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Kohei Matsumoto

Research field:My research fields cover the intersection of marketing, strategy, and public policy.

●What are your current research interests?

I am analyzing the relationship between firm competition and innovation. My current research topic includes the competitive response of national brand manufacturers to private labels.

●What do you enjoy most about research?

The most enjoyable moments are when I come up with a new research idea to extend current research findings and share such ideas with my colleagues.

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

I would say accumulating research findings.

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

I enjoyed studying firms’ rise and fall at a management strategy seminar as a bachelor’s student, which led me to become a researcher.

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

By analyzing companies, I would like to provide important managerial implications.