Dr Harald Conrad
School of Languages, Arts and Societies
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies
- Profile
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Harald Conrad is Sasakawa Lecturer in Japans Economy and Management at the University of Sheffields School of East Asian Studies. From 2000 to 2008 he worked in Japan as Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies and Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. From 2005 to 2008 he was concurrently Japan Representative of the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Tokyo.
Haralds research focuses on Japanese and comparative social policy, industrial relations, human resource management, economic issues related to demographic change and cross-cultural negotiation behaviour. He is Director of Research of the Business, Political Economy and Development cluster at the White Rose East Asia Centre, a member of the International Advisory Board of Asia Pacific World and member of the editorial boards of Contemporary Japan and Japan Forum. From 2005 to 2011 he was elected Council Member of the European Association of Japanese Studies.
- Research interests
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Recent and Ongoing Research Projects
Haralds recent and ongoing research has focused on:
- Building an International Human Resource Base: Japanese Multinationals and the Recruitment of Fresh Foreign Graduates (FFGs) for Tokyo
- Managing (Un)certainty in the Japanese Antique Art Trade - How Economic and Social Factors Shape a Market
- Changes in Japanese human resource management practices which are related to the aging workforce.
- The relationship between occupational pension and pay system reforms in Japan.
- The role of Japanese labour unions in changes of company benefit systems since the 1990s.
- UK institutional investors attitudes towards Japanese equities.
- Economic sociology perspectives on the Japanese antique art trade.
- Publications
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Books
- The Japanese Social Security System in Transition An Evaluation of the Current Pension Reforms. M端nchen: iudicium Verlag.
- Reformen und Problembereiche der 旦ffentlichen Rentenversicherung in Japan [Reforms and Problem Areas in the Public Pension System in Japan]. Marburg: Tectum Verlag.
Edited books
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- Deutschland und Japan Mit Reformen zu neuer Dynamik. K旦ln: Deutscher Institutsverlag.
- Aging and Social Policy A German-Japanese Comparison. Iudicium Verlag: Munich.
- Japanstudien 13 Wohnen in Japan. Munich: Iudicium Verlag.
Journal articles
- . International Migration.
- . Social Science Japan Journal, 21(1), 67-88.
- . International Journal of Human Resource Management.
- . Japanese Studies, 37(1), 1-22.
- . Japan Forum, 28(2), 233-254.
- United Kingdom Fund Managers
and Institutional Investors Attitudes
Toward Japanese Equities. The Japanese Economy, 39(1), 105-130.
- . Journal of Social Policy, 41(1), 119-140.
- . International Journal of Human Resource Management, 22(15), 3051-3067.
- . SOC SCI JPN J, 13(1), 115-135.
- Die Besch辰ftigung 辰lterer Menschen in Japan Ursachen und Rahmenbedingungen einer hohen Alterserwerbsquote. [The employment of older persons in Japan - motives and institutional factors behind the high labour force participation]. Nova Acta Leopoldina NF (Journal of the German Academy of Sciences), 101(365), 111-142.
- Doitsu ni okeru rdshij kaikaku no mondaiten [Problems of Recent Labor Market Reforms in Germany]. Doitsu ni okeru rd shij kaikaku sono hyka to tenb. Rd Seisaku Kenky笛 Hkokusho, 69, 63-73.
- Kinnen no doitsu ni okeru kigy nenkin seido no tenkai [Recent Developments in Germanys Corporate Pension System. Kaigai Shakai Hosh Kenky笛 (The Review of Comparative Social Security Research), 151(Summer), 98-109.
- Sustaining Old Age Security in Japan Toward a New Public-Private Pension Mix. Journal of Japanese Law, 8(15), 199-230.
- Sustaining Old Age Security in Japan Toward a New Public-Private Pension Mix. Journal of Japanese Law, 8(15), 199-230.
- The 2000/2001 Pension Reform in Germany Implications and Possible Lessons for Japan. The Japanese Journal of Social Security Policy, 2(2), 1-12.
- The 2000/2001 Pension Reform in Germany Implications and Possible Lessons for Japan. The Japanese Journal of Social Security Policy, 2(2), 1-12.
- J端ngste Rentenreformen in Japan Zur Neubestimmung des Verh辰ltnisses von 旦ffentlicher und privater Alterssicherung. [Recent Pension Reforms in Japan A New Public-Private Balance]. Zeitschrift f端r ausl辰ndisches und internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht, 2, 97-119.
- Senshinkoku ni okeru shakai hosh nenkin e no kakutei kyoshutsu kojin kanj dny笛 ni tsuite doitsu no baai. [The Introduction of Individual Retirement Accounts in the Public Pension Systems of Industrialized Nations: The Case of Germany]. Nenkin reby笛 (Pension Review), 7, 3-3.
- Doitsu in okeru 2000-nen nenkin kaikaku no genj to kadai [German Pension Reform in 2000: Current Issues and Problems]. Akuchuari jnaru (Actuary Journal), 13, 40-52.
Chapters
- The 'Varieties-of-Capitalism' (VOC) and the 'Japanese Model' during Globalisation: Change and Continuity in Japanese Human Resource Management and Corporate Governance Practices since the 2000s In K辰hler J & Revelas K (Ed.), Issues of the European and International Economy in the Era of Globalization (pp. 253-283). Erlangen: FAU University Press.
- , Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation (pp. 121-133).
- In Haghirian P (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Japanese Business and Management (pp. 174-184). Routledge
- In Haghirian P (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Japanese Business and Management (pp. 185-195). Routledge
- Continuity and Change in Asian Employment Systems A Comparison of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations Comparative Employment Systems (pp. 334-358). Oxford University Press
- Converging to a New Type of Human Resource Management? Compensation System Reforms in Japan since the 1990s In Kushida K, Shimizu K & Oi JC (Ed.), The Politics of Economic Restructuring and System Reform in Japan (pp. 173-197). Stanford: Brookings/APARC.
- Sozialversicherungsrechtliche Aspekte der Personalpolitik in Japan. [Aspects of Social Security Law in Human Resource Management in Japan], Personalwirtschaftlicher Wandel in Japan Gesellschaftlicher Wertewandel und Folgen f端r die Unternehmungskultur und Mitarbeiterf端hrung (pp. 269-284). Springer-Verlag
- , Human Resource Management in Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Japan and Germany (pp. 1-12).
- In Coulmas F, Conrad H, Schad-Seifert A & Vogt G (Ed.), The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan (pp. 815-820). Brill
- , The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan (pp. 979-997). BRILL
- Recent changes in compensation practices of large Japanese companies: wages, bonuses and corporate pensions., Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan (pp. 79-97). Palgrave Macmillan
- Japanese Multinational Companies and the Control of Overseas Investments The Role of Expatriates, Young Foreign Employees and Japans Soft Power In Aulakh P & Kelly PF (Ed.), Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia: Spatialities, Institutions, and Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- The Japanese Social Security System in Transition An Evaluation of the Current Pension Reforms. M端nchen: iudicium Verlag.