Research Report
PLATFORM Seminar/ADVANCED Seminar
(Research Report Guidance)
MBA students must register for either a PLATFORM Seminar (i.e. PLATFORM Seminar I, II, and III), OR an Advanced Seminar (i.e., Advanced Seminars I, II, and III) to complete the requirements for the MBA degree. Students are required to choose either PLATFORM Seminar track or Advanced Seminar track by the registration deadline of the fall term in their second year. Both PLATFORM Seminars and Advanced Seminars serve as vehicles for writing the graduation research report but they are different in many respects.
PLATFORM Seminars are offered by each PLATFORM in IUJ-Research and Education PLATFORM. Students who take the PLATFORM Seminar Track are expected to choose one of the PLATFORMs. After choosing a PLATFORM, a student decides a research project and a topic he/she will undertake for writing his/her graduation research report in consultation with the PLATFORM Coordinator. Students will conduct research with other students in the PLATFROM under the supervision and guidance of its PLATFORM coordinator and participating faculty members. The typical output will be a team graduation research report written with other students. GSIM encourages students to choose the PLATFORM Seminar track, as the PLATFORM Seminars were launched in the GSIM curriculum in order to support the writing of high quality graduation research reports in an academic environment that better replicates real life conditions.
If a student has his/her own research interests which none of the PLATFORMs covers, he/she is recommended to choose the Advanced Seminar track. A student who chooses the Advanced Seminar track is required to prepare a research proposal of three to five pages in length with clearly written motivation and key references. Then, he/she approaches supervisor candidate(s) with the research proposal and finds the most appropriate faculty member to supervise the research. Only the full-time faculty members of GSIM can be selected as supervisor, in principle. The Advanced Seminar is conducted on a tutorial basis and the graduation research report is written alone.
A student is required to earn three (3) credits from either PLATFORM Seminars or Advanced Seminars and submit an acceptable research report (grade of B+ or better) for graduation.
For more details about these seminars and schedule for writing the graduation research report, please refer to http://www.iuj.ac.jp/im-info/.
Research Report titles of recent graduates
(Management)
Study of Leadership and Followership Relation in Asia: Empirical Study on Managers in AEON in Asian Countries
Motivation and Values of AEON: Leadership for Expansion into Malaysia, China, and Japan
A Preliminary Study of Subic Bay Port's Sustainability: Lessons Learned from Rotterdam Port
Building up Competitive Advantage through Sustainable Development -A Case Study of Baosteel China
AEON's Expansion into Asia: A Transnational Perspective
Ambidextrous Organization - A challenge for MNCs to Nurture Innovation
The element for success of Motivation in Pfizer Japan Inc.
How to Promote the Career Development of Foreign Studens in Japan
A Study on Samsung's Global Strategy
(Marketing)
A model of global marketing in LG Electronics: An empirical research
MOBILE CONTACTLESS PAYMENT: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE JAPANESE AND KOREAN MARKET AND KEY FACTORS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MOBILE CONTACTLESS PAYMENT
Building Sustainable Consumer Relationship through Consumer Generated Media by using Text Mining Technologies: The case of digital camera buyers and Amazon.com
Effect of Environmental Advertisement on the Process of Brand Attitude Formation
BRAND COMMUNITY DYNAMICS: CASE OF DISNEY'S ONLINE NEWSGROUPS
(Finance)
Corporate Value, Cash Holding and Corporate Governance in Japanese Companies
The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities in Japanese Companies
The Effects of Human Resource Management and Knowledge Management upon the Performance of the Organizations
Proposal of the Use of Weather Derivatives for Risk Management of Local Government and Enterprises in Niigata Prefecture
Short-term Under-pricing Phenomenon of Initial Public Offerings (IPO): Evidence from Indonesian Stock Exchange 2000-2007
(IT/OM)
Kansei Engineering and New Just-in-Time System: Tools for Competitive Product Development
Strategy Map for Value-Based Management in Case of KASIKORNBANKGROUP
Information Technologies in Marketing with relevance to Kyrgyzstan
Web 2.0 Framework for Sharing Information between Government, NGO, Business and the Public (GNBP) Including an Application of Sharing Environmental Data
Assessment of the brand value - Using strategy map and Japanese brand valuation METI model on an insurance company in Vietnam