However, such studies or practices has not sufficiently reviewed critically. As a result, it is unclear that why we should discuss narrative seriously. This paper clarifies the theoretical importance of narrative approach and clarify the theoretical and practical contribution in organization studies and practices in contemporary managerial condition. Future challenges of narrative approach will be discussed in conclusion.
    The Academic Association for Organizational Science, English
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.11207/taaos.6.2_53
    DOI ID:10.11207/taaos.6.2_53, eISSN:2186-8530, CiNii Articles ID:130006275232
  • Green IT did not Take Place: The Translation of Environmentally Friendly IT in Japan
    宇田川 元一; 四本 雅人
    Volume:37, First page:81, Last page:96, 2017, [Internationally co-authored]
  • 言語システムとしての組織 : ナラティヴ・アプローチの組織論研究に向けて—Organization as Linguistic System : Toward Narrative Approach of Organization Studies—特集 経営学のミクロ的転回               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:13, Number:1, First page:18, Last page:30, Mar. 2016
    Japanese
    ISSN:1884-3476, CiNii Articles ID:40020827054, CiNii Books ID:AA12613840
  • 「変わっていく組織」の研究序説—Organizations Changing : An Introduction—野藤忠教授 古稀記念号               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:62, Number:3・4, First page:373, Last page:387, Mar. 2016
    Japanese
    ISSN:0286-3324, CiNii Articles ID:40020772428, CiNii Books ID:AN0012884X
  • 生成する組織の倫理 : ナラティヴが切り拓く新たな視点—Generating Organizational Ethics : New Perspective from Narrative Approach               
    宇田川 元一; 間嶋 崇
    Volume:12, Number:2, First page:2, Last page:15, Aug. 2015, [Reviewed]
    Japanese
    ISSN:1884-3476, CiNii Articles ID:40020598053, CiNii Books ID:AA12613840
  • 組織の倫理の対話的構成—経営哲学論集               
    宇田川 元一; 間嶋 崇
    Volume:12, Number:1, First page:109, Last page:113, Apr. 2015
    Japanese
    ISSN:1884-3476, CiNii Articles ID:40020490230, CiNii Books ID:AA12613840
  • The Theory and Practice of Organizational Discourse Studies               
    Kiyomiya Toru; Hayashi Shigeaki; Masuda Yasushi; Udagawa Motokazu; Yotsumoto Masato
    Abstracts of Annual Conference of Japan Society for Management Information, Volume:2015f, First page:427, Last page:430, 2015
    In recent years, in the organizational theory of Western, organizational discourse studies are showing a large deployment. In this session, based on those trends, we make the following four research presentations about organizational discourse studies.
    (1)"Rethinking Organizational Discourse Studies: Texts, Contexts, and Relationships"(Toru Kiyomiya)
    (2)"Body of an Empirical Researcher who describes Social Phenomena by Linguistic Method"(Shigeaki Hayashi)
    (3)"The Future of Business Field Research and Practice developed by “Katari=Antenarrative" Theory: Temporality and Intentionality of Organizational Discourse Circulation"(Yasushi Masuda)
    (4)"Generating the Organization through Narrative: Organizational Discourse as Narrative Approach"(Motokazu Udagawa)
    THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR MANAGEMENT INFORMATION (JASMIN), Japanese
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.11497/jasmin.2015f.0_427
    DOI ID:10.11497/jasmin.2015f.0_427, CiNii Articles ID:130005491614
  • Generative Organization Studies:: Potentiality of Protean, Chain, and Mediate Perspectives               
    Udagawa Motokazu
    Organizational Science, Volume:49, Number:2, First page:15, Last page:28, 2015
    Researches based on social constructionism had been a focal point in organization studies since around 1980. The purpose of this article is to clarify the theoretical background of social constructionist organization studies during the early stage and to figure out their relationships to contemporary studies. This article discusses works of Weick and Morgan, as examples of early social constructionist theorists, to find out the following three remaining issues, in light of the Bateson’s frame theory: protean, chain and mediate perspectives. Furthermore, this study clarifies that four contemporary research streams have been developed on the three perspectives in addition to conventional perspectives.
