Washington University in St. Louis



Chan Hyung Park6105 Delmar Blvd Apt 722St. Louis, MO 631126179559366chanhyungpark@wustl.eduEDUCATION Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO August 2017-CurrentPh.D. Candidate in Organizational Behavior GRE Combined: Q 168, V 168; W5Courses taken:Seminar on Entrepreneurship by Anne Marie KnottSeminar on Creativity by Markus BaerSeminar on Organizational Behavior by Bill BottomQuantitative Method I & II Seminar on Affective Science by Renee ThompsonWashington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO August 2013-May 2016Bachelor of Arts, ABMajors in Economics, HonorsGPA: 3.82/4.00 Honors and Distinction in EconomicsCurrent ProjectsOnly the fittest can survive: identities of entrepreneurs in digital platform design and governance (first draft, further data needs to be collected based on comments). Based on qualitative data from 2015 to 2018, I analyze how founders’ Darwinian and Missionary identities lead to different digital platform design and governance decisions. Based on a grounded theory, I find that the Darwinian identity leads to closed platforms with strong supervision on the users’ interactions. Such platforms need to broaden its platform boundaries and loosen control for strategic reasons, primarily to scale. The Missionary identity of the founders lead to the opposite types of platforms and opposite strategic needs to close up the boundary and increase control to ensure quality. Presented at the AOM Big Data Conference in 2018; the AOM Discovery Conference in 2017; and the Organization Science Winter Conference in 2018.Seeing what the world needs, asking why, doing what I can do: Construal strategy for finding and solving the right problems (first draft done, initial study designs and collection of data).Problem formulation (i.e., problem identification or finding) is a core task of knowledge workers that influences subsequent solution search. Based on the construal theory, the current paper argues that comprehensive problem formulation and creative problem-solving benefit from different construal levels and types of knowledge. A higher construal level and breadth of knowledge increase the likelihood of discovering relevant and valuable problems, while a lower construal level and depth of knowledge increase the possibility of finding novel and useful solutions. Finally, the paper introduces the relationship between different degrees of comprehensiveness and creative problem-solving. The proposal revisits assumptions made by problem-solving scholars, why the assumptions may have led to conflicting results, and how to reconcile them. The paper is also the first empirical test of the problem formulation process. ?To be the presented at the OUI Conference in NYU on August, 2018. Individuals in digital platforms as value-producing entities: the strategic roles of trust and reputation in social media. During the 20th century, large corporations acted as the major value producing entities in many nations. Today, digital platforms allow individuals to become value producing entities. With platforms, individuals need not become a part of formal organizations; instead, they can actively organize themselves based on non-constractual relationship with firms or individuals’ relationship with other users in digital platforms (e.g., Youtubers, game streamers, etc.). Based on the relational view of competitive advantage (Dyer & Singh, 1998) and literature on trust and reputation in digital platforms, I compare how individual-level concepts such as trust and reputations become strategic assets in digital eras. Through a field study and ethnographic study of a social media platform in China, I propose the theory of “organizing,” which argues that individuals have become value producing entities. As such, strategic theories and organization theories apply to individuals as well. Such understanding may be necessary to understand individuals’ and crowds’ behaviors in an era of digital platforms. Emotional cultures of curiosity and awe in high tech firms (framing and theorization on inductive data)The emotional cultures’ effects on turnover, patents and other organizational variables with Professors Jennifer Mueller and Mandy O’Neill. Based on 2.5 years of interviews and survey data from global semiconductor firms in six nations. Industry experiences: Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China July 2016-August 2017 ResearcherAnalyzed four platform-based firms (Yunji, Nongxinhulian, Hailan Home and Taobao) and wrote cases studies on their business models and strategies, using both archival and qualitative data.Dabeinong Technology Group, Beijing, China June 2015-August 2015Researcher Contributed to designing Dabeinong’s big data pork management system. Evaluated the firm’s P2P microfinance market and matching market system, and recommended possible improvements based on the research of other internationally renowned platforms (e.g., Lending Club). Research Interests:Organization culture, problem formulation, digital platforms & ChinaComputer Skills:R and ExcelLanguages: Korean, English and Chinese ................
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