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Professor Ronald P. Dore is a British sociologist specialising in Japanese economy and society, and comparative business studies. He teaches at the London School of Economics, and is a fellow of the Academy of International Business. He has been described "an outstanding scholar whose deep understanding of the empirical phenomena he studies and ability to build on it to develop theoretical contributions are highly respected not only by sociologists but also by economists, anthropologists, historians, and comparative business systems scholars".

Early Life
The son of a train driver, Dore went to Poole Grammar School. With the outbreak of the Japanese war, he was one of a number of sixth form students chosen to study languages at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Although he had chosen Turkish as his first, and Chinese as his second choice language, he arrived at SOAS to discover that he had been enrolled in the Japanese course. After injuring himself before he could take part in active service, he returned to the UK to teach Japanese, and complete his external degree at London University. His first trip to Japan was in1950, arriving in Kobe.

Academic Career
Having learnt Japanese during the war, Dore graduated with a degree in Japanese from London University in 1947. Dore began research in SOAS. He has also worked at the University of British Columbia, the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University, the Technical Change Centre at Sussex, the Institute for Economic growth in Delhi, Imperial College in London, Harvard University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.