Faculty Profile

Kenneth GOH

Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship (Education); Academic Director, Business Families Institute; Course Coordinator, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Major

LKCSBFull-time Faculty

Email
kennethgoh@smu.edu.sg

Phone
68289660

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Areas

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Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Asian & ASEAN Initiatives
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
- - Human Capital Strategy and Management
- Social Inclusion
- Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- - Entrepreneurship
  - Sustainable and socially responsible strategy
  - Family Business
  - Organisational Change and Change Management
- Sustainable Business
School of Computing and Information Systems
- Human-Machine Collaborative Systems
- - Pervasive Sensing & Systems

Strategic Priorities

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Growth in Asia
Sustainable Living

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

Course Coordinator & Academic Advisor, 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

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

AWARDS, RECOGNITION & HONORS

Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award (2023) for “The effects of conflict type and conflict expression on conflict management”

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

Pentland, B. T., Kremser, W., & Goh, K. T. (2025). Path nets: Concurrence and recurrence in the dynamics of organizing. Academy of Management Review, 50(1), 114-137.

Goh, K. T., Mack, D. Z., Ang, J. (2023). The Inclusive Organizing Playbook. ISBN: 978-981-18-5720-1

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

Singapore Business Awards, Judge

EY-Bank of Singapore Family Enterprise Award of Excellence, Judge

Ministry of Education, Commerce Curriculum Review Committee 2025

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

President, Singapore Aquatics

Board Member, World Aquatics Championships Singapore 2025

Vice President, Asia Aquatics

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AdvocAid Ltd – Co-Founder

World Bank – Project consultant

Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) – Investment Banking Analyst