Papers - YOKOZAWA Kodo
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Individual Kaizen in Japan: an exploratory multiple case study in a micro work environment
Suárez-Barraza, MF; Miguel-Davila, JA; Yokozawa, K; Cosme-Castorena, JE
TQM Journal 2025.1
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Joint Work
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From Gemba walks to organisational insights: Unveiling the concept of internal sensitivity
H. T. X. Phung and K. Yokozawa
EurOMA Conference 2024 proceedings 2024.7 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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Prior knowledge on Gemba's impact on internal sensitivity: The moderating role of workplace curiosity
H. T. X. Phung, K. Yokozawa and H. A. Nguyen
EurOMA Conference 2024 proceedings 2024.7 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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Transforming anxiety into a flow through continuous improvement: Unveiling the mechanism for sustaining individual kaizen
K. Yokozawa, H. A. Nguyen and H. T. X. Phung
EurOMA Conference 2024 proceedings 2024.7 [Reviewed]
Authorship：Lead author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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Streamlining through bureaucracy: Examining the bureaucratic influence on work engagement through operational processes
EurOMA Conference 2024 proceedings 2024.7 [Reviewed]
Authorship：Lead author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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Effect of Personal Anxiety on Work Engagement: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam
Tra Vu Thu, Kodo Yokozawa, Phuong Tran Huy & Hao Anh Nguyen
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Research in Management and Technovation 2024.4 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Publisher：Springer, Singapore Joint Work
The COVID-19 pandemic has been identified as one of the significant factors contributing to high levels of mental health problems among employees. Our research examined the relationship between the mental health approach and the impact of anxiety on employee engagement. In Vietnam, employee engagement topics are increasingly being researched, but they are principally conducted by individual companies, which tend to consider the situational factors surrounding the engagement process. In our study, we have continuously contributed to employee engagement theory. We used the term work engagement, considered an individual factor as significant as situational factors. Besides, we investigated the relevance of personal anxiety to work engagement and informal workplace learning. The sample size included 238 employees of Vietnamese organizations. According to the findings, people with high trait anxiety have difficulty engaging in their work, and informal workplace learning behavior positively impacts work engagement. The result is presented in the discussion section, and implications for researchers and practitioners to develop appropriate interventions for personal anxiety to increase positive effects on work engagement.
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Huong Thi Xuan Phung, Kodo Yokozawa
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Emerging Challenges: Smart Business and Digital Economy 2023 (ICECH 2023) 2024.2 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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Reke, E; Powell, D; Yokozawa, K; Finnestrand, H
FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION AND INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING: MANUFACTURING INNOVATION AND PREPAREDNESS FOR THE CHANGING WORLD ORDER, FAIM 2024, VOL 1 432 - 438 2024
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Joint Work
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Nguyen, HA; Yokozawa, K; Suárez-Barraza, MF
TQM Journal 36 ( 6 ) 1442 - 1459 2023.11 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Emerald Publishing Limited Joint Work
Purpose
During crises, notably the recent COVID-19 pandemic, a heightened sense of urgency has manifested as a catalyst for improvement within organizations. The present study aims to explore the influence of a sense of urgency on individual kaizen performance. Additionally, the study delves into the potential moderating roles of organizational culture in this relationship.
Design/methodology/approach
Data samples include 481 employees who are working at Japanese manufacturing companies. SPSS software is used for data analysis, comprising measurement test, correlation and regression analysis.
Findings
A sense of urgency was found to predict a higher number of accepted suggestions. Moreover, there is a significant and positive interaction effect of adhocracy culture and a sense of urgency on writing and submitting ideas.
Originality/value
As an initial study that empirically tests the relationship between a sense of urgency and individual kaizen performance, this paper contributes to the literature on kaizen, change management and innovation. It also corroborates previous research on the Person-Organization fit framework. -
Pham, Thoa Xuan, Thi Kodo Yokozawa
Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal 1 - 16 2023.9 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Taylor & Francis Joint Work
Opportunism is a common issue in inter – firm relationships, which increases transaction costs, impairs firm performance and supply chain efficiency, and deteriorates relationship quality. Previous studies have intensively investigated factors influencing opportunism but overfocusing on the organisational level. Recently, supply chain researchers have called for identifying factors influencing opportunism at the individual level to gain a more comprehensive understanding of opportunism. Based on transaction cost theory, resource dependence theory, and boundary spanning theory, this study seeks to advance the emerging research stream on opportunism at the individual level by investigating how buyer agents’ boundary spanning capabilities and firms’ long – term relationship orientation can help manage supplier agents’ opportunism. Using a cross – sectional data set of 406 buyer agents from manufacturing companies collected from February to April 2021 in Japan, we tested a set of hypotheses through regression and conditional process analyses. Our findings suggest that buyer agents’ strategic communication and firms’ long – term relationship orientation are critical factors that reduce supplier agents’ opportunism.
