Sookyoung (Claire) Lee

Ph.D. in Management and Organizations, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
M.S. in Business Administration, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
B.A. in English Language and Literature, Library and Information Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Dr. Lee’s work philosophy is “mutual growth of business and society.” To put her philosophy in action, she has worked as an administrator, a business consultant, and a scholar. Her research focuses on 1) behavioral and performance consequences of a firm’s social perceptions, such as legitimacy, reputation, and identity and 2) mutual growth of business and society. Her papers have won and have been nominated for the Best Conference Paper Prize at a leading academic conference, the Strategic Management Society. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Proceedings and Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

She has lived in seven cities in four countries and likes to travel, take photos, listen to/play music, and explore different foods.

• MGS 2150 Business Statistics and Applications
• MGS 3020 Organizational Behavior
• MGS 4999 Integrated Strategic Management
• MGS 5010 Strategic Management
• Change and Growth Management, Leadership, Negotiations, Business & Society

Choi, Jeonghwan, Valerie Vaccaro, Sookyoung Lee, Rob Marjerison, Kihwan Kim & Bok Gyo Jeong (2023). Social Entrepreneurial Intention Change by Gender during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship (published online: 30 Aug 2023). (ESCI, ABDC B, ABS 2, IF: 3.00)

Choi, Jeonghwan, Kihwan Kim, Rob Marjerison, Bok Gyo Jeong, Sookyoung Lee, and Valerie Vaccaro (2024). Impacts of Morality and Positivity on Social Entrepreneurial Intention, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 15(1), 161-181 (published online: 16 Jul 2021). (ESCI, ABDC B, ABS 2, IF: 2.80)

Paugam, Luc and Sookyoung Lee (2021). Selection of Pay-as-you-go Solar Home Systems for the Schneider Electric Energy Access (SEEA) Fund: HEC Paris Teaching Case.

Durand, Rodolphe, Zachariah Rodgers, and Sookyoung Lee (2019). Social Impact Assessment Strategy Report: HEC Paris Society &Organizations Center.

Lee, Sookyoung (2017). Reputation, Stakeholders, and Controversy: How Stakeholder-specific Reputations Affect Controversial Strategic Actions, Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017(1)

Lee, Sookyoung. (2016) The Silent Implementation of Controversial Practices: Korean Firms’ Alternative Forms of Decoupling, Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016(1).

Research Fellow, HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Senior Researcher, LG Economic Research Institute, Seoul, Korea
Chief Official, Korean Broadcasting Commission, Seoul, Korea