Yujin Jeong

Bio

Dr. Yujin Jeong is an Associate Professor of Management and the Kogod IB Research Professor at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington, D.C. Her anticorruption research focuses on understanding why companies engage in bribery and other forms of corruption, and their broader societal impacts, particularly in a global business context. Utilizing real-world investigative reports on grand corruption at the international and national levels, Dr. Jeong’s studies take the lenses of nonmarket strategy, institutional frameworks, and political economy and highlight the importance of understanding the supply side of high-level corruption in curbing corruption. Her work has been published in premier scholarly journals and featured in well-regarded outlets like the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and the World Bank’s Development Economics Blog. For more details on her research and publications, visit https://yujinjeong.creatorlink.net.

Selected Works on Anticorruption Efforts:

Jeong, Y., & Siegel, J. I. (forthcoming 2024). “Political Competition and the Rechanneling of Corporate Bribery into Politically Connected Charity Donations: Evidence from South Korea.” Strategic Management Journal.

Jeong, Y., & Siegel, J. I. (2018). “Threat of Falling High Status and Corporate Bribery: Evidence from the Revealed Accounting Records of Two South Korean Presidents.” Strategic Management Journal 39(4): 1083–1111. (featured in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation and the World Bank Development Impact Blog)

Jeong, Y., & Gastwirth, J. L. (2015). “A Murky Business,” Significance, 12(1): 36–39.

Jeong, Y., & Weiner, R. J. (2012). “Who Bribes? Evidence from the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Program,” Strategic Management Journal 33(12): 1363–1383. (cited in multiple OECD publications)

Jeong, Y., & Weiner, R. J. (2012). “Conflict and Corruption in International Trade: Who Helped Iraq Circumvent United Nations Sanctions?” Chapter 13 in Rose-Ackerman, S. and Søreide, T., eds., International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Volume Two, Edward Elgar, 376–407.