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SANO HIROKI

Department / Course College of Business Administration Department of Business Administration

Title / Position Professor

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Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Business Administration
2.	Research Organization of Open Innovation & Collaboration Research Center for Computational Research on Designing Sustainable Society

Academic background
1.	～2015/12	Doctorial Course │ Information, Risk, and Operations Management │ McCombs School of Business │ The University of Texas at Austin │ Completed │ Doctor of Philosophy
2.	～2013/09	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Management System │ Graduate School of Business Administration │ Kobe University │ Unfinished
3.	2012/12 Degree Acquisition	Information, Risk, and Operations Management │ McCombs School of Business │ The University of Texas at Austin │ Master of Science in Information, Risk, and Operations Management
4.	～2009/03	Doctoral Program (1st Semester) │ Management System │ Graduate School of Business Administration │ Kobe University │ Completed Master of Arts in Business Administration
5.	～2007/03	Department of Business Administration │ School of Business Administration │ Kobe University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2016/04/01 ～	Associate Professor │ College of Business Administration │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2020/04/01 ～	Visiting Fellow │ Center for Tourism Research │ Wakayama University
3.	2019/04/01 ～ 2020/03/31	Academic Visitor │ Department of Analytics & Operations, NUS Business School and The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific │ National University of Singapore
4.	2017/04/01 ～ 2019/03/31	Research Fellow │ Graduate School of Business Administration │ Kobe University
5.	2016/01/01 ～ 2016/03/31	Research Fellow │ Graduate School of Business Administration │ Kobe University
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Committee and society
1.	2024/06 ～	Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association Board Member (Research Committee, Future Vision Committee)
2.	2020/06 ～ 2023/06	Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association Board Member (Editorial Committee, Research Committee)

Research activities
1.		Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education
2.		European Operations Management Association
3.		Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
4.		Production and Operations Management Society
5.		Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association
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Subject of research
1.	Optimal design of a service system considering actors' social preferences
2.	New service systems enabled by smart mobility technologies
3.	Risk management in global supply chain networks

Present specialized field
Management, Commerce (Keyword：operations management, supply chain management)

Books
1.	2022/08	Operations Management and Strategy in the Era of Technological Revolution: Proceedings of the 6th World Conference on Production and Operations Management - P&OM 2022 -
2.	2022/03/15	The 1st step to digital business

Papers
1.	2024/01	Sustainable urban tourism with green-slow mobility: A case of Ikebukuro, Japan │ Journal of Responsible Tourism Management │ 4 (1),pp.94-106
2.	2023/09/28	The effects of temporal distance and post type on tourists' responses to destination marketing organizations’ social media marketing │ Tourism Management │
3.	2023/03/01	The metaverse in the tourism industry : A new horizon after the COVID-19 pandemic │ Wakayama Tourism Review │ 4,pp.32-35
4.	2022/07	Spatial distribution of accommodation supply in Osaka City – A policy perspective │ Journal of Responsible Tourism Management │ 2 (2),pp.90-102
5.	2022/03/31	Data-driven market segmentation by tourists' mobility patterns: A methodological approach │ Wakayama Tourism Review │ 2,pp.49-51
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/09/23	Home delivery services by bricks-and-mortar retailers and logistics service outsourcing
2.	2023/07/19	Who should invest in logistics infrastructure for home delivery?
3.	2023/02/08	Causal attribution for tourism experiences with artificial intelligence recommendation
4.	2022/08/25	Evaluating the value of e-retailing services for physical grocery stores
5.	2022/08/23	The impact of artificial intelligence on tourism and hospitality services: A literature review from the perspective of social customer relationship management
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