You, Jihae, Taekjin Shin, and Yunhyung Chung. 2023. Can powerful allies protect the CEO against performance declines? The role of the CEO's subgroup power in CEO dismissal. Strategic Management Journal, 44(11): 2818-2830. (Link)
Shin, Taekjin, and Jihae You. 2023. Faults and faultlines: The effects of board faultlines on CEO dismissal. Journal of Management, 49(4): 1344-1393 (Link)
Shin, Taekjin, and Jihae You. 2020. Changing words: How temporal consistency in a CEO's use of language toward shareholders and stakeholders affects CEO dismissal. Corporate Governance: An International Review 28(1): 47-68. (Link)
Winner of the 2020 CGIR Best Paper Award
Jung, Jiwook, and Taekjin Shin. 2019. Learning not to diversify: The transformation of graduate business education and the decline of diversifying acquisitions. Administrative Science Quarterly 64(2): 337-369. (Link) (SSRN)
For practitioners: Harvard Business Review version
Shin, Taekjin, and Jihae You. 2017. Pay for talk: How the use of shareholder-value language affects CEO compensation. Journal of Management Studies 54(1): 88-117. (Link)
Featured in the Wall Street Journal, San Diego Union-Tribune, Investopedia, and Globes
Shin, Taekjin. 2016. Fair pay or power play? Pay equity, managerial power, and compensation adjustments for CEOs. Journal of Management 42(2): 419-448. (Link)
Shin, Taekjin. 2014. Explaining pay disparities between top executives and nonexecutive employees: A bargaining power approach. Social Forces 92(4): 1339-1372. (Link 1 Link 2)
Sun, Yuanyuan, and Taekjin Shin. 2014. Rewarding poor performance: Why do boards of directors increase new options in response to CEO underwater options? Corporate Governance: An International Review 22(5): 408-421. (Link)
Shin, Taekjin. 2012. The gender gap in executive compensation: The role of female directors and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 639(1): 256-276. (Link)
Fligstein, Neil, and Taekjin Shin. 2007. Shareholder value and the transformation of the U.S. economy, 1984-2000. Sociological Forum 22(4): 399-424. (Link)
Board faultlines and director turnover (with Jihae You and Yunhyung Chung) (Presentation) (Presentation)
CEOs' use of language and shareholder activism (with Maria Cristina Zaccone and Lori V. Ryan)
CEO background and gender diversity in top management teams (with Jiwook Jung)