Research

Major Peer-Reviewed Publications (* denotes equal contribution as first author)

[1] Sunkee Lee* & Philipp Meyer-Doyle. 2017. How Performance Incentives Shape Individual Exploration and Exploitation: Evidence from Micro-data. Organization Science, 28(1), 19–38.

            – Winner, Best Doctoral Student Paper Scholarship awarded by the Samsung Economic Research Institute and the Association of Korean Management Scholars (2015 AOM Conference)

– Finalist, Strategic Human Capital Interest Group Best Paper Prize (2015 SMS Conference)

            – Honorable Mention, Best Conference Paper Prize (2015 SMS Conference)

            – Finalist, Best Doctoral Student Paper Prize, (2015 Israel Strategy Conference)

[2] Sunkee Lee & Phanish Puranam. 2017. Incentive Redesign and Collaboration in Organizations: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Strategic Management Journal, 38(12), 2333–2352.

[3] Sunkee Lee. 2019. Learning-by-Moving: Can Reconfiguring Spatial Proximity Between Organizational Members Promote Individual-level Exploration?. Organization Science, 30(3), 467–488.

– Winner, William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation (2017 AOM Conference)

– Winner, Business Policy and Strategy Division Distinguished Student Paper Award (2017 AOM Conference)

– An executive summary of this research was published in the Harvard Business Review (March-April 2018 issue) (https://hbr.org/2018/03/why-you-should-rotate-office-seating-assignments)

[4] Philipp Meyer-Doyle, Sunkee Lee*, & Constance E. Helfat. 2019. Disentangling the Microfoundations of Acquisition Behavior and Performance. Strategic Management Journal, 40(11), 1733–1756.

[5] Linda Argote, Sunkee Lee, & Jisoo Park. 2021. Organizational Learning Processes and Outcomes: Major Findings and Future Research Directions. Management Science, 67(9), 5301-5967. 

[6] Sunkee Lee, Jisoo Park, & Arman Kilic. 2022. Bridging Two Worlds: Application of Organizational Theory to Cardiac Surgery. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 114(3), 1055-1063.

[7] Vibha Gaba, Sunkee Lee*, Philipp Meyer-Doyle, & Amy Zhao-Ding. 2023. Prior Experiences of Managers and Maladaptive Responses to Performance Feedback: Evidence from Mutual Funds. Organization Science, 34(2), 894-915.

[8] Sunkee Lee* & Jisoo Park. 2024. Giving Up Learning from Failures? An Examination of Learning from One’s Own Failures in the Context of Heart Surgeons. Strategic Management Journal, 45(10), 2063-2094.

– Winner, 2025 Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award (2025 Industry Studies Association Conference)

[9] Bukky Oyedeji, Yea Hee Ko, & Sunkee Lee. 2025. Physical Work Environments: An Integrative Review and Agenda for Future Research. Journal of Management, 51(6), 2589-2626.

[10] Sae-Seul Park, Sunkee Lee*, & Oliver Hahl. 2025. Mitigating Ingroup Bias in Regulatory Firms: The Role of Inspector Professionalism. Strategic Management Journal, 46(8), 2019-2048.

[11] Sunkee Lee & Manuel Sosa. 2026. Spaces for Creativity: Unconventional Workspaces and Divergent Thinking Performance. Management Science, 72(2), 1072-1094.

Other Publications

[1] Sunkee Lee, Florian Rittiner, & Gabriel Szulanski. 2016. The Past, Present, and Future of Organizational Learning Research: A conversation with Professor Linda Argote. Journal of Management Inquiry, 25(1), 85–92.

[2] Gabriel Szulanski & Sunkee Lee. 2020. [Book Chapter] Knowledge Transfer: Barriers, Methods, and Timing of Methods. The Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning. Linda Argote & John Levine (eds.). Oxford University Press: Oxford, U.K.

[3] Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali Ozkes, and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. 2024. Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science, 70(3), 1343-1356.

            – Participated as a member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration

[4] Sunkee Lee & Jisoo Park. 2025. [Book Chapter] The Double-Edged Sword of Failure Experiences: The Inverted-U Relationship Between Individuals’ Failure Experience and Learning. Everybody Fails, But Not Everybody Learns. Kristina Dahlin & You-Ta Chuang (eds.). Oxford University Press: Oxford, U.K.