Brayden King
Max McGraw Chair in Management and the Environment, Professor of Management & Organizations, Chair of Management & Organizations Department at Kellogg School of Management
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- Kellogg School of Management
- Northwestern University in Qatar
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Biography
Kellogg School of Management
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
Videos
King Gives Hayward `F' in Preserving BP's Reputation: Video
Kellogg-Aspen Business and Society Leadership Summit Preview: Brayden King
Effective Strategies for Activist Engagement
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Cases
Cornwall, Marie, Brayden King, Elizabeth Legerski, Eric Dahlin and Kendra Schiffman. 2007. Signals or Mixed Signals: Why Opportunities for mobilization are not opportunities for policy reform. Mobilization. 12(3): 239-254.
Drawing on political opportunity theory, the theory of legislative logic, and political mediation theory, we hypothesize differential effects of the political environment on the actions of challengers (suffragists) and state actors (legislators) in the women's suffrage movement. We use sequential logistic regression to assess the effects of explanatory variables on two intermediate stages of mobilization and policy change. In the case of challengers, we estimate the likelihood a state-level organization is present in any given legislative year. In the case of state actors, we estimate the likelihood a bill passes one legislative house given the presence of a state-level suffrage organization and that a bill has been introduced. Mixed signals are apparent in that challengers and legislators respond to the same environmental factors differently. Challengers respond to perceived opportunities for change. Legislators seek to enhance their political careers and are responsive to the demands of challengers when they perceive challengers as politically powerful or when social and cultural change signals a demand for policy reform. Legislators, in the end, are much more conservative in their response to the political context.
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