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Jun-Hyung Bae

Sungkyunkwan University · Business, Management and Accounting

About the Lab

Professor Jun-Hyung Bae's research lab specializes in innovation management, corporate venturing, and the intersection of technology, governance, and organizational behavior. The lab explores how technological capabilities, leadership transitions, and geographic clustering shape corporate investment decisions, alliance formation, and innovation performance. It also investigates the role of leadership—particularly founder versus professional CEOs—in driving innovation, as well as the design of educational tools to enhance machine learning literacy among non-technical students. The lab integrates empirical analysis with innovative data sources, including firm-level datasets, survey data on artists, and synthetic personas for cultural analytics.

corporate venture capitalinnovation managementtechnology strategyfounder leadershipmachine learning education

Research Overview

Papers
37
Total Citations
204
Papers (5y)
26
Primary Field
Business, Management and Accounting

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
26total
2022
2023
2024
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2026
Citations per year (5y)
32total
20222023202420252026

Selected Papers

15
1
Article|92 citations·2019
Founder CEOs and innovation: Evidence from CEO sudden deaths in public firms
Joon Mahn Lee, Jongsoo Kim, Joonhyung Bae
SJR Q1Research Policy
AccountingBusiness, Management and Accounting
2
Article|47 citations·2020
How Technological Overlap between Spinouts and Parent Firms Affects Corporate Venture Capital Investments in Spinouts: The Role of Competitive Tension
Joonhyung Bae, Joon Mahn Lee
SJR Q1Academy of Management Journal

Drawing on the literature on entrepreneurship and competitive dynamics, we investigate how technological overlap between spinouts and parent firms influences corporate investors’ decisions regarding investments in spinouts. We suggest that a high level of technological overlap between a spinout and its parent firm deters potential corporate investors from making an investment in the spinout because of competitive tension arising from anticipated hostile actions by the parent firm. We further sug

AccountingBusiness, Management and Accounting
3
Article|21 citations·2019
Founder CEOs and Innovation: Evidence from CEO Sudden Deaths in Public Firms
Joon Mahn Lee, Joonhyung Bae
Academy of Management Proceedings

Using a unique dataset on U.S. publicly listed firms that experienced sudden deaths of CEOs during the 1979–2002 period, this paper investigates the relationship between founder CEOs and innovation in public firms. Our main results show that the exogenous change from a founder CEO to a professional CEO is associated with a 41 percent decrease in a firm’s citation-weighted patent count, even when controlling for R&D expenditures, suggesting that founder CEOs are better managers of innovations tha

AccountingBusiness, Management and Accounting
4
Article|12 citations·2024
Where to invest? Effects of technological capabilities on corporate venture capital investments
Wonsang Ryu, Joonhyung Bae, Thomas H. Brush
SJR Q1Strategic Entrepreneurship JournalOA

Abstract Research Summary We investigate why a corporate investor makes more corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in certain areas than in others. Focusing on firms' different technological capabilities across distinct technology domains, we argue that a corporate investor's technological capabilities in a given domain affect its likelihood of investing in (1) ventures within the domain in an inverted U‐shaped manner and (2) ventures operating in other technologically complementary domain

AccountingBusiness, Management and Accounting
5
Article|9 citations·2022
How agglomeration affects alliance governance and innovation performance: The role of cluster size
Wonsang Ryu, Thomas H. Brush, Joonhyung Bae
SJR Q2Managerial and Decision Economics

We investigate how the size of the geographic cluster in which a firm is located influences its governance choice between equity and non‐equity alliances and subsequent innovation performance. We argue that firms located in larger clusters tend to form non‐equity alliances rather than equity alliances because the communication and control benefits of cluster membership, which increase with cluster size, reduce in‐cluster firms' need to form equity alliances. We also claim that the effect of this

Strategy and ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting
6
Article|4 citations·2024
The interplay between product development failures and alliance portfolio properties in the formation of exploration versus exploitation alliances
Joonhyung Bae, Ümit Özmel
SJR Q1Journal of Business Research
Strategy and ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting
7
Article|4 citations·2024
Effect of venture capital investment horizon on new product development: Evidence from the medical device sector
Moonsik Shin, Joonhyung Bae, Ümit Özmel
SJR Q1Journal of Business VenturingOA
AccountingBusiness, Management and Accounting
8
Article|3 citations·2022
Classy Trash Monster: An Educational Game for Teaching Machine Learning to Non-major Students
Joonhyung Bae, Karam Eum, Haram Kwon, Seolhee Lee, Juhan Nam, Young Yim Doh
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

As machine learning (ML) became more relevant to our lives, ML education for college students without technical background arose important. However, not many educational games designed to suit challenges they experience exist. We introduce an educational game Classy Trash Monster (CTM), designed to better educate ML and data dependency to non-major students who learn ML for the first time. The player can easily learn to train a classification model and solve tasks by engaging in simple game acti

