Kazuma IMAMURAProfessor

■Researcher basic information

Organization

  • College of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Law, Economics and Management
  • Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences(Master's Program) Field of Social Sciences
  • School of Collaborative Regional Innovation
  • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Domain of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences, Business administration, Business Administration
  • Humanities & social sciences, Commerce, Commerce

Degree

  • 2012年03月 博士(マネジメント)(広島大学)
  • 2007年03月 修士(経営学)(兵庫県立大学)

Educational Background

  • Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2012, Hiroshima University, Graduate School, Division of Social Sciences, Management
  • Apr. 2004 - Mar. 2007, University of Hyogo, Graduate School, Division of Administration

Career

  • Apr. 2024 - Present, Ibaraki University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
  • Apr. 2018, Ibaraki University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
  • Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2018, Ibaraki University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2017, Ibaraki University, College of Humanities, Associate Professor
  • Apr. 2000 - Mar. 2013, Hyogo Prefectural Nishinomiya High School, Teacher
  • Apr. 1994 - Mar. 2000, Hyogo Prefectural Ono High School, Teacher

■Research activity information

Paper

  • Reexamining new marketing activities based on responses to auto dealers' long delivery times
    Kazuma IMAMURA
    Economy of Consumption Research, Jun. 2024, [Reviewed]
  • Practical Methods of Management Analysis Utilizing Commercial Education: Breakthroughs Through Logical Thinking               
    Kazuma Imamura, 東京法令出版株式会社
    TOHO navi (Toho Tokyo Horei Publishing), 01 Feb. 2022, [Invited]
  • Approaching Well-being in Marketing Research: The Contribution of the Nordic School Towards Transformative Service Research               
    Liting Shen; Kazuma Imamura, Corresponding, 日本マーケティング学会
    Conference Proceedings 2021, 29 Oct. 2021, [Reviewed]
  • Constructing an Analytical Approach for Examining the Effectiveness of Services               
    Kazuma Imamura; Chen Chen, Lead, 日本マーケティング学会
    Conference Proceedings 2020, 16 Dec. 2020, [Reviewed]
  • Analysis of service worker practice: Focus on another Theory-in-Use               
    Kazuma Imamura, 日本消費経済学会
    Economy of Consumption Research, 30 Jun. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • Possibility of Value Co-creation from the Viewpoint of Customer Activities: From the case of Guangzhou Yakult               
    Kazuma Imamura, 白桃書房
    Journal of Japan Academy for Asian Market Economies, 26 Jan. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • The Possibility of Service Development that Caters to the Personalities of the Elderly: Examining Post-Emergent Outcomes Using the Customer Activity Concept               
    Qian Xu; Kazuma Imamura, Corresponding, 日本マーケティング学会
    Conference Proceedings 2018, 08 Oct. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • The meaning of the direct interaction promotion in the consumption process: The possibility of customer activity research,               
    Imamura Kazuma, 日本消費経済学会
    Economy of Consumption Research, 30 Jun. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Progress of New Methods in Commercial Education: Challenge for Creating Unique Careers,               
    Kazuma Imamura, Japan Academic Society of Business Education
    The Journal of Business Education, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Continuous process and outcomes among entities: From a new relationship perspective
    Kazuma Imamura, 日本消費経済学会
    Economy of Consumption Research, 30 Jun. 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Practice of New methods in Commercial Education: The Emergence of New Carrier Consciousness               
    Kazuma Imamura, 日本商業教育学会
    The Journal of Business Education, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Positioning of Social Exchange in Marketing: Focus on Relationship Process among Entities,
    Kazuma Imamura, 茨城大学人文学部
    Studies in Social Sciences, 01 Feb. 2017
  • Relationships as Seen Through Services : The Dynamism of Market Creation Using "Benefit One Inc." as a Case Study               
    Xian Jin; Kazuma Imamura, Corresponding, 日本マーケティング学会
    Conference Proceedings 2016, 16 Oct. 2016, [Reviewed]
  • Development of New Methods in Commercial Education: New Goals Required for Continuing Education Era,               
    Kazuma Imamura, 日本商業教育学会
    The Journal of Business Education, 31 Mar. 2016
  • Involvement in the consumption and use phase of the manufacturing industry: Reconsideration of exchange for the dynamic adaptation,
    Kazuma Imamura, 日本消費経済学会事務局
    Economy of Consumption Research, 20 Jun. 2015, [Reviewed]
  • Developing methods that leverage commercial education: New goals and the significance of educational innovation               
    Kazuma Imamura
    Jikkyo: Commercial Education Materials, 25 Mar. 2015
  • Extension of Product Service and Value Co-creation with Customer: Acquisition of Co-creation and Conversion of a Quality Concept,
    Kazuma Imamura, 日本消費経済学会事務局
    Economy of Consumption Research,, 31 Oct. 2013, [Reviewed]
  • The Rewards of Guiding Students in Report Writing: New Possibilities for Business Education,               
    Kazuma Imamura; Hideki Shimizu
    The Journal of Business Education,, 31 Mar. 2013
  • Reexamination of Sustainable Advantage into SUBARU Legacy: From a Viewpoint of Corporate Activity Realizing Co-Creation of Value,
    Kazuma Imamura, The purpose of this study is to clarify through the example of SUBARU "LEGACY" that their products have their original strength after purchasing.
    Based on researches done mainly by case studies, it is showed that customers keep being interested in perception of the product not only before but even after purchasing, and demonstrates that efforts made by a manufacturer producing parts for racing cars. greatly contributed to improve the perceived value of the product.
    The author examines that these qualities are evidences of sustainable advantage and additionally, he points out that corporate activities made by other companies than the manufacturer itself has importance in co-create of value., The Society for Industrial Studies, Japan
    Annals of the Society for Industrial Studies,, 31 Mar. 2011, [Reviewed]
  • Reexamination of Quality, Perception and Value,               
    Kazuma Imamura
    Economy of Consumption Research,, 31 Mar. 2011, [Reviewed]
  • Possibilities of Marketing Education by Service-Dominant Logic: Development of Theories and Cases,               
    Kazuma Imamura
    The Journal of Business Education,, 31 Mar. 2010
  • Challenges to Corporate Brand Building in the Automobile Industry: The Case of Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd.               
    Kazuma Imamura
    The Seiryodai Ronshu, 31 Jan. 2008

