Keikoh Ryu is a professor of ethical economics and business ethics at Ritsumeikan University’s Graduate School of Business Administration, which is located in Osaka, Japan. Prof. Ryu is also the director of the Japan Society for Business Ethics and an Advisory Committee Member at the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education, Stanford University. With six academic degrees from the United States, China and Japan, including one bachelor’s degree, two master’s degrees and three PhDs, Prof. Ryu’sresearch involves political economics, sociology and philosophy. Having completed three doctoral degree programs from Peking University’s Graduate School of Education (Ph.D. in Education), Tsinghua University’s Graduate School of Philosophy (Ph.D. in Philosophy) and Waseda University’s Graduate School of Political Science and Economics (Ph.D. in Public Management), Prof. Ryu’s research spans the comparative and international areas of ethical economics and public management. Currently, his research primarily deals with cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research methodology in business ethics andmanagement philosophy.
In 2010, Waseda University Press published Prof. Ryu’s book titled "Creating Public Value: The Challenges of Localization for Japanese Corporations in China" (in English), which was also selected as a winner of the 2010 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. Oxford University Press published his “Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia” (in English, 2012). Prof. Ryu’s “Stakeholder Social Responsibility: A New Approach to Information Disclosure in Japanese Universities” was published by the People's Publishing House (in Chinese, 2017). Most recently, Chikura Shobo in Tokyo published his “Altruism and Responsibility: Research on INAMORI's Business Ethics” (in Japanese, 2020). Prof. Ryu’s research has also been published in the Journal of International Business, Corporate Communication Studies, and other scholarly academic journals.
