Kenichi Miyata is Associate Professor of Business History at School of Business Administration, Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan.

He graduated from the School of Business Administration, Meiji University in 2007. After serving as a visiting scholar at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies of Harvard University in 2010-2011, Miyata earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration at Meiji University in 2016. He has been an assistant professor and senior assistant professor at Meiji University since April 2016, and has been in the current position since April 2021.

His research interests include American business history, international business history, corporate growth and corproate strategy, top management, entrepreneurship, startups. His work has appeared in leading management journals in Japan, such as Japan Business History Review and Organizational Science, as well as in international journals such as the Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business, and has won the 2022 BHSJ-SBS Best Paper Award (Main Prize) from the Japan Business History Review. His recent co-authored works include The Formation and Disintegration of General Electrical Enterprises (Tokyo: Yuhikaku) and Casebook American Business History, 2nd ed. (Tokyo: Yuhikaku).