Update:5/1/2023
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Industrial Economics, Industry Studies,
Industrial Development
Transformation of the modern production
system
Global reorganization of the iron and
steel industry
Japanese Economy
Industrialization of developing
countries in
Nozomu
Kawabata, Evaluating the Technology Path of Japanese Steelmakers in Green Steel
Competition, The Japanese Political Economy, Vol. 49, No. 2/3, November
2023, 231-252. https://doi.org/10.1080/2329194X.2023.2258162 (Open access) NEW!
Leimengyi
Tang and Nozomu Kawabata, “The Business of Chinese Internet Novel : From the
View of Platform and User-Generated Content,” The Keizai Gaku (Annual report
of the graduate school of economics and management, Tohoku University, Vol.
79, No. 1, March 2023, pp. 1-16 (Japanese). NEW!
Nozomu
Kawabata, “The Conditions for Establishing a Timing Controller as a Unit of
Activity : A Case Study of Spiral Steel Pipes,” The Social Sciences,
Vol. 52, No. 3, Institute for the Study of Humanities & Social Sciences,
Doshisha University, November 2022, pp. 1-22 (Japanese). NEW!
Nozomu
Kawabata and Di Yin, “Policies to Reduce Excess Capacity in the Chinese Iron
and Steel Industry: Industrial Policy as a Coordination Process,” Journal of Asian Management Studies, No.
27, Japan Scholarly Association for Asian Management (JSAAM), 25-48 (Japanese).
Nozomu
Kawabata and Di Yin, “Production Systems of Contemporary Chinese Iron and Steel
industry : Features and Rationale,” The Social Sciences, Vol. 51, No. 7,
Institute for the Study of Humanities & Social Sciences, Doshisha
University, May 2021, pp. 1-31 (Japanese). NEW!
Nozomu
Kawabata, Development of the Vietnamese Iron and Steel Industry Under
International Economic Integration, in Hiromi Shioji, Dev Raj Adhikari,
Fumio Yoshino & Takabumi
Hayashi eds., Management for Sustainable
and Inclusive Development in a Transforming Asia, Springer, 2020, pp.
255-271. DOI:
10.1007/978-981-15-8195-3_15 (Springer) (English)
Nozomu
Kawabata, “Current Status and Challenges of the Japanese Iron and Steel
Industry: Strategies of the Integrated Producers and Minimills,” Funtai Gijutsu, Vol. 12, No. 10, The
Association of Powder Process Industry and Engineering, JAPAN, pp. 15-19
(Japanese).
Nozomu
Kawabata, “The Governmental Role in Excess Capacity Reduction in the Japanese
Iron and Steel Industry,” China
Investment Magazine, No. 7, pp. 24-26 (Chinese).
Nozomu
Kawabata, “The ‘Vague Institutions’ of Chinese Economy and Japanese Economy:
From the Research Perspectives for Japanese Industries and Companies,” Journal of Chinese Economic and Management
Studies, Vol. 1, No.1, Japanese Association for Chinese Economy and
Management, pp.26-32 (Japanese) .
Nozomu
Kawabata, “Emergence of the Private Companies in the Vietnamese Iron and Steel
Industry,” Journal of Asian Management
Studies, No. 22, Japan Scholarly Association for
Asian Management (JSAAM), August 2016, pp. 79-92 (Japanese).
Nozomu
Kawabata, “Development of Next Generation Vehicles Based on the Regional
Innovation in Tohoku Area, Japan,” in Graduate School of Economic and
Management, Tohoku University ed., How
has the Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earth quake Changed the Tohoku
Area, Nanbokusha, Inc., 2016, pp.122-133 (Japanese).
Nozomu
Kawabata, The Vietnamese Iron and Steel Industry in Transition to a
Market-oriented Economy: Attainments and Challenges, Akamon Management Review, Vol. 14, No. 9, Global Business Research
Center, September 2015, pp.451-459 (Japanese) English version in TERG DP.
Nozomu
Kawabata, “The Role Brain Circulation in the Software and Information
Technology Services Industry in Dalian: Importance from the Japanese view,” in
Dalian Institute of Software & Service Outsourcing, Annual Report of
Dalian’s Software and Information Technology Service Sector (2014), Dongbei
University of Finance and Economics Press, 2014, pp.127-133 (Chinese).
