Sébastien Lechevalier is a Socio-economist, Professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, specialised in the study of Asian Capitalisms, with a focus on the relations between technologies and societies. He is currently developping his research agenda on the impact of digitalization (including AI) on work organization, employment, and inequalities, at the macro and corporate levels and in focusing on the care sector. He is the founder and the president of the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS (FFJ). He is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ-Tokyo). He is also an International Senior Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), editor of Socio-Economic Review and regular contributor for Le Monde.
He is the principal investigator of INNOVCARE (2024-2028): “Care-led innovation: the case of eldercare in France and in Japan” (Funded by “PPR Autonomie, France 2030”). He also has been the principal investigator of INCAS (2015-2019): Understanding Institutional Change in Asia: a Comparative perspective with Europe (Funded by HORIZON 2020 MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE, RISE SCHEME).
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
!NEW! Sébastien Lechevalier, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Kathryn Ibata-Arens, and Kayo Takuma, “Capitalism, Innovations, and Health after Covid-19 An Asian Perspective“, Palgrave MacMillan, 2026
!NEW! Sébastien Lechevalier, Hippolyte d’Albis, Takeo Hoshi, Brieuc Monfort, “Japan as a window into the economics of ageing“, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Volume 35, 100660, 2026
!NEW! Sébastien Lechevalier, “Care-led innovation from a sustainability perspective“, Sustainability in Japan and Beyond, published on 26/5/2026
!NEW! Sébastien Lechevalier, Saori Shibata, “The contribution of digitalization to non-inclusive growth in Japan. A Régulationist perspective on post-industrial dynamics“, Competition and Change, 2026, 30(1), 11-37
Sébastien Lechevalier, “Care-led innovation. A new paradigm and an application in the Japanese context of Society 5.0“, Innovcare Discussion Paper Series 2025-01
Sébastien Lechevalier, Brieuc Monfort, “Japan at the Forefront of the Economics of Aging? A Bibliometric Analysis“, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2025 (Open Access)
To be published in “Economics of ageing: Japan in comparative perspective”, Special Issue of the Journal of Economics of Ageing, co-edited by S. Lechevalier, H. d’Albis, T. Hoshi, B. Lechevalier
Sébastien Lechevalier, Saori Shibata, “Hampered digitalization: Institutional failure and new instability in Japan“, The Japanese Political Economy, 2025
Sébastien Lechevalier, Yuko Tamaki Welply, Christophe Humbert, Katsunori Shimohara, Jean-Marie Robine, “Care-led innovation: the case of eldercare in France and in Japan“, International Journal of Care and Caring, Policy Press, 2025
Sébastien Lechevalier, Mofakhami Malo, “Assessing job satisfaction in the era of digital transformation: a comparative study of the first wave of tasks digitalization in Japan and France”, Eurasian Business Review, 2025
Japanese version
Yuko Tamaki Welply, Sébastien Lechevalier, “‘Social’ robot and social relations in care settings: Undefined positionality and fixed temporality”, Technology in Society, Volume 77, 2024
Lechevalier, S. (2024), “Society 5.0 and new capitalism: complementarities and contradictions”, Asia-Pacific Business Review 30 (3)
This publication is included in a special issue edited by Hugh Whittaker and Yoshifumi Nakata, “Reforming Japanese capitalism”. Read the special issue
– Sébastien Lechevalier (Ed.) Innovation Beyond Technology. Science for Society and Interdisciplinary Approaches, Springer, 2019
– David Chiavacci & Sébastien Lechevalier (Ed.) Japanese Political Economy Revisited. Abenomics and Institutional Change, Routledge, 2018
– Sébastien Lechevalier The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism, Routledge, 2014
French version | English version | Japanese version
Links
Resume: CV Sébastien Lechevalier English PDF
Research sites: Academia.edu | EconPapers | Economics and Finance Research: IDEAS/RePEc | Google Scholar | HAL – Open archive | Orcid | ResearchGate | Social Science Research Network: SSRN
Sébastien LECHEVALIER 