Junghoon Park, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management, College of Business Administration Loyola Marymount University
- Los Angeles CA
Biography
His research expertise lies in global sustainability strategy. He studies the reciprocal relationship between strategy and sustainability, examining how firms design and implement strategies to address pressing challenges such as climate change and public health crises, and how these challenges in turn shape firm strategies.
You can contact Junghoon Park at junghoon.park@lmu.edu.
Education
City University of New York, The Graduate Center & Baruch College
Ph.D.
Business
2023
Kyung Hee University
M.S.
International Business
2016
Kyung Hee University
B.A.
International Business and Trade
2014
Social
Areas of Expertise
Media Appearances
ESG ADHD
Impact ON online
2026-10-23
Authored a regular column introducing “ESG ADHD,” a metaphor for the scattered organizational attention surrounding ESG work. Drawing on the attention-based view of the firm and recent data on S&P 500 sustainability disclosures, the column argues that the problem stems less from individual practitioners than from how organizations assign responsibility, oversight, and resources for ESG. [In Korean]
Corporate strategy and sustainability: Between substance and symbolism
Impact ON online
2026-08-14
Authored a regular column examining whether corporate strategy drives substantive or symbolic sustainability outcomes, based on a panel symposium organized at the 2026 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, where leading scholars debated the question in an Oxford-style format. [In Korean]
What Samsung's performance-pay dispute reveals about the structural dilemma of ESG
Impact ON online
2026-06-26
Authored a regular column examining why ESG implementation is structurally difficult, using the recent Samsung Electronics performance-pay dispute to argue that the challenge lies not in corporate goodwill but in eliciting cooperation when no shared reward exists. [In Korean]
It's time to reframe the question: Does ESG pay off? (Part 2)
Impact ON online
2026-04-07
Authored a special column proposing a strategic reframing of ESG as a risk management issue, with three recommendations for corporate managers. [In Korean]
It's time to reframe the question: Does ESG pay off? (Part 1)
Impact ON online
2026-04-03
Authored a special column examining why the win-win framing of ESG has rested on a fragile foundation in both academia and practice. [In Korean]
Panelists explore responses to climate attitudes
LMU Newsroom online
2025-03-24
Featured panelists comment on the psychological and societal effects of climate change and the importance of shared climate education.
Global innovation and university leadership for ESG: Opportunities and challenges
ETNews online
2024-06-28
Mokpo National University's Institute of Business Strategy successfully hosted a seminar on “Global innovation and university leadership for ESG: Opportunities and challenges."
How scholars can help businesses be good citizens
City University of New York Graduate Center
2023-06-08
Student commencement speaker
Path for early-career scholars toward real-world impact: From predictions to possibilities
Impact Scholar Community
2022-08-28
Authored by Park, J., & Augugliaro, J.
Global sustainable development: How can multinationals contribute?
Insights @ Center for Emerging Markets
2022-03-28
By Montiel. I., Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Park, J., Antolín-López, R., Husted, B.W.
Articles
Commercial determinants of health revisited: Integrating business scholarship for greater public health impact
Globalization and HealthPark, J., & Husted, B. W.
2026-01-30
In her influential 2020 review in Globalization and Health, Mialon synthesizes the commercial determinants of health (CDOH) literature and underscores how commercial actors are connected to public health through the institutional environments in which they operate. Much of this research conceptualizes firms as institutionally embedded but relatively homogeneous actors, emphasizing external practices such as the production and promotion of harmful commodities, lobbying, and corporate social responsibility initiatives. While recent CDOH scholarship has begun to recognize the importance of organizational-level factors, few studies analyze the internal processes through which corporate conduct with public health consequences emerges. We argue that integrating insights from management scholarship can enrich CDOH research by opening the “black box” of the firm and clarifying how such conduct arises from interactions among institutional contexts, organizational arrangements, and individual-level dynamics. Drawing on management research, we conceptualize firms as multilevel systems in which institutional conditions inform conduct through organizational governance, resources, and practices, as well as through individual values, cognitions, sensemaking, and interaction among organizational members and stakeholders. These analytically distinct yet dynamically interconnected levels give rise to patterned forms of corporate conduct that affect public health. By foregrounding these multilevel connections, this paper advances a management-informed framework for CDOH research that moves beyond documenting harmful practices toward explaining how firms contribute to public health outcomes and identifying leverage points for intervention.
Health is everyone’s business: Integrating business and public health for lasting impact
Business & SocietyPark, J., Brown, J. A., & Husted, B. W.
2025-01-28
This Special Issue explores the vital connection between business and public health, highlighting their interdependence in addressing today’s global challenges. First, we demonstrate how firms are both contributors to and recipients of public health outcomes. Second, we examine the complexities business faces in defining its public health responsibilities, particularly when navigating diverse and often ambiguous stakeholders, such as communities. Third, we emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary research in addressing the multifaceted challenges at the intersection of business and public health, calling for a holistic approach that integrates insights from public health, medical research, management, and policy.
