Young-Chul Jeong

Assistant Professor, Department of Management

Young-Chul Jeong is an Assistant Professor of Management at the John Molson School of Business (JMSB), Concordia University in Montreal. Dr. Jeong’s research interest focuses on examining social construction of organizational strategies and structure. His current research agenda explores organizationally and professionally inter-related phenomena, such as the operations of financial markets, cross-national variations of corporate governance models, the hybridization of organizational forms, and the co-evolution of professions and organizations.

Before joining JMSB, Dr. Jeong earned his PhD in organization theory from College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also received his BBA and MBA degrees from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a HR (human resources) consultant with a focus on executive HR system design at the LG Economic Research Institute. 

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Selected Research

Refereed Journal Articles

Tai-Young Kim, Dongyoub Shin, Hongseok Oh, & Young-Chul Jeong. 2007. Inside the Iron Cage: Organizational Political Dynamics and Institutional Changes in the Presidential Selection Systems in Korean Universities, 1985-2002. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52: 286-323.

Refereed Conference Presentations

Xiaowei Rose Luo & Young-Chul Jeong. 2011. Global Securities Analysts’ Evaluations of Family Firms in Emering Markets. Academy of Management, San Antonio, US.

Young-Chul Jeong & Huseyin Leblebici. 2010. The Structure of Professional Careers: Interaction of Professions, Organizations, and Individual Agency. Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada. 

Young-Chul Jeong & Geoffrey Love. 2010. How Institutional Logics Influence Cognitive Orientation: The Case of Focused Firms, 1984-1997. Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada. 

Xiaowei Rose Luo, Young-Chul Jeong, & Chi-Nien Chung. 2010. In the Eyes of the Beholder: Stock Analysts’ Following of Family Firms in Taiwan. Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada.

Tai-Young Kim, Dongyoub Shin, & Young-Chul Jeong. 2008. The Political Origins of Hybrid Forms: A Social Movement Perspective. Academy of Management, Anaheim, US.

Tai-Young Kim, Dongyoub Shin, Hongseok Oh, & Young-Chul Jeong. 2003. Intra-organizational Political Dynamics and Deinstitutionalization: Changes in Presidential Election Systems at Universities in Korea, 1988-2000. Academy of Management, Seattle, US.