Eun-Hee Kim

Dr. Kim is a strategy scholar whose research interests lie in strategy, sustainability, green technology, energy, business and government relations, nonmarket strategy, and social media. Her work focuses on how firms strategically behave to adapt to a socially responsible business environment. In particular, her research falls into four streams: which mechanisms work in the interaction between a firm and its stakeholders through formal information disclosure; how firms embrace more recent informal disclosure channels such as social media; how regulation and deregulation affect firm investment in green technology both at domestic and international level (e.g., the Kyoto Protocol, EU-ETS, and the Paris agreement); how firms’ various initiatives on sustainability affect firm performance and stakeholders.

Dr. Kim is an Editorial Board member of top tier journals in the strategy and sustainability fields: Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Organization & Environment. Her research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, among others. Dr. Kim’s research also has been referenced in media outlets such as the New York Times and Forbes.com. She has taught courses in strategic management, business and government relations, and sustainability at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dr. Kim is a CSR and Sustainability Research Initiatives Fellow at the Gabelli School of Business (2020) and was awarded a Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research at the Gabelli School of Business (2020, 2018). Dr. Kim was a Social Innovation Fellow at Fordham University (2019).

Dr. Kim joined the Gabelli School of Business in 2017 and previously taught at the GW School of Business in Washington, D.C. She obtained her PhD from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

• Ph.D., International Business/Business Economics, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 2009
• M.A., Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2003
• B.S./M.S., Chemistry/ Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1994/1996

• Strategy
• Sustainability
• Green technology
• Energy
• Business and government relations
• Nonmarket strategy
• Social media

Journal Articles

• Kira Fabrizio and Eun-Hee Kim, “Reluctant Disclosure and Transparency: Evidence from Corporate Environmental Disclosures,” Organization Science (Forthcoming).
• Eun-Hee Kim and Yoo Na Youm, “How Do Social Media Affect Analyst Stock Recommendations?: Evidence from S&P 500 Electric Power Companies’ Twitter Accounts,” Strategic Management Journal, 38(13): 2599-2622 (2017).
• Eun-Hee Kim and Thomas P. Lyon, “Greenwash vs. Brownwash: Exaggeration and Undue Modesty in Corporate Sustainability Disclosure,” Organization Science, 26(3): 705-723 (2015).
• Eun-Hee Kim, “Deregulation and Differentiation: Incumbent Investment in Green Technologies,” Strategic Management Journal, 34(10): 1162-1185 (2013).
• Eun-Hee Kim and Thomas P. Lyon, “Strategic Environmental Disclosure: Evidence from the DOE’s Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Registry,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 61(3): 311-326 (2011).
• Eun-Hee Kim and Thomas P. Lyon, “When Does Institutional Investor Activism Increase Shareholder Value?: The Carbon Disclosure Project,” The Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Contributions, 11(1): Article 50 (2011).

Book Chapters & Conference Proceedings

• Eun-Hee Kim, “Government Policies to Promote Production and Consumption of Renewable Electricity in the US,” in Sustainable Systems and Energy Management at the Regional Level: Comparative Approaches, Marco Tortora (Ed.), Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2011).
• Eun-Hee Kim, “How Does Deregulation Affect Investment in Renewable Energy?” Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (ONE) (2011).
• Eun-Hee Kim and Thomas P. Lyon, “The Carbon Disclosure Project,” in the Handbook of Transnational Governance : Institutions and Innovations, Thomas Hale and David Held (Eds.), Cambridge, UK: Polity Press (2011).