Undergraduate Courses : Department of Management and Communication : Teaching Staff

Teaching Staff

ABE Toshiya

Professor
ABE Toshiya
Research :
・Acceptance process of orders.
・Psychology of individual to antisocial behavior.
・Role of leadership and authority in management.

KANAI Tatsuro

Professor
KANAI Tatsuro
Research : I have worked on the history of welfare economics, particularly focusing the theory of the economists such as A. Marshall and J. R. Hicks. In the past several years, as an extension of these studies, I have reproduced and noted Hicks' unpublished works concerned with welfare economics in "Hicks Papers" owned by University of Hyogo. Moreover, I am also oriented to describe the complete history of welfare economics, considering the development of economics after Hicks up to today.

KAWASHIMA Kazuhiro

Professor
KAWASHIMA Kazuhiro
Research :I am studying management accounting methods for small and medium-sized enterprises（SMEs）in Japan. Currently, focusing on the Hokkaido and Tohoku regions, we are conducting empirical research to determine whether the introduction of management accounting methods in SMEs has a positive effect on financial performance. As a research method, we conduct a questionnaire survey using a mail questionnaire, and then conduct a detailed interview survey. In the course of the research, we are searching for SMEs that are actively utilizing management accounting methods to improve their management.

KOIWAI Hironori

Professor
KOIWAI Hironori
Research : I dedicate myself to research in the fields called "environmental economics" and "law and economics", both of which are sub-disciplines of the applied microeconomics.（I believe, in particular, "law and economics", will further develop in near future.） Specifically, based on institutional theory, I make an analysis of the effects produced by deciding the provisions defined the applicable laws on proprietary rights and transaction costs in reference to precedents and specific laws. I hope my works will contribute to establishing the better legal system of environmental laws and governmental policies.

SATO Asuka

Associate Professor
SATO Asuka
Research :My major research interests are "Contingent Work Arrangements" and "Staffing Industry" as match pump of low income workers, and structural analysis how the industry worsen their working conditions in the U.S., and how improve contingent workers' working conditions.
Another interests are Creation of New Industries and Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration through "Knowledge Cluster Initiative". My last position from 2004 to 2007- was plotter, and drew up strategies for new industry creation of Ishikawa prefecture, here in Japan.

KAMEI Akane

Lecturer
KAMEI Akane
Research :The purpose of my recent research is considering transformed family as a gender issue, throughout concepts of Pierre Bourdieu's reproduction; I elucidate process for accumulation of several capitals, capital conomique, capital culturel, capital social, and so on.
Because of conforming the correlation between attributions of individuals and family features, I conclude that each capital comprise both characteristics of high and low, or strong and weak conditions according to social rank of habitus. The notation "habitus" shouldn't simply be denoted as customs. The concept will work together with "pratique".

OISHI　Kanako

Professor
OISHI Kanako
Research :Examining individual potential to develop communication skills to solve problems, connect with people, and to heal the heart. Initiatives are implemented to promote science theory, and workshops are held which discuss the development and implementation of the results of research.

SARUWATARI Manabu

Professor
SARUWATARI Manabu
Research : Through the research and the workshop concerning the image, I want to train the student who can widely progress an own sensitivity in the world of the image from the documentary work to independent filmmaking.

MIYASONE Mika

Professor
MIYASONE Mika
Research :Three themes of my studies:
1. Rhetoric communication;
2. Early English education;
3. Happiness in Japan: an interdisciplinary perspective.
The first study tries to investigate the effectiveness of teaching English logic for helping Japanese better communicate in writing messages. The second study suggests introducing English sounds and letters to Japanese elementary school children for having smoother development of English proficiency. The third study tries to investigate the factors influencing subjective well-being in Japan from the perspective of economics, psychology and communication studies.

SATO Natsuko

Associate Professor
SATO Natsuko
Research :The first research theme is the relationship among students' motivation, learning actions.
Subjects of study are Korean college students as well as Japanese college students.
The second is CALL and autonomous learning.
The third is brain activation and English study.

NINOSE Yuri

Associate Professor
NINOSE Yuri
Research :My research theme is cognitive psychology. I have researched about many aspects of the information processing capability of human including visual cognition, memory and language.
I’ve especially studied about the “Gestaltzerfall” of Kanji characters. It is the phenomenon that a viewer often becomes unable to recognize a Kanji characters after the Kanji character is viewed steadily and continuously.
Recently, I begin to examine the relationship the academic ability between the meta-cognition.