MISC

  • 価値創造から価値共創のマーケティングへ -顧客満足から考える”プロセスを紡ぐサービス”の可能性-               
    今村一真
    常陽ARC, 01 Jun. 2018, [Invited]

Books and other publications

  • Management Dynamics: Strategic, Marketing, and Accounting
    Kazuma Imamura; Hirofumi Ota; Michiaki Takai; Shizuka Tabara; Hitomi Toyosaki; Tetsuo Mori, Joint editor
    Hakutou Shobo, Oct. 2025, [Reviewed]
    9784561258049
  • Evolution of Value Co-creation Marketing
    Junichi Muramatsu; Kazuma Imamura; Akira Ohyabu; Yoshiro Fujioka; Xianghua Jiang; LIN Zhao; Shizuka Tabara; Ting-Chang Liang; Yoichiro So; Tsubasa Izaki; Tomoko Kaminishi, Zhang Shanhui, Contributor
    Dobunkan Shuppan, Mar. 2025, [Reviewed]
    9784495650247
  • Understanding a Company's "Earning Power" Through Sales, Operating Profit, and Cash Flow
    Kazuma Imamura; Shigeru Akaiwa
    Chuokeizai-sha, Sep. 2024, [Reviewed]
    9784502514715
  • Basic Theory of Disttribution, 2nd Edition               
    Takamichi Inoue; Masato Shoji; Junichi Muramatsu; Toshiki Kawauchi; Hanxie Yu; Kazuo Ishikawa; Kazuo Kikuchi; Atsushi Kanazawa; Takashi Taguchi; Akira Ohyabu; Kazuma Imamura; Shinri Murakami; Yoshiro Fujioka; Lihua Ke; Takahisa Yamaguchi; Xianwen Xie, Contributor
    Dobunkan Shuppan, 30 Mar. 2023, [Reviewed]
    9784495647520
  • Nordic School Marketing Research: An Approach Based on Service Relationships Beyond the Market               
    Junichi Muramatsu; Akira Ohyabu; Kazuma Imamura; Tomoya Kamoh; Jing Zhang; Satoshi Seino; Shinri Murakami; Yoshiro Fujioka, Contributor
    Hakutou Shobo, 26 Feb. 2021, [Reviewed]
    9784561662389
  • Developing Value Co-creation Marketing through Case Studies: Challenges in New Business Areas               
    Junichi Muramatsu; Yoshiro Fujioka; Kazuma Imamura; Tomoko Kaminishi; Satoshi Seino; Xianghua Jiang; Takeshi Hoshida; Shinya Nakami; Sayaka Takiguchi; Seiki Kiyono; Kazuhiko Mori; Tetsuo Mori; Yasunori Miyawaki, Joint work
    Dobunkan Shuppan, 28 Aug. 2020, [Reviewed]
    9784495650056
  • Management of Service Sosiety               
    Junichi Muramatsu; Takahisa Yamaguchi; Eds; Akira Ohyabu; Masaki Okui; Yoshiro Fujioka; Satoshi Seino; Michi Tokuda; Jing Zhang; Tomohiro Seki; Shinri Murakami; Kazuma Imamura; Xianghua Jiang; Kazuo Taomoto; Junya Miyoshi; Shizuka Tabara; Ryohei Takahashi; Hiroki Nishi, Contributor
    Dobunkan Shuppan, 25 Dec. 2018, [Reviewed]
    9784495649418
  • Casebook: Co-creation of Value and Marketing Theory               
    Junichi Muramatsu; Satoshi Seino; Yukio Sato; Ichiro Sugao; Isao Yokota; Masaki Okui; Shinya Nakami; Jing Zhang; Tetsuo Mori; Kazuhiko Mori; Kazuma Imamura; Yoshiro Fujioka; Hiroki Nishi, Contributor
    Dobunkan Shuppan, 25 Mar. 2016, [Reviewed]
    9784495648213
  • Basic Theory of Disttribution               