    The Academic Association for Organizational Science, Japanese
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.11207/soshikikagaku.49.2_15
    DOI ID:10.11207/soshikikagaku.49.2_15, ISSN:0286-9713, eISSN:2187-932X, CiNii Articles ID:130005162108, CiNii Books ID:AN00135007
  • 組織の倫理へのナラティヴ・アプローチの可能性               
    間嶋 崇; 宇田川 元一
    Volume:83, First page:F6-1, Last page:F6-10, 2013
    「組織の倫理化」が問われる現在,それに纏わる研究は,大きく2つの展開/転回を示している。規範の再確立を求める規範的アプローチ,組織の倫理の実際を詳らかにする批判的アプローチがそれである。いずれのアプローチも我々に重要な問いや視座を与えてきたが,本稿筆者は,この2つのアプローチから得られるそれらに加え,組織の中で倫理を「いかに行うか」という未来に向けた実践を問うことが重要であると考えている。そこで,本稿では,第3のアプローチとしてナラティヴ・アプローチを提案し,その重要性について主張している。とりわけ我々は,組織の倫理化において「組織の在り方に対する対話, 果てない探求」が重要であり,ナラティヴ・アプローチは,その対話や場について議論するに新しい可能性を拓くアプローチであると考えている。
    Japanese
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.24472/abjaba.83.0_f6-1
    DOI ID:10.24472/abjaba.83.0_f6-1, ISSN:2432-2237, eISSN:2424-2047, CiNii Articles ID:130007716182
  • 経営学における「実践」の意義を探る-経営戦略論における実践的転回を手がかりに-
    宇田川,元一
    Volume:5, Number:2, First page:39, Last page:50, 31 Mar. 2012, [Reviewed]
    type:Article
    identifier:http://m-repo.lib.meiji.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10291/13469
    Japanese
    ISSN:1882-2908, CiNii Articles ID:40019245541
  • 組織変革におけるストーリーテリングの意義―問題分析志向からポジティヴな未来志向へ―               
    宇田川, 元一
    Volume:57, Number:4, First page:179, Last page:194, Mar. 2011
    Japanese
    ISSN:0286-3324, CiNii Articles ID:40018770450, CiNii Books ID:AN0012884X
  • 〔研究ノート〕波佐見焼の窯元、白山の陶器の経営革新-デザイナー森正洋による器づくりのコンセプトとその深化による業績回復への挑戦-
    上野,透; 宇田川,元一; 近藤,隆史
    Volume:3, Number:2, First page:61, Last page:73, 31 Mar. 2010
    type:Article
    identifier:http://m-repo.lib.meiji.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10291/13455
    Japanese
    ISSN:1882-2908
  • 切断面としての戦略—Strategy as cutting surface               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:57, Number:3, First page:143, Last page:155, Mar. 2010
    Japanese
    ISSN:0387-298X, CiNii Articles ID:40017061218, CiNii Books ID:AN00069230
  • 戦略が創られるとき--戦略論研究の新しいアジェンダに向けて—When strategy is created: toward new agenda of strategy studies—「知のコミュニケーション」特集号               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:18, Number:3, First page:221, Last page:233, Dec. 2009, [Reviewed]
    Japanese
    ISSN:0918-7324, CiNii Articles ID:40016936861, CiNii Books ID:AN10551813
  • 組織の慣性と戦略転換に関する理論的考察--二分法的思考の克服と「逆戻り」を巡って—A theoretical study of organizational inertia and strategic transformation: overcome and 'backset' of dichotomy in strategy studies               
    宇田川 元一
    Number:38, First page:79, Last page:88, Mar. 2007
    Japanese
    CiNii Articles ID:40015411670, CiNii Books ID:AA1146207X
  • 戦略から戦略化へ—──組織論研究の戦略論研究への接近──               
    宇田川 元一
    Volume:76, First page:244, Last page:245, 2006
    Japanese
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.24472/abjaba.76.0_244
    DOI ID:10.24472/abjaba.76.0_244, ISSN:2432-2237, eISSN:2424-2047, CiNii Articles ID:130007711975
  • 組織の問題化-「戦略と組織」から組織化/戦略化へ-               
    宇田川,元一
    Volume:23, First page:37, Last page:52, 30 Sep. 2005
    type:Article
    identifier:http://m-repo.lib.meiji.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10291/8002
    Japanese
    ISSN:1340-9190, CiNii Articles ID:120001969827, CiNii Books ID:AN10475861
  • 現実の再生産と再構成としての戦略-戦略論研究のパースペクティブ統合に向けて-               
    宇田川,元一
    Volume:20, First page:1, Last page:12, 28 Feb. 2004
    type:Article
    identifier:http://m-repo.lib.meiji.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10291/7992
    Japanese
    ISSN:1340-9190, CiNii Books ID:AN10475861
■ Books and other publications
  • The Dilemma of Corporate Transformation               
    宇田川, 元一
    Jun. 2024
    Japanese, Total pages:287p
    CiNii Books:http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BD07490107
    ISBN:9784296115921, CiNii Books ID:BD07490107
  • 組織が変わる : 行き詰まりから一歩抜け出す対話の方法2 on 2               
    宇田川, 元一
    Apr. 2021
    Japanese, Total pages:271p
    CiNii Books:http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BC06957655
    ISBN:9784478107027, CiNii Books ID:BC06957655
  • 他者と働く : 「わかりあえなさ」から始める組織論               
    宇田川, 元一
    Oct. 2019
    Japanese, Total pages:197p
    CiNii Books:http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB28984009
    ISBN:9784910063010, CiNii Books ID:BB28984009
■ Affiliated academic society
  • Academy of Management
  • European Group for Organization Studies
■ Research projects
  • Study on mechanism causing overly robust and complicated cyber-security system               
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2022
    Senshu University
    Grant amount(Total):3250000, Direct funding:2500000, Indirect funding:750000
    Grant number:19K01895
  • Effective process of open innovation through narrative approach               
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), 29 Jun. 2018 - 31 Mar. 2022
    Motokazu Udagawa, Saitama University
    Grant amount(Total):5850000, Direct funding:4500000, Indirect funding:1350000
    The purpose of this study is to clarify the practices to implement innovation, especially open innovation in Japanese corporations.
