Supply Chain Behaviors at the Employee Level: How Individuals Within the Supply Chain are Crucial for Adapting to Unexpected Changes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032891811)

Mikihisa Nakano was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, in 1967 and grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from Osaka University with a bachelor's degree in Engineering Science. Before starting his academic career, he served as a researcher at the Mitsubishi Research Institute, which is a think-tank, for almost ten years. He also served as a member of the marketing research staff of Fast Retailing with its main brand, UNIQLO, which is the third-largest apparel company in the world. While working at these companies, he earned an MBA and a Ph.D. in business administration from Kobe University.

Currently, he serves as a professor at the Faculty of Business Administration of Kyoto Sangyo University. His research work has focused on supply chain management, especially the mechanisms of internal and external integration in supply chains and the impact on performance. He has published several international journal articles, including International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, International Journal of Production Economics, and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. He is the author of the supply chain textbook, Supply Chain Management: Strategy and Organization (Springer Nature).

Kazuki Matsuyama was born and raised in the ancient Japanese capital of Nara. He graduated from Kyoto University with a bachelor's degree in Clinical Psychology. After graduation, he spent eight years working in human resource management at Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, now Panasonic. He then went on to obtain a master's degree in economics from Osaka Prefecture University Graduate School and a Ph.D. in economics from Kyoto University Graduate School. He is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology at Doshisha University. His research interests include organizational behavior and strategic human resource management. Recently, he has focused on followership research. He is the author of numerous publications in these research areas. For example, "Belonging Consciousness of Japanese Workers," "Strategic Human Resource Management," "Followership for Next-Generation Organizations," and "Followership Behavior: 'Koto' 'Ba, ' and 'Kotoba (words)'.