Brayden King is the Max McGraw Chair of Management and the Environment and a professor of Management and Organizations. He is also affiliated with the Department of Sociology. Professor King's research focuses on how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility, organizational change, and legislative policymaking. Professor King is an expert on the impact of boycotts and the consequences of employee and shareholder activism. Recent studies examine the change processes leading to improved corporate environmental and social sustainability. Professor King is an international research fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Professor King has published research in the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, and numerous other scholarly journals. From 2012 until 2022, he was a senior editor at Organization Science. He has been a guest editor at Organization Studies and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 

Professor King received his PhD in 2005 from the University of Arizona in sociology.

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

• PhD, 2005, Sociology, University of Arizona
• MS, 2001, Sociology, Brigham Young University
• BA, 1999, Sociology, Brigham Young University

• Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, 6/30/2008
• Lecturer and Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, 8/31/2005
• Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, 8/31/2001
• Associate Professor (with tenure), Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 6/1/2012

• Elected member of Sociological Research Association
• Affiliate Research Scholar, Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation
• Kellogg Research Mentorship Award
• Best Annual Paper Award, Centre for Corporate Reputation at Oxford University, 2014-15
• International Research Fellow, Centre for Corporate Reputation at Oxford University, 2010-present

• Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology, 2016-2019
• Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 2014-2016
• Department Editor, Organization Science, 2012-
• Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 2023-2026
• Associate Editor, Management Science, 2012-2014
• Editorial Board Member, Strategic Organization, 2010-
• Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2009-2017
• Consulting Editor, Sociological Science, 2014-Present
• Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Journal, 2012-
• Editorial Board Member, Social Forces, 2011-
• Associate Editor, Management Science, 2009-2009

Power and politics in organizations

Behavior in Organizational Systems (MORS-525-1)
Theory construction, with effort at verification, drawing on empirical studies. Macro-level analysis of internal organizational system problems such as goals, structure, roles, power, authority, communications, and controls.

Special Topics in Management and Organizations: Macro (MORS-521-2)
The course covers classic and recent research topics in macro-oriented areas of Management and Organizations. Topics are drawn from sociology, organizational theory, and macro-organizational research methods.

Constructive Collaboration

The experts show you the conditions and competencies that foster highly productive collaboration in the workplace, and how to ignite a culture of collaboration at all levels in your company and its people.

Leadership in Organizations (MORS-430-0)
This course provides students with the social science tools needed to solve organizational problems and influence the actions of individuals, groups and organizations. It prepares managers to understand how to best organize and motivate the human capital of the firm, manage social networks and alliances, and execute strategic change. This is accomplished through knowledge of competitive decision making, reward system design, team building, strategic negotiation, political dynamics, corporate culture and strategic organizational design.

Leadership in Organizations (BUS_INST-303-0)
Social science tools for solving organizational problems and influencing individuals, groups, and organizations. Competitive decision making, reward system design, team building, strategic negotiation, political dynamics, corporate culture, and strategic organizational design. Prerequisites: ECON 201-0 and ECON 202-0.