Author

Ken Sakai

Observed name: K. Sakai

Institutions: Hitotsubashi University, Kaiser Permanente, Tohoku University, Kaiser Permanente Northern California

Observed institutions: Hitotsubashi University, Kaiser Permanente, Aichi Gakuin University, Tohoku University, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, International University of Health and Welfare

ORCID: 0000-0003-2359-1408

Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-2359-1408

OpenAlex ID: A5036193966

Thriving in the shadow of giants: The success of the Japanese surgical needle producer MANI, 1956–2016

2018 · Ken Sakai · Business History · 6

Institutional change as historical confluence

2020 · Ken Sakai · Routledge eBooks · 3

Rhetorical Strategies that Legitimized Exploitation: Lessons from Assistant Nursing in Japan, 1951-2000

2025 · Ken Sakai, Yuki Tsuboyama, et al. · Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business-JESB · 2

Reinterpreting Medical Innovation: The Social Adoption of Automated Multiphasic Health Testing and Services in Japan, 1937–2023

2025 · Ken Sakai, Yuki Tsuboyama, et al. · Enterprise & Society · 1

Housewives and the Growth of the Japanese Electrical Appliance Industry, 1950–1990

2024 · Takashi Hirano, Ken Sakai, et al. · The Business History Review · 1

A Positive Analysis of the Soviet Economic Reform

1985 · K. Sakai · Annals of the Japanese Association for Soviet and East European Studies

Works count: 6

Citation count: 13

H-index: 2

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