| Interviews with the Gurus By Jorge Nascimento Ferreira Jorge Nascimento Ferreira, editor of the renowned on-line management resource web page gurusonline.tv, brings to EAJM the latest from the management gurus ________________________________________________________________________ JAPAN WANTS TO BE NUMBER ONE SOLUTIONS PROVIDER OF THE 21ST CENTURY Issue 28 (Vol. 14, No. 2), pp. 215-219. Interview with Seiichiro Yonekura, researcher at Institute of Innovation Research of Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and Director of Sony Institute of Strategy Seiichiro Yonekura came to Lisbon for the 460th anniversary of the historical relationship between Portugal and Japan since the 16th century. Professor Yonekura talked about ��Culture and Innovation in Japan�� since the opening movement of 1868, the Meiji Restoration. Yonekura, 50, is professor of business history and works at the Institute of Innovation Research of Hitotsubashi University at Kunichati, Tokyo metropolitan area. He is one of the ��pupils�� of historian business professor Alfred Chandler and got his PhD from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in June 1990 US. He is also director of the Institute of Strategy of Sony and editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management. He was at the Board of Managers of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, an organization devoted to innovation. He was for five years in the 90s of the last century faculty member of the Global Leadership Program at the University of Michigan. He is a ��serial�� writer of management and business matters in Japanese. His lastest book entitled ��Japanese Dreamers�� came out last year in Tokyo. The last book published in English, by the Oxford University Press, is on entrepreneurship and organization, co-edited with Michael Lynskey. |