Seojin Kim
Hi! My name is Seojin Kim. I am an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business. I earned my Ph.D. in Strategy & Entrepreneurship from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
My research areas center on entrepreneurial strategy, nascent industries, and innovation. In my dissertation, I study how and why entrepreneurs of different backgrounds choose their market strategy, focusing on knowledge contexts of academic, user, and employment settings in the prosthetic limb industry. I also examine the heterogeneous value creation and capture strategies of incumbents, startups, and diversified firms in the nascent bionic prosthetic market. When assessing the firm's different strategic paths, I trace their technological investments from the industry incubation and carefully consider the contexts in which entrepreneurs and firms operate, drawing on the technological system view (e.g., Rosenberg and Arthur). Method-wise, I combine econometrics with rich historical data to identify the best explanation at play.
My research has been recognized as a finalist for the 2022 Industry Studies Association Dissertation Award and a finalist for 2020 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. I have won multiple grants including the Kauffman Knowledge Challenge Grant and the Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) Dissertation Grant.
My other research projects investigate the macro- and micro-level factors that impact innovation productivity, firm performance, and market creation. I utilize diverse data and methods, including quasi-experimental designs with large-scale datasets, qualitative/historical data, and textual analysis. I have investigated various innovation settings including healthcare sectors (e.g., wearable medical devices, InVitro diagnostics, and medical imaging) and patent data.
Before joining academia, I worked as a Manager at SK Telecom's Seoul headquarter where I engaged in corporate finance and investor relations. I also have short-term work experience in IBM's business consulting division and a local publishing company in Korea. These experiences affect both my research and teaching.
Research
Published
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Kim, S. Agarwal, R. & Goldfarb, B.* (2024). "Creating radical technologies and competencies: revisiting interorganizational dynamics in the nascent bionic prosthetic industry", Forthcoming at Organization Science. [SSRN]
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Lim, N., Kim, S., & Agarwal, R.* (2023). Weathering a demand shock: The impact of prior vertical scope on post‐shock firm response.” Strategic Management Journal, 44(8), 1965-2004.
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Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2020 [SSRN]
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Agarwal, R., Kim, S., & Moeen, M*. (2021). Leveraging Private enterprise: incubation of new industries to address the public sector’s mission-oriented grand challenges. Strategy Science, 6(4), 385-411. [Link] [SSRN]
* indicates equal authorship
Selected Working Papers
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Kim, S., & Eggers, J. P. (2024). The Power of the Regulator: Regulatory Guidance and the Firms that Didn't Follow It During the Emergence of US COVID-19 Diagnostics.
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Under review (1st revision resubmitted) at Strategic Management Journal
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Pillai, S.D., Goldfarb, B., Kirsch, D, Kim, S., & Starr, E. From Hypothesis Testing Towards Inference to Best Explanation: Testimonial Structure for Abductive Studies in Strategy
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Invited for the 1st R&R at Strategic Management Journal’s Special Research Forum on “Abduction in Strategic Management Scholarship: Theory and Methods”
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Kim, S. “Pre-entry knowledge contexts of entrepreneurs and market strategy” (dissertation chapter)
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In preparation for submission
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Selected Work In Progress
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A Study on Medical Device Recall, with Liyue Yan at BI Norwegian (In Data Collection)
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Healthcare Organizations’ Talent Acquisition Strategy After Regulatory Change, with Najoung Lim at Melbourne Business School (In Data Analysis)
“The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Commercialization of Federally Funded Research”
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With Corredoira, R., Goldfarb, B., & Knott, AM. (all authors contributed equally) [SSRN]
