Education

PhD. University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Career

Academic Employment
- Associate Professor (with tenure), College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
- Assistant Professor, College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea.
- Assistant Professor, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Administrative Service
- Head, KAIST Graduate School of Business (2022~2023)
- Faculty Chair, Professional MBA (2021~2023)
- Head, Graduate School of Management (2021~2022)
- Director, SK Center for Social Entrepreneurship (2019~2021)

Academic Service
- Editorial Review Board, Strategic Management Journal (2019~Present)

Award
- 2020, Impact Research Award, KAIST College of Business
- 2020, Award for Excellence in Education, KAIST College of Business

Publications (patents, etc.)

2022. "The Search for Alternatives to Internal Combustion: Instantiation Mechanisms of Institutional Logics among Scientists and Engineers." Industry and Innovation 29(10): 1231-1262. (with D. A. Kirsch)

2020. "The Practical Intelligence of Social Entrepreneurs: Managing the Hybridity of Social Enterprises." Entrepreneurship Research Journal 10(1): 1-19.

2019. "Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Local Firm Innovation: The Moderating Role of Technological Capabilities." Journal of International Business Studies 50: 847-855. (with F. Garcia and R. Salomon)

2019. "Country-level Technological Disparities, Market Feedback, and Scientists' Choice of Technologies." Research Policy 48(1): 385-400.

2015. "Entrepreneurial Growth as a Process: Mechanism-based Theorizing." Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth 17: 63-94. (with D. A. Kirsch)

2013. "Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Improve the Innovative Performance of Local Firms?" Research Policy 42: 231-244. (with F. Garcia and R. Salomon)

2010. "Do Leading or Lagging Firms Learn More from Exporting?" Strategic Management Journal 31: 1088-1113. (with R. Salomon)

2008. "Does Knowledge Spill to Leaders or Laggards? Exploring Industry Heterogeneity in Learning by Exporting." Journal of International Business Studies 39: 132-150. (with R. Salomon)

Research Areas

- Technology Transfer across Borders
- Technological Catch-up
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Managing Venture Growth(MBA)

Social Venture Business Model(MBA)

Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship(PhD)

Strategic Management of Technological Innovation(MBA)

Innovation Management and Entrepreneurial Manager(EMBA)