Dr Seonghoon Kim

Assistant Professor
Department of Management

Academic & Professional Qualifications

PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara)
MS (Seoul National University)
BA/BS (Seoul National University)

Biography

Dr Kim received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and obtained an M.S. in Business Administration, a B.A. in Geography, and a B.S. in Environmental Management from Seoul National University. His research interests lie in business sustainability, with a particular focus on how firms can design more effective corporate environmental strategies through the lens of strategic management and organization studies. Prior to joining The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, he was a research fellow in Sustainable Finance at the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) at the National University of Singapore.

Research and Teaching Interests

• Business Sustainability
• Corporate Social and Environmental Strategy
• Organizational Reputation and Identity
• Organizational Form and Category

Intellectual Contributions (Publications, Conferences, Books, Book Chapters, etc.)

  • Santana, J., & Kim, S., 2025, From values to codes: A computational text analysis of the codification of occupational ethics. In: Organization Studies, forthcoming.
  • Kim, S., Terlaak, A., & Potoski, M., 2021, Corporate sustainability and financial performance: Collective reputation as moderator of the relationship between environmental performance and firm market value. In: Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(4), pp. 1689–1701.
  • Terlaak, A., Kim, S., & Roh, T., 2018, Not good, not bad: The effect of family control on environmental performance disclosure by business group firms. In: Journal of Business Ethics, 153(4), pp. 977–996.
  • Jo, J. H., Roh, T. W., Kim, S., Youn, Y., Park, M., Han, K., & Jang, E., 2015, Eco-innovation for sustainability: Evidence from 49 countries in Asia and Europe. In: Sustainability, 7, pp. 16820–16835.