Professor D. Hugh Whittaker
Professor in the Economy and Business of Japan
My research interests include entrepreneurship, management of innovation, corporate governance, and employment relations in Japan, as well as political economy and economic development in East Asia. My recent publications include Building a New Economy: Japan's Digital and Green Transformation (2024) and (co-authored) Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic and Social Development (2020).
Research Disciplines:
- Socio-economics
- Political Economy
- Small firms, value chains, entrepreneurship, innovation, corporate governance, agriculture, labour, management, technology, economic growth, Japan
- Japan, United Kingdom, China, New Zealand, Asia