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KOKUBO Midori

Department / Course College of Business Administration Department of Business Administration

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Business Administration
2.	Research Organization of Open Innovation & Collaboration Research Center for Innovation Management

Academic background
1.	～1981/03	Division of Social Psychology │ Faculty of Letters │ Tokyo University │ Graduated
2.	～1991/03	Master Course │ Social Psychology │ Graduate School, Division of Sociology │ The University of Tokyo │ Completed
3.	1991/03 Degree Acquisition	│ The University of Tokyo Master of Sociology

Business career
1.	1996/04/01 ～ 2003/03/31	│ │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2003/04/01 ～ 2023/03/31	professor │ │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2005/04/01 ～ 2006/03/31	Visiting Associate Professor │ Institute of Psychology │ Illinois Institute of Technology

Research activities
1.		The Japanese Society of Social Psychology
2.		Japanese Association of Industrial / Organizational Psychology
3.		The Japanese Psychological Association
4.		The Japanese Association of Administrative Science
5.		the Japanese Group Dynamics Association
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Subject of research
1.	Environmental Uncertainty and Leadership
2.	Organizations in Disasters
3.	Non-regular Employees' Work Environment and Work Style
4.	Career Development of Young People

Research summary
Analysis of Various Interactions Between Organization and its Members and Their Consequences Empirical study on leadership that can drive organizational success under the uncertain environment, the employment environment and work styles of non-regular employees such as part-time workers and temporary workers, career development of young people, and disparities in job selection by gender. Study on organizational responses in emergency cases, taking the incident at the Fukushima nuclear plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (now Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.) as an example.

Present specialized field
Educational and Social Psychology, Educational and Social Psychology, Management (Keyword：social psychology, organizational psychology, organizational theory, leadership, career)

Papers
1.	2023/12/30	The choice of leader in crisis: Glass cliff effect and agentic leader │ International Journal of Psychology │ 58 (S1),pp.647
2.	2023/11/01	The Choice of Leader in Crisis: The Glass Cliff and Agentic Leader │ Climing up the Glass Cliff: Another Invisible Barrier Behind the Glass Ceiling? │ ,pp.36-43
3.	2023/03	The factors and the estimate of leader selected in crisis: An examination based on glass cliff │ The Ritsumeikan Business Review │ ,pp.155-166
4.	2022/09/03	The Factors and the Estimate of Leader Selected in Crisis │ ,pp.78-79
5.	2021/07/01	The Glass Cliff and the Queen Bee: Two Topics in the Recent Trends of Leadership Research Related to Gender │ ,pp.73-94
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/07/22	Factors of leader selection in crisis
2.	2022/12/23	危機の時のリーダー選択　－「ガラスの崖」と作動性リーダー
3.	2022/09/03	The Factors and the Estimate of Leader Selected in Crisis
4.	2021/07/20	The choice of leader in crisis: Glass cliff effect and agentic leader
5.	2016/07/26	The factors that increase work motivation of students working part-time
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2013/04/01 ～ 2016/03/31	A Multidementional Analysis of Nuclear Power History in Japan │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
2.	2009 ～ 2012	Study of foreign Woker-s Career Development and Personnel Manegement │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
3.	2007 ～ 2009	The empirical theoretical research from a viewpoint of the business administration about the management of technology │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Teaching achievements

●Prepared Textbook and Other Teaching Materials

1.	2009/04/01 ～	Management