Faculty Profile

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Kenneth GOH

Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship (Education); Academic Director, Business Families Institute; Course Coordinator, Entrepreneurship Concentration
Lee Kong Chian School of Business LKCSB

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Organizational Behavior and Theory, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Pittsburgh, PA
  • M. Ed., Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
  • B. Sc., Economics (Dual Concentration in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management), University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA


 

CURRENT APPOINTMENT(s)

Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship (Education)
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Academic Director, Business Families Institute
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Course Coordinator, Innovation & Entrepreneurship major
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University


 

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENT(s)

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario, Canada

V3 Group Fellow in Family Entrepreneurship
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University


 

AWARDS, RECOGNITION & HONORS

  • LKCSB Dean’s Teaching Honor List (2018-2022)
  • Ivey Publishing Best Seller for “Agoda: People analytics and business culture”
  • Academy of Management, Strategizing Activities and Practices Group, Best Paper Award – Finalist (2018)
  • University Student Council Teaching Honor Roll – Award of Excellence (2015-2016)
  • APA Div 49 Dissertation Award Competition (2014) – Finalist
  • J. Richard Hackman Dissertation Award (2014) - Finalist
  • Best Article Award, Small Group Research (2013)
  • William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University (2006-2013)
  • Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship, Republic of Singapore (2005-2011)


 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Innovation
  • Team process and dynamics
  • Organizational routines


 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Goh, K. T. , Rerup, C. (2023). “Improvisation, routine dynamics, and temporal regularity”. In Miguel Pina e Cunha, Dusya Vera, António Abrantes & Anne Miner (Eds), The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations.
  • Goh, K. T., Fisher, C. M., Sommer, S. A., (2022). “The effect of formal time allocations on learning trajectories and performance”. Small Group Research, 56(6), 821-854
  • Todorova, G. T., Goh, K. T., Weingart, L. R. (2021). “The effects of conflict type and conflict expression intensity on conflict management”. International Journal of Conflict Management, 33(2), 245-272. Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award
  • Goh, K. T., Mack, D. Z., George, G. (2021). “How nascent organizations overcome unfavorable legitimacy judgments to form partnerships”. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings.
  • Pentland, B. T., Goh, K. T. (2021). Organizational routines and organizational change. In Marshall Scott Poole & Andrew H. Van de Ven (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Organization Change and Innovation (2nd ed), 339- 363. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Goh, K. T., Pentland, B. T. (2019). “From Actions to Paths to Patterning: Toward a Dynamic Theory of Patterning in Routines”. Academy of Management Journal
  • Goh, K. T., Rerup, C., R. (2018). “The role of space and time in balancing conflicting pressures through routine dynamics”, Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings.
  • Goh, K.T., Goodman, P., Weingart, L.R., (2013), "Team innovation processes: An examination of activity cycles in creative project teams", Small Group Research, April 44(2): 159 - 194. Awarded Best Published Paper


 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • LKCSB Scholarship Committee (2023 – present)
  • Coordinator and Academic Advisor, Innovation & Entrepreneurship major
  • Editorial Board – Small Group Research
  • Ad hoc reviewer - Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Management Science
  • Faculty Senate member (2020 - 2022)


 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • Secretary General, Singapore Aquatics


 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • AdvocAid Ltd – Co-Founder
  • World Bank – Project consultant
  • Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) – Investment Banking Analyst