Remembering Takashi Hikino

2022 Business History Review  
Remembering Takashi Hikino T he Business History Review mourns the passing of Takashi Hikino, an internationally distinguished scholar of business and management history at the Graduate School of Management at Kyoto University, whose research skills, knowledge, and analytical reasoning made him a leading scholar and a sought-out partner and collaborator over several decades. Hikino had a long association with BHR, writing book reviews, serving as a referee for submissions, and advising the
more » ... rs on numerous matters from his time at Harvard Business School onward. Hikino received his M.A. in 1975 at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, and then traveled to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar while completing his Ph.D. at Hitotsubashi. He became a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Business School and struck up a productive relationship doing research for, and collaborating with, eminent business historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Hikino worked especially on Chandler's Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (1990), which compared the development of large-scale business enterprise in the UK, Germany, and the U.S. This landmark book, as the title page made clear, was written by "Alfred Chandler with the assistance of Takashi Hikino" and helped inspire interest in internationally comparative approaches to business history. In the acknowledgment, Chandler noted that Hikino's "creative assistance. . .became indispensable in the writing of this book. . .Scale and Scope is indeed the product of a several-year partnership. Without Takashi Hikino it could not have Image of Takashi Hikino, c. 1990, taken when he was a research associate at Harvard Business School. Image Courtesy of HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Faculty and Staff. Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
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