Professor Kim’s research spans key topics in accounting and management, particularly exploring how performance metrics, managerial incentives, and behavioral traits influence organizational decision-making and outcomes. His work is distinguished by a focus on narrative and textual analysis, as well as applying innovative research methodologies, including machine learning, to gain deeper insights into managerial behaviors and corporate governance.
"CEO Conscientiousness and Asymmetric SG&A Cost Behavior" (2025)
Applied Economics
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2024.2385752
"Peer Comparison and Management Forecast Behavior" (2024)
Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting
https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2024.2358457
"Financial Information, Spillovers, and Innovation Performance" (2024)
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2024.107212
"The Effect of Conscientiousness on Managerial Learning from Stock Prices" (2024)
Applied Economics
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2277692
"The Dark Side of Tournaments: Evidence from Innovation" (2023)
Research in International Business and Finance, Volume 66
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2023.102003
"Does CEO Narcissism Drive Asymmetric Cost Behavior?" (2023)
Korean Journal of Management Accounting Research
https://doi.org/10.31507/KJMAR.2023.12.23.3.1
** KJMAR Best Paper of 2023, Korean Journal of Management Accounting Research
"Alleviating the Agency Problem: Empirical Evidence on General Counsels in Top Management and Narcissistic CEOs" (2023)
Korean Journal of Management Accounting Research
https://doi.org/10.31507/KJMAR.2023.12.23.3.33
"The Effect of CEO Conscientiousness on Financial Statement Comparability" (2023)
Journal of Business Research (published by KAIBA)
https://doi.org/10.22903/jbr.2023.38.2.89
"Firms’ Strategic Dissemination of Tweets around Earnings Announcement Dates" (2023)
Yonsei Business Review
https://doi.org/10.55125/YBR.2023.06.60.1.143
"Employee Satisfaction and Asymmetric Cost Behavior: Evidence from Glassdoor" (2022)
Economics Letters, Volume 219
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110829
"Overconfidence or Competence? Your Employees Know" (2022)
Economics Letters, Volume 216
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110580
"When Organizational Performance Matters for Personnel Decisions: Executives’ Career Patterns in a Conglomerate" (2020)
Management Accounting Research, Volume 49
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mar.2020.100695
"Do Previous Promotion Awards Affect Current Decisions? Investigation of Intertemporal Correlations of Personnel Decisions" (2020)
Asia-Pacific Journal of Business, Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 1-19.
"CEO Power and Firm Opacity" (2019)
Applied Economics Letters, Volume 26, Issue 10
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.1497841
"Are Founder CEOs Effective Innovators?" (2018)
Asia Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Volume 47, Issue 3
https://doi.org/10.1111/ajfs.12217
"Which Local Self-Governments Seek More Collaboration? Evidence from Interlocal Collaboration for Economic Development in South Korea" (2017)
Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, Volume 15, Issue 2
https://doi.org/10.4335/15.2.175-197(2017)