Professor Kwak Kiho of Pukyong National University Wins Best Award for Innovation Paper from the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration

Professor Kwak Ki-ho, Pukyong National University.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Professor Kwak Ki-ho of Pukyong National University (Graduate School of Technology Management · Department of Industrial and Data Engineering) has won the 'K-Management Innovation Paper Award' Grand Prize from the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration (President Lee Young-myeon).

Professor Kwak was honored as the inaugural grand prize winner of this award at the 2021 Korean Academic Society of Business Administration Winter Conference held online on the 19th.

This newly established award is given to authors of papers that have contributed to the development of Korean-style management methods and research in Korea's innovative management field, selected by recommendations from major management-related academic societies by the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration.

Last year, Professor Kwak published a paper titled "A Comparison of Cross-Subsidization and Platform Absorption Strategies in Growth-Stage Market-Creating Platforms: Focusing on the Cases of 'Woowa Brothers' and 'Delivery Hero Korea'" in the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration's journal, Korea Business Review, which examined platform business strategies of food delivery apps, earning recognition for his excellent research achievements.

Professor Kwak Ki-ho earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Technology Management at KAIST and joined Pukyong National University in 2016, actively conducting research in technology innovation strategy and industrial policy.

Last year, he also gained international recognition for his research achievements by publishing a paper titled "Unpacking transnational industry legitimacy dynamics, windows of opportunity, and latecomers’ catch-up in complex product systems," which discusses changes in global industry legitimacy and latecomer catch-up performance in the nuclear industry, in Research Policy, one of the top 50 management journals selected by the UK Financial Times.

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