Takuro Okada – Konoma

Toshiki Kadomatsu is a Japanese Funk legend who came to the fore in the 80’s for a string of sun-soaked, Miami-Vice inspired bubbly instrumental albums that ooze summery good times in sportscars with bikini-clad women and men sporting white suits and deep tans. Toshiki has been recording for more than three decades and still continues to be prolific and popular in Japan. Sea is a Lady was his most popular album that charted to no.4 in Japan in the mid 80’s.

Nankyoku Monogatari is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and starring Ken Takakura. Its plot centers on the 1958 ill-fated Japanese scientific expedition to the South Pole, its dramatic rescue from the impossible weather conditions on the return journey, the relationship between the scientists and their loyal and hard-working Karafuto Dogs, particularly the lead dogs Taro and Jiro, and fates of the 15 dogs left behind to fend for themselves.

This book focuses on enhancing management theories of Knowledge-Intensive Organizations (KIOs), analyzing academic and research institutions and multilateral agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO). The first part of the book discusses the trusteeship norms of academic KIOs and institutional barriers that generate bias in selecting the research agenda. The author then discusses how moral stakeholders affect a legitimate research scope, and research policies and academic KIOs address the issues. Finally, the book addresses how to control private incentives that stem from ownership components as well as ways to build alliance and governance mechanisms for this purpose. This work provides researchers with a discussion of the broader impacts of addressing global common goods from responsible KIO perspectives.