Professor Hokyu Hwang

Professor Hokyu Hwang

Professor

Ph.D.   Sociology, Stanford University

M.A.    Sociology, Stanford University

A.B.    Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (High Honors and High Distinction)

Business School
School of Management and Governance

Hokyu Hwang is a professor in the School of Management and Governance, UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney. He received his PhD in sociology from Stanford University. His research examines the expansion of formal organisation into various sectors and fields such as the not-for-profit and public sector, higher education, and the environment.

Phone
+61 2 90658273
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Suarez D; Hwang H, 2020, 'Collaborations and Networks', in The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management, Routledge, pp. 317 - 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315181011
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Lok J; Hwang H; Höllerer MA, 2016, '‘Managers to the rescue!’: Evaluating the legacy of stewardship theory from an institutional perspective', in Qiu JXJ; Luo BN; Jackson C; Sanders K (ed.), Advancing organizational theory in a complex world, Taylor & Francis, New York, pp. 132 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315677293
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Hwang H; Jang YS; Park KT, 2014, 'The Changing Factors of ISO 9001 Adoption among Korean Firm', in Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management: Perspectives on Glocalization, Routledge, pp. 339 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203139486
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Drori GS; Meyer JW; Hwang H, 2006, 'Introduction', in Drori GS; Meyer JW; Hwang H (ed.), Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change, Oxford University Press, pp. 1 - 24
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Hwang H, 2006, 'Globalization and the Shifting Locus of Planning', in Drori GS; Meyer JW; Hwang H (ed.), Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 69 - 91
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Meyer JW; Drori GS; Hwang H, 2006, 'Conclusion', in Drori GS; Meyer JW; Hwang H (ed.), Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change, Oxford University Press, pp. 258 - 274
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Meyer JW; Drori GS; Hwang H, 2006, 'World Society and the Proliferation of Formal Organization', in Drori GS; Meyer JW; Hwang H (ed.), Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 25 - 49
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Hwang H; Powel W, 2005, 'Institutions and Entrepreneurship', in Alvarez SA; Agrawal RR; Sorenson O (ed.), Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Springer, New York, pp. 201 - 232
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Hwang H; Suarez D, 2005, 'Lost and Found in the Translation of Strategic Pland and Websites', in Czarniawska B; Sevon G (ed.), How Ideas, Objects, and Practices Travel in the Global Economy, Liber, Malmo, pp. 71 - 93
    Book Chapters | 2000
    Castilla E; Hwang H; Granovetter E; Granovetter M, 2000, 'Social Networks in Silicon Valley', in Lee C-M; Miller WF; Hancock MG; Rowen HS (ed.), The Silicon Valley Edge, Stanford University Press, pp. 218 - 247
  • Edited Books | 2019
    Hwang H; Colyvas J; Drori G, (eds.), 2019, Agents, Actors, Actorhood: Institutional Perspectives on the Nature of Agency, Action, and Authority, Emerald Publishing Limited
    Edited Books | 2006
    Drori G; Meyer J; Hwang H, (eds.), 2006, Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change, Oxford University Press
  • Journal articles | 2022
    Coslor E; Foroughi H; Hwang H, 2022, 'Virtual books, person-books and new media artefacts: The expanding remit of the Organization Studies review section', Organization Studies, 43, pp. 1857 - 1860, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01708406221126292
    Journal articles | 2022
    Hwang H; Logue D, 2022, 'Shifting Sands: The Institutional Embeddedness of the Sydney Nonprofit Sector and its Relation to the State, Market, and Civil Society', Global Perspectives, 3, pp. 11 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gp.2022.36383
    Journal articles | 2022
    Mosley J; Suárez D; Hwang H, 2022, 'Conceptualizing Organizational Advocacy Across the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector: Goals, Tactics, and Motivation', Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08997640221103247
    Journal articles | 2022
    Rijal S; Keller J; Hwang H, 2022, 'Globalization in Social-Commercial Tensions: The Case of Nepalese Microfinance', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.10771abstract
    Journal articles | 2021
    Hwang H; Colyvas J, 2021, 'Constructed Actors and Constitutive Institutions for a Contemporary World', Academy of Management Review, 46, pp. 214 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.2020.0418
    Journal articles | 2020