Nozomu
Kawabata and Yan Zhao, “Energy Saving and CO2 Emissions Reductions in the Iron
and Steel Industry in China”, Asian
Economies, Vol.55, No.1, Institute of Developing Economies, March 2014,
pp.97-127 (Japanese).
Hiromi
Takeshita and Nozomu Kawabata, The Procurement Structure of the Automobile
Parts in Tohoku Region, Japan: Progress, Limitation, and Prospects of Local
Procurement, Akamon Management Review,
Vol. 12, No. 10, Global Business Research Center, October 2013, pp. 669-698
(Japanese).
Yan
Zhang and Nozomu Kawabata, “Business Creation and Transformation Processes in
Four Software Companies in Dalian, China: Commonalities and Differences,” Annals of the Society for Industrial Studies,
No. 28, The Society for Industrial Studies, Japan, March 2013, pp. 73-85
(Japanese) English
version in TERG DP.
Nozomu
Kawabata, “A Comparative Analysis of Integrated Iron and Steel Companies in
East Asia,” The Keizai Gaku, Annual
Report of the Economic Society, Tohoku University, Vol.73, No.s. 1/2, The
Economic Society, Tohoku University, October 2012, pp.23-42 (English) (Simplified Chinese Character Version).
Yan
Zhang and Nozomu Kawabata, “The Formation of the Software and Information
Services Industry in Dalian, China,” Journal
of Asian Management Studies, No. 18, Japan Scholarly Association for Asian
Management(JSAAM), August 2012, pp. 35-46 (Japanese). English version in TERG DP
Nozomu
Kawabata, “Competition for Building of Production System of High Grade Steel
among the Integrated Steel Companies in East Asia,” Bulletin of The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, Vol.15, No.3,
The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, March 2010, pp.124-133 (Japanese).
Nozomu
Kawabata, “The Thai Steel Industry: Domestic Hot Rolling Companies under the
Hierarchical Division of Labor,” in Hajime Sato ed., The Steel Industry in Asia: Development and Restructuring,
Xinghe
Zhang, Jusen Asuka, Nozomu Kawabata, Izumi Omura, Gyozo Kawahara, Reijiro
Takahashi, “CDM Project Design for Introducing Coke Dry Quenching Equipment in
Shanxi Province of China,” TETSU-TO-HAGANÉ,
Vol.94, No. 9, The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, September 2008,
pp.369-375 (Japanese).
Nozomu
Kawabata, “Comparative Analysis of the Integrated Steel Companies in East
Asia,” Journal of Asian Management Studies,
Japan Scholarly Association for Asian Management, June 2008, pp. 61-74
(Japanese). Simplified Chinese Character
Version(PDF) Traditional Chinese Character Version(PDF)
Nozomu
Kawabata, “Production Systems and Investment Behavior of the Integrated and
Steel Companies in East Asia,” Kinzoku,
Vol.77, No.11, Agne Gijutsu Center, November 11, pp. 4-8 (Japanese).
Nozomu
Kawabata, “Steel Industry in Viet Nam: A New Phase and Policy Shift,” in Hajime Sato ed., Development and Restructuring of the Iron
and Steel Industry in Asian Countries, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO),
March 2007, pp. 173-207. (IDE-JETRO website)
Nozomu
Kawabata, “High Grade Steel Strategy of Integrated Steel Producers in Japan:
Steady and Conservative,” Annals of the Society for
Industrial Studies, No. 21, The Society for Industrial Studies, Japan,
March 2005, pp.35-47 (Japanese).
Nozomu
Kawabata, Structure and Dynamism of the
Iron and Steel Industry in East Asia, Kyoto,
Minerva Publishing,
2005, pp. 1-300+vii (Japanese).
