Professor Yuka Fujimoto

Professor Yuka Fujimoto

  • Deputy Dean (Research & Sustainability)
  • Professor
  • Programme Leader - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department of Management
  • Sunway Business School
Faculty of Business and Law
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SDGs Focus
Reduced Inequalities
Sustainable Cities and Communities
Responsible Consumption and Production

Biography

Professor Fujimoto’s research areas include the community–business interface in creating inclusive and sustainable businesses and cities, as well as inclusive human resource management policies and practices. She holds a Bachelor of Business Management (First Class Honours) from the University of Queensland Business School (Brisbane, Australia) and a PhD in Business Administration from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia).

Her research has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society, Academy of Management Discoveries, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Human Resource Management Review. She is also a recipient of a Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management.

Professor Fujimoto currently serves on the Editorial Board of Business & Society. She previously served as a Representative-at-Large in the Academy of Management’s DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Division and as Track Chair for the Gender and Diversity stream at the Academy of International Business in 2023 and 2026.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • PhD in Management, Monash University, Australia
  • Bachelor of Business Management (First Class Honours), University of Queensland Business School, Australia

Teaching Areas

  • Management

Notable Publications

Selected Publications

  1. Fujimoto, Y., Le, H., & Lee, J. (2026). Time in international human resource management: A systematic review and agenda for future research. Human Resource Management Review, 36(4), Article 101154.
  2. Fujimoto, Y., Azmat. F, Presbitero., A., Homer, S. T., Poon. W. C., & Lim, W. M. (2025). Navigating Paradoxes of Responsible Management Learning and Education (RMLE): Insights from the Global South. Studies in Higher Education.
  3. Fujimoto, Y., Azmat, F., & Uddin, M. (2024). Inclusive Leadership toward Reshaping Corporate Purpose for Sustainable Development. Leadership. 20(5), 289-313
  4. Yee., K. V. & Fujimoto, Y. From Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to Corporate Humanistic Responsibility (CHR): Conceptualization and Operationalization of a Perceived CHR. Personnel Review. 53(4), 877-899
  5. Fujimoto, Y., Ferdous, A., & Wali F. (2023) Integrative Resource Model of Workplace Inclusion for Reduced Inequality: Conservation of Resources Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 187, 301–323
  6. Groutsis, D., Vassilopoulou, J., Ozbilgin, M., Fujimoto, Y., & Mor Barak M. (2023). FROM THE EDITORS—Migration Management: Introduction and Overview, 9(2), Academy of Management Discoveries, 9 (2), 117-124.
  7. Fujimoto, Y., & Uddin, J. (2021). Inclusive leadership for reduced inequality: Economic-social-economic cycle of inclusion. Journal of Business Ethics, 181(3),1-20.
  8. Fujimoto, Y., & Presbitero A. (2021). Culturally intelligent supervisors: Inclusion, intercultural cooperation, and psychological safety, Applied Psychology: An International Review, (2), 407-435.
  9. Fujimoto, Y., & Uddin, J. (2020). Poor-inclusive workplace model: A relational perspective. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An international Journal 39, 8, 881-900.
  10. Le, H., Palmer, C. J., Fujimoto, Y. (2020). Organizational justice and climate for inclusion. Personal Review, 50(1):1-20.
  11. Ghosh, D., Sekiguchi, T., Fujimoto, Y. (2020). Psychological detachment: a creativity perspective on the link between intrinsic motivation and employee engagement. Personnel Review. 49(9), 1789–1804.
  12. Fujimoto, Y., Azmat, F., & Subramaniam, N. (2019) Creating Community-Inclusive Organizations: Managerial Accountability Framework. Business and Society: 1-17.
  13. Azmat, F., Fujimoto, Y., & Subramaniam, N. (2019). Revisiting the concept of shared value in developing countries: Towards an organisational framework. Social Business. 9(3): 205-226.
  14. Bainbridge H., & Fujimoto, Y. (2018) Job seekers with musculoskeletal or sensory disabilities: Barriers and facilitators of job search British Journal of Management 29, 82-98.
  15. Le., H. Jiang, J., Fujimoto, Y. & Nielsen, J. (2018) Inclusion and affective well-being: roles of justice perceptions Personnel Review 47(4): 805-820.
  16. Fujimoto, Y., & Hartel, C.E. J. (2017) Organizational Diversity Learning Framework: Going Beyond Diversity Training Programs. Personnel Review 46(6): 1120-1141.
  17. Fujimoto, Y., Ferdous, A, Sekiguchi, T., & Sugianto, L. (2016). The Effect of Mobile Technology Usage on Work Engagement and Emotional Exhaustion in Japan. Journal of Business Research, 69, 3315-3323.
  18. Le, H., Zheng, C. & Fujimoto, Y. (2016). Inclusion, organisational justice and employee wellbeing International Journal of Manpower, 37, 945-964.
  19. Azmat, F. & Fujimoto, Y. (2016). Family embeddedness and entrepreneurship experience: A study of Indian migrant women entrepreneurs in Australia Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 28, 630-656.
  20. Fujimoto, Y., & Azmat, F. (2014) Organizational Justice of Work-Life Balance for Professional/Managerial Group and Non-Professional Group in Australia: Creation of Inclusive and Fair Organizations Journal of Management and Organization, 20(5) 587-607.
  21. Fujimoto, Y., Rentschler, R., Le. H., Edwards, D., & Härtel, C. E. J. (2014) Lessons learned from community organizations: Inclusion of people with disabilities and others British Journal of Management, 25(3), 518-537.
  22. Fujimoto, Y., Härtel, C. E.J ., Azmat, F. (2013). Towards a Diversity Justice Management Model: Integrating Organizational Justice and Diversity Management. Social Responsibility Journal, 9(1), 148-166.
  23. Oreg, S., Vakola, M., Arciniega, L., Armenakis, A., Barkauskiene, R., Bozionelos, N., Fujimoto, Y., González, L., Han, J., Hřebíčková, M., Jimmieson, N., Kordačová, J., Mitsuhashi, H., Mlačić, B., Ferić, I., Topić, M. K.,M., Ohly, S.,M., Saksvik, P. Ø., Saksvik, I., Dam, K. (2008) Dispositional resistance to change: Measurement equivalence and the link to personal values across 17 Nations, Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(4) 935-944. 

