#  Ji Wook Jung 

 

 



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 (Sociology, November 2012)  
*Thesis Title:* Shareholder Value and Workforce Downsizing, 1981-2006  
*Committee:* Frank Dobbin (Chair), Peter V. Marsden, and Christopher Marquis (HBS)  
*Initial Placement:* Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2012-2016)  
*Current Position:* [Assistant Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign](https://ler.illinois.edu/?page_id=4220)Jung’s research explores key political economic issues, such as employment relations, corporate governance, and regulation, from the theoretical perspectives of organizational and economic sociology. His current projects explore inter-class power struggle over corporate decisions on, and the implementation of, workforce downsizing from the 1980s; the impact of global corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards on employment practices of major Japanese firms; historical changes in banking and financial sector regulations in the United States and how those changes have affected risk-management practices of banks; and the historical transformation of graduate business education, and how it has reshaped the worldview of managers and thereby their decisions as chief executives.



 

 

 





 

 

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