Nozomu
Kawabata, “Integrated Control and Process Linkage of the Japanese Iron and
Steel Industry: The Cases of Joint Ventures in
Nozomu
Kawabata, “The Dynamism of Inter-firm Relations in the Japanese Iron and Steel
Industry: “Big 2” Groups and International Alliances,” in Masu Uekusa, Michio Ohkawa and Azusa
Tomiura eds., New Frontier of Textile and Iron & Steel
Industries: The Industrial Systems in Japan
and New Developments Vol. 2, NTT Publishing
Co. Ltd., pp.234-272. (Japanese)
Nozomu
Kawabata, “Faculty Members under the Management and Administration Systems of
National Univerisity Corporation,” Zendaikyo
Jiho (University Journal), Vol. 27, No. 6, Faculty and Staff Union
of Japanese
Universities (FUJ), February 2004 (Japanese).
Nozomu
Kawabata, “CÔNG NGHIỆP THÉP: SỰ LỰA CHỌN THỰC TỄ CHO MỘT NGÀNH CÔNG NGHIỆP THAY
THỆ NHẬP KHẨU,” tác gia’ CƠ QUAN HỢP TÁC QUỐC TỂ NHẬT BẢN (JICA) vā ĐẠI HỌC
KINH TẾ QUỐC DÂN (NEU), CHÍNH
SÁCH CÔNG NGHIỆP VÀ THƯƠNG MẠI CỦA VIỆT NAM TROUNG BÔI CẢNH HỘI NHẬP, TẬP I,
HÀ NỘI, NXB THỐNG KÊ, 2003 (Vietnamese).
Nozomu Kawabata, “The Current Vietnamese Steel Industry and Its Challenges”, in Study on the Economic Development Policy in The Transition toward a Market-Oriented Economy in The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (Phase 3), Final Report Vol. 2 Trade and Industry, Japan International Cooperation Agency and Ministry of Planning and Investment, The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, March 2001, pp.139-193.,English version(PDF), Japanese version(PDF)
Nozomu Kawabata and Keiji Ujikawa,
"Technology and Management of the W. Metallurgical Industry Group Co.
Ltd.," in Xinghe Zhang and Reijiro Takahashi eds., Environmental
Problems in Chinese Iron-Steelmaking Industries and Effective Technology
Transfer: China-Japan International Academic Symposium : March 6, 2000,
Reijiro Takahashi, Xinghe Zhang, Izumi
Omura, Nozomu Kawabata, Hisashi Shinohara, Toyoaki Ito, "Present States
and Measure for Environmental Pollution from Ironmaking Industries in Shanxi
Province in China," in Xinghe Zhang and Reijiro Takahashi eds., Environmental
Problems in Chinese Iron-Steelmaking Industries and Effective Technology
Transfer: China-Japan International Academic Symposium : March 6, 2000, Tohoku
University, Sendai, Japan, Tohoku University Press, 2000. pp.1-5 (English). Download
Nozomu Kawabata, "Maturity,
Catching-up, and Institutional Coordination: Global Competition of the Steel
Industry," in Keiko Morisawa and Hirofumi Ueda eds., Global Competition
and Localization, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 2000, pp.131-160
(Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, "Production
Systems and Competitive Strategy of the Japanese Integrated Steel
Companies," in Kiyoshi Sakamoto ed., Production Systems of the Japanese
Firms, Tokyo, Chuo Keizai Sya, 1998, pp.69-111 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, "The Steel
Producers and the Steel Trade in Ease Asia (1)(2)", Kikan Keizai Kenkyu
(The Quarterly Journal of Economic Studies), Vol. 20, No. 2, 3, The
Economic Society of Osaka City University, September 1997, December 1997,
pp.1-34, 47-74 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, "The Industrial
Relations and the Corporate Governance of USX Corporation," Keieigaku
Ronsyu (Bulletin of Business Management Society of Japan), No. 67, Tokyo,
Chikura Syobo, 1997 (Japanese).
