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HELLER, Daniel Arturo
 
Organization
Faculty of Global Management Specially Appointed Professor
Contact information
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Degree

  • 博士（経済学） ( 東京大学 )

  • 修士（経済学） ( 東京大学 )

Education

  • 2007.10
     

    The University of Tokyo   Graduate School of Economics   Business Administration   doctor course   completed

  • 2003.3
     

    The University of Tokyo   doctor course   finished without a degree after completion of required course credits

  • 2000.3
     

    The University of Tokyo   master course   completed

  • 1998.3
     

    The University of Tokyo   others   others

  • 1996.6
     

    Williams College   others   graduated

Research History

  • 2025.4 - Now

    Yokohama National University   Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences   Professor by Special Appointment

  • 2020.4 - Now

    Chuo University   Faculty of Global Management   Professor by Special Appointment

  • 2015.4 - 2020.3

    Yokohama National University   Graduate School of International Social Sciences   Professor

  • 2005.4 - 2015.3

    Yokohama National University   College of Business Administration   Associate Professor

  • 2008.9 - 2009.5

    "Harvard Business School, Visiting Scholar"

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Professional Memberships

  • 2022.9 - Now

    国際戦略経営研究学会

  • The Academic Association for Organizational Science

  • 国際ビジネス研究学会

  • Academy of Management

  • 経営学史学会

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Business administration  / Management

Papers

  • The Japanese Monozukuri Spirit and Entrepreneurship: Early Influences by Toyota, Honda, and Mazda and Implications for the Future of Work Invited Reviewed

    Heller, Daniel Arturo

    International Journal of K-Entrepreneurship   1 ( 2 )   23 - 32   2025.2

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  • The effect of organisational sales management on dealership performance Reviewed

    Sekai Kida, Daniel Heller, Yusuke Tamura, Eiji Motohashi, Hidenori Sato, Yasuhiro Hattori

    International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management   23 ( 2-3 )   144 - 170   2023.3

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  • The Chief Engineer and Production Process Development at Toyota: Utilization of Multi-layer Middle Management

    Daniel Heller, Hiromichi Shibata

    Yokohama Business Review   43 ( 3-4 )   61 - 77   2022.3

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  • A Literature Review on Marketing and Sales Capabilities : Building a Research Model for an Empirical Survey on the Role of Front-line Sales Organizations

    Sekai Kida, Daniel Heller

    Journal of Bunri University of Hospitality   38   31 - 40   2021.7

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  • When NOT to Learn: Misguided Teaching in the DCX-MMC Strategic Alliance (Part Ⅱ)

    Heller Daniel

    Yokohama Business Review   39 ( 1/2 )   29 - 37   2018.9

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Books

  • Japan: You're the Leader? The Long-Term Relationship Approach to Japanese Leadership (Co-authored with Yasuhiro Hattori). Chapter 12 in Global Leadership Perspectives: Insights and Analysis, Edited by Simon Western and Éric-Jean Garcia, Sage Publications

    Yasuhiro Hattori, Daniel Heller（ Role： Joint author）

    Sage Publications  2018.4 

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    Responsible for pages：105-112   Language：English   Book type：Scholarly book

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  • Industries and Disasters: Building Robust and Competitive Supply Chains (Editors: Takahiro Fujimoto and Daniel Heller; Publisher: Nova Science)

    Daniel Heller, Takahiro Fujimoto（ Role： Joint editor）

    Nova Science  2017.12 

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    Total pages：314   Language：English   Book type：Scholarly book

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  • Lessons for On-the-Spot Recovery: Riken and the 2007 Chuetsu Offshore Earthquake. Chapter 4 in Industries and Disasters: Building Robust and Competitive Supply Chains, Edited by Takahiro Fujimoto and Daniel Heller

    HELLER Daniel Arturo（ Role： Sole author）

    Nova Science  2017.12 

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    Responsible for pages：95-115   Language：English   Book type：Scholarly book

