My research centers on the unintended consequences of purposeful action.
While management scholarship has long drawn lessons from success stories, I am drawn to the far more numerous cases where things do not go as planned: organizational accidents, strategic failures, legitimacy traps, and crises that reveal how organizations truly function under pressure. By taking these cases seriously, I hope to contribute to building more resilient individuals and organizations.
My work spans four research streams.
The first examines how organizations respond to institutional pressure in ways that produce unintended strategic and reputational consequences, particularly in the domain of ESG and sustainability.
The second applies organizational ecology and network theory to alliance formation and dissolution, accidents, and competitive dynamics in industries including airlines and cultural production.
The third investigates corporate venture capital and entrepreneurship, focusing on how investment behavior responds to environmental uncertainty.
The fourth explores crisis and recovery, asking how organizational structure and prior performance shape resilience when external shocks hit.
Published Work
Organizational Ecology and Network Dynamics
Kim, D. (2026). The ecology of tie formation: Recalibrating density dependence under industrial shocks. Korean Journal of Management, 34(2), 55–89. https://doi.org/10.26856/kjom.2026.34.2.55
Shin, D., & Kim, D. (2022). Historical paradigm shift from producer centricity to customer centricity: An organization theory approach to the enabling effects of digital technology. Korean Journal of Management, 30(3), 21–52. https://doi.org/10.26856/kjom.2022.30.3.21
Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2022). Environmental dynamism and search distance: Technology search efforts of Korean high-tech electronics firms. Korean Journal of Management, 30(4), 1–31. https://doi.org/10.26856/kjom.2022.30.4.1
Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2020). Double-sidedness of cooperation on innovation: A behavioral explanation and expansion. Journal of Strategic Management, 23(2), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.17786/jsm.2020.23.2.001
ESG, Sustainability, and Institutional Dynamics
Kim, D., Shin, D., Lee, J., & Noh, G. (2024). Sustainability from institutionalism: Determinants of Korean companies' ESG performances. Asian Business & Management, 23, 393–425. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41291-024-00271-8
Kim, D., Lee, J., & Shin, D. (2022). Sustainability management and diversity: An institutional analysis of female board membership. Korean Management Review, 51(4), 869–893. https://doi.org/10.17287/kmr.2022.51.4.869
Kim, D., Lee, J., & Shin, D. (2022). Effects of sustainability performance, stakeholder pressures, and corporate visibility on company efforts for the acquisition of legitimacy in sustainability. Korean Journal of Management, 30(3), 163–192. https://doi.org/10.26856/kjom.2022.30.2.163
Lee, J., Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2021). Legitimacy-seeking behaviors and performances by firms: An institutional analysis of sustainable management practices and external evaluation. Social Enterprise Journal, 14(1), 75–111. https://doi.org/10.32675/ses.2021.14.1.004
Crisis, Accidents, and Recovery
Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2026). Network and crisis: Moderating effects of network characteristics on performance decline and recovery after the 9/11 attacks. Journal of Air Transportation Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2026.103012
Shin, D., Kim, D., & Kim, B. (2024). Normal accident from network: Structural sources of accidents in the U.S. airline industry, 1978–2011. SAGE Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241295955
Kim, D., & Lim, S. (2024). Impact of accidents on organizational performance and the moderating effect of crises: A study of the U.S. aviation industry. Korean Management Review, 53(6), 1537–1566. https://doi.org/10.17287/kmr.2024.53.6.1537
Kim, D., & Lim, S. (2024). An ecological approach to the differential impacts of crises: Focusing on carrying capacity and localized competition. Korean Corporation Management Review, 31(2), 203–241. https://doi.org/10.21052/KCMR.2024.31.2.209
Kim, D., & Lim, S. (2023). The impact of organizational performance and local competition on organizational deviation: Focusing on the Korean hotel industry. Korean Journal of Management, 31(4), 57–83. https://doi.org/10.26856/kjom.2023.31.4.57
Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2021). Unintended consequence of strategic change: Strategic sources of airline accidents. Korean Management Review, 50(4), 887–912. https://doi.org/10.17287/kmr.2021.50.4.887
Cultural Industry and Ecosystem
Kim, D., & Kim, T. (2025). Co-opetition revisited: The dual impacts on cultural product selection. Industrial and Corporate Change, 34(4), 805–830. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtae047
Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2025). The survival of survival auditions: The effects of cultural memes in the Korean TV broadcasting industry. PLoS One, 20(3), e0318193. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318193
Kim, D., & Kim, T. (2024). Ecology of culture industries: Ecological factors affecting drama program selection. Korean Journal of Management, 32(1), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.26856/kjom.2024.32.1.1
Kim, D., & Kim, T. (2023). Structurally embedded viewers' selection: Structural factors affecting cultural product selection. Journal of Cultural Industry Studies, 23(4), 27–40. https://doi.org/10.35174/JKCI.2023.12.23.4.27
Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2021). An analysis on the factors in Korean survival audition TV program ratings. Journal of Cultural Industry Studies, 21(2), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.35174/JKCI.2021.06.21.2.1
Corporate Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2021). The CVC's adventurous investments: The effects of industrial characteristics and investment experience on CVC investments. Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship, 16(3), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.16972/apjbve.16.3.202106.1
Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2021). Macro factors affecting corporate venture capital investments: Effects of industrial boom, exogenous crisis, economic growth, competition intensity. Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship, 16(4), 101–113. https://doi.org/10.16972/apjbve.16.4.202108.101
Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2021). Environment dynamism and strategic technology resource protection: Claims of priority of Korean high-tech electronics firms. Knowledge Management Research, 22(1), 5–84. https://doi.org/10.15813/kmr.2021.22.1.004
Book Chapters
Kim, D., & Shin, D. (2025). Macro factors affecting corporate venture capital investments. In M. Jang et al. (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Must-Read 20. B&M Books. https://product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S000218569797
Shin, D., & Kim, D. (2025). Korean CEOs from a governance perspective: Historical paradigm shifts in group governance-CEO models in chaebols. In C. Rowley (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Korean Business and Management. Routledge. ISBN: 9781032018737 https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Korean-Business-and-Management/Rowley-Bae-Kim-Kim/p/book/9781032018737
Rhee, M., & Kim, D. (2018). Fostering men to be an entrepreneur. In D. H. Lee et al. (Eds.), The New Paradigm of Business Administration Education. Maeil Business Newspaper. https://product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S000001725022
Working Papers
Kim, D. When legitimacy backfires: Institutional antecedents of abnormal ESG investments in Korean firms. Under second-round review at Business Strategy and the Environment.
Kim, D. Legitimacy trap: How market visibility turns ESG from strategic choice into institutional obligation. Under review at Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility.
Kim, D., Noh, G., & Shin, D. When the winds blow in opposite directions: Mixed feedback and organizational search. Under review at Organization Studies.
Kim, D., & Choi, Y. Falling short or standing tall: Greenwashing as a search behavior in corporate misconduct. Under review at Journal of Management.
Kim, D., & Yu, N. Venturing of corporate venture capital: Exploration, exploitation, and the logic of corporate venturing. Under review at Journal of Business Research.
Kim, D., & Lee, T. Priorities on point: The strategy of patent priority claims adapting to market dynamics. Under review at Long Range Planning.
Kim, D., & Lee, T. Domestic priority claims as real options: Strategic timing and firm performance. Under review at R&D Management.
Kim, D., & Lim, S. The resource paradox: How internal assets and external dependencies shape hotel resilience during crises. Under review at International Journal of Hospitality Management.
Li, X., Lee, I., & Kim, D. The era of slowbalization: A comparative analysis of MNEs' localization in China. Under review at Management and Organization Review.
Kim, D., Lee, T., & Shin, D. Status asymmetry and structural equivalence in alliance dissolution. Reject and resubmit at Strategic Organization.
Kim, D. Compete or coevolve: How competitive pressure triggers cooperative adaptation. In preparation for Strategic Organization.
Kim, D. Adaptive radiation: Disruption as a generative mechanism in organizational fields. In preparation for Academy of Management Review.
Kim, D., & Shin, D. Contagion and confinement: The architecture of organizational resonance in organizational fields. In preparation for Strategic Management Journal.