Hirochika Nakamaki is a Professor Emeritus of the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan, and Director of Suita City Museum. He is the author of Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad: Anthropological Perspectives (2003), and editor of The Culture of Association and Associations in Contemporary Japanese Society, Senri Ethnological Studies no.62 (2002), co-editor of Business and Anthropology: A Focus on Sacred Space, Senri Ethnological Studies no.82 (2013), and co-editor of Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization: An Anthropological Approach to Business Administration (2016).Koichiro Hioki is a Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University and Professor of Management at Shujitsu University. He is the author of Ichiba no Gyakushū: Personal Communication no Fukken (Counter Attack of Bazaar: Re-empowerment of Personal Communication) (in Japanese) (2002), Shusse no Mechanism: Ziph Kōzō de Yomu Kyōsō Shakai (Mechanism of Career Advancement: Competitive Society Read by Zipf Structure) (in Japanese) (1998), and Bunmei no Sōchi to shite no Kigyō (Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization) (in Japanese) (1994). He is also a co-editor of Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization (2016).Noriya Sumihara is a Professor at the Faculty of International Studies at Tenri University, Nara, where he mainly teaches international students about Japanese culture and society, as well as regional studies of Nara from an anthropological perspective. His early work includes long-term fieldwork in a Japanese multinational corporation in North America, while more recently he has been researching the relationship between management philosophy and business practices in Japan, India and Indonesia. He holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from New York University, and a BA in Literature from Kobe University.Izumi Mitsui is a Professor of Business Administration in the College of Economics, Nihon University. Her research interests include management philosophy, history of management thought, and anthropological approaches to business administration. She is the author of Shakaiteki Networking-ron no Genryū: MP Follett no Shisō, [An Origin of Social Networking Theory: The Thought of MP Follett] (in Japanese) (2009), the editor of Asia-kigyō no Keieirinen: Seisei Denpa Keishō no Dynamism, [Management Philosophy of Asian Companies: Dynamism of Creation, Diffusion and Succession] (in Japanese) (2013), and a co-editor of Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization (2016).
