Kwangjun An
PhD, Strategic Management, University of Toronto
MS, Strategy/International Business, Seoul National University聽
BS, Engineering, Yonsei University
Kwangjun An is an assistant professor of Strategy and Organization. His research focuses on the processes of organizational development and change. Specifically, he examines (1) the factors that enable or hinder changes in organizational design and identity narratives and (2) how management strategically uses language to navigate these transitions. He employs multi method approaches in his research, including social network analysis, large-scale text analysis, and analyses of archival data.聽 聽
Professor An received his PhD in Strategic Management from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He has an M.S. in Strategy & International Business from Seoul National University and his B.S. in Engineering from Yonsei University.聽
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant (2018)
Centre for Strategy Studies in Organizations Seed Grant, Desautels Faculty of Management, 海角社区 (2018, 2019, 2020)
Kwangjun An. Manager Mobility, Entrepreneurship and Effects on Firm Reorganization: Evidence from the U.S. Mutual Fund Industry.
Kwangjun An, Tim Rowley, and Will Mitchell. When Do Entrepreneurs Form Intermediated Relationships? A Study of Start-ups that Use Venture Capital Law Firms in Fundraising.
Kwangjun An, Laurie Palin, and Alexandre Dub茅-C么t茅. Unraveling M&A Discourse: How Topical Orientations Influences Investor Perceptions of Acquisitions.
Kwangjun An and Gabriel Rincon. The Identity Enrichment of Market Intermediaries.
Yonghwan Lee and Kwangjun An. The "Bridge" over Troubled Water: A Study of Cross-Boundary Collaborations that Emerge in the Technical Core of Acquired Firms.
Yonghwan Lee and Kwangjun An. Weaving the Web: The Role of Niche Crowding in Joint Inventions Post-M&A.聽
Jung-Hyun Suh and Kwangjun An. The Effects of Multi-Dimensionality and Context-Dependency of Patent Signals on R&D Alliance Formation.