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Kim, Tai-Young

Major: Management

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Tai-Young (Paul) Kim is Professor of Graduate School of Business (SKK GSB) at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea. Before he joined the SKK GSB, he had been Assistant Professor of Management of Organizations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKSUT), 2000-2004. He was a visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management in 2005, INSEAD in France, for 2017-2018, and Waseda University in Japan in 2018. He holds Ph.D. from Sociology (Organization Theory) at Stanford University.

His main research and teaching interests include corporate strategy, organizational design, social identity, social networks, and corporate social performance. He published articles at top-ranked journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Economic Geography, and Industrial and Corporate Change.

 

He lectured and consulted for major Korean companies on ‘Corporate Strategy’ and ‘ESG Strategy’ that integrates social value and economic value and published books, ‘Next Champion’ (2019) on ESG strategy and ‘Better Corporate Philanthropy’ (2023) on strategic corporate philanthropy.

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Publications
  • Tai-Young Kim (2023) Better Corporate Philanthropy. Samtoh
  • Tai-Young Kim and Hyun Myung Doh (2021) Next Champion. Next Wave Publishing
  • Young-Chull Chung and Tai-Young Kim (2019) (equal authorship). Between legitimacy and efficiency: An institutional theory of corporate giving. Academy of Management Journal. 62: 1583-1608.
  • Stanislav Dobrev and Tai-Young Kim (2019) Bringing the firms (and forms) back in: Organizational form identity and individual turnover. Academy of Management Journal. 62:1028-1051.
  • Tai-Young Kim, Dongyoub Shin, and Young-Chull Chung (2016) Inside the “hybrid” iron cage: Political origins of hybridization. Organization Science 27: 428-445.
  • Tai-Young Kim and Yoo Jin Lee (2013) Revitalizing a Village. Stanford Social Innovation Review
  • Tai-Young Kim and Jeroen Kuilman (2013) The Demography of Resources: Divestments of Aircraft among U.K. Airlines, 1919-1975. Journal of Management Studies, 50: 1155-1184.
  • Tai-Young Kim, Andrew, Delios, and Dean Xu (2010) Organizational Geography, Experiential Learning, and Subsidiary Exit: Japanese Foreign Expansions in China, 1979-2001. Organizational Geography, Experiential Learning, and Subsidiary Exit: Japanese Foreign Expansions in China, 1979-2001.
  • Tai-Young Kim, Dongyoub Shin, Hongseok Oh, and Young-Chul Jeong (2007) Inside the Iron Cage: Organizational Political Dynamics and Institutional Changes in Presidential Selection Systems in Korean Universities, 1985-2002. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52: 286-323.
  • Tai-Young Kim, Hongseok Oh, and Anand Swaminathan (2006) Framing Inter-Organizational Network Change: A Network Inertia Perspective. Academy of Management Review, 31: 704-720.
  • Stanislav Dobrev and Tai-Young Kim (2006) Positioning among Organizations in a Population: A Model of Mutualism and Competition Administrative Science Quarterly, 51: 230-261.
  • Ezra Zuckerman, Tai-Young Kim, Kalinda Ukanwa, and James Von Rittmann (2003) Robust Identities or Non-Entities? Typecasting in the Feature Film Labor Market. American Journal of Sociology, 108: 1018-74.
  • Ezra Zuckerman and Tai-Young Kim (2003) The Critical Trade-Off: Identity Assignment and Box-Office Success in the Feature Film Industry. Industrial and Corporate Change, 12: 27-67.
  • Tai-Young Kim, Stanislav Dobrev and Luca Solari (2003) Festina Lente: Learning and Inertia among Italian Automobile Producers, 1896-1981. Industrial and Corporate Change, 12: 1279-1301.
  • Stanislav Dobrev, Tai-Young Kim, and Glenn Carroll (2003) Shifting Gears, Shifting Niches: Organizational Inertia and Change in the Evolution of the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1885-1981. Organization Science, 14: 264-282.
  • Stanislav Dobrev, Tai-Young Kim, and Glenn Carroll (2002) The Evolution of Organizational Niches: U.S Automobile Manufacturers, 1885-1981. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47:233-264.
  • Stanislav Dobrev, Tai-Young Kim, and Michael Hannan (2001) Dynamics of Niche Width and Resource Partitioning. American Journal of Sociology, 106: 1299-1337.
  • Stanislav Dobrev, Tai-Young Kim, and Luca Solari (2004) The Two Sides of the Coin: Core Competence as Capability and Obsolescence. Advances in Strategic Management. Edited by Joel Baum. JAI/Elsevier. 21: 255-285.
Awards & Honors

  • 2026. Teaching Excellence Award (AI MBA at SKK GSB)

  • 2019. 2020. Research Excellence Award (at SKK GSB)

  • 2016. Teaching Excellence Award (Professional MBA of SKK GSB)

  • 2010. Teaching Excellence Award (The Indiana Kelly-SKK GSB Executive MBA Program)

  • 2007. Best Research Award (by Korean Academy of Management)

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