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Revisiting the concept of 5’S: A comparative analysis study through the lens of pioneers
Barraza, M. F. S., Miguel-Dávila, J. A., & Yokozawa, K.
International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management In press ( In press ) In press - In press 2023.7 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Joint Work
The global pandemic due to the COVID-19 disease promoted webinars, courses and seminars on social networks. One of these themes in the midst of all the webinars and trainings has been the 5'S. This profiling has generated confusion and failures when applying it. Therefore, it is a priority to review and study them from the perspective of the two pioneering authors of the technique Takashi Osada (1989; 1991), and Hiroyuki Hirano (1995), to try to generate greater theoretical-practical light from its origins in the within Japanese organizations. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is an analytic approach and set of research tools that combines detailed within-case analysis and formalized crosscase comparisons. Our main findings were a theoretical intersection between the works of Osada (1991) and Hirano (1995) to describe the common elements of all the "S" of the 5'S technique.
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Contribution of a sense of urgency to employees' collaborative behavior and job performance: Empirical evidence from Japan
Hao Anh Nguyen, Kodo Yokozawa
Proceedings of the 6th World Conferce on Production and Operations Management 2022.8 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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Psychological mechanisms of “sustaining” individual kaizen activities: A conceptual model
Kodo Yokozawa, Thoa Xuan Thi Pham, Hao Anh Nguyen, Huong Thi Xuan Phung
Proceedings of the 6th World Conferce on Production and Operations Management 2022.8 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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Concept, theoretical foundation, and significance of management sensitivity
Phung, H. T. X., Yokozawa, K., & Kimura, T.
Proceedings of the 6th World Conferce on Production and Operations Management 576 - 585 2022.8 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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The influences of boundary spanning capabilities, integrity on opportunism: The moderating roles of long-term orientation
T. X. T. Pham and K. Yokozawa
29th Annual European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) conference proceedings 2022.6 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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Role of a sense of urgency in driving employees' innovative behavior: Empirical evidence from Japan
Hao Nguyen, Kodo Yokozawa, Toru Takagi, Tim Wolput.
Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (AOM) 2022.3 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Single Work
Other Link： https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.16368abstract
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Pham, TXT; Yokozawa, K; Anh, NN
Operations and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 15 ( 3 ) 373 - 385 2022
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Joint Work
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Role of personal anxiety in individual kaizen behaviour and performance: evidence from Japan
International Journal of Operations & Production Management 41 ( 6 ) 942 - 961 2021.7 [Reviewed] [Invited]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Emerald Publishing Limited Joint Work
Other Link： https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-09-2020-0670
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The role of a sense of urgency in driving employee innovative behavior: A conceptual model
Hao Anh Nguyen, Kodo Yokozawa, Toru Takagi, Tim Wolput
EurOMA Conference 2021 2021.7 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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The impact of trust and intimacy on opportunism: The moderating roles of alternative supplier and job demand
Pham Thi Xuan Thoa, Kodo Yokozawa
EurOMA Conference 2021 2021.7 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Joint Work
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Towards an Economic Theory of Lean
Reke, E; Powell, D; Yokozawa, K
Advances in production management systems: artificial intelligence for sustainable and resilient production systems, APMS 2021, PT I 630 712 - 720 2021
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Joint Work
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Factors influencing on opportunism in retailer-supplier relationship: An exploratory research
Pham Thi Xuan Thoa, Kodo Yokozawa
EurOMA Conference 2020 Proceedings 2020.6 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Publisher：European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) Joint Work
Conflict of interest between buyer and supplier has been considered as one of the major issues in economic exchange today. Both parties are profit-seeking organisations, they often behave opportunistically in order to protect their own interests. In fact, individual agents play a critical role in mitigating interfirm opportunism since most of business transactions between exchange parties are conducted by them. This study investigates on individual opportunism and explore agents’ occupational pressure and agent’s level of knowledge have direct impacts on mitigating partner opportunism, also organisational factors as co-worker support and performance monitoring will have moderating roles for those relationships.
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Anxiety that drives kaizen: When does anxiety facilitate or hamper kaizen?
Kodo Yokozawa, Thi Bich Hanh Tran
EurOMA Conference 2020 Proceedings 2020.6 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Publisher：European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) Joint Work
This study explores the influence of personal anxiety (i.e. state and trait) on kaizen behaviors (i.e. personal initiative, rule adherence, and perseverance of efforts) which in turn affect kaizen performance. The data were collected from 361 employees of three Japanese manufacturing companies. The results show that state anxiety is significantly associated with rule adherence while trait anxiety is corelated to personal initiative and perseverance of efforts. All the kaizen behaviours have significant effects on kaizen performance. No significance was found between anxiety and performance which suggests that kaizen behaviors serve as crucial mediators in the relationship between anxiety and performance.