    Takamichi Inoue; Junichi Muramatsu; Toshiki Kawauchi; Masato Shoji; Hanxie Yu; Kazuo Ishikawa; Kazuo Kikuchi; Atsushi Kanazawa; Takashi Taguchi; Akira Ohyabu; Kazuma Imamura; Shinri Murakami; Yoshiro Fujioka; Lihua Ke; Takahisa Yamaguchi; Xianwen Xie, Contributor
    Dobunkan Shuppan, 05 Apr. 2015, [Reviewed]
    9784495647513
  • Co-creation of Value and Marketing Theory               
    Junichi Muramatsu; Yoshiro Fujioka; Shinri Murakami; Akira Ohyabu; Jing Zhang; Yuichi Watanabe; Kazuma Imamura; Takahisa Yamaguchi; Yusuke Sakata; Kazuo Taomoto; Satoshi Seino, Contributor
    Dobunkan Shuppan, 30 Mar. 2015, [Reviewed]
    9784495647414
  • Knowledge Creation through Collaboration: Challenges in Graduate School Research               
    Management Research Center; Hiroshima University, Contributor
    Hakutou Shobo, 26 Mar. 2014, [Reviewed]
    9784561266327
  • Management Quality Science               
    Meiji University; Institute of Managemen; Quality Science, Contributor
    Chuokeizai-sha, 10 Sep. 2011, [Reviewed]
    9784502689406
  • Challenges in New Era Marketing: Theory and Practice               
    Kazuhiko Konishi; Kunitoshi Ohmura; Kazuma Imamura; Masahiro Yurioka; Toyohiko Egami; Shinya Nishiguchi; Hiroshi Hirayama; Katsuya Suzuki; Yutaka Kamiya; Masahiro Ohshita, Contributor
    Rokko Shuppan Hanbai Co., Ltd., 31 Mar. 2011, [Reviewed]
    9784898120859
  • Customer-Centric Marketing Systems               
    Junichi Muramatsu; Shinri Murakami; Takahisa Yamaguchi; Yoshiro Fujioka; Akira Ohyabu; Seiichi Fujii; Kazuma Imamura; Kumiko Hashimoto, Contributor
    Dobunkan Shuppan, 25 May 2010, [Reviewed]
    9784495643119
  • Service-Dominant Logic: A New Perspective on Marketing Theory               
    Takamichi Inoue; Junichi Muramatsu; Takashi Taguchi; Tadanori Nogimura; Kazuo Kikuchi; Hidenari Henzan; Noriaki Saito; Susumu Maeda; Masato Shoji; Akira Ohyabu; Kazuma Imamura; Yoshiro Fujioka; Yu Hanxie; Toshiki Kawauchi, Contributor
    Dobunkan Shuppan, 25 Mar. 2010, [Reviewed]
    9784495642914
  • Marketing in the New Era: Theory and Practice               
    Kazuhiko Konishi; Hiroo Matsuba; Mariko Ohtera; Yutaka Kamiya; Kunitoshi Ohmura; Shinya Nishiguchi; Kazuma Imamura; Toyohiko Egami; Hideo Matsui; Masahiro Yurioka; Yutaka Yamamoto; Masayuki Ohtori; Toshio Mae; Masahiro Ohshita; Hyosuk Ahn; Katsuya Suzuki, Contributor
    Rokko Shuppan Hanbai Co., Ltd., 30 Apr. 2008, [Reviewed]
    9784898120804

Affiliated academic society

  • Apr. 2015, Society for Serviceology
  • Sep. 2013, Japan Academy for Asian Markets Economies
  • Apr. 2013, Japan Marketing Academy
  • May 2010, Japan Society of Marketing and Distribution
  • Oct. 2009, Japan Academy for Consumption Economy
  • Sep. 2008, Japan Academic Society of Business Education
  • Jun. 2008, The Society for Industrial Studies, Japan
  • Oct. 2007, Japan Society for Distributive Sciences