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Dr Hendrik Meyer-Ohle Associate Professor National University of Singapore
Education
Employment National University of Singapore
German Institute of Japanese
Studies, (DIJ), Tokyo
Japan Centre - Philipps University
Marburg April-September 1994 Research Associate -
Japan Centre - Philipps University Marburg Longer Overseas Research Periods and
Awards
Teaching Regularly
Taught JS2101 Approaches to Japanese
Studies I JS2225 Marketing and Consumer
Culture in Japan JS2230 Itadakimasu
- Food in Japan JS3222 Japanese Business Management JS3227 Entrepreneurship:
Self-made in Japan JS4232 FDI and Local Development:
Japanese Firms in Asia JS2880A Field Exposure Japan:
Fashion Business GEH1016 Understanding Consumption Modules
previously taught JS1101e Introduction to Japanese
Studies JS2221 Organization of Japanese
Business JS2226 Global City Tokyo JS3101 Approaches to Japanese
Studies II JS4227 Japanese Political Economy JS5102 Reading in Japanese Studies
II Graduate
Student Supervision I am supervising research students
writing their theses on topics of Japanese business and economy. If you are
interested in graduate studies at the Department of Japanese Studies at NUS,
please visit the departmental homepage for more information on programs and
scholarships. Research Internationalization
of Human Resources and Diversity in Japanese Companies Japanese companies have begun to systematically recruit foreign employees into their
operations in Japan. I am investigating this new trend under the issues of
international human resources management, workplace diversity, migration
brokerage and international talent mobility. This project is
being conducted in collaboration with Harald Conrad from Dusseldorf
University. Shopping Centers
as Places of Marketing and Consumption The number of shopping centers has been increasing rapidly in Japan over the
last decade with developers in an intensifying competition constantly testing
the frontiers in terms of locations, size, or tenant mix. The development of
shopping centers is taking place in a climate of an
aging and shrinking population, economic uncertainties and increasing
differentiation within Japanese society and between metropolitan centers and the rest of Japan. Thus with this project I
not only want to look at the managerial techniques of shopping center development in Japan but also want to look at
shopping centers as places that mirror and to a
certain degree also drive the above developments. A sabbatical in Japan
provided me with the opportunity to visit a large number of shopping centers and inner city shopping districts. Japanese Workplaces in Transition In this project, I looked at changes
in Japanese workplaces from the 1990s onwards. Here I employed an innovative
research approach by combining traditional research sources with accounts of
restructuring as found in online diaries (blogs). In their online diaries employees provide vivid accounts of experience at
their work places and talk about their concerns and motivations in an
employment system that is showing signs of grave changes. In this project I looked at employee perspectives on three areas,
the downsizing of corporations, changes in employment conditions for regular
employees and the increasing number of non-regularly employed people and
substantiated the findings from blog accounts through survey results from Japanese
government agencies and think tanks. (Book details below) Consumer Goods Distribution:
especially Retailing In the study of the Japanese
distribution system I am looking at several areas:
The first area is the development of Japanese retail formats. In my book
"Dynamics and Innovation in Japanese Retailing (details see
below) I trace the development of retail formats in Japan from the 1950s,
beginning with the introduction of techniques such as self-service and chain
management and leading to the conceptualization of food supermarkets, general
merchandising stores, drug stores, home centers,
and convenience stores. In looking at these developments
I find it of special importance to look at changes in the environment. For Japan emphasis has to be given to governmental
distribution policy and I have especially looked at the political economy of
the retail sector. Another major factor are manufacturer-retailer
relationships. Japanese manufacturers have long strived for
a dominance of their distribution channels and were slow in accepting
mass-merchandisers as legitimate sales channels for their products.
Since the 1990s various changes have occurred in the
relationship between retailers and manufacturers and I have tried to analyze these changes at an early stage. However,
developments in retailing cannot be explained
without looking at entrepreneurial initiative and as in other countries
Japan's retail sector has produced its fare share
of entrepreneurs. I have looked at entrepreneurship in Japanese
retailing in the past and today and have found it to be a fascinating area of
research with entrepreneurs in this sector being strong and colorful personalities forcefully pursuing not only the
growth of their companies but also the diffusion of their retail concepts and
philosophies. I have also looked at the activities of foreign companies in
Japan and here especially at how they are trying to drive change in the
Japanese distribution system (a short outline is here). International Marketing of Japanese
Companies in Southeast Asia Within this research
I focused on the marketing strategies of Japanese companies for the emerging
markets of Southeast Asia. Together with a colleague (Jochen
Legewie)
I have led a project that looked at strategies of Japanese and European
companies in Southeast Asia and have edited the book Corporate Strategies
for Southeast Asia after the Crisis, myself focusing especially on issues
of marketing. I have also done additional work on Japanese retailers in
Southeast Asia. Publications (Selection) (For details and table of contents please click on book covers)
Japanese Workplaces in Transition - Employee Perceptions, Houndmills,Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2009.
亨德里克.迈耶.奥勒 日本零售业的创新和动态：从技术到业态，再到系统, 知识产权出版社 2010
Innovation and Dynamics in
Japanese Retailing - From Techniques to Formats to Systems, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2003.
