Hideo Owan
Professor
Faculty of Political Science and Economics
Waseda University
REFEREED JOURNALS
・Toshiaki Aizawa, Hiroko Okudaira, Ritsu Kitagawa, Sachiko Kuroda, and Hideo Owan “Employee Well-being in the Digital Age: Assessing the Impacts of a Smartphone Application in the Workplace”, Economics & Human Biology, Volume 55, December 2024, 101445
・Kohei Takahashi, Naomi Kodama, Kentaro Arita, Haruka Kazama, Saisuke Sakai, Masaya Takeuchi, Hideo Owan “Has Japan’s work style reform had the intended effect?”, Applied Economics, April, 2024
・Yuji Kawata, Sachiko Kuroda, Hideo Owan “The impact of a mobile app-based corporate sleep health improvement program on productivity: A validation through a randomized controlled trial”, October 5, 2023, PLOS ONE
・Bicheng Yang , Tat Chan , Hideo Owan , Tsuyoshi Tsuru, “Incentives from Career Concerns in a Contract Package: An Empirical Investigation”, Management Science, Published Online:25 Oct 2023.
・Ritsu Kitagawa, Sachiko Kuroda, Hiroko Okudaira, and Hideo Owan “Working from home and productivity under the COVID-19 pandemic: using survey data of four manufacturing firms” Accepted by PLOS ONE, December 2021.
・Yuji Kawata, Hideo Owan, “Peer effects on job satisfaction from exposure to elderly workers”, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Volume 63, Accepted 9 November 2021.
・Koichiro Onishi, Hideo Owan, and Sadao Nagaoka, “How Do Inventors Respond to Financial Incentives? Evidence from Unanticipated Court Decisions on Employees’ Inventions in Japan”, The Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 64, Number 2, 2021.
・Jin-Hyuk Kim, Takehiko Komatsu, Hideo Owan, “The role of design method and process technology in stable outsourcing equilibria”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 69, 2020.
・Kaori Sato, Sachiko Kuroda, and Hideo Owan “Mental health effects of long work hours, night and weekend work, and short rest periods” Social Science & Medicine, Volume 246, February 2020.
・Shingo Takahashi, Hideo Owan, Tsuyoshi Tsuru, and Katsuhito Uehara, “Multitasking Incentives and the Informativeness of Subjective Performance Evaluation” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, December 2019.
・Kaori Sato, Yuki Hashimoto, and Hideo Owan, ”Gender Differences in Career” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 53, September 2019.
・Zeynep Hansen, Hideo Owan, Jie Pan “The Impact of Group Diversity on Class Performance—Evidence from College Classrooms” Education Economics 23(2): 238-258, 2015.
・Hideo Owan“ How Should Teams Be Formed and Managed?” IZA World of Labor, August 2014.
・Hideo Owan, Tsuyoshi Tsuru, and Katsuhito Uehara “Incentives and Gaming in a Nonlinear Compensation Scheme: Evidence from North American Auto Dealership Transaction Data” Evidence-based HRM: a global forum for empirical scholarship, 2015. 3(3): 222-243.
・Yuji Mizukami, Masayuki, Hideo Owan “Front-Loading Development and Market Defect Density Reduction by Concurrent Software Development Method in In-vehicle Embedded Software Development Projects, “Journal of Japan Society of Directories, Vol. 12, 2014: 22-31.
・Zeynep K. Hansen, Hideo Owan, Jie Pan, Shinya Sugawara “The Impact of Group Contract and Governance Structure on Performance—Evidence from College Classrooms” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.30(3): 463-492. 2014.
・Katsuhito Uehara, Hideo Owan, Shingo Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Tsuru, Keizai Kenkyu“How Important Are Managers? An Econometric Case Study using Personnel and Transaction Records from a Large Auto Dealership” The Economic Review 63(3), 2013: 204-217.
・Nobuyuki Hanaki and Hide Owan “Authority, Conformity, and Organizational Learning” Administrative Sciences, 3(3) 2013:32-52.
・Hideo Owan, Tsuyoshi Tsuru, and Katsuhito Uehara “Seller-Buyer Ethnic Matches: The Case of Car Transactions at Two North American Auto Dealerships”, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Vol.53, No.2, 2012.
・Barton Hamilton, Jackson Nickerson, and Hideo Owan “Diversity and Productivity in Production Teams” Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, Volume 13, 2012: 99-138.
・Takao Kato, and Hideo Owan “Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems: Theory and Evidence,”Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, December 2011.
