Kyeungrae Oh
Associate Professor of Business
Department(s)
BusinessCredentials
PhD University of Texas at Dallas
Major: Strategic Management and International Management
MBA University of Wisconsin at Madison
Major: Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
BA Seoul National University
Major: Social Science: Communications and Journalism
About Kyeungrae Oh
Dr. Kenny Oh serves as an associate professor in management and international business at the Hans A. Nielsen College of Business of Charleston Southern University.
He is originally from South Korea where he served 10 years in research, project management, and consulting for companies such as Korea Management Association, Deloitte & Touch Management, and Ernst & Young Management.
Dr. Oh would earn his Ph.D. in Strategic Management and International Management from the University of Texas at Dallas, where he would later serve as an instructor for the Department of Organization, Strategy, International Management, School of Business in 2005.
He transitioned to the University of Missouri at St. Louis in 2008, serving as an assistant professor for the Department of Management and College of Business Administration for 6 years.
In 2014, he served as an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University at Altoona, under the Department of Management and Marketing.
Dr. Oh joined CSU in 2017 as an assistant professor and moved forward to where he is today. He draws from his professional experiences in international business to equip students in areas such as entrepreneurial strategy, international strategy and economics, management consulting, non-profit organization, and project management.
"The Christian faith has consistently molded my way of life and has been embedded in most of my major decision making in the journey of my life. Since I found that teaching would be a talent and a calling that God gives me, I have kept trying to navigate a way of integrating my calling to teaching profession with my Christian faith as a management consultant and a professor. I would play my due role in nourishing Christian values and challenging students intellectually and spiritually in the classroom as well as on campus. When working with students and colleagues, I uphold the Christian values and dedicate to develop a Christian perspective of business and management so that I could contribute to Charleston Southern University. In particular, as the discipline of management has adopted an ethical and Christian view and tried to tie it with each topic of management, the Christian view could be also permeated into business education in my class."
Awards
Oh, K. 2009. Institutional transitions and firms’ political behaviors. presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August, 7-11. Chosen the finalist for the Doug Nigh award from IM (international management) Division of AOM, which is presented to the best division paper that employs an interdisciplinary perspective and is authored by junior scholars.
Best Papers Proceedings
Oh, K. 2009. Institutional transitions and firms’ political behaviors, Best Papers Proceedings, Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
Signature Experiences
• Academy of Management, Division of BPI & IMD 2006~Current
• Academy of International Business 2006~Current
• Eastern Academy of Management 2016~Current
• Eastern Academy of Management International 2016~Current
• Christian Business Faculty Association (CBFA) 2018~Current
• Journal of Global Business Insight 2019~Current
Recent Scholarly Work & Publications
Publications
Oh, K. 2017. MNEs’ ownership structure under uncertainty: explanations from TCE and Real Option logic. International Journal of Business and Management, 12(2): 67-82.
Oh, K. 2016. Asymmetric effects of institutional distance: MNE subsidiaries’ bribery in transition economies. International Journal of Multinational Corporation Strategy, 1(1): 18-43.
Lee, S.-H., Oh, K., & Eden, L. 2010. Why do firms bribe? Insights from residual control theory into firms’ vulnerability and exposure to corruption. Management International Review, 50(6): 775-796.
Oh, K. 2009. Institutional transitions and firms’ political behaviors, Best Papers Proceedings, Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
Lee, S. & Oh, K. 2007. Corruption in Asia: Pervasiveness and arbitrariness. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 24(1): 97-115.
Featured by the Economist as one of noteworthy articles from business journals, “What’s
in the Journals, May 2007,” May 25th 2007 (online at http://www.economist.com/business/globalexecutive/reading/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9135435
Papers Presented at Refereed Conference
Oh, K. 2019. Effects of institutions on a firm’s political behavior, Global Conference on Business and Economics, Istanbul, Turkey, September 30 - October 3.
Oh, K. 2017. MNEs’ entry strategy under uncertainty: competing explanations from TCE and Real Option logic, Eastern Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Baltimore, MD.
Oh, K. & Peng, M. 2017. Institutional determinants of the product scope of the firm in Asia, Eastern Academy of Management International Annual Meetings, Queensland, Australia.
Oh, K., & Lee, S.-H. 2009. Institutions and the product scope of the firm. presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August, 7-11.
Oh, K. 2009. Institutional transitions and firms’ political behaviors. presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August, 7-11.
Oh, K. 2009. How do institutions determine the product scope of the firm? Evidence from nine Asian countries. presented at Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, June, 27-30.
Oh, K. 2009. Institutional impact on firms’ political behaviors in transition economies. presented at Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, June, 27-30.
Oh, K. 2007. Institutional development, firms’ political behaviors, and firm performance: Is lobbying and bribing complementary or substitutable as a firm’s political actions in transition economies. Accepted for presentation at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Oh, K. 2007. MNEs’ ownership structure under uncertainty: TCE vs. real options and institutional theory explanations, presented at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.
Lee, S., Oh, K., & Eden, L. 2007. An incomplete contracts theory of bribery, presented at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.
Lee, S. & Oh, K., 2006. Does corruption make firms bribe?: An empirical investigation, presented at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Beijing, China.
Oh, K. & Lee, S. 2006. MNE subsidiaries’ seeking for internal or external legitimacy under dual institutional pressures: In the case of corruption, presented at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Beijing, China.