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Relationship between Personal Anxiety and Kaizen Performance
YOKOZAWA Kodo
Transactions of the Academic Association for Organizational Science 9 ( 1 ) 57 - 63 2020 [Reviewed]
Authorship：Lead author Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：The Academic Association for Organizational Science Single Work
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知識移転研究はどこまで来たか：文献調査から見えた今後の研究課題
横澤公道
赤門マネジメントレビュー 17 ( 2 ) 25 - 46 2018.4 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher： 特定非営利活動法人 グローバルビジネスリサーチセンター Single Work
本稿の目的は、 知識移転に関する論文の系譜を読み解くことにより、現在ある理論の空白を明らかにしたうえで今後の研究課題を提示することである。まずは知識移転としての経営システム移転論の発展経路を分析し、その後、特に戦略論をベースとする知識移転論に焦点を当て、その中でどのような課題が残されているのか調査した。その結果、知識移転論の大きな課題のひとつとして単一組織対単一組織の知識移転ではなく組織のコミュニティに対する研究とその優位性に関する研究が少ないことを明らかになった。コミュニティへの知識移転は、組織同士の境界線が比較的顕著になることからメンバー同士の制度、文化、力関係などの相互作用が顕著になり、知識移転の複雑化が見込まれる。しかし、移転の過程において、メンバー間において自主的に学習する制度を作ることで、独立した企業へ行うよりも、財閥、系列企業から作ったコミュニティを利用して移転したほうが知識の移転度が高い可能性があることを議論する。
Other Link： https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/amr/advpub/0/advpub_0170918a/_article/-char/ja
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在インド日系製造業における現場の現状と課題：海外拠点における「従業員満足を高める活動の現地化」の重要性
横澤公道
JMC Journal ( 4 ) 57 - 63 2016 [Invited]
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution) Publisher：日本機械輸出組合 Single Work
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Transfer of Flow Oriented Management System to a Car Component suppliers' Community in India
Yokozawa, K., Steenhuis, H.J.
European Operations Management Association Proceedings 2016 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Publisher：EurOMA Joint Work
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新宅純二郎, 稲水伸行, 福澤光啓, 鈴木信貴, 横澤公道
赤門マネジメント・レビュー 13 ( 10 ) 371 - 406 2014 [Reviewed]
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Joint Work
Other Link： http://www.gbrc.jp/journal/amr/AMR13-10.html
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ヒアリング調査による活力のある工場の特徴と課題
鈴木信貴、横澤公道
電機連合NAVI ( 53 ) 10 - 15 2014 [Invited]
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution) Publisher：電機連合 Joint Work
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新宅純二郎、稲水伸行、福澤光啓、鈴木信貴、横澤公道
東京大学ものづくり経営研究センター ディスカッションペーパーシリーズ 2014
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution) Joint Work
Other Link： http://merc.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/mmrc/dp/pdf/MMRC462_2014.pdf
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ポストアパルトヘイト期の現状と課題―南アフリカにおける日系3社の取り組み
横澤公道, 粟田輝, 増田のぞみ, 新宅純二郎, 樋沢洋司
赤門マネジメント・レビュー 13 ( 12 ) 507 - 524 2014
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Joint Work
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ケース・スタディ方法論：どのアプローチを選ぶか―経営学輪講Glaser and Strauss (1967), Yin (1984), Eisenhardt (1989) の比較分析
横澤公道, 辺成裕, 向井悠一郎
赤門マネジメントレビュー 12 ( 1 ) 41 - 68 2013
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Joint Work
Other Link： http://www.gbrc.jp/journal/amr/rinko.html
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Yokozawa, K., Steenhuis, H.J.
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management 24 ( 7 ) 1051 - 1075 2013 [Reviewed]
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Joint Work
Other Link： https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JMTM-05-2011-0046/full/html
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Transferability of Japanese Management Systems Overseas: A theoretical jungle
Yokozawa, K., de Bruijn, E.J., Steenhuis, H.J., & de Boer, S.
International Management Development Association (IMDA) World Business Congress Proceedings 16 478 - 483 2007
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings) Publisher：IMDA Joint Work
Since the 1980s, transferability of Japanese management systems (JMSs) abroad has become an increasing focus of research. However, the conclusions emerging from studies in this field have been conflicting. The main reasons for discordance have been the use of vague definitions of terms and varying methods employed by researchers to measure the international transferability of the JMSs. This paper first identifies the different streams in literature, and then discusses how these differences emerged. It proposes a research agenda to expose critical issues that one needs to consider in future research regarding international transfer of JMSs.