Refereed Conference Presentations since 2016 

  1. Fujimoto, Y., Azmat, F., & Sadhu, S. (2026). Inside the Hybrid Logics of Profit and Environmental Responsibility: The Roles of Multinational Corporations in Waste Reduction in Developing Economies. Academy of International Business (AIB) in Manchester.
  2. Fujimoto, Y., Azmat, F., & Sandhu, S. (2025) Corporate Societal Logic in Emerging Economies: Bridging Business and Society”. 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM)  July 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Best Paper Proceedings

  1. Fujimoto, Y., Azmat, F., & Kamal, F (2026). Beyond Audits: A Supplier Centric Framework for Reducing Inequality. Academy of Management, August 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia.
  2. Leong, T., et. al. (2025). Coping Strategies of Low-Skilled Migrant Workers in the Global South”, accepted for the 85th Annual Meeting, July 85th Academy of Management, Copenhagen.

Achievements & Accolades

  1. Best Paper on Emerging Markets, finalist (2026). International Management Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (sponsored by George Washington University, USA).
  2. Associate Editor of the Year (2023) Journal of Management and Organization – Recognized for outstanding contributions to the editorial process and excellence in managing peer reviews.
  3. Outstanding Reviewer Award (2013) Academy of Management (AOM) conference, Gender and Diversity Division, 9th-12th August, Orlando, Florida.
  4. Best Reviewer Award (2012) Australian and New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA) conference, 12 to 14 April, University of South Australia, Adelaide.

Professional Associations

  1. Editorial Board Member for Business and Society (Sage Publishing)