Kenji Klein
Associate Professor, Management/HRM (MHRM)Email: kenji.klein@csulb.edu
Campus Phone: 562.985.5570
Office: COB-311 (Hours)
Google Scholar Page
Strategy; Organization Theory; Entrepreneurship; International Business; Innovation Management
Institutional Change; New Form Emergence; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Identity
- PhD, UC Irvine, 2012
Major/Concentration: Management - Master, UC Irvine, 2003
Major/Concentration: Business Administration - Master, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1994
Major/Concentration: History - Bachelor, Pomona College, 1986
Major/Concentration: History
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Academic
- California State University, Long Beach (2020 - Present) Associate Professor of Management
- California State University, Long Beach (2014 - 2020) Assistant Professor of Management
- St. Mary's College of California (2012 - 2014) Assistant Professor
- UC Irvine (2011 - 2011) Instructor Professional
- "Reconsidering embeddedness: asymmetric network ties and the fate of dependent firms", Journal of Management and Marketing Research, Mar-2023
- "Organizational ecology, invasion biology, and the extinction and generation of organizational forms", Journal of International Business and Cultural Studies, Jan-2023
- "Are Secret Proceedings Why Longer Tenured Employees Trust Their Organizations Least", Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, Nov-2017
- "Differences Between Inter- and Intra- Group Dynamics in Knowledge Transfer Processes", Management Decision , May-2017
- "Dispensing pleasantries? Responding to legitimacy and reputation in online medical marijuana marketing.", Management Decision , Sep-2016
- "Entrepreneurship, Identity, and the Transformation of Marketing Systems: Medical Cannabis in California", Journal of Macromarketing , Jun-2016
- "Ignorance is hard work: Defending institutions through the Production and Suppression of Knowledge", Western Business & Management Association International Reseach Conference , Napa, CA , Apr-2023
- "Ignorance is hard work: Defending institutions through the production and suppresion of knowledge", International Organizational of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research Conference , New Orleans, LA , Mar-2023
- "Virtue or Voice: The Impact of Ideology and Identity on Business Model Choice in Californias Medical Marijuana Industry", International Academy of Business Disciplines , San Francisco , Apr-2018
- "Virtue or Voice: The Impact of Ideology and Identity on Business Model Choice in Californias Medical Marijuana Industry", Eurasia Business and Economics Society , Rome, Italy , May-2017
- "Weeding Out the Competition: How Alternatives are Eliminated During Institutionalization", Organization & Management Colloquium , University of California, Irvine , Jan-2016
- "Weeding Out the Competition: How Alternatives are Eliminated During Institutionalization", Academy of Management - Event Unspecified , Jan-2015
- "Differences Between Inter- and Intra- Group Dynamics in Knowledge Transfer Processes", Western Decision Science Institute (WDSI) Meeting , Lahaina, HI , Jan-2015
- "Identity-based Informal Economy Entrepreneurship as Institutional Change Project", Academy of Management - Event Unspecified , Lake Buena Vista, FL , Dec-2013
- "Weeding Out the Competition: How Alternatives are Eliminated During Institutionalization", Organization Science Winter Conference , Steamboat Springs, CO , Dec-2013
- "Weeding Out the Competition: How Alternatives are Eliminated During Institutionalization", Paul R. Lawrence Conference Harvard Business School , Boston, MA , Dec-2013
- "Virtue or Voice: The Impact of Ideology and Identity on Business Model Choice in Californias Medical Marijuana Industry", Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Jan-2017
- "Ad-hoc reviewer", Journal of Macromarketing - Editor, Jan-2017
- "Industry Emergence & Legitimacy Building: The Evolving Case of the Cannabis Industry in the U.S" (Jan-2015) , Preconference Extension Strategic Management Society Denver
- "Ongoing Consulting Work for a Start-Up Firm", 2015, Practice/Community Impact
- "Best Paper Award - Western Decision Science Institute", Lahaina, Hawaii, 2015, Academic Impact
- "Academy of Management OMT Division Best Paper Award", Vancouver, 2015, Academic Impact
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Updated: March 06 2023 [kenji.klein]