Kenichi Miyata is 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 was appointed Assistant Professor in April 2016, promoted to Senior Assistant Professor in April 2020, to Associate Professor in April 2021, and to Professor in April 2026 at Meiji University.

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 How Have Companies Cultivated Human Talent? Human Capital Formation at GE, Hitachi, and Siemens (Tokyo: Yuhikaku), The Formation and Disintegration of General Electrical Enterprises: 'Strategy and Structure' as a Myth, 'Selection and Concentration' as a Trap (Tokyo: Yuhikaku) and Casebook American Business History, 2nd ed. (Tokyo: Yuhikaku).