Kenji Klein  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• Ph.D. Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, 2012
• MBA The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, 2003
• ADB History , University of Hawaii, 1995
• M.A. History , University of Hawaii , 1994
• B.A. History, Pomona College , 1986

Teaching Experience:

• Instructor - University of California, Irvine (2011)
  Summer
• Teaching Assistant - University of California, Irvine (2003 - 2010)

Awards:

• Best Reviewer Award - OMT Division, Academy of Management Meeting (2010)
• Best Reviewer Award - IM Division, Academy of Management Meeting (2009)

Fellowships:

• Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship - University of California, Irvine (2011)
• Merage Center for Global Leadership Research Translation for Action Summer Fellowship - Merage Center (2010)
• Center for Organization Research Graduate Student Fellowship - Graduate (2010)
• Ray Watson Doctoral Fellowship - University of California, Irvine (2009)

Finalist s:

• INFORMS/Organization Science Best Dissertation Proposal Competition - INFORMS/Organization Science Best Dissertation Proposal Competition (2011)
• Best Doctoral Student Paper Award - Western Academy of Management Meeting (2010)

Grant:

• Don Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Grant - University of California, Irvine (2010)

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• Creating & Maintaining Institutions through the Production & Perpetuation of Ignorance. Klein, Kenji
  Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Colloquium on Science & Art of Strategic Innovation
  (2011)
• Contact: The Generation and Extinction of Organizational Forms through Community Interaction across Space. Klein, Kenji
  Academy of Management Annual Meeting
  Montreal, Canada.
  (2010)
• Organizational Community Interaction and Novel Form Generation. Klein, Kenji
  Western Academy of Management Annual Meeting
  (2010)
• Employees' Trust in their Organizations: Does Familiarity Breed Contempt?. Klein, Kenji and Pearce, J. L
  European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management 5th Workshop on Trust within and between Organizations
  (2010)
• Employees' Trust in their Organizations: Does Familiarity Breed Contempt?. Klein, Kenji and Pearce, J. L
  London School of Economics
  (2010)
• Reconsidering Embeddedness: Asymmetric Network Ties and the Fate of Dependent Firms. Klein, Kenji
  Academy of Management Annual Meeting
  (2009)
• Organizational Community Contact across Space and the Generation of New Organizational Forms. Klein, Kenji
  USC/UCLA/UCI Doctoral Student Conference
  (2009)
• Diversity and Team Performance: The Moderating Role of Communication Skill. Klein, Kenji and Gibson, C
  Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, San Diego
  (2009)

Publications:

• Klein, Kenji, Pearce, J. L. and Dibble , R. 2009. The Effects of Governments on Management and Organization, The Academy of Management Annals, issue 3, pg.503-541