(Book Chapter) The evolution of sustainability concerns over business activities: From local to cross-national to global
The research handbook on international corporate social responsibility, Edward Elgar PublishingPark, J., Cuervo-Cazurra, A., & Montiel, I.
2023-11-10
Although sustainability has recently become a crucial topic of discussion among business practitioners and scholars, the much longer history of sustainability addressing how companies operate is little known. In this book chapter, we analyze the historical evolution of attitudes toward sustainability concerns over business activities, i.e., societal worries about the negative externalities of business activities on social and environmental issues. We propose that sustainability concerns in business have a deep historical foundation that can be traced back to the 18th century. Over time, these concerns have expanded in the scale at which they operate, moving from the local (1700s-1960s) to the cross-national (1970s-1990s) to the global (2000s-2020s). We illustrate this evolution by showcasing the development of two sustainability concerns in business activities: poor working conditions and industrial pollution.
A primer for preventing pandemics: Insights for business
Rutgers Business ReviewMontiel, I., Park, J., Husted, B. W., & Velez‐Calle, A.
2022-08-22
We first summarize the key points of our recent article titled “Tracing the connections between international business and communicable diseases,” published in the Journal of International Business Studies in 2022. Then, building on these points, we provide four recommendations for managers to help prevent future pandemics: (i) use the company’s core capabilities to improve health, (ii) integrate public health tools and knowledge into the company’s strategic decisions, (iii) reduce the risk of syndemics in communities where the company operates, and (iv) engage in cross-sector health partnerships.
Tracing the connections between international business and communicable diseases
Journal of International Business StudiesMontiel, I., Park, J., Husted, B. W., & Velez‐Calle, A.
2022-03-23
We posit that international business and the emergence and spread of communicable diseases are intrinsically connected. To support our arguments, we first start with a historical timeline that traces the connections between international business and communicable diseases back to the sixth century. Second, following the epidemiology of communicable diseases, we identify two crucial transitions related to international business: the emergence of epidemics within a host country and the shift from epidemics to global pandemics. Third, we highlight international business contextual factors (host country regulatory quality, urbanization, trade barriers, global migration) and multinationals’ activities (foreign direct investment, corporate political activity, global supply chain management, international travel) that could accelerate each transition. Finally, building on public health insights, we suggest research implications for business scholars on how to integrate human health challenges into their studies and practical implications for global managers on how to help prevent the emergence and spread of communicable diseases.
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Pros and cons for managers of multinationals
AIB InsightsCuervo-Cazurra, A., Doh, J. P., Giuliani, E., Montiel, I., & Park, J.
2022-02-22
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are becoming a crucial mechanism for coordinating governments’ efforts to address global challenges. However, their implementation by managers is challenging. In this article, we offer an overview of the pros and cons of the SDGs as mechanisms for managers of multinationals to help contribute to sustainable development. On the pro side, the SDGs are comprehensive and actionable. On the con side, they are vague, complex and may lend themselves to “rainbow-washing.” We provide suggestions for managers to help them respond to these challenges by avoiding cherry-picking SDGs, using the SDGs to assess sustainability, and pursuing SDG projects via partnerships.
The grand challenge of human health: A review and an urgent call for business-health research
Business & SocietyPark, J., Montiel, I., Husted, B. W., & Balarezo, R.
2022-02-09
Considering the urgency of addressing grand challenges that affect human health and achieving the ambitious health targets set by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the role of business in improving health has become critical. Yet, our systematic review of the business–health literature reveals that business research focuses primarily on occupational health and safety, health care organizations, and health regulations. To embrace the health externalities generated by business activities, we propose that future research should investigate the conditions under which business (a) articulates and participates in health challenges, (b) engages in multilevel actions toward tackling health challenges, and (c) improves health outcomes and its impact on the health of external stakeholders, including customers and local communities. We also urge business scholars to engage with the public health research community to increase impact.
Implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in international business
Journal of International Business StudiesMontiel, I., Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Park, J., Antolín-López, R., & Husted, B. W.
2021-05-25
Building on the concept of externalities, we propose an explanation of how multinationals can contribute to the enactment of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals as part of their ordinary investments. First, we suggest grouping the 17 Sustainable Development Goals into six categories based on whether they increase positive externalities – knowledge, wealth, or health – or reduce negative externalities – the overuse of natural resources, harm to social cohesion, or overconsumption. Second, we propose placing these categories within an extended value chain to facilitate their implementation. Third, we argue that multinationals’ internal investments in host-country subsidiaries to improve their competitiveness contribute to addressing externalities in host-country communities, while external investments in host communities to solve underdevelopment generate competitiveness externalities on host-country subsidiaries.
