KENJI E. KUSHIDA 616 Serra St E212 Tel: Stanford, CA, 94305 Email: kkushida@stanford.edu Education Ph.D. M.A. B.A. The University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. Political Science: 2010. Stanford University, Stanford, CA. East Asian Studies: 2003. Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Economics, East Asian Studies: 2001. The American School in Japan, Tokyo, Japan. 1997. Dissertation Inside the Castle Gates: How Foreign Multinational Firms Navigate Japan s Policymaking Processes. Committee: Steven K. Vogel (Chair), John Zysman, T.J. Pempel, Stephen Cohen Academic Positions Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford, CA. 2010-2011. Peer-Reviewed Publications Kushida, Kenji E. and John Zysman. 2009. The Services Transformation and IT Network Regulation: The New Logic of Value Creation. Review of Policy Research 26(1-2). Kushida, Kenji E. 2008. Wireless Bound and Unbound: The Politics Shaping Cellular Markets in Japan and South Korea. Journal of Information Technology and Politics 5(2). Kushida, Kenji E. and Seung-Youn Oh. 2007. The Political Economies of Broadband Development in South Korea and Japan. Asian Survey, 47(3). Kushida, Kenji E. forthcoming. Leading without Followers: How Politics and Market Dynamics Trapped Innovations in Japan's Domestic Telecommunications Sector. Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. Kushida 1
Kushida, Kenji E., Jonathan Murray, Stuart Feldman and John Zysman. forthcoming. Cloud Computing, the Next Computing Platform: Implications for Public Policy. Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. Kushida, Kenji E. Entrepreneurship in Japan s ICT Sector: Opportunities and Protection from Japan s Regulatory Regime Shift (currently under review). Kushida, Kenji E. and Masayuki Ogata. When Innovators are Not Implementers: The Political Economies of Voice-over-IP in the US and Japan. (currently under review). Book Chapters John Zysman, Stuart Feldman, Jonathan Murray, Niels Christian Nielsen, Kushida, Kenji E. 2011. The New Challenge to Economic Governance: The Digital Transformation of Services. in Innovations in Public Governance, edited by A.-V. Anttiroiko, Bailey, S. & Valkama, P. Amsterdam: IOS Press. Kushida, Kenji. 2009. The Political Economies of ICT Regulation: A Comparative Analysis of Japan, Korea, and the United States. in Studies on Information and Communications Policy edited by Takanori Ida, Tetsu Negishi, and Hayashi Toshihiko. Tokyo, Japan: NTT Publishing. (in Japanese) Kushida, Kenji E. 2006. Japan s Telecommunications Regime Shift: Understanding Japan s Potential Resurgence. In How Revolutionary Was the Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology in the Digital Era, edited by Abraham Newman and John Zysman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Kushida, Kenji E. and Kay Shimizu. forthcoming. Introduction: Japan s Syncretic Evolution Since 2000 (tentative). In Kenji E. Kushida, Kay Shimizu, and Jean Oi ed., Syncretism: The Politics of Corporate Restructuring and System Reform in Japan. Stanford, CA: APARC/Brookings. Kushida, Kenji E. forthcoming. Foreign Multinational Corporations and Systemic Change in Japan (tentative). In Kenji E. Kushida, Kay Shimizu, and Jean Oi ed., Syncretism: The Politics of Corporate Restructuring and System Reform in Japan. Stanford, CA: APARC/Brookings. John Zysman, Stuart Feldman, Jonathan Murray, Niels Christian Nielsen, Kushida, Kenji E. forthcoming. The Services Transformation: A New Logic of Value-Creation in After the Crash, edited by John Zysman and Dan Breznitz. Selected Conference Papers, Working Papers Kushida, Kenji E. Cloud Computing and Japan: A Platform for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Disaster Recovery. Paper Presented at Entrepreneurship and Japan s Transformation. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford, CA. April 2011. Kushida 2
