Taekjin Shin

Taekjin Shin is an associate professor of management. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining SDSU in 2015, he was on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He teaches and conducts research about business ethics, corporate governance, executive compensation, and executive succession. He has published his research in Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and other scholarly journals. Currently, he serves on the editorial review boards of Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Management, and Organization Science.

Interests

• Corporate Governance
  
• Corporate Board of Directors

Education

• PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 2008.
• Major: Sociology
• Dissertation Title: Working in Corporate America: Dynamics of Pay at Large Corporations, 1992-2005

Research

Book Chapter(s)

Fligstein, N., & Shin, T. (2004). The shareholder value society: A review of the changes in working conditions and inequality in the United States, 1976 to 2000. In Social Inequality (p. 401–432). Russell Sage Foundation.

Conference Proceeding

Zaccone, M. C., Shin, T., & Ryan, L. V. (accepted). CEOs’ Use of Language and Shareholder Activism. Shin, T. (2008). Profits and pay at large U.S. corporations. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2008, 1–6. http://proceedings.aom.org/content/2008/1/1.208.short

Journal Article

Kim, Y., Shin, T., & Park, S. (2021). Enhancing firm performance through intra-group managerial experience: Evidence from group-affiliated firms in Korea. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 38(2), 435–465.

Wang, J., Chan, L., Kawada, B., & Shin, T. (published). CEO-Employee Pay Gap and Firm R&D Efficiency. Review of Accounting and Finance.

Shin, T., & You, J. (2020). Changing words: How temporal consistency in a CEO’s use of language toward shareholders and stakeholders affects CEO dismissal. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 28(1), 47–68.

Jung, J., & Shin, T. (2019). Learning not to diversify: The transformation of graduate business education and the decline of diversifying acquisitions. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(2), 337–369.

Shin, T., & You, J. (2017). Pay for talk: How the use of shareholder-value language affects CEO compensation. Journal of Management Studies, 54(1), 88–117.

Shin, T. (2016). Fair pay or power play? Pay equity, managerial power, and compensation adjustments for CEOs. Journal of Management, 42(2), 419–448.

Sun, Y., & Shin, T. (2014). Rewarding poor performance: Why do boards of directors increase new options in response to CEO underwater options?. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 22(5), 408–421.

Shin, T. (2014). Explaining pay disparities between top executives and nonexecutive employees: a relative bargaining power approach. Social Forces, 92(4), 1339–1372.

Shin, T. (2013). The Shareholder Value Principle: The Governance and Control of Corporations in the United States. Sociology Compass, 7(10), 829–840.

Shin, T. (2012). CEO compensation and shareholder value orientation among large US firms. The Economic and Social Review, 43(4, Winter), 535–559.

Shin, T. (2012). The Gender Gap in Executive Compensation The Role of Female Directors and Chief Executive Officers. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 639(1), 258–278.

Shin, T. (2009). Earnings inequality within organizations. Social Science Research, 38(1), 225–238.

Fligstein, N., & Shin, T. (2007). Shareholder Value and the Transformation of the US Economy, 1984–2000. Sociological Forum, 22(4), 399–424.

Magazine/Trade Publication

Jung, J., & Shin, T. (published). Research: Business school really does influence how students make decisions later on.