Yasuhiro Yamakawa

Journal Articles

• Yamakawa, Y., Davenport, T.H. (2025). Your AI Strategy Needs to Expand Beyond the US and China. Harvard Business Review (Digital Edition).
• Yamakawa, Y. (in press). Cascading failure: How legitimacy unravels in nascent industries. Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Page: 9.
• Takahashi, H., Yamakawa, Y. (2022). The effect of uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity. Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. Vol: July 2022 22-E-064. RIETI.
• Weng, D., Yamakawa, Y. (2022). I believe I can fly: How target venture CEO overconfidence affects acquisition completion. Small Business Economics. Springer. link
• Weng, D., Lee, S., Yamakawa, Y. (2021). Time to change lanes: How pro-market reforms affect informal ventures’ formalization speed. Global Strategy Journal. Vol: 11, Issue: 4, Page: 767-795.
• Yamakawa, Y. (2020). Entrepreneurship in Japan. Research Monthly. Vol: 146, Page: 4-5. Japan Finance Corporationn.
• Lin, S., Yamakawa, Y., Li, J. (2019). Emergent learning and change in strategy: Empirical study of Chinese serial entrepreneurs with failure experience. Vol: 15, Issue: 3.
• Takahashi, H., Yamakawa, Y., Matthew, P. (2018). Board members' influence on resource investments to start-ups and IPO outcomes: Does prior affiliation matter?. Vol: 49, Page: 30-42. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.
• Yamakawa, Y., Cardon, M. (2017). How prior investments of time, money, and employee hires influence time to exit a distressed venture, and the extent to which contingency planning helps. Journal of Business Venturing. Vol: 32, Issue: 1.
• Yamakawa, Y., McKone-Sweet, K.E., Hunt, J.M., Greenberg, D. (2016). Expanding the Focus of Entrepreneurship Education: A Pedagogy for Teaching the Entrepreneurial Method. Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship. Vol: 27, Issue: 2, Page: 19. Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship.
• Yamakawa, Y., Cardon, M. (2015). Causal ascriptions and perceived learning from entrepreneurial failure. Small Business Economics. Vol: 44, Issue: 4, Page: 797-820.
• Yamakawa, Y., Peng, M.W., Deeds, D.L. (2015). Rising from the ashes: Cognitive determinants of venture growth after entrepreneurial failure. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Vol: 39, Issue: 2. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.. link
• Yamakawa, Y., Khavul, S., Peng, M.W., Deeds, D.L. (2013). Venturing from emerging economies. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Vol: 7, Issue: 3, Page: 181–196. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.. link
• Yamakawa, Y., Lee, S. (2012). Forgiving features for failed entrepreneurs vs. cost of financing in bankruptcies. Management International Review. Vol: 52, Issue: 1, Page: 49-79. Springer Gabler. link
• Lee, S., Yamakawa, Y., Peng, M.W., Barney, J.B. (2011). Bankruptcy laws and entrepreneurship development around the world. Journal of Business Venturing. Vol: 26, Issue: 5, Page: 505-520.
• Yamakawa, Y., Yang, H., Lin, Z. (2011). Exploration versus exploitation in alliance portfolio: Performance implications of organizational, strategic, and environmental fit. Research Policy. Vol: 40, Issue: 2, Page: 287-296.
• Lee, S., Yamakawa, Y., Peng, M.W., Barney, J.B. (2011). How do bankruptcy laws affect entrepreneurship development around the world?. Journal of Business Venturing. Vol: 26, Issue: 5, Page: 505-520.
• Yamakawa, Y., Peng, M.W., Deeds, D.L. (2008). What drives new ventures to internationalize from emerging to developed economies?. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Vol: 32, Issue: 1, Page: 59-82.

Conference Proceedings

• Kato, S., Yamakawa, Y. (2014). Where goes the optimism? Adjusting over and under: Heuristics in decision-making: Frontiers for Entrepreneurship Research. Babson College.
• Yamakawa, Y. (2013). Is it worth planning for failure? When? How?: Frontiers for Entrepreneurship Research. Vol: 33, Issue: 5. Babson College.
• Hibara, N., Khoury, T., Mathew, P., Yamakawa, Y. (2012). Entrepreneurial foresight and the endogenous choice of market intermediaries in Japanese IPOs: Frontiers for Entrepreneurship Research. Vol: 32, Issue: 2. Babson College.
• Miller, J., Yamakawa, Y., Deeds, D.L. (2011). Legitimacy creation and destruction: Agricultural Biotechnology as an emerging industry that failed to grow: Frontiers for Entrepreneurship Research. Vol: 31, Issue: 15, Page: 10. Babson College.
• Yamakawa, Y. (2011). Planning for failure as de-biasing strategy for escalation of commitment at market exit: Frontiers for Entrepreneurship Research. Vol: 31, Issue: 6, Page: 21. Babson College.
• Yamakawa, Y., Peng, M.W., Deeds, D.L. (2010). Revitalizing and learning from failure for future entrepreneurial growth: Frontiers for Entrepreneurial Research. Vol: 30, Issue: 6, Page: 1. Babson College.

Book Chapters

• Yamakawa, Y. (2021). The relevance and value of pivoting – which company would you invest in?: Teaching Entrepreneurship: A practice-based approach, volume 2. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Yamakawa, Y. (2015). The study of entrepreneurship: Toyo Keizai. Toyo Keizai.
• Yamakawa, Y., Neck, H.M. (2014). Exercises to practice experimentation: Fear of failure: Teaching Entrepreneurship: A Practice-Based Approach. Page: 254-259. Edward Elgar Pub.

Books

• Yamakawa, Y. (2024). The World’s Best Entrepreneurship taught at Babson: The World’s Best Entrepreneurship taught at Babson. Page: 288. Kodansha.
• Shimaoka, M., Asahi, T., Yamakawa, Y. (2023). Editor-in-Chief: The World’s Best Entrepreneurship Program: Essential Exercises to Develop Innovative Businesses.. Shoeisha.
• Yamakawa, Y., Omae, C. (2020). Entrepreneurship theory and practice: You can change the world by thinking and acting like an entrepreneur: Entrepreneurship theory and practice: You can change the world by thinking and acting like an entrepreneur. Page: 500. Toyo Keizai.

Other

• Yamakawa, Y. (2016). Babson's signature entrepreneurship course. Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange.
• Yamakawa, Y. (2016). Shackleton's Antarctic adventure: Parallels to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange.
• Yamakawa, Y. (2009). Bankruptcy and social stigma in Japan: Global Strategy, 2nd edition. South-Western Cengage Learning.