・Shingo Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Tsuru, Katsuhito Uehara, and Hideo Owan, Keizai Kenkyu“Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluation Theory and Evidence Using Personnel and Transaction Records and Employee Satisfaction Survey Results from a Large Auto Dealership” The Economic Review, 62(4), 2011, pp.289-300.
・Hideo Owan “Specialization, Multiskilling and Allocation of Decision Rights,” Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, Volume 12, 2011.
・Tat Chan, Jack A. Nickerson, Hideo Owan “Strategic Management of R&D Pipelines with Cospecialized Investments and Technology Markets,” with Tat Chan and Jack A. Nickerson Management Science, Vol. 53, No. 4, April 2007, pp. 667-682.
・Hideo Owan “Promotion, Turnover, Earnings and Firm-Sponsored Training,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 22, No. 4 (October 2004): 955-978.
・Kyle J. Mayer, Jack A. Nickerson, Hideo Owan “Are Supply and Plant Inspections Complements or Substitutes? A Strategic and Operational Assessment of Inspection Practices in Biotechnology,” Management Science, Vol. 50, No. 8 (August 2004): 1064-81.
・Barton H. Hamilton, Jack A. Nickerson, and Hideo Owan “Team Incentives and Worker Heterogeneity: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Teams on Productivity and Participation,” journal of Political Economy, v111, n3, 465-497, June 2003.
WORKING PAPERS
・Yoko Asuyama, Hideo Owan, “People Management Skills, Senior Leadership Skills and the Peter Principle”, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 24-E-037, March 2024
・Hiroko OKUDAIRA, Ritsu KITAGAWA, Toshiaki AIZAWA, Sachiko KURODA, Hideo OWAN, “Middle Managers and Employee Health”, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 24-E-053, April, 2024
・Liya Wang, Yuji Kawata, Kohei Takahashi, ”Peer effects in human capital investment decisions and the gender differences”, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 24-E-055, April 2024
・Kaori Sato, Sachiko KURODA, OWAN Hideo, “Personality traits and occupation as moderators of the effect of working hours on mental health“, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 24-E-048, April 2024
・Wouter Dessein, Desmond Lo, Ruo Shangguan, Hideo Owan, “The Management of Knowledge Work”, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 24-E-044, April 2024
・Koichiro Onishi, Hideo Owan, “Information Advantage or Bias Related to Social Ties: Evidence from a peer review system for national research grants”, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 22-E-096,September 2022
・SHANGGUAN Ruo, DEVARO Jed, OWAN Hideo, “Enhancing Team Productivity through Shorter Working Hours: Evidence from the Great Recession”, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 21-E-040, May 2021.
・Koichiro Onishi and Hideo Owan “Heterogeneous Impacts of National Research Grants on Academic Productivity” RIETI Discussion Paper Series 20-E-052, May 2020.
・SATO Kaori, HASHIMOTO Yuki, OWAN Hideo “Gender Differences in Career” RIETI Discussion Paper,17-E-051, 1-30,2017.
・KAWAGUCHI Daiji, OWAN Hideo, and TAKAHASHI Kazuteru “Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluation”, with Daiji Kawaguchi and Kazuteru Takahashi, RIETI Discussion Paper, 16-E-059, 1-38, 2016.
・Hideo Owan “The Role of Middle Managers and Performance Evaluations” Social Science Japan Newsletter, 巻54, 10-13, 2016.
・Takao Kato, Hideaki Miyajima, and Hideo Owan “Does Employee Stock Ownership Work? Evidence from publicly-traded firms in Japan”, RIETI Discussion Paper, 16-E-073, 1-40, 2016.
・Takao Kato, Hiromasa Ogawa, and Hideo Owan“Working Hours, Promotion and the Gender Gaps in the Workplace”, IZA Discussion Paper December 2016.
・KATO Takao, MIYAJIMA Hideaki, and OWAN Hideo “Does Employee Stock Ownership Work? Evidence from publicly-traded firms in Japan”, RIETI Discussion Paper 16-E-073, June 2016.
・KAWAGUCHI Daiji, OWAN Hideo, and TAKAHASHI Kazuteru“Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluation”, RIETI Discussion Paper 16-E-059, March 2016.
・ONISHI Koichiro, OWAN Hideo, NAGAOKA Sadao “Monetary Incentives for Corporate Inventors: Intrinsic Motivation, Project Selection and Inventive Performance” RIETI Discussion Paper 15-E-071, June 2015.
