Ki-Hoon Lee

Full Professor and Chair of Sustainability in Business and Management

The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University

Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ, United Kingdom

Website: https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/ki-hoon-lee

Profile

Ki-Hoon Lee is Full Professor and Chair of Sustainability in Business and Management at Edinburgh Napier University’s Business School, UK. Prior to this position, he was holding Full Professorship of Corporate Sustainability Management at Griffith Business School, Griffith University in Australia, where he has led Sustainability and Responsible Management MBA and executive MBA over the last decade.

He is a member of the editorial board or guest editors of international scientific journals including: Business Strategy and the Environment, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Business Strategy and Development, Accounting Research Journal, Journal of Accounting and Organizational change among others.

Ki-Hoon Lee has held international research leadership and advisory positions as research director and/or technical expert of Australian Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre, United Nations’ Climate Change and Ocean Accounting, Australian National Nature Account and Natural Capital Accounting, Australian RACE Cooperative Research Centre.

As a Chair of EMAN Asia Pacific, Ki-Hoon Lee has led growing networks of academic, industry and professionals in Asia Pacific region over the last ten years. He holds visiting professorship at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Vienna in Austria, and Ivey Business School, London, Ontario in Canada, and hold distinguished visiting research professorship at Seoul National University, Seoul in Korea.

Selected publications

Lee, K-H., Senaratne, S., and Gunarathne, N. (Eds. 2023) Integrated Reporting (IR) for Sustainability, Springer, Amsterdam, London and New York, ISBN: 978-3-031-41832-7.
Lee, K-H., and S, Schaltegger (Eds. 2018) Accounting for Sustainability: Asia Pacific Perspectives, Springer, Amsterdam, London and New York, ISBN: 978-3-319-70898-0.
Lee, K-H. and Vachon. S. (2016) Business Value and Sustainability: An Integrated Supply Network Perspective, Palgrave, London. ISBN: 978-1-137-43574-3.
Lee, K-H., Shin, D. and Lee, M. (2023) Business group affiliation and corporate sustainability performance in emerging economies: Evidence from South Korea, Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(7), 4503-4518.
Gunarathne, N., Lee, K-H. and Kaluarachchilage, P. (2023) Tackling the integration challenge between environmental strategy and environmental management accounting, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 36(1), 63-95.
Lee, K-H. and Vachon, S. (2021) Responsible supply chain and social sustainability: a call for more accounting-based research, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 12(4), 637-642.
Lee, K-H., Noh, J., Lee, J. and Khim, J. (2021) The blue economy and the Total Environment: Mapping the interface, Environment International, 157, 106796.
Lee, K-H. and Gunarathne, N. (2021) Institutional pressures, environmental management strategy and organizational performance: The role of environmental management accounting, Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(2), 825-839.
Gunarathne, N. and Lee, K-H. (2021) The link between corporate energy management and environmental management development: efficiency, sufficiency and consistency strategy perspectives, Journal of Cleaner Production, 293, 126082.
Park B-J. and Lee K-H. (2021) The sensitivity of corporate social performance to corporate financial performance: A "time-based" agency theory perspective, Australian Journal of Management, 46(2), 224-247.
Gunarathne, N. and Lee, K-H. (2021) Corporate cleaner production strategy development and environmental management accounting: A contingency theory perspective, Journal of Cleaner Production, 308, 127402.
Lee, K-H., Noh, J., and Khim, J. (2020) The blue economy and the United Nations’ sustainable development goals: Challenges and opportunities, Environment International, 137, 105528.
Gunarathne, N. and Lee, K-H. (2020) Eco-control for corporate sustainable management: A sustainability development stage perspective, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 27(6), 2515-2529.
Pureza, A. and Lee, K-H. (2020). Corporate social responsibility leadership for sustainable development: An institutional logics perspective in Brazil, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 27(3), 1410-1424.
Gunarathne, N. and Lee, K-H. (2019) Environmental and managerial information for cleaner production strategies: An environmental management development perspective, Journal of Cleaner Production, 237, 1178-1189.
Herold, D. and Lee, K-H. (2019) The influence of internal and external pressures on carbon management practices and disclosure strategies, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 26(1), 63-81.
Herold, D.M. and Lee, K-H. (2017) Carbon management in the logistics and transportation sector: An overview and new research directions, Carbon Management, 8(1), 79-97.
Lee, K-H., Park, B., Song, H. and Yook, K. (2017) The value relevance of environmental audits: Evidence from Japan, Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(5), 609-625.
Lee, K-H. (2017) Does size matter? Evaluating corporate environmental disclosure in the Australian Mining and Metal Industry: A combined approach of quantity and quality measurement, Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(2), 209-223.
Lee, K-H., Cin, B. and Lee, E. (2016) Environmental responsibility and firm performance: The application of an environmental, social and governance model, Business Strategy and the Environment, 25(1), 40-53.
Lee, K-H., Herold, D. M. and Yu, A. (2016) Small and Medium Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility Practice: A Swedish Perspective. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 23(2), 88-99.
Mahdiloo, M., Saen, R. and Lee, K-H, (2015) Technical, environmental and eco-efficiency measurement for supplier selection: An extension and application of data envelopment analysis, International Journal of Production Economics, 168, 279-289.
Lee, K-H. and Gunarathne, N. (2015) Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) for environmental management and organizational change: An eco-control approach, Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, 11(3), 362-383.
Lee, K-H. and Min, B. (2015) Green R&D for eco-innovation and its impact on carbon emissions and firm performance, Journal of Cleaner Production, 108, 534-542.
Lee, K-H., Min, B, & Yook, K. (2015) The impacts of carbon (CO2) emissions and environmental research and development (R&D) investment on firm performance, International Journal of Production Economics, 167, 1-11.
Lee, K-H & Wu, Y. (2014). Integrating sustainability performance measurement into logistics and supply networks: A multi-methodological approach, The British Accounting Review, 46(4), 361-378.