Tae Wan Kim

Associate Professor of Business Ethics

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Areas of Expertise

Ethics

Education

• University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Ph D (Ethics and Legal Studies) - 2012
• Sungkyunkwan University - BA - 2007

Research

Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility

Publications

• Toward non-intuition-based machine ethics

  (author(s): Tae Wan Kim, John Hooker)
  Proceedings of AAAI & ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society 2018, 2018

• Teaching Ethics in Business Schools: A Conversation on Disciplinary Differences, Academic Provincialism, and the Case for Integrated Pedagogy

  (author(s): Gastón de los Reyes, Tae Wan Kim, Weaver Gary)
  Academy of Management Learning & Education Forthcoming, 2017

• Autonomous Vehicles and Moral Uncertainty
  Robot Ethics 2.0 (Edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, and Ryan Jenkins)

  (author(s): Vikram Bhargava, Tae Wan Kim)
  Oxford University Press 2017, 2017

• Hierarchies and Dignity: A Confucian Communitarian Approach

  (author(s): Jessica Kennedy, Tae Wan Kim, Alan Strudler)
  Business Ethics Quarterly 26(4), 2016

• Gamification of Labor and The Charge of Exploitation

  Journal of Business Ethics Online First

• Rethinking Right: Moral Epistemology in Management Research

  (author(s): Tae Wan Kim, Thomas Donaldson)
  Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming

• More than Just a Game: Ethical Issues in Gamification

  (author(s): Tae Wan Kim, Kevin Werbach)
  Ethics and Information Technology 18(2), 2016

• Bounded Ethicality and the Principle that 'Ought' Implies 'Can'

  (author(s): Tae Wan Kim, Rosemarie Monge, Alan Strudler)
  Business Ethics Quarterly 25(3), 2015

• Gamification Ethics: Exploitation and Manipulation

  Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Gamifying Research Workshop, 2015

• Confucian Ethics and Labor Rights

  Business Ethics Quarterly 24(4), 2014; 565-594

• Decent Termination: A Moral Case for Severance Pay

  Business Ethics Quarterly 24(2), 2014; 203-227

• Workplace Civility: A Confucian Approach

  (author(s): Tae Wan Kim, Alan Strudler)
  Business Ethics Quarterly 22(2), 2012; 557-577

• The 'I' in ISCT: Normative and Empirical Facets of Integration

  (author(s): Tae Wan Kim, Katherina Glac)
  Journal of Business Ethics 88(4), 2009; 693-705

Working Papers

• A Confucian Team Production Theory of the Firm

  (author(s): Tae Wan Kim, Alan Strudler)

• Technological unemployment, meaning in life and the purpose of future business

  (author(s): Tae Wan Kim, Alan Scheller-Wolf)

• Algorithmic Transparency, A Right to Explanation, and Placing Trust

  (author(s): Tae Wan Kim, Bryan Routledge)

Awards and Honors

• Society for Business Ethics - The Best Article published in Business Ethics Quarterly for 2016 (2017)
• Society for Business Ethics - The Best Article published in Business Ethics Quarterly for 2014 (2015)
• Society for Business Ethics - Founder’s Award (2011)
• The Joseph H. Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania - Penn Lauder CIBER Ph.D. Grant (2011)
• Risk Management and Decision Process Center, the Wharton School - Russell Ackoff Fellowship (2011)
• The Mark and Diane Spilker Corporate Governance Fund - The Mark and Diane Spilker Corporate Governance Fund Summer Fellowship (2011)
• Society for Business Ethics - Founder’s Award (2010)
• Support of Joan Platt, Hewlett-Packard Foundation and Boeing - Lewis Platt Fellowship (2009)
• Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center, the Wharton School - Zicklin Fellowship (2008)

University Service

• McGowan Fellow Program Committee, Committee Member, to select the fellow. (2016 - )
• Masters Educational Affairs Committee Meeting (MEAC), Committee Member (2015 - )
• Academic Integrity Working Group, Committee Member (2015 - )

Professional Activities

• Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (2017 -)
• Editorial Review Board Member, Business Ethics Quarterly, Editorial Board (2017 -)
• Member, INFORMS (2017 -)
• Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ethics and Information Technology (February 2016 -)
• Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Business Ethics (August 2012 -)
• Ad Hoc Reviewer, Business Ethics Quarterly (August 2011 -)
• Member, International Association for Business and Society (August 2008 -)
• Member, Academy of Management (August 2007 -)
• Member, Society for Business Ethics (August 2007 -)

Courses Taught

• Ethics and Leadership (45745)

  • 2017 Mini 3 Section: F, M
  • 2016 Mini 1 Section: A, B, C
  • 2015 Mini 4 Section: A, B, C, D
  • 2014 Section: F, G
  • 2014 Mini 6 Section: F, G
  • 2014 Mini 4 Section: A, B, C, D
• Bus Society & Ethics (70332)

  • 2016 Section: A, B
• Special Topics in Ethics (47895)

  • 2015 Mini 1 Section: A
• Ethics And Leadership (45745)

  • 2015 Mini 6 Section: F, G
• Ethical Leadership (45845)

  • 2014 Section: E
  • 2014 Mini 6 Section: E
• BUS SOCIETY & ETHICS (70332)

  • 2013 Section: A, B