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  • Monozukuri Management: Driver of sustained competitiveness in the Japanese auto industry, Chapter 6 in Japanese Management in Evolution: New Directions, Breaks, and Emerging Practices, Edited by Tsutomu Nakano, Routledge

    Daniel Heller, Takahiro Fujimoto（ Role： Joint authorCh6: Monozukuri Management: Driver of sustained competitiveness in the Japanese auto industry）

    Routledge  2017.7  （ ISBN:9781138673366 ）

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    Total pages：320   Responsible for pages：107-126   Language：English   Book type：Scholarly book

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  • ガイダンス 現代経営学（第5章：ものづくり経営担当）

    山倉健嗣（ Role： Joint author第5章：ものづくり経営）

    中央経済社  2015.7  （ ISBN:4502153311 ）

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MISC

  • Industries and disasters: Building robust and competitive supply chains

    Takahiro Fujimoto, Daniel Arturo Heller

    Industries and Disasters: Building Robust and Competitive Supply Chains   1 - 314   2017.1

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    Language：English   Publisher：Nova Science Publishers, Inc.  

    The purpose of this book is to explore the ways that industries, under the pressures of global competition, balance sustained industrial competitiveness and robustness against major disasters. The book focuses mainly on the impact of disasters on supply chains for manufactured (mainly tradable) goods. A special feature of this particular theme is that companies have to deal with not only disasters that may come someday, but also global competition that industrial sites have to face every day. If, for example, companies add excessive amounts of inventory to their manufacturing sites for fear of the next major earthquake, they may not survive long enough to see the next earthquake due to their loss of global competitiveness. Thus, on a practical side, this book proposes that companies can balance global competitiveness and the anti-disaster robustness of industrial sites, rather than simply choosing one or the other, if they organize their efforts under the principles of continuous improvement (kaizen) and lean production. We have adopted a framework rooted in a design-based view of manufacturing for the empirical analysis and practical proposals of this book. That is, we argue that a manufacturing process can be defined broadly as the flow of value-carrying design information to customers. It follows that the key to the quick recovery of supply chains is to make the design information's stock and flow robust, visible, portable, recoverable, replicable, and restorable before and after disasters happen. Using these characteristics of information as a guide, companies need to build organizational capabilities for quickly recovering and/or moving the information assets embedded within the production processes that were damaged in a disaster. This book argues that such capabilities overlap to a large degree with the know-how and skills developed by kaizen activities. The empirical case studies contained in this book were conducted through extensive fieldwork at industrial sites mostly in Japan, which is known as one of the countries that is most vulnerable to natural disasters. Although the book mainly covers natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, floods), there is also a chapter on a human-induced factory fire that had a major impact on Japan's automotive supply chain. Based on the actual responses of Japanese companies (Toyota, Honda, Aisin Seiki, Epson, Renesas, and Riken, among others) to supply chain and production disruptions caused by major disasters, this book gives practical implications for firms that take a leading role in managing industrial supply chains. In particular, guidance is given on the ways in which supply chains can be diagnosed for vulnerabilities and the remedies that may be applied. One such countermeasure, virtual dualization, is explained in detail as a means for achieving both supply chain robustness and competitiveness for complex products that require intense coordination in their design and production. A common theme that runs throughout the chapter is the importance of building trust among the participants in a supply chain.

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  • Probing a Prepared Organization : Reading Takahiro Fujimoto's the Evolution of a Manufacturing system at Toyota

    Daniel A. Heller

    Annals of Business Administration   1 ( 2 )   35-38 - 38   2002.7

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other)   Publisher：Global Business Research Center  

    Takahiro Fujimotos 1999 book, The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota, is surveyed and its contents introduced to commemorate the book having been awarded the prestigious Japan Academy Prize for 2002.

