Jegoo Lee

Jegoo Lee

Biography

Jegoo Lee an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Rhode Island’s College of Business and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining URI, he held a tenured position at Stonehill College and an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of South Florida. He has also been a visiting scholar at Rutgers University, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. As a scholar-in-action, Lee actively contributes to academic and public communities through research, professional leadership, and policy engagement. His expertise has been featured in TIME and MorningStar. He currently serves as Program Chair of the Academy of Management’s Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division, President-elect of the International Association for Business & Society, for which he successfully hosted IABS 2026 Conference, and a member of Rhode Island’s Business Enterprise Succession Task Force.

Research

Lee’s research explores the intersection of corporate social responsibility & sustainability, nonmarket strategy, and alternative organizing, especially from ownership and social network lenses. His work uniquely blends moral perspectives with empirical analysis to address real-world challenges.

Education

Ph.D., Organization Studies, Boston College

Selected Publications

Lee, J. (2026). From Employee-Owners to Environmental Champions. MIT Sloan Management Review. Winter 2026 (Vol. 67, No. 2), 15-17.

Jun, K. & Lee, J. (2025). Authentic leadership and workplace deviance: a relationship-building approach combining follower hope and leader humor”. Evidence-based HRM: a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship, (forthcoming).

Lee, J. (2025). CEO risk sensitivity and employee-related irresponsibility: A moderating role of managerial discretion. Corporate Ownership & Control, 22(3), 185–196.

Lee, J., Lee, J., Jun, K. & Kim, K. (2025). Exploring a multidimensional construct of employee experience and outcomes. Personnel Review, 54(7): 1847-1872.

Lee, J. (2025). Employee Benefit Programs and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Impacts of Flexibility- and Stability-Enhancing Programs. International Review
of Applied Economics, 39(4-5): 750-767.

Lee, J., Kruse, D. L., & Blasi, J. R. (2025). Shared Capitalism and Corporate Sustainability: Broad-Based Employee Share Ownership, CEO Ownership, and Corporate Environmental Performance. Business & Society, 64(1), 163-208.

Jun, K., Hu, Z., Lee, J. & Lee, J. (2024). Linking Authentic Leadership with Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Follower’s Hope and Collective Efficacy. Evidence-based HRM (forthcoming).

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. 23: 484-510.

Kim, J.K., Moon, W.-K. & Lee, J. (2024). The Role of Corporate Social Advocacy Forms in Shaping Young Adults’ Responses. Corporate Communications: An International Journal. 29(5): 653-669.

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. (Runner-up, IABS 2024 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.

Waddock, S. & 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, 215-236.