    Hwang H; Colyvas J, 2020, 'Ontology, Levels of Society, and Degrees of Generality: Theorizing Actors as Abstractions in Institutional Theory', Academy of Management Review, 45, pp. 570 - 595, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0266
    Journal articles | 2020
    Hwang H; Höllerer MA, 2020, 'The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Consequences: Ruptures and Transformations in the Global Institutional Fabric', Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 56, pp. 294 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021886320936841
    Journal articles | 2019
    Hwang H; Colyvas J; Drori J, 2019, 'The proliferation and profusion of actors in institutional theory.', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 58, pp. 3 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000058002
    Journal articles | 2019
    Hwang H; Colyvas J, 2019, 'What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Microfoundations? Conceptualizations of actor and multi-level accounts of the micro in institutional processes', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 65B, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B026
    Journal articles | 2019
    Hwang H; Suarez D, 2019, 'Beyond Service Provision: Advocacy and the Construction of Nonprofits as Organizational Actors.', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 58, pp. 87 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000058007
    Journal articles | 2019
    Kim BK; Hwang H; Cho HJ; Jang YS, 2019, 'The Rationalization of Korean Universities', Minerva, 57, pp. 501 - 521, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-019-09377-2
    Journal articles | 2016
    Hwang H, 2016, 'Actor As Abstraction And Metaphor In Institutional Theory', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016, pp. 17483 - 17483, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2016.17483abstract
    Journal articles | 2015
    Chandler D; Hwang H, 2015, 'Learning From Learning Theory: A Model of Organizational Adoption Strategies at the Microfoundations of Institutional Theory', Journal of Management, 41, pp. 1446 - 1476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206315572698
    Journal articles | 2015
    Hwang H; Bromley P, 2015, 'Internal and External Determinants of Formal Plans in the Nonprofit Sector', International Public Management Journal, 18, pp. 568 - 588, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2015.1038671
    Journal articles | 2014
    Hwang H; Colyvas J, 2014, 'The Proliferation of the Actor and Its Consequences', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014, pp. 16663 - 16663, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2014.16663abstract
    Journal articles | 2013
    Suárez DF; Hwang H, 2013, 'Resource Constraints or Cultural Conformity? Nonprofit Relationships with Businesses', Voluntas, 24, pp. 581 - 605, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-012-9267-z
    Journal articles | 2012
    Bromley P; Hwang H; Powell WW, 2012, 'Decoupling revisited: Common pressures, divergent strategies in the U.S. nonprofit sector', MANAGEMENT, 15, pp. 469 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/mana.155.0469
    Journal articles | 2012
    Bromley P; Hwang H; Powell WW, 2012, 'Decoupling revisited: Common pressures, divergent strategies in the U.S. nonprofit sector', Management (France), 15, pp. 468 - 501
    Journal articles | 2012
    Hwang H; Jang YS; Park K, 2012, 'The Changing Motivations of ISO 9000 Adoption among Korean Firms', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012, pp. 17541 - 17541, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2012.17541abstract
    Journal articles | 2011
    Hwang H; Colyvas JA, 2011, 'Problematizing actors and institutions in institutional work', Journal of Management Inquiry, 20, pp. 62 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1056492610387705
    Journal articles | 2009
    Drori GS; Meyer JW; Hwang H, 2009, 'Global organization: Rationalization and actorhood as dominant scripts', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 27, pp. 17 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2009)0000027003
    Journal articles | 2009
    Hwang H; Powell W, 2009, 'The Rationalization of Charity: The Influences of Professionalism in the Nonprofit Sector', Administrative Science Quarterly, 54, pp. 268 - 298
    Journal articles | 2008
    Suarez D; Hwang H, 2008, 'Civic Engagement and Nonprofit Lobbying in California, 1998-2003', Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 37, pp. 93 - 112
    Journal articles | 2002
    Hwang H, 2002, 'Structural Expansion and the Cost of Global Isomorphism: A Cross-national Study of Modern Ministerial Structures, 1950-1990.', International Sociology, 17, pp. 481 - 503
  • Preprints | 2023
    Yung V; Colyvas J; Hwang H, 2023, Quality Control for Quality Computational Concepts: Wrangling with Theory and Data Wrangling as Theorizing, , http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ewamx

National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Korean Government, 2018-2021 (NRF-2018S1A5A2A03030694) 

National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Korean Government, 2014-2016 (NRF-2014S1A5A2A03065913)