Rate My Professor Won-Yong Oh

Professor Oh's research focuses on corporate governance, including ownership structure and boards of directors, strategic leadership involving CEOs and top management teams, and corporate social responsibility. He has published extensively in top-tier journals such as the Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Management and Organization Review, British Journal of Management, and Business & Society. Key publications include "Complementary or substitutive effects? Corporate governance mechanisms and corporate social responsibility" (Journal of Management), "Interpreting equivocal signals: Market reaction to specific purpose poison pill adoption" (Journal of Management), "Not all ties are equal: CEO outside directorships and strategic imitation in R&D investment" (Journal of Management), and "The many futures of contracts: Moving beyond structure and safeguarding to coordination and adaptation" (Journal of Management, 2014). Additionally, he has contributed to the Harvard Business Review and authored more than 20 business cases published by Ivey Publishing and the Case Centre, several of which are bestsellers and widely adopted globally, including "Netflix: International Expansion," named one of the 25 most-used business cases of the past decade. Oh serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Research, Editor for Corporate Governance: An International Review, and editorial board member for Academy of Management Perspectives. His scholarly work has been recognized with awards such as the John O. Tollefson Best Paper Award (2012) from the University of Kansas School of Business and grants including the Haskayne Research Professorship ($40,000, 2016-2017).