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Presentations

  • Leadership and Management of the Dealer Gemba in a Shrinking Japanese Auto Market

    Daniel Helle, Sekai Kida

    30th GERPISA International Symposium, with PVMI (Mack Institute, Wharton School), at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)  2022.6 

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  • Supply Chain Competitiveness vs. Continuity: Reconciling the Apparent Tradeoff

    Daniel Heller

    30th GERPISA International Symposium, with PVMI (Mack Institute, Wharton School), at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)  2022.6 

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  • 「ドラッカーとスローンを『裏切った』ＧＭの運命―日本への教訓―」

    ヘラー、ダニエル

    経営学史学会第25回全国大会  ( 青森中央学院大学 )   2017.5 

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    Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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  • Japanese “Monozukuri” will continue to drive Sustained Competitiveness and Profitability in the Auto Industry (PDW Session title - Beyond the (Traditional) Automotive Industry (Part 2): New Capabilities and New Paradigm?) Invited International conference

    ヘラー、ダニエル

    2016.8 

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  • Market and Financial Competitiveness of Japanese Automakers (1980-2014) International conference

    Marinov, M, Kato, Y, Natsumi, S

    24th International Colloquium of GERPISA  ( Puebla, Mexico )   2016.6 

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Research Projects

  • Empirical Research on the Role of the Sales Outlet in Monozukuri Management

    2016.4 - 2021.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C) 

    Heller, Daniel

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    Grant amount： \4850

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  • A study in strategic response and interorganizational relations in institutional environments

    Grant number：15K03600  2015.4 - 2018.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 

    yamakura kenshi

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    Grant amount： \4420000 （ Direct Cost: \3400000 、 Indirect Cost： \1020000 ）

    This study deals with strategic responses and interorganization relation in institutional environments.We study new institutional theory critically.Core concepts are institutional enterpreneurship,embedded agency,institutional responses.It examines a model of strategy -organization-interorganization relation in institutional environments.Factors of response in institutional environments are interorganizational power and trust,interdepartmental power,position of boundary personnel,top leadership.

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  • A study in change of strategy,organization and interorganizational relation for de-commoditization

    Grant number：24530412  2012.4 - 2015.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)  Yokohama National University

    YAMAKURA kenshi, TAKAHASHI Masaru, YAMAOKA Toru, HELLER Daniel

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    Grant amount： \4940000 （ Direct Cost: \3800000 、 Indirect Cost： \1140000 ）

    This study deals with strategic and organizational responces to commodization of market.We analize commodization and factors that infulence commodization.
    It examines a model of strategy-organization-interorganizational relation for de-commoditization.According to case study,factors influence commodization are state of competition ,standization of technology and need of customers,interdependence of marketing department and development department,top involvement,power balance.The important points for de-commodization are its necessity and non-substitution of product and service for others,brand building,maitenance of interlectual property and power shift.

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  • A study in organizational change process and change agents

    Grant number：21530352  2009 - 2011

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)  Yokohama National University

    YAMAKURA Kenshi, TAKAHASHI Masaru, YAMAOKA Toru, HELLER Daniel

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    Grant amount： \4290000 （ Direct Cost: \3300000 、 Indirect Cost： \990000 ）

    This study deals with organizational change process and change agents. It examines the influence of change agent power and network on change process, The relationship between change agent and the other agents can understand dynamic aspects of organizational change. Top intervention and middle involvement, resistence to change influence phases of organizational change. According to case study, factors which determine change process are power relations between change agent and other agent, relations between top and change agent, attitude towards change.

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  • Organizational change process in alliance context

    Grant number：19530328  2007 - 2008

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)  Yokohama National University

    YAMAKURA Kenshi, TAKAHASHI Masaru, YACHI Hiroyasu, YAMAOKA Toru, HELLER Daniel

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    Grant amount： \3770000 （ Direct Cost: \2900000 、 Indirect Cost： \870000 ）

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Teaching Experience

  • 組織間マネジメント特論

    Institution：横浜国立大学

  • Management in Japan

    Institution：横浜国立大学

  • Management Policy

    Institution：横浜国立大学

  • 経営学総論Ⅰ

    Institution：横浜国立大学

  • 演習Ⅰ

    Institution：横浜国立大学

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