I am Assistant Professor of Management at Jones Graduate School of Business and Affiliated Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University. You can contact me at minjaekim@rice.edu. My Google Scholar page is here, Twitter account here, and university page here.
My research addresses questions around how individuals coordinate their actions with one another to achieve their own goals. Social interactions often require some type of coordination; otherwise, well-intended actions by individuals may fizzle away without meaningful outcomes or may even elicit macro-level consequences that defeat the aim of the individual actions. These dynamics of coordination pertain to various domains such as organizations and markets, entrepreneurship, politics, and beyond. My research addresses the causes, consequences, and processes of such coordination among individuals and uncovers macro-level consequences of micro-level mechanisms.
I teach courses on “Strategic Social Networks” (MBA), “Leading People in Organizations” (Undergraduate), and “Sociology of Organizational Behavior” (PhD).
Before Rice, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. I received my doctoral degree from the Economic Sociology program at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Before joining academia, I consulted for local governments. I completed my undergraduate degree at University of Chicago.