・Shingo Takahashi, Hideo Owan, Tsuyoshi Tsuru, and Katsuhito Uehara “Multi-tasking Incentives and Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluation,” Economics & Management Series, February 2015.
・Hideo Owan, Shingo Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Tsuru, and Katsuhito Uehara, “Finding Good Managers: An econometric case study of a large Japanese Auto Dealership,” June 2014.
・Sadao Nagaoka, Hideo Owan, “Author ordering in scientific research: evidence from the U.S. and Japan”, No 13-23, IIR Working Paper from Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University, April 2014.
・KATO Takao, KAWAGUCHI Daiji, and OWAN Hideo, “Dynamics of the Gender Gap in the Workplace: An Econometric Case Study of a Large Japanese Firm,” RIETI Discussion Paper 13-E-038, May 2013.
・ARAKI Shota, KATO Takao, KAWAGUCHI Daiji, and OWAN Hideo, “Cohort Size Effects on Promotion and Pay: Evidence from Personnel Data,” RIETI Discussion Paper 13-E-029, April 2013.
・Sadao Nagaoka, Hideo Owan, “Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations of Inventors,” RIETI Discussion Paper 11-E-022, March 2012.
・Sadao Nagaoka, Hideo Owan, “Exploring the Sources of Firm-level Scale Economies in R&D: Complementary assets, internal and external knowledge inflows, and inventor team size,” RIETI Discussion Paper 11-E-038, April 2011.
・Tsuyoshi Tsuru, Hideo Owan, “Integrating High-Powered Performance Pay into a Seniority Wage System,” July 2011.
・Koichiro Onishi, Hideo Owan, “Incentive Pay or Windfalls: Remuneration for Employee Inventions in Japan,” RIETI Discussion Paper 10-E-049, October 2010.
・Yuji Mizukami, Hideo Owan, “From Sequential to Integrated R&D Process: Estimating the Impact of a Process Change in Automotive ECU Development on Flexibility and Product Quality“, Computers and Industrial Engineering IEEE – The 40th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, 2010.
・“Transaction Costs and Technical Resources: Product-level Determinants of Vertical Integration in the Semiconductor Industry”, with Komatsu Takehiko, May 2010.
Articles (in Japanese)
・大湾秀雄、水上祐治「ソフトウエア開発における早期すり合わせの効果と働き方改革への示唆」一橋大学経済研究所 『経済研究』,69巻 1-17頁,2018.
・川太悠史,黒田祥子,大湾秀雄「睡眠改善アプリを用いた健康経営施策が生産性に与えた影響：RCT に基づく検証」, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 21-J-040, August 2021
・高橋孝平,中室牧子,大湾秀雄「禁煙プログラムの生産性への短期的影響」, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 21-J-032, July 2021.
・高橋孝平,有田賢太郎,大湾秀雄,風間春香,児玉直美,酒井才介,竹内誠也「働き方改革の広がりと実効性」RIETI Discussion Paper Series 21-J-021, 2021年4月
・佐藤香織、黒田祥子、大湾秀雄「働き方・休み方と労働者のメンタルヘルス：一日本企業の勤怠データを用いた検証」RIETI Discussion Paper Series 20-P-019, 2020年7月
・「従業員持株会は機能するか？－従業員持株会状況調査25年分のデータに基づくエヴィデンス―」宮島英昭、大湾秀雄,『企業統治と成長戦略』第3章,133-164頁,2017.
・大湾秀雄「働き方改革と女性活躍支援における課題―人事経済学の視点から」RIETI Policy Discussion Paper, 17-P-006, 1-39, 2017.
・大湾 秀雄、加藤 隆夫、宮島英昭「従業員持株会が生産性、賃金、および企業業績に与える影響」JPXワーキングペーパー,巻12 , 1-36,2016.
BOOKS (in Japanese)
・『現代経済学の潮流』大湾 秀雄（編集委員長）刊行 2023 年 2023 巻 p. iii-x
・『日本の人事を科学する―因果推論に基づくデータ活用』日本経済新聞出版社、2017
・「従業員持株会は機能するか」（加藤隆夫、宮島英昭と共著）『企業統治と成長戦略』
第3章、2017
・「中間管理職の役割と人事評価システム」、『企業統治の法と経済』第2章、2015
・「製品市場と職場組織-理論と実証」、『企業の経済学』第12章、2014
・「組織や人事制度を設計する」、『身近な疑問が解ける経済学』第10章、2014