ヨヘン レゲヴィーヘンドリック マイヤーオーレ平澤克彦 編『日欧多国籍企業のアジア戦略アジア経済危機後の展開』 白桃書房 ２００２．
(Editor with Jochen Legewie) Corporate Strategies for Southeast Asia After the Crisis. A Comparison of Multinational Firms From Japan and Europe, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2000.
Lebensversicherung und Konsument in Japan (Life Insurance
and Consumer in Japan). Marburger Japan-Reihe Bd. 10. Marburg 1993:
Förderverein Marburger Japan-Reihe.
Dynamik im japanischen Einzelhandel.
Einführung, Durchsetzung und Fortentwicklung neuer Betriebstypen 1954-1994 (Dynamism in
Japanese Retailing: Introduction and Development of New Retail Formats
1954-1994). Gabler Edition Wissenschaft. Wiesbaden 1995: Deutscher
Universitäts-Verlag.
Japans Wirtschaft im Umbruch. Schlaglichter aus dem Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien (Japanese Economy in Transition: Spotlights from the German Institute for Japanese Studies). Iudicium 1999. (Editor with Jochen Legewie).
Articles and Book Chapters Business
Models, Stakeholders and Capabilities in Coping with Societal Grand
Challenges: the Case of Japan’s Convenience Stores. Asian Business & Management, 20 (4) (2021), pp. 465-487. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-021-00152-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3824-3 with Harald Conrad, Training Regimes and
Diversity: Experiences of Young Foreign Employees in Japanese Headquarters. Work, Employment and Society, online
pre-published at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020966537 with Harald Conrad, Japanese Multinational
Companies and the Control of Overseas Investments. Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia: Spatialities,
Institutions, and Cultures, Preet S. Aulakh,
and Philip F. Kelly, eds, Cambridge University
Press 2020, 48-71. with Harald Conrad, Transnationalization
of a Recruitment Regime - Skilled Migration to Japan. International Migration, 57(3) (2019) pp. 250-265,
online open access at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/imig.12529 with Harald Conrad, Overcoming the Ethnocentric
Firm? – Foreign Fresh University Graduate Employment in Japan as a New
International Human Resource Development Method. The
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 13(17)
(2019), pp. 2525-2543. Online 1 June
2017, online open access at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1330275 Post-Bubble Department Stores, in Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan - A Transdisciplinary Perspective, Katarzyna
J. Cwiertka and Ewa Machotka (eds), Amsterdam
University Press 2018, pp. 31-48, open access to whole book at http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=644263;keyword=Consuming
Life with Harald Conrad, Brokers and the Organization
of Recruitment of ‘Global Talent’ by Japanese Firms — A Migration
Perspective. Social Science Japan Journal,
21(9) (2018), pp. 67-88, online open access at https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyx032 with Kikuchi Kazuo and Nishi Takahiro, シンガポールの流通と日系百貨 (Singapore Distribution and Japanese
Department Stores), in 日系小売企業のアジア展開 (The Development of Japanese Retailers in
Asia), 柳 純 (Yanagi Jun), 鳥羽 達郎 (Toba Tastsuro)
(eds.), Chuo Keizaisha 2017, pp. 161-176. Consumer Goods Distribution and
Logistics in Japan, in Routledge Handbook of Japanese
Business and Management Parissa Haghiran (ed.), Routledge 2016, pp. 340-349. Japanese retailers in Southeast
Asia: Strong Local Partners, Shopping Malls, and Aiming for Comprehensive
Internationalization. The International Review of Retail,
Distribution and Consumer Research, 24(5) (2014), pp. 500-515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09593969.2014.968186 Two Asian Malls: Urban Shopping
Centre Development in Singapore and Japan, Asia Pacific Business Review,
15 (2009), (1), pp.123-135. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13602380802399445 Labour Market and Labour Market
Policies for the Ageing Society, The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook
about Japan, Florian Coulmas, Harald Conrad,
Annette Schad-Seifert and Gabriele Vogt (eds.),
Brill 2008, pp. 947-962. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/10.1163/ej.9789004154773.i-1199.393 with Yu Jie, Working for Japanese Corporations
in China: A Qualitative Study, Asian Business & Management, 7 (1)
(2008), pp. 33-51. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.abm.9200250 Flexibilisierung
des japanischen Arbeitsmarkts: Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten für Jung und Alt,
aber zu welchem Preis? (Flexibilisation
of the Japanese labor market - employment
opportunities for the young and the old, but at what price?), Japan nach Koizumi - Wandel in Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Japan after Koizumi - changes in
politics, economy and society), Michael Behrens and Jochen
Legewie (Ed.), Nomos 2007, pp. 165-175. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783845211169-164/flexibilisierung-des-japanischen-arbeitsmarkts-beschaeftigungsmoeglichkeiten-fuer-jung-und-alt-aber-zu-welchem-preis Veränderungen im japanischen Distributionssystem
(Changes in the Japan's distribution system), Japans Zukunftsindustrien
(Japan's Future Industries), Andreas Moerke and Anja Walke (Ed.) Springer 2007, pp.