Developmental and Educational PsychologyPsychology
9
Article|0 citations·2026
Amanous: Distribution-Switching for Superhuman Piano Density on Disklavier
Joonhyung Bae
ArXiv.orgOA

The automated piano enables note densities, polyphony, and register changes far beyond human physical limits, yet the three dominant traditions for composing such textures--Nancarrow's tempo canons, Xenakis's stochastic distributions, and L-system grammars--have developed in isolation. This paper presents Amanous, a hardware-aware composition system for Yamaha Disklavier that unifies these methodologies through distribution-switching: L-system symbols select distinct distributional regimes rathe

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
10
Preprint|0 citations·2026
PiAnnotate: A Web Annotation Tool for Piano Fingering, with a Diagnostic Probe
Joonhyung Bae, Kirak Kim, Hyeyoon Cho, Sein Lee, Yoon-Seok Choi, Hyeon Hur, Gyubin Lee, Akira Maezawa, Jonghwa Park, Jaebum Park, Juhan Nam
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Piano fingering shapes how a passage can be played, yet it is difficult to label after a performance. An annotator must decide which finger produced each note while reconciling the score, timing, video, and hand motion. We present PiAnnotate, a web-based pipeline for adding expert fingering annotations to the FurElise performance dataset. The tool brings together a piano-roll view, performance video, and a 3D MANO hand mesh so that reviewers can inspect each assignment in musical and physical co

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
11
Article|0 citations·2018
Spinouts and Incumbents' Venture Investments: The Effects of Knowledge Inheritance
Joonhyung Bae
Academy of Management Proceedings

This study advances previous research on the competitive tension associated with knowledge diffusion through employee entrepreneurship that has mainly focused on the dyadic relationship between spinouts and parent firms. Drawing on the literature on spinouts and employee mobility, I argue that technological knowledge of spinouts inherited from parent firms creates critical tension between competitive risks and benefits for other industry incumbents when they make corporate venture capital (CVC)

AccountingBusiness, Management and Accounting
12
Article|0 citations·2026
Tipiano: Cascaded Piano Hand Motion Synthesis via Fingertip Priors
Joonhyung Bae, Kirak Kim, Hyeyoon Cho, Sein Lee, Yoon-Seok Choi, Hyeon Hur, Gyubin Lee, Akira Maezawa, Satoshi Obata, Jonghwa Park, Jaebum Park, Juhan Nam
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Synthesizing realistic piano hand motions requires both precision and naturalness. Physics-based methods achieve precision but produce stiff motions; data-driven models learn natural dynamics but struggle with positional accuracy. Piano motion exhibits a natural hierarchy: fingertip positions are nearly deterministic given piano geometry and fingering, while wrist and intermediate joints offer stylistic freedom. We present [OURS], a four-stage framework exploiting this hierarchy: (1) statistics-

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
13
Article|0 citations·2026
PiAnnotate: A Web Annotation Tool for Piano Fingering, with a Diagnostic Probe
Joonhyung Bae, Kirak Kim, Hyeyoon Cho, Sein Lee, Yoon-Seok Choi, Hyeon Hur, Gyubin Lee, Akira Maezawa, Jonghwa Park, Jaebum Park, Juhan Nam
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Piano fingering shapes how a passage can be played, yet it is difficult to label after a performance. An annotator must decide which finger produced each note while reconciling the score, timing, video, and hand motion. We present PiAnnotate, a web-based pipeline for adding expert fingering annotations to the FurElise performance dataset. The tool brings together a piano-roll view, performance video, and a 3D MANO hand mesh so that reviewers can inspect each assignment in musical and physical co

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
14
Article|0 citations·2022
Technological Relatedness, Uncertainty, and R&D Alliance Formation
Joonhyung Bae
Korean Academy of Management

Prior studies on R&D alliances have assumed that technological complementarity is a subset of or a moderate level of technological similarity. This study suggests that technological similarity and complementarity are two distinct concepts and affect firms’ decision-making in R&D alliance formation differently. While firms conduct local searches to identify alliance partners that possess similar areas of technological knowledge, they also conduct relatively distant searches to identify al

Management Science and Operations ResearchDecision Sciences
15
Article|0 citations·2016
Effects of Technological Similarity and Complementarity on R&D Alliance Formation
Joonhyung Bae, Ümit Özmel
Academy of Management Proceedings

Prior studies on R&D alliances have assumed that technological complementarity is a subset or a moderate of technological similarity. In this article, we argue that they are distinct concepts and affect firms’ decisions in R&D alliance formation with different mechanisms. We distinguish technological similarity and complementarity both theoretically and empirically and investigate their effects on the likelihood of R&D alliance formation between firms in the biopharmaceutical industry. We furthe

Strategy and ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting

Research Areas

AccountingComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionStrategy and ManagementCognitive NeuroscienceSignal ProcessingDevelopmental and Educational Psychology

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