Yonsei School of Business

EDUCATION

2011 Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, PhD in Strategy (Business Administration)
2006 London School of Economics and Political Science, MS in Organisational and Social Psychology
2005 Seoul National University, MS in International Business/Strategy
2002 Seoul National University, BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor, Yonsei University School of Business, 2024.3 -
Visiting Associate Professor, Cornell University, 2022
Associate Professor, Yonsei University School of Business, 2019-2024
Assistant Professor, Yonsei University School of Business, 2016-2019
Assistant Professor, Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, 2011-2016

TEACHING INTERESTS

Strategic Management, Organizational Theory

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Status and Identity, Category, Diffusion, Middle Status

SELECTED PUBLICATION

Jensen, M., Kim, H., and Kim, B. Status foundations in The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Social Evaluations, edited by Anastasiya Zavyalova and Rupert Younger, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Kim, B.*, Shin, D.* and Rhee, M. (*equal contribution). “Epitomizing an emerging category: Effects of entrepreneurial firms and influential stakeholders on the entrepreneurial firms’ status attainment.” Strategic Organization, forthcoming.

Choi, J. S., Hong, S., Na, J., and Kim, B* (*corresponding author). 2025. Asymmetric effects of holding power versus status: Implications for motivation and group dynamics. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 51: 81-95.

Shin, D., Kim, D., and Kim, B.* (*corresponding author). 2024. "Normal Accidents From Status and Structural Holes: Relational Sources of Accidents in the US Airline Industry, 1978 to 2011," Sage Open, 14(4): 21582440241295955,

Ra, K., and Kim, B.* (*corresponding author). 2024. "Not on the right rung for me? How status inconsistency leads to avoidance of status-threatening ties in NCAA." PLoS ONE, 19(9): e0308352.

Kim, C., Kim, Y., Rhee, M., and Kim, B.* (*corresponding author). 2024. “Pathways to exploration in higher education: Status and institutional logic in public and private higher education institutions,” Higher Education, 88: 627-643.

Kwon, Y. and Kim, B.* (*corresponding author). 2024. “When we unite, not divide: Status homophily, group average status, and group performance in the Korean films.” Asian Business & Management, 23:9-31.

Kim, H. and Kim, B. (equal contribution). 2022. "To be in Vogue: How mere proximity to high-status neighbors affects aspirational pricing in the U.S. fashion industry." Strategic Management Journal, 43(6): 1208-1230.

Kim, B. 2020. "Normative uncertainty and middle-status innovation in the U.S. daily newspaper industry." Strategic Organization, 18(3):377-406.

Jensen, M. and Kim, B. 2014. “Great, Madama Butterfly again! How robust market identity shapes opera repertoires.” Organization Science, 25(1):109-126.

Kim, B. and Jensen, M. 2011. “How product order affects market identity: Repertoire ordering in the U.S. opera market.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 56(2):238-256.
(an earlier version of this paper appeared in Academy of Management Annual Meetings Best Papers Proceedings, 2009)

Jensen, M., Kim, H., and Kim, B. 2012. Meeting expectations: A role-theoretic perspective on reputation in The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation, edited by Michael L. Barnett and Timothy G. Pollock, Oxford University Press

Jensen, M., Kim, B., and Kim, H. 2011. The importance of status in markets: A market identity perspective in Status in Management and Organizations, edited by Jone L. Pearce, Cambridge University Press

[Selected Articles in Korean Journal]

Min, S., Jung, S., and Kim, B.* (*corresponding author). 2024. "Who Can Span Industries? The Relationship among Category Spanning, Organizational Performance, Organizational Status, and Egocentric Uncertainty in the U.S. Venture-Capital Industry," Korean Journal of Management (인사조직연구), 32: 27-55.

Kim, B.* and Park, C. (*corresponding author). 2023. "New Wine in Old Bottles?: The Overlooked Role of Incumbents in Co-Opting Discontinuous Technological Change in the US Newspaper Industry," Journal of Strategic Management (전략경영연구), 26: 61-85.

Hong, S., and Kim, B.* (*corresponding author). 2023. "How Do We Determine One’s Social Status? Social Class Differences in the Perception of Social Status," Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology (한국심리학회지: 사회및성격), 37: 45-68 (in Korean).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

Editorial Board Member, Strategic Organization (2024- )

Best Paper, 2024 Korean Academy of Management, Korean Journal of Management.

Best Paper Finalist, 2023 Korean Strategic Management Society, Journal of Strategic Management.

Best Paper, 2023 Korean Social and Personality Psychology Association, Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology.

Outstanding Teaching Award, Yonsei University, 2017

Teaching Award, Yonsei Business School, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Finalist, 2012 Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Business Policy and Strategy (Academy of Management)

Finalist, 2012 Technology and Innovation Management Best Dissertation Award (Academy of Management)