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Motokazu Udagawa
Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Saitama University / Professor
Speaker Bio
Born in 1977, Motokazu Udagawa specializes in Business Strategy and Organizational Theory. He has served as an Assistant at Waseda University, an Associate Professor at Nagasaki University, and an Associate Professor at Seinan Gakuin University, before joining Saitama University's Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration as an Associate Professor in 2016, and becoming a full Professor in 2025.
He also presides over Correspondence Inc.
Udagawa conducts research on corporate transformation and innovation promotion, and also serves as an advisor for corporate transformation to major corporations and startups.
His major works include:
Working with Others: An Organizational Theory Starting from ""Incomprehensibility"" (NewsPicks Publishing)
Organizations Change: Dialogue Methods to Break Free from Deadlocks 2 on 2 (Diamond Inc.)
The Dilemma of Corporate Transformation: Why ""Structural Disablement"" Occurs (Nikkei Business Publications)
He received the 2007 Business History Society of Japan Award (Encouragement Award, Paper Division) and the ""HR Award 2020"" Book Division Grand Prize from Japan's Ministry of Human Resources for Working with Others. In 2025, he was awarded the TOPPOINT Grand Prize (24th Half-Year, 41st) for the same book.
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He also presides over Correspondence Inc.
Udagawa conducts research on corporate transformation and innovation promotion, and also serves as an advisor for corporate transformation to major corporations and startups.
His major works include:
Working with Others: An Organizational Theory Starting from ""Incomprehensibility"" (NewsPicks Publishing)
Organizations Change: Dialogue Methods to Break Free from Deadlocks 2 on 2 (Diamond Inc.)
The Dilemma of Corporate Transformation: Why ""Structural Disablement"" Occurs (Nikkei Business Publications)
He received the 2007 Business History Society of Japan Award (Encouragement Award, Paper Division) and the ""HR Award 2020"" Book Division Grand Prize from Japan's Ministry of Human Resources for Working with Others. In 2025, he was awarded the TOPPOINT Grand Prize (24th Half-Year, 41st) for the same book.
Session
Wednesday, 27 August, 2025 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM JST
Guest Keynote: Winning Well in Management: Overcoming Structural Incompetence to Shape the Future
Motokazu Udagawa,
Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Saitama University / Professor,
Many Japanese companies today are under pressure to transform. Among the most troubling challenges are chronic, hard-to-detect issues that may not immediately impact performance, yet steadily lead to organizational decline. I refer to this condition as structural incompetence. Overcoming it requires a long-term process of transformation. This journey leads us not to a fixed definition of what management is, but to a question—one that invites us to reconstruct the practice of management within its historical and relational contexts. In this lecture, I will explore the dilemmas of transformation, possible pathways forward, and reconsider the evolving possibilities of management itself.
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