Brayden King

Brayden King is the Max McGraw Chair of Management and the Environment and a professor of Management and Organizations. He is also affiliated with the Department of Sociology. Professor King's research focuses on how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility, organizational change, and legislative policymaking. He also studies the ways in which the reputations and identities of businesses and social movement organizations emerge and transform in response to their institutional environments. More recently, his research has begun to examine social media and its influence on individual and organizational reputations. Professor King is an expert in the field of corporate reputation and has been appointed an international research fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Professor King has published research in the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, and numerous other scholarly journals. He is currently a senior editor at Organization Science, a consulting editor at Sociological Science and the American Journal of Sociology, and has been a guest editor at Organization Studies and Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

Professor King received his PhD in 2005 from the University of Arizona in sociology.

Education

• PhD, 2005, Sociology, University of Arizona
• MS, 2001, Sociology, Brigham Young University
• BA, 1999, Sociology, Brigham Young University

Academic Positions

• Associate Professor (with tenure), Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2012-present
• Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2008-2012
• Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, 2005-2008
• Lecturer and Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, 2001-2005
• Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, 1999-2001

Awards

• Affiliate Research Scholar, Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation
• Kellogg Research Mentorship Award
• Best Annual Paper Award, Centre for Corporate Reputation at Oxford University, 2014-15
• International Research Fellow, Centre for Corporate Reputation at Oxford University, 2010-present

Editorial Positions

• Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology, 2016-2019
• Consulting Editor, Sociological Science, 2014-Present
• Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 2014-2016
• Editorial Board Member, American Sociological Review, 2013-
• Senior Editor, Organization Science, 2013-Present
• Associate Editor, Management Science, 2012-2014
• Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Journal, 2012-
• Editorial Board Member, Social Forces, 2011-
• Editorial Board Member, Strategic Organization, 2010-
• Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2009-2017
• Associate Editor, Management Science, 2009-2009