Jegoo Lee

  • Assistant Professor
  • Management
  • Phone: 401.874.4360
  • Email: jegoolee@uri.edu
  • Office Location: 229, Ballentine Hall

Biography

Jegoo Lee is currently an assistant professor of management in the College of Business at the University of Rhode Island. Previously, he was a tenured associate professor of management at the Meehan School of Business, a faculty member of the Digital Humanities program at Stonehill College, and an assistant professor in the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida. Additionally, he has served as visiting associate professor at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, and visiting scholar at the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University.

Lee is an entrepreneurial scholar, exercising his expertise and knowledge to academic societies as well as broader communities. At URI College of Business, he has organized and institutionalized the Brownbag Research Seminar Series since joining in Fall 2020. At the Academy of Management, he has served multiple roles for the Social Issues in Management division. His teaching and service activities have been recognized with the Thomas Chisholm Graduate Teaching Award, and the Bravo Zulu (service) Award by the URI College of Business, and the Outstanding Reviewer Award and Service Awards by the Academy of Management. Recently, he was elected 2025 Conference-Chair-Elect for the International Association for Business & Society (for five-year leadership track).

Lee was previously a social entrepreneur in Bangkok, Thailand, renovating education curricula and programs for higher academic institutions. He has absorbed and is invested in multiple cultures, having lived in South Korea, Spain, Thailand, and seven U.S. states. In his free time, he analyzes soccer games (as an officially licensed U12 coach), enjoys board-games, reads science fiction, and runs long-distance. As an involved father, he learns new things every day from his wife and two children.

Research

Lee’s research interests include intersections of responsible management, strategic leadership, corporate governance, and social networks, specifically by combining moral and empirical approaches.

He is the winner of the 2010 Best Dissertation Award from the Society for Business Ethics, and the finalist for the 2010 Academy of Management’s Best Dissertation Award in Social Issues in Management. He also received the J. Robert Beyster Fellowship from the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. He is the current Associate Editor for Business & Society, and a member of the editorial board for Business & Society Review and Corporate Reputation Review. His current on-going projects examine the topics below.

  • Responsible Management (Business ethics; Corporate social responsibility & sustainability)
  • Strategic Leadership (Corporate governance; Leadership impacts)
  • Employee-oriented responsibility (Employee ownership; Employee well-being)
  • Social Networks

Education

Ph.D./M.Sc., Organization Studies, Boston College
Visiting Student, Business Ethics, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago
B.B.A./M.B.A., Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Publications

Lee, J., Kruse, D.L., & Blasi, J.R. (2024). Shared capitalism and corporate sustainability: Broad-based employee share ownership, CEO ownership, and corporate environmental performance. Business & Society. (https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241254532)

Jun, K., Lee, J. & Lee, J. (2024). Unraveling the dynamics of employee retention in Asian organizations: Exploring the interplay of organizational identification, affective commitment, and trust in leadership. Asian Business & Management. (https://doi.org/10.1057/s41291-024-00268-3)

Kim, J.K., Moon, W.-K. and Lee, J. (2024). The role of corporate social advocacy forms in shaping young adults’ responses. Corporate Communications: An International Journal. (https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-11-2023-0151)

Zhao, Y., & Lee, J. (2023). How does board interlock network matter for sustainability? A social learning approach to corporate environmental performance. Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(8), 5889-5908. (https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3454) Runner-up, IABS Best Published Paper Award.

Kim, S. J., & Lee, J. (2021). A percolation-like process of within-organization collective corruption: A computational approach. Business & Society, 60(1), 161-195. (https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650319831630)

Waddock, S. and Lee, J. (2020). The Sustainability and Popularity Paradoxes of SIM Scholarship. In Wasieleski, D.M. and Weber, J. (eds.) Sustainability (Business and Society 360, Vol. 4), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 215-236. (https://doi.org/10.1108/S2514-175920200000004011)

Media Coverages
“Fellowship to study effect of employee-ownership on corporate sustainability” (Providence Business News)

“How an immoral intention percolates through the whole organization” (Business & Society Blog)

“Young Dads and the changing look of fatherhood” (CBS Sunday Morning)

“The path to happiness for Millennial men is … kids” (CNN Health)

“Are good corporate citizens rewarded” (PwC Strategy & Business)