Yonsei School of Business

EDUCATION

2011 University of Michigan, PhD
2006 London School of Economics and Political Science, MS
2005 Seoul National University, MS
2002 Seoul National University, BS

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Yonsei University School of Business, 2019.3 -
Assistant Professor, Yonsei University School of Business, 2016.3 - 2019.2
Assistant Professor, Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, 2011-2016

TEACHING INTERESTS

Strategic Management

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Status and Identity, Category, Diffusion, Institutional Change

SELECTED PUBLICATION

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

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

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

Outstanding Teaching Award, Yonsei University, 2017

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

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)

Samsung Scholarship for PhD program, Samsung Foundation of Culture (2006-2010)

Samsung Scholarship for master program, Samsung Foundation of Culture (2005-2006)