Faculty Profile

Seo

Dr. Myeong-Gu Seo
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Boston College

4550 Van Munching Hall
301.405.7746
mseo@rhsmith.umd.edu

 

Primary Research Areas:

  • Emotion in Organization
  • Organizational Change
  • Institutional Change

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Myeong-Gu Seo is Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. His primary areas of research regard issues relating to work-related emotions, organizational- and institutional-change. Dr. Seo received the 2001 Best Doctoral Student Paper from the Academy of Management’s Organizational Development and Change Division, and the 2002 Second Place Winner of INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition. His work, which has received funding from NSF in 2002 and 2005, has been published in several journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Handbook of Organizational Change, and Academy of Management Learning and Education.

Selected Publications

Seo, M. & Barrett, L. F. 2007. Being emotional during decision making, good or
bad? An empirical investigation. Academy of Management Journal, 50: 923-940.

Seo, M., & Hill, N. S. 2005. “Understanding the human side of merger and acquisition: An integrative framework.” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 41(4): 422-443.

Seo, M., Barrett, L., & Bartunek, J. M. 2004. The role of affective experience in work motivation. Academy of Management Review, 29 (3): 423-439

Seo, M. 2003. Overcoming emotional barriers, political obstacles, and control imperatives in the action science approach to individual and organizational learning. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 2 (1): 7-21.

Seo, M. & Creed, W. E. D. 2002. Institutional contradictions, praxis, and institutional change. Academy of Management Review, 27 (2): 222-247.

Honors and Awards

Research Grant ($273,175 / PI) from National Science Foundation, 2005.

Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant from National Science Foundation, 2002.

The Second Place Winner of INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition, 2002.

The Academy of Management ODC Division Best Doctoral Student Paper, 2001.

Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award at Boston College, 2001.

Edgar E. Huse Memorial Award for Outstanding MBA Student in Organization Studies at Boston College, 1997.