HEIM Stéphane (Associate Professor)
Affiliation：Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters, Associate Professor
My researches cover the international comparison of the Asian, American, and European automotive industries since WWII, and more specifically the evolutions of the structures, the inter-firm relations and the labor relations of these industries from an economic sociological perspective. My main published and edited works are The Regionalization of the Asian Automotive Industries and Markets (guest-editor, IJATM, 2017), Working for Toyota. A Considerable Undertaking (CNRS Editions, Forthcoming 2019, French), and my main scientific papers are“Capability Building and Functions of SMEs in Business Groups: a Case Study of Toyota’s Supply Chain” (IJATM, 2013), and “Internationalization of corporate research and development: what are the automobile manufacturers’ strategies within the East European and Mediterranean area?” (co-authored with Rodet-Kroichvilli N., Woesnner R., Régulation Review, 2014).
Research field
Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work, Organization Studies
Current research interest
Evolutions of labor relations, and restructuring processes of the Asian automotive industries
Publications (selection)
Books and others
Armbrecht C., Briatte-Peters A.-L., Heim S. (Eds.), 2010, The Guidebook of PhD students in Social sciences at Strasbourg University, Association of Young Researchers in Humanities at Strasbourg University ed. (2nd edition), 132 pages (French).
Heim S. (Guest Editor), 2017, Special Issue on the Regionalization of the Asian Automotive Industries and Markets-Part1, International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, Vol. 17, No.4, pp. 339-451.
Heim S., 2019 (forthcoming), Working for Toyota. A Considerable Undertaking, CNRS Editions (French).
Papers (peer-reviewed journals and others since 2012)
2012, “Cooperation on markets of organizations”, Les Mondes du Travail, No.11, pp. 57-69 (French).
2013, “The creation of a regional automobile cluster in question: institutional dynamics in the French’s Great East” , Annales des Mines, Revue Gérer et Comprendre, No.114, pp. 19-28 (French).
2013, “Capability Building and Functions of SMEs in Business Groups: a Case Study of Toyota’s Supply Chain”, International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, Vol.13, No.4, pp. 338-353.
2014, “Veblen”, in Bihr A., Pfefferkorn R. (eds.), Dictionary of Inequalities, Armand Colin, pp. 412-413 (French).
2014, (with Rodet-Kroichvili N., Woessner R.) “Internationalization of corporate research and development: what are the automobile manufacturers’ strategies within the East European and Mediterranean area?”, Régulation Review, Vol.15, No.1 (French).
2016, “Economic Sociology and the Theory of the Firm: Lessons from the “Toyota Momentum” in the History of Capitalism”, Kyoto Journal of Sociology, Vol. 24, pp. 83-93.
2016. “Biopolitics and bureaucracy. The tragedy in three acts of the decay of Japanese national universities”, Savoir/agir, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 107-113 (French).
2017, “Toyota, victim of its Production System: why do social sciences still have much to learn from this firm?”, Monthly Paper of the French Network for Asian Studies.
2017, “Editorial”, International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, Vol. 17, No.4, pp. 339-344.