Kushida, Kenji E. Global Financial Firms and Financial Regulation in Japan: Disruptive and Insider Policy Strategies. Paper presented in panel, The Politics of Financial Crisis Response and Reform in Japan, Association of Asian Studies Conference, Honolulu, HI. March 2011. Kay Shimizu and Kenji E. Kushida. The Politics of Japan s Financial Reforms: Surprising Resilience in the Face of Globalization. Paper presented in panel, The Politics of Financial Crisis Response and Reform in Japan, Association of Asian Studies Conference, Honolulu, HI. March 2011. Kushida, Kenji E. Foreign Multinational Corporations and Japan s Evolving Model of Capitalism. Paper Presented at The Varieties-of-Capitalism Revisited Japan and the United Kingdom since the 1990s. Sheffield, UK. February 2011. Kushida, Kenji E. and Kay Shimizu. The Changing Role of the State in Japan s Coordinated Market Economy. Paper Presented at The Varieties-of-Capitalism Revisited Japan and the United Kingdom since the 1990s. Sheffield, UK. February 2011. Kushida, Kenji E. Information Technology Policy in a Post-LDP Japan: Caught Between the Distributive and Productive, Redux. Paper presented at Political Change in Japan II: One Step Forward, One Step Back. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Conference. Stanford, CA. February 2011. Kushida, Kenji E. Leading without Followers: How Politics and Market Dynamics Trapped Innovations in Japan s Domestic Telecommunications Sector. Paper presented at BRIE/ETLA Collaborative Research Program. Berkeley, CA. January 2011. Kushida, Kenji E., Jonathan Murray, John Zysman. Cloud Computing, the Next Computing Platform: Implications for Public Policy. Paper presented at BRIE/ETLA Collaborative Research Program, Berkeley, CA. January 2011. Kushida, Kenji E., Dan Breznitz, John Zysman. Cutting through the Fog: Understanding the Competitive Dynamics in Cloud Computing. BRIE Working Paper 190, 2010. Dan Breznitz, Michael Murphree, John Zysman, Kenji E. Kushida. Red Clouds over China: The Emerging Development of Cloud Computing in China. 2010. Paper presented to Cisco Systems, 2010. Kushida, Kenji E. Inside the Castle Gates: Effects of Foreign Firms on Japan s Policy Processes. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association. Toronto, Canada, 2009. Kushida, Kenji E. Leading without Followers: Innovation, Competition, and the Political Economy of Japan s Telecommunications Sector. BRIE Working Paper 184, 2008. Kushida, Kenji E. Gaiatsu From Within? Foreign Firms and Institutional Change in Japan s Political Economy. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association. Chicago, IL, 2007. Kushida 3
Kushida, Kenji E. The Politics of Restructuring NTT: Historically Rooted Trajectories from Actors, Institutions, and Interests. Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, 5(2) 2005. Kushida, Kenji E. Health Care Systems: The United States and Japan. in Comparative Health Care: The United States and Japan. Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), 2004. Kushida, Kenji E. The Political Economy of the Philippines under Marcos: Property Rights in the Philippines from 1965-1986. Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, 3(1) 2003. Kushida, Kenji E. The Japanese Wireless Telecommunications Industry: Innovation, Organizational Structures, and Government Policy. Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, 2(1) 2002. Kushida, Kenji E. Japanese Entrepreneurship: Changing Incentives in the Context of Developing a New Economic Model. Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs 1(1) 2001. Popular Press Books In Japanese Kushida, Kenji. 2008. Intaanashonaru Sukuuru Nyuumon [International Schools: an Overview]. Tokyo, Fuso sha. Kushida, Kenji. 