Minjae Kim

Minjae Kim is assistant professor of management at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. For the most up-to-date information on his research, please see his personal website at minjae-kim.com.

Kim's 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. Kim's research addresses the causes, consequences, and processes of such coordination among individuals and uncovers macro-level consequences of micro-level mechanisms.

Kim won the Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award from the Academy of Management - Organization and Management Theory in both 2021 and 2024. His most recent paper, “Unanswered Outreach: A Mechanism of Gender-Based Network Segregation,” explores gender-based segregation within entrepreneurship networks.

His courses are on “Strategic Social Networks” (MBA), “Leading People in Organizations” (Undergraduate), and “Sociology of Organizational Behavior” (PhD).

Before Rice, Kim was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. He holds a BA in political science from the University of Chicago and an MS and PhD in Management (economic sociology) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.