Ki Hoon Lee
ki hoon lee

Prof Ki Hoon Lee

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Biography

I am Chair Professor of Sustainability in Business at the Business School, Edinburgh Napier University. Prior to this position, I was Full Professor of Corporate Sustainability Management at Griffith Business School, Griffith University in Australia, where I teach MBA, Masters, and executive MBA. I hold visiting professorship at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU in Austria) and Seoul National University (South Korea).

From 2019 to 2022, I served as Deputy Research Program Leader of the Australian Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (Blue Economy CRC) and the United Nations’ technical expert on Climate Change and Ocean Accounting. I am also the Chairman of Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network (EMAN) in Asia Pacific to lead international collaboration between business/industry/professionals and scientists/academia for corporate sustainability and sustainability management accounting.

Through my teaching and research, I embrace environmental, social and economic challenges, integrating sustainability into the business value chain to enhance both business and societal value. As applied business economist and management scholar with teaching, consulting and public policy experience, my research and teaching expertise include corporate sustainability management, strategy for impact, responsible innovation for impact, and strategy and decision making for business and society. Through my interdisciplinary research (business-sustainability-innovation nexus), I have received significant recognition for my research impacts in the areas of my field. Since October 2021, Elsevier and Stanford University have created a publicly available database of over 100,000 top-scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, and related research impact metrics in 22 scientific fields. I am included in top 2% of scholars (out of over 100, 000 scholars) in the world according to Elsevier and Stanford University. My impactful research is positioned in interdisciplinary fields of business and management, environmental science, and business and economics.

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Integrated Reporting (IR) for Sustainability

Book
Lee, K., Senaratne, S., & Gunarathne, N. (Eds.)
(2023). Integrated Reporting (IR) for Sustainability. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41833-4
Includes practical insights and approaches in adopting new corporate reporting models Provides a blend of academic and practitioner perspectives on IR in South Asia Showcase...

Business group affiliation and corporate sustainability performance in emerging economies: Evidence from South Korea

Journal Article
Lee, K., Shin, D., & Lee, M. (2023)
Business group affiliation and corporate sustainability performance in emerging economies: Evidence from South Korea. Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(7), 4503-4518. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3378
Does business group (BG) affiliation enhance corporate sustainability performance (CSP) in emerging economies? This paper focuses on the unique roles of BG affiliation in enha...

Tackling the integration challenge between environmental strategy and environmental management accounting

Journal Article
Gunarathne, N., Lee, K., & Hitigala Kaluarachchilage, P. K. (2023)
Tackling the integration challenge between environmental strategy and environmental management accounting. Accounting, auditing, & accountability, 36(1), 63-95. https://doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-03-2020-4452
Purpose The research debate on the direct relationship between environmental strategy and environmental management accounting (EMA) is quite popular; however, integration chal...

Reflections and reflective practice to advance responsible management education for sustainability: the case of an Australian MBA programme

Journal Article
Lee, K., & Hales, R. (2022)
Reflections and reflective practice to advance responsible management education for sustainability: the case of an Australian MBA programme. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 23(5), 1158-1172. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-04-2021-0135
Purpose This paper aims to explore Master of Business Administration (MBA) students’ “reflections” and/or “reflection on practice” of sustainability into responsible managemen...

Blue economy and the total environment: Mapping the interface

Journal Article
Lee, K., Noh, J., Lee, J., & Khim, J. S. (2021)
Blue economy and the total environment: Mapping the interface. Environment International, 157, Article 106796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2021.106796
The term ‘Blue Economy (BE)’ is increasingly popular in modern environmental research. The concept seeks to explore ocean-based development opportunities with environmental st...

The link between corporate energy management and environmental strategy implementation: Efficiency, sufficiency and consistency strategy perspectives

Journal Article
Gunarathne, N., & Lee, K. (2021)
The link between corporate energy management and environmental strategy implementation: Efficiency, sufficiency and consistency strategy perspectives. Journal of Cleaner Production, 293, Article 126082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126082
In managing energy, companies face numerous challenges arising as a result of the imperfections and inaccuracies of the information on the subject. This study examines the use...

Institutional pressures, environmental management strategy, and organizational performance: The role of environmental management accounting

Journal Article
Gunarathne, A. N., Lee, K., & Hitigala Kaluarachchilage, P. K. (2021)
Institutional pressures, environmental management strategy, and organizational performance: The role of environmental management accounting. Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(2), 825-839. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2656
This study investigates the implementation of environmental management accounting in translating environmental management strategy into organizational performance. Further, th...

Eco‐control for corporate sustainable management: A sustainability development stage perspective

Journal Article
Gunarathne, A. D. N., & Lee, K. (2020)
Eco‐control for corporate sustainable management: A sustainability development stage perspective. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 27(6), 2515-2529. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1973
Eco-control offers an integrated management approach to transitioning toward corporate sustainable development, such as sustainable agriculture management. Despite the need to...

The sensitivity of corporate social performance to corporate financial performance: A “time-based” agency theory perspective

Journal Article
Park, B., & Lee, K. (2021)
The sensitivity of corporate social performance to corporate financial performance: A “time-based” agency theory perspective. Australian Journal of Management, 46(2), 224-247. https://doi.org/10.1177/0312896220917192
This study focuses on micro-level phenomena and time issues that have been traditionally neglected in both corporate governance and corporate social responsibility research. D...

The Blue Economy and the United Nations’ sustainable development goals: Challenges and opportunities

Journal Article
Lee, K., Noh, J., & Khim, J. S. (2020)
The Blue Economy and the United Nations’ sustainable development goals: Challenges and opportunities. Environment International, 137, Article 105528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105528
The “Blue Economy (BE)” is an increasingly popular concept as a strategy for safeguarding the world’s oceans and water resources. It may emerge when economic activity is in ba...