351-361. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-29808-3_17 Unternehmertum
im Japanischen Einzelhandel seit den 1990er Jahren (Entrepreneurship in
Japanese Retailing since the 1990s), Konvergenz oder Divergenz? Wandel der
Unternehmensstrukturen in Japan und Deutschland (Convergence or
Divergence? Change in enterprise structures in
Japan and Germany), Cornelia Storz and Bernard Langeman (Ed.), Metropolis 2005, pp. 271-298. Walking with Dinosaurs: General
Trading Companies in the Reorganization of Japanese Consumer Goods
Distribution, International Journal of Retail & Distribution
Management, 32 (2004), 1, pp. 45-55. https://doi.org/10.1108/09590550410515542 The Crisis of Japanese Retailing at
the Turn of the Millennium – A Crisis
of Corporate Governance and Finance, International Review of Retail,
Distribution and Consumer Research, 12 (2003), 1, pp. 13-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09593960110103797 Ein Blick auf
die Wettbewerber – Internationale Marketingstrategien japanischer Unternehmen
für südostasiatische Konsummärkte (A Look at the Competitors - International
Marketing Strategies of Japanese Companies for Southeast Asian Consumer
Markets), Marktstrategien Asien Pazifik, Karin Dietz (Hg.), Wiesbaden:
Gabler 2001. (with Daniel
Dirks, Martin Hemmert, Jochen Legewie, Franz Waldenberger) The Japanese
Employment System in Transition, International Business Review 9
(2000), pp. 525-553. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0969-5931(00)00017-2 (with Jochen
Legewie) Does Nationality Matter? Western and
Japanese Multinational Corporations in Southeast Asia, European Review
8, 4 (2000), pp.. 553-567. https://doi.org/10.1017/S106279870000510X Collaborating for Change in Japanese
Consumer Goods Distribution –
Strategic Alliances, Team Merchandising and „Enemies in the Same Boat“, Japanese
Distribution Strategy, Michael Czinkota und
Masaaki Kotabe (Ed.), London: Thomson Learning
2000, pp. 117-134. Konsumgüterdistribution
– Suche nach leistungsstarken Partnern und einer zukunftsweisenden
Arbeitsteilung (Consumer Goods Distribution - Search for Strong Partners and
a Forward-looking Distribution of Functions), Japan ist offen – Chancen
für deutsche Unternehmen, Heinz Riesenhuber und Josef Kreiner (Hg.),
Heidelberg: Springer, 1998, pp.89-106. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540642862 Struktur
und Organisation des Distributions- und Dienstleistungssektors. In: Deutsches
Institut für Japanstudien (ed): Die
Wirtschaft Japans (The Japanese Economy). Heidelberg: Springer, 1998, S.
183-210. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-58792-4_8 Dienstleistungen
in der japanischen Wirtschaft – ein Überblick (Services in the
Japanese Economy: An Overview), Japanstudien 9 (1997) pp.25-56. https://www.dijtokyo.org/doc/JS9_Meyer-Ohle.pdf Revolution in
der japanischen Distribution? Großunternehmen des Einzelhandels in einer
Phase der Neuorientierung (Revolution in Japanese Retailing? Large Retail
Companies Going Through a Period of Reorientation). In: Handesforschung
1996/1997, Jahrbuch der Forschungsstelle für den Handel Berlin (FfH) e.V.,
pp. 379-397. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-663-05654-6_20 Binnenhandelspolitik,
ein Stiefkind japanischer Wirtschaftspolitik? Konzepte, Maßnahmen, Hintergründe
und Akteure der Politik für den Handel (Distribution Policy, a Stepchild of
Japanese Economic Policy? Concepts, Measures, Background and Actors). In: Japanstudien: Jahrbuch des deutschen
Instituts für Japanstudien der Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stiftung (München:
iudicum verlag), Vol.7 (1995), pp. 279-321. https://www.dijtokyo.org/doc/JS7_Meyer-Ohle.pdf Wer
kauft wo? Zur Einkaufsstättenwahl japanischer Konsumenten (Who Shops Where?
Store Choice of Japanese Consumers). In: Japanstudien:
Jahrbuch des deutschen Instituts für Japanstudien der
Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stiftung (München: iudicum verlag), Vol.5
(1993), pp. 171-207. https://www.dijtokyo.org/doc/JS5_Meyer-Ohle.pdf The Future of Japanese
Manufacturer-Retailer Relationships. In:
Best Paper Proceedings. The Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS)
9th Annual Meeting Nagoya, Japan, S. 303-314. Other Activities I have reviewed papers and book manuscripts for Routledge, Association of Japanese Business Studies, Euro-Asia-Management-Studies Association, Japanstudien, Sloan Management Review, International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, Asian Business and Management, and others. Dr Hendrik Meyer-Ohle, Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore, Blk AS8, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Email: meyerohle@nus.edu.sg, Tel. +65 - 6516 8942, Fax +65 - 6776 1409 |
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