Hirofumi Ueda, Nozomu Kawabata, Kenji
Kutsuna, Yasuhiro Ota, Hajime Kawamura, Naoki Taguchi, "Small- Medium
Manufacturing Enterprises in Higashi-Osaka City," Kikan Keizai Kenkyu
(The Quarterly Journal of Economic Studies), Vol. 19, No. 2, The Economic
Society of Osaka City University, September 1996, pp.27-66 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, "Some Issues on
the Production System of Japanese Steel Industry," The Keizai Gaku,
Annual Report of the Economic Society,
Tohoku University, Vol. 57, No. 4, The Economic Society, Tohoku University,
December 1995, pp.81-91 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, "Production
Process of Japanese- U.S. Steel Joint Ventures," Kikan Keizai Kenkyu
(The Quarterly Journal of Economic Studies), Vol. 18, No. 3, The Economic
Society of Osaka City University, December 1995, pp.89-116 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, "The National
Structure of Growth of the U.S. Steel Industry in the Post- War Era," Shoken
Kenkyu Nenpo (The Annual Report of the Securities Research Center), No. 10,
The Securities Research Center of Osaka City University, December 1995,
pp.51-80 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, "Technology,
Management, and Industrial Relations of U.S. Integrated Steel Companies: The
Process of Restructuring," Osaka City University Economic Review,
Vol. 30, No. 1/2, The Faculty of Economics and The Institute for Economic
Research, Osaka City University, January 1995, pp.53-79 (English) Download.(uploaded with permission of publisher)
Nozomu Kawabata, "Product
Development of the Japanese Integrated Steel Companies," in Yoshihiko
Akashi and Hirofumi Ueda eds., Systems of Innovation in Japanese Firms,
University of Tokyo Press, 1995, pp.113-145 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, Competitive Strategy of the Japanese Integrated Steel Firms in Mature Stage, presented at the 27th International Conference of Business History (The Fuji Conference), Business History Society (Japan), Susono, Japan, 7 January, 2003. (After the conference, proceeding was revised for publishing. Though publishing never took place, revision work has been completed.) (English) Download (RePEc)
Nozomu Kawabata, Policy Options for the
Vietnamese Steel Industry: A Step-by-Step Approach, presented at the Symposium on Industrial and Trade Policies
of Vietnam in Integration Age, Japan International Cooperation Agency and
Nozomu Kawabata, The Current Vietnamese
Steel Industry and Its Challenges, Vietnam- Japan Joint Research Project:
Workshop on Economic Development Policy, Japan International Cooperation
Agency and Ministry of Planning and Investment, The Socialist Republic of Viet
Nam, Hanoi, 8-9 December, 2000 (English).
Nozomu Kawabata, Development of the
Vietnamese Iron and Steel Industry under International Economic Integration,
TERG Discussion Paper, No. 396, Graduate School of Economics and Management,
Tohoku University, pp.1-24, November 2018. Download
Final version is here.
Nozomu Kawabata, “Decline and
Restructuring of a State-owned Enterprise Group in the Vietnamese Iron and
Steel Industry”, RIETI Discussion Paper Series, 17-J-066, Research Institute of
Economy, Trade and Industry, pp.1-41, October 2017 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, “The Role of Government
in Excess Capacity Reduction in the Japanese Iron and Steel Industry
1970s-2000s,” TERG Discussion Paper, No. 371, Graduate School of Economics and
Management, Tohoku University, pp. 1-23, July 2017 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, Where is the Excess
Capacity in the World Iron and Steel Industry? –A focus on East Asia and
China–, RIETI Discussion Paper Series,
17-E-026, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, pp.1-36, March
2017. Download
(RePEC)
Nozomu Kawabata, The Vietnamese Iron and
Steel Industry in Transition to a Market Economy —Attainments and Challenges—,
TERG Discussion Paper, No. 349, Graduate School of Economics and Management,
Tohoku University, pp. 1-45, May 2016. Download (RePEC)
Yan Zhang and Nozomu Kawabata, Business Creation
and Transformation Processes in Four Software Companies in Dalian, China:
Commonalities and Differences, TERG Discussion Paper, No. 331, Graduate School
of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, pp.1-18, April 2013, pp.1-21,
March 2015. Download
(RePEc)
Yan Zhang and Nozomu Kawabata, The
Formation of the Software and Information Services Industry in Dalian ,China,
Tohoku Economics Research Group Discussion Paper, No. 293, Graduate School of
Economics and Management, Tohoku University, pp.1-18, April 2013. Download (RePEc)
Nozomu Kawabata, The Business Models of
Steel Industry in Thailand and Vietnam: The Case of Cold Rolling Companies, Tohoku Economics
Research Group Discussion Paper, No. 263, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, February
2011, pp.1-29 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, Iron and Steel Industry
in Viet Nam: A New Phase and Policy Shift, VDF
Discussion Paper, No. 9, Vietnam Development Forum, August 2007. English Version(PDF) Vietnamese
version(PDF) (Translated by Tran Thi Kieu Minh)
Nozomu Kawabata, The Thai Steel Industry after
the Asian Currency Crisis: Corporate Reconstruction, Inter-firm Division of
Labor and Trade Problem, NEU-JICA
Discussion Paper, July 2003. Japanese
Version(PDF), Vietnamese Version (PDF)
Nozomu Kawabata, Competitive Strategy of the Japanese
Integrated Steel Firms in Mature Stage, Tohoku
Economics
Research Group Discussion Paper, No. 165, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, February
2003, pp.1-36 (Japanese).