    Previous studies have clarified macro organizational design to implement business innovation. However, the practices have not clarified sufficiently. On the other hand, narrative approach researches in other areas have shown, the critical roll of dialogical practices in implementation.
    Thus, this studies engaged in case research to Japanese corporations on innovation implementation process. As a result the importance of dialogical practices have found in parallel with macro organizational design.
    Grant number:18K18564
  • Organizational change process through Issue-Selling activities               
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 01 Apr. 2016 - 31 Mar. 2018
    Kurosawa Masashi; UDAGAWA Motokazu, Kobe Gakuin University
    Grant amount(Total):1430000, Direct funding:1100000, Indirect funding:330000
    This research tries to reveal the mechanism of bottom-up organizational change process. From view point of issue selling activities, specific issue selling strategies are required to be success.
    Cyber security managers tries to do issue selling activities to get support from top management.
    Grant number:16K17189
  • Narrative approach of innovation process               
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, 01 Apr. 2015 - 31 Mar. 2017
    UDAGAWA Motokazu
    Grant amount(Total):3120000, Direct funding:2400000, Indirect funding:720000
    The purpose of this research is to clarify the innovation process applying narrative approach perspective.
    Narrative approach is a research perspective which focuses on the generative process of social reality as narratively mediated process. This perspective have developed in medicine research and clinical psychology area.
    This research clarifies narratively mediated process of innovation. The mediated process generates other media which mediates another process sequentially. This sequential narrative mediation process has clarified from literature studies and research investigations.
    Grant number:15K13047
  • Development of English Language Teaching Practices as Critical Communication Pedagogy               
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 01 Apr. 2012 - 31 Mar. 2016
    Yoshitake Masaki; MARUYAMA Masazumi; TORIGOE Chie; UDAGAWA Motokazu, Fukuoka University of Education
    Grant amount(Total):4940000, Direct funding:3800000, Indirect funding:1140000
    Regarding English language education as a part of multicultural education, this study aims at (1) developing teaching practices that bring about global citizens who can critically examine the power dimension in intercultural communication and, by doing so, (2) contributing to actualizing the multicultural society. In this context, being critical means rather a positive posture with which students can decipher the constructing process of reality and act out to constitute it through active and collaborative communication with Others. The idea of English speech activities as dialogue is the key to implement such critical teaching practices. In concrete, students can be engaged in critical thinking and verbal communication by integrating some elements of collaborative learning as well as dialogues with Others that represent various values into practices. In addition, restructuring organizations that support dialogical instruction is inevitable.
    Grant number:24520624
  • Practice turn in organizational ethics studies: Toward the realization of ethical organization               
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 01 Apr. 2012 - 31 Mar. 2015
    MAJIMA Takashi; UDAGAWA Motokazu; YOTSUMOTO Masato, Senshu University
    Grant amount(Total):5070000, Direct funding:3900000, Indirect funding:1170000
    The purpose of this research is to construct a new research perspective that contributes to realize organizational ethics. Two research approaches, normative approach and critical approach, have been engaged on organizational ethics previously. Both of these approaches have clarified norm or oppressive aspects of ethical rules, plans or organizational structure. However, these research approaches have not clarified how to realize organizational ethics. In this regard, our research applies the insights from narrative approach of social constructionism to tackle above remaining issues. Narrative approach focuses on the generative aspect of dialogue between actors to generate social reality. Based on the insights, we propose generative aspect of organizational ethics thorough dialogical process.
    Grant number:24530424
  • Construction and Combination of Professional Skill in Organization               
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 2009 - 2011
    TAKAHASHI Masayasu; TAKAI Toshitsugu; UDAGAWA Motokazu; HOSHI Kazuki; TAKAGI Toshio; AOKI Katsuki, Meiji University
    Grant amount(Total):13390000, Direct funding:10300000, Indirect funding:3090000
    The purpose of this project is to identify "how to carry on the construction and combination of technical know-how and professional skill in the organization?" and "how newcomers acquire and demonstrate the know-how and skill in the organization?" based on an empirical research with overseas and domestic companies.
    Grant number:21402026
  • The mechanism of gap generation and resolution between organizational strategy and organizational member's behavior               
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2009 - 2011
    UDAGAWA Motokazu
    Grant amount(Total):3640000, Direct funding:2800000, Indirect funding:840000
    This study tries to figure out the mechanism of gap generation/resolution between strategic change and organizational members behavior. In this regard, strategic discourse has critical role in generation/resolution of the gap. Thus, the practice of strategy and discursive practice of strategy is the key to resolve the gap.
    Grant number:21730306
  • ストーリーテリングに着目したイノベーション・プロセスの解明               
    2009 - 2010
    Grant amount(Total):3200000, Direct funding:3200000
    Grant number:21653027
  • 戦略と組織メンバーの行動の間のギャップ               
    Competitive research funding
  • The gap between the strategy and the organisational members' behaviour               
    Competitive research funding
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