KAKINUMA, Hideki

KAKINUMA, Hideki

Professor

University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences

KAKINUMA, Hideki is a Professor of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce, University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences. The University is located in Kobe, Japan.

His research field encompasses human resource management and organizational behavior. He is now focusing on talent management and employer branding. Additionally, he is interested in working on bibliometric analysis of management research.

He has working experiences in both industrial and academic worlds. In the industrial world, he worked in an HR-related services firm for 2 years. In the academic world, he enrolled several positions such as a Part-time Lecturer at Kyoto University, and as a Visiting Scholar at Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

Interests
  • Talent management
  • Employer branding
  • Bibliometrics
Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics

    Kyoto University, 2019

  • M.A. in Social Informatics

    Aoyama Gakuin University, 2011

  • B.Com

    Meiji University, 2007

Research

Projects in Progress

  • Theoretical re-consideration of talent management
  • Practices of talent management and its implications for Japanese companies
  • Bibliometric analysis of employer branding

Journal Paper (Peer-reviewed, by English)

  • Kakinuma, H. (2015). How companies can attract the talented Vietnamese graduates? An experimental-designed investigation. International Journal of Business and Management, 10 (2), pp.31-40.

Talks (by English)

  • Kakinuma, H. (2024). Detecting conceptual boundaries between talent management and strategic human resource management: Bibliometric mapping of academic literature. Paper presented at the 13th EIASM Workshop on Talent Management. [Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg, Luxembourg]
  • Kakinuma, H., Yamamoto, A., & Wakabayashi, N. (2018). How can we get long-stay reservation from new employees? An exploratory analysis of employee retention in the lodging industry in Kyoto. Paper Presented at the 16th APacCHRIE Conference. [Sun Yat-Sen University, Guanzhou, China]
  • Kakinuma, H. (2016). The divergence in Chinese graduates’ decision criteria for job choice: An experiemental-designed investigation. Paper Presented at Management Theory and Practice Conference. [Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan]
  • and more…

Professional Membership

  • Japan Society of Human Resource Management
  • The Academic Association for Organizational Science
  • The Japanese Association of Administrative Science

ORCiD: 0009-0009-0605-1662

Detailed CV (incl. Japanese papers and talks) is available upon request.

Teaching Experiences

Bachelor class

  • Human Resource Management
  • Business Administration
  • Introduction to Management
  • Career Management
  • Life Planning and Personal Finance

Master class

  • Leadership

Contact

You are welcome to contact me by e-mail for inquiry.
When using e-mail address below, please convert [at] into @.
  • hideki_kakinuma [at] red.umds.ac.jp

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