2006. Baikaruchaa to Nihonjin: Eigoryoku Purasu Arufa wo Saguru [Biculturalism and the Japanese: Beyond English Linguistic Ability]. Tokyo: Chuo Koron Shinsho Rakure. Selected Invited Talks Leading Without Followers: the Political Economy of Japanese Firms in the ICT Sector and Implications for China. China 21st Century Government Leaders Training Program. Guanghua Leadership Institution in Collaboration with Cisco. Columbia University, New York. April 28, 2009. Leading Without Followers: the Political Economy of Japanese Firms in the ICT Sector. National Innovation Strategies: The Role of Information Technology. Microsoft Public Sector Technology Officer Meeting. Oakland, California. April 30, 2008. Leading Without Followers: Japanese Firms in the Political Economy of Japan s Telecommunications Sector. Innovation and Competition in the Global Communications Technology Industry Conference. INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. August 24, 2007. Cybersecurity: the Understudied Facet of US-Japan Relations and Northeast Asian Security. Pacific Forum CSIS Young Leaders Program 13th Annual Japan-US Security Seminar. Asia Society, San Francisco, California. March 22, 2007. The Political Economies of Broadband in South Korea and Japan. Kansai University Research Center on Socio-Network Strategies (RCSS). Osaka, Japan. September 16, 2006. Kushida 4
Silicon Valley Cybersecurity and US-Japan Relations: Reconsidering IR Theory in Light of IT Security Concerns. Young Leaders Program 12th Annual Japan-US Security Seminar. Japan Society, San Francisco, California. February 22, 2006. Nichibei Hikaku Kara Mita Kokusai Kyousou ni Okeru Nihon no Jouhou Tsushin Sangyou [Japan s ICT Sector in International Competition: Insights from a US-Japan Comparison]. NTT Competitive Strategy Analysis Seminar. NTT Holding Company. Tokyo, Japan. January 18, 2006. Teaching Experience Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley Spring 2006, 2010 Political Science 143B. Northeast Asian Politics: Japan. Professor Steven K. Vogel. Lecturer, Discussion Leader, Reischauer Scholars Program Spring 2007-2010 Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education. Teaching Assistant, Stanford University Spring 2003 Asian Languages 92: Japanese Business Culture. Professor Richard Dasher. Selected Research/Work Experience Program Advisor, Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University Fall 2010 present Researcher, Study Program on Information Spring 2006-2009 Communication Policies, Japan Graduate Researcher, Berkeley Roundtable Summer 2003-2010 on the International Economy (BRIE), UC Berkeley Center of Excellence Special Researcher. Senshu University. Spring 2009 - Spring 2010 Center of Excellence Special Researcher. Hitotsubashi University Winter 2007 - Spring 2008 Economic Research Center, Japan. Researcher, Information Communications Technology (ICT) Spring 2004 - Summer 2006 Competition Policy Research Group, Stanford Japan Center, Japan Research Assistant, Stanford Asia/Pacific Research Center Spring 2001 - Summer 2003 Research Assistant, Stanford US-Asia Technology Spring 2001 - Summer 2003 Management Center Summer Financial Analyst, Goldman Sachs Japan, Equities Division Summer 2000 Received offers from Japanese Equity Sales and Global Security Services divisions. Kushida 5
Professional Activities Manuscript Referee Telecommunications Policy; Asian Politics and Policy; Routledge. Present Awards and Fellowships Political Science Department Dissertation Finishing Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2010 Dean s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2009 Sloan Foundation (through BRIE grant) 2007-2008 Graduate Fellowship, Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley 2006-2007 Institute of Research on Labor and Employment (through BRIE grant), 2006-2007 UC Berkeley National Information Society Agency (through BRIE grant), 2006-2007 Government of South Korea Information Communications Technology Policy Study Group Research Support, 2006-2008 Study Program on Information and Communications Policies, Japan ICT Policy Research Group Research Support, Stanford Japan Center 2005 NTT DoCoMo Mobile Society Research Institute, Japan (through BRIE grant) 2004-2005 Pacific Rim Research Program, University of California (through BRIE grant) 2003-2004 Miscellaneous Information Native languages: English and Japanese Kushida 6