Nozomu Kawabata, The Current Vietnamese Steel Industry and Its Challenges, NEU-JICA Discussion Paper, No. 6, 2001.
"Preface" (with Shigeki
Kanada), "Cigarettes" (with Naoko Sato), "Automobiles"
(with Naoko Sato), "Computers" (with Yoshihiko Kikuchi), "Public
Policy in a Free Enterprise Economy" (with Yuichiro Sakakibara) in Shigeki
Kanada supervised, Gendai America Sangyo
Ron, Sofusya, 2002, abridged translation of Walter Adams and James W. Brock
eds., The Structure of American Industry, 10th edition, Prentice Hall, 2001.
Nozomu Kawabata translated, Adam Smith Moscow He Iku: Sijou Keizai Ikou
Wo Meguru Taiwa Geki, Sofusya, 1-150, 2000, translation of Walter Adams and
James W. Brock, Adam Smith Goes to
Nozomu Kawabata, Diversified Business
Models of Non-integrated Steel Company in Developing Countries, International
Conference to celebrate 50 year anniversary of the Foreign Trade University,
“Economic Policy for Further Development of Asia-Pacific Region”, Foreign Trade
University, Hanoi, October 11, 2010.
slides with speech
draft
Nozomu Kawabata, Comparative Analysis
of Integrated Iron and Steel Companies in East Asia, The State of Globalization
in the Steel Industry: Taking Stock and Looking Forward, A Research workshop at
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 28 May, 2010.
Nozomu Kawabata, Iron and Steel Industry in Viet Nam: A New
Phase and Policy Shift, VDF Workshop,
Hanoi, Viet Nam, 28 August, 2007. slides
with speech draft (see also VDF Discussion Paper No. 9)
Nozomu Kawabata, Iron and Steel
Industry of Developing Countries in the Era of Globalization: The Case of
Vietnam, Advanced Material Flow Analysis
for the Sustainable Society, Sponsored by RISTEX (Research Institute of
Science and Technology for Society), JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency),
Co-organized by the Division of Environmental and Energy Technology, The Iron
and Steel Institute of Japan, Sendai, Japan, September 26, 2006. proceeding slides
with speech draft
Nozomu Kawabata, Improving the
Promotion Policy for the Vietnamese Iron and Steel Industry, VDF Workshop, Vietnam Development Forum,
Hanoi, Viet Nam, 16 June, 2006. slides with
speech draft VDF workshop information
Nozomu Kawabata, The Chinese Iron and
Steel Industry: Structure and Outlook, VDF
Nozomu Kawabata, Designing Tariff
Structure for an Import Substitution Industry: The Case of Steel, Vietnam’s Industrial Strategy in the Age of
Globalization: Ho Chi Minh City Seminar, Japan International Cooperation
Agency and National Economic University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, 9
Semtember, 2003. slides suppliment
to the main report of NEU-JICA project
Nozomu Kawabata, Steel Market and
Investment Strategy in NIEs and ASEAN Economies: Sheets and Strip Case, Second Intensive Steel Seminar: Challenges
for the Vietnamese Steel Industry in the Era of International Economic
Integration, NEU-JICA Joint Research, Hanoi, Vietnam, 25 October, 2001.
Production and Investment Plan of the
Vietnamese Steel Industry: Features and Challenges of a Step by Step Approach, Vietnam-
Japan Joint Research Project:
Intensive Steel Seminar, Japan International Cooperation Agency and
Ministry of Planning and Investment, Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, 16
October, 2000.