Rate My Professor Takafumi YOSHIDA

Takafumi Yoshida serves as Dean and Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Tottori University of Environmental Studies. He concurrently holds the positions of Dean of the Graduate School of Environmental Management and Head of the Management Studies major. Yoshida earned his Master of Economics from Nagoya University Graduate School, Division of Economics in 1988, after obtaining his Bachelor of Economics from Nagoya University Faculty of Economics in 1982. Prior to his appointment at Tottori University in April 2017, he was Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Admission Center at Nagasaki University since 2009.

His research specializations encompass business finance, corporate economics, agency theory, strategic corporate social responsibility, business succession in family businesses, and small and medium-sized enterprise valuation. Yoshida investigates corporate finance mechanisms, risk-incentive problems in debt forgiveness, environmental value assessment via contingent valuation methods, and paradoxes in strategic CSR frameworks. He has secured Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI) grants, including for 'Utilization of Financial Techniques in Business Succession of Family Businesses' (2014-2015) and 'Property Evaluation and Corporate Value Accompanying SME Business Succession' (2009-2010). Key publications include the book 'Introduction to Management for Local Revitalization' (Imai Publishing, 2019), 'Structure and Transformation of Corporate Financial Systems' (Kyushu University Press, 2006), and contributions such as 'Modern Management Studies: New Trends in Management Research' (Tax and Accounting Association, 2006). He has presented at conferences including the Japan Academy of Management national meeting (2008), Kyushu Economic Society (2008, 2007), and Japan Strategic Management Education Society, addressing topics like CSR inconsistencies and capital cost concepts. Yoshida's scholarship links business operations—production, sales, structures—with daily life, enterprises, and environmental concerns.