Brayden King
Brayden King

MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONS
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations

Print Overview
Brayden King joined the Kellogg School of Management in 2008. After receiving a PhD in sociology from the University of Arizona, he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University from 2005 to 2008. Professor King's research focuses on how social movement activists influence corporate governance, organizational change, and legislative policymaking. He also studies the ways in which the organizational identities of social movement organizations and businesses emerge and transform in response to their institutional environments. His research has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Social Forces.
Print Vita
Education
PhD, 2005, Sociology, University of Arizona
MS, 2001, Sociology, Brigham Young University
BA, 1999, Sociology, Brigham Young University

Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2008-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, 2005-2008
Lecturer and research associate, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, 2001-2005
Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, 1999-2001

Editorial Positions
Editorial Board, Strategic Organization, 2010-present
Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2009-2010
Associate Editor, Management Science, 2009-2009

 
Print Research
Research Interests
Organizational change, social movements and corporate policymaking, economic sociology, the emergence and transformation of organizational identities

Articles
De Bakker, F, Frank den Hond, Brayden G. King and Klaus Weber. Forthcoming. Social movements, civil society and corporations. Organization Studies. 34(5)
Carberry, Edward and Brayden G. King. Forthcoming. Defensive Practice Adoption in the Face of Organizational Stigma: Impression Management and the Diffusion of Stock Option Expensing. Journal of Management Studies.
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Vasi, Ion Bogdan and Brayden G. King. 2012. Social Movements, Risk Perceptions, and Economic Outcomes. American Sociological Review. 77: 573-596.
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Steele, Christopher and Brayden G. King. 2011. Collective Intentionality in Organizations: A Meta-ethnography of Identity and Strategizing. Advances in Group Processes. 28: 59-95.
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King, Brayden G., Elisabeth S. Clemens and Melissa Fry Konty. 2011. Identity Realization and Organizational Forms: Differentiation and Consolidation of Identities Among Arizona’s Charter Schools. Organization Science. 22: 554-572.
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King, Brayden G.. 2011. The Tactical Disruptiveness of Movements: Sources of Market and Mediated Disruption in Corporate Boycotts. Social Problems. 48: 491-517.
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Ersner-Hershfield, Hal, Adam Galinsky, Laura J. Kray and Brayden G. King. 2010. Company, Country, Connections: Counterfactual Origins Increase Organizational Commitment, Patriotism, and Social Investment. Psychological Science. 21: 1479-1486.
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King, Brayden G. and Nicholas Pearce. 2010. The Contentiousness of Markets: Politics, Social Movements, and Institutional Change in Markets. Annual Review of Sociology. 36: 249-67.
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King, Brayden G., Teppo Felin and David Whetten. 2010. Finding the Organization in Organizational Theory: A Meta-theory of the Organization as a Social Actor. Organization Science. 21: 290-305.
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King, Brayden G.. 2009. When Markets Become Contentious. Contexts. 8: 34-39.
Whetten, David, Teppo Felin and Brayden G. King. 2009. The Practice of Theory Borrowing in Organizational Studies: Current Issues and Future Directions. Journal of Management. 35: 537-563.
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Smith, Gordon D. and Brayden G. King. 2009. Contracts as Organizations. Arizona Law Review. 51: 1-46.
King, Brayden G.. 2008. A Political Mediation Model of Corporate Response to Social Movement Activism. Administrative Science Quarterly. 53: 395-421.
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King, Brayden G. and David Whetten. 2008. A Social Identity Formulation of Organizational Reputation and Legitimacy. Corporate Reputation Review. 11(3): 192-207.
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King, Brayden G.. 2008. A Social Movement Perspective of Stakeholder Collective Action and Influence. Business and Society. 47(1): 21-49.
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King, Brayden G. and Sarah A. Soule. 2008. Competition and Resource Partitioning in Three Social Movement Industries. American Journal of Sociology. 113(6): 1568-1610.
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Smith, Gordon D. and Brayden G. King. 2008. Contracts as Organizations. Arizona Law Review. 51: 1-46.
King, Brayden G. and Sarah A. Soule. 2007. Social Movements as Extra-Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Effect of Protest on Stock Price Returns. Administrative Science Quarterly. 52(3): 413-442.
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King, Brayden G., Keith Bentele and Sarah A. Soule. 2007. Protest and Policymaking: Explaining fluctuation in congressional attention to rights issues, 1960-1986. Social Forces. 86(1): 137-161.
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Cornwall, Marie, Brayden G. King, Elizabeth Legerski, Eric Dahlin and Kendra Schiffman. 2007. Signals of Mixed Signals: Why Opportunities for mobilization are not opportunities for policy reform. Mobilization. 12(3): 239-254.
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King, Brayden G. and Marie Cornwall. 2007. The Gender Logic of Executive Compensation. Academy of Management Annual Meetings Proceedings.
Soule, Sarah A. and Brayden G. King. 2006. The Stages of the Policy Process and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982. American Journal of Sociology. 111(6): 1871-1909.
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King, Brayden G., Eric Dahlin and Marie Cornwall. 2005. Winning Woman Suffrage One Step At a Time: Social Movements and the Logic of the Legislative Process. Social Forces. 83(3): 1211-1234.
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King, Brayden G. and Nicholas Pearce. 2010. The contentiousness of markets: Politics, social movements, and institutional change in markets. Annual Review of Sociology. 36: 249-67.
Book Chapters
Weber, Klaus and Brayden G. King. Forthcoming. "Social movement theory in organization studies." In Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies, edited by P. Adler, P. du Gay, G. Morgan and M. Reed, Oxford University Press.
King, Brayden G. and Marie Cornwall. 2005. "Generalists and Specialists: Learning Strategies in the woman suffrage movement, 1866-1918." In Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change, edited by Patrick Coy, vol. 26, 3-34. Emerald Group Publishing.
Other
King, Brayden G.. "Review of "Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism" by G. Seidman." Contemporary Sociology.
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King, Brayden G.. "Review of "From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change" by C. Chetkovich and F Kunreuther." Mobilization.
Edited Volumes
King, Brayden G., Teppo Felin and David Whetten, eds.. 2009. Studying Differences between Organizations: Comparative Approaches to Organizational Research. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.

 
Print Teaching
Teaching Interests
Power and politics in organizations
Doctoral
Behavior In Organizational Systems (MORS-425-1)
This course considers theory construction, with an effort at verification, drawing on empirical studies. The focus is on problems of internal organizational systems such as goals, structure, roles, power, authority, decision making communications and controls.

Seminar in Organization Behavior (MORS-520-0)
Seminar in Management and Organizations

Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Power In Organizations: Sources, Strategies and Skills (MORS-453-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Human Resource Management, Management & Organizations.

Power dynamics are fundamental to the effective exercise of leadership in organizations. This course develops your ability to create and use sources of power beyond formal authority, to formulate strategies and tactics of political and social influence, and to exercise skills that make you a more effective organizational leader. Readings, case materials, course assignments and a field action project focus on the challenge of sustainable political advantage in organizations - the rules of the game, basic power diagnostics, the management of strategic dependencies and persuasion processes, and working in entrepreneurial contexts. Throughout, the course raises issues of career dynamics in the context of the development of your leadership abilities.