Seungah Sarah LEE
Assistant Professor (Doha Campus)
Management & Human Resources
Biography
Seungah Sarah Lee received her PhD in Organization Studies and International Comparative Education from Stanford University.
Her research broadly explores how global models, scripts, and norms become transmitted and adapted to influence organizational forms, practices, and change. She is particularly interested in how nation-states and organizations negotiate the changing demands of a globalized world and adapt models for sustainable development to foster (social) entrepreneurship and innovation in their local contexts. She also has a secondary interest in the organization of higher education. In this line of work, she studies organizational change and expanding actorhood of higher education institutions in response to globalization, social movements, and changing labor market demands from global, comparative perspectives.
Her work has been funded by the Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research, and the Stanford Abbasi Program on Islamic Studies and published in journals such as World Development, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Scientific Reports, in numerous book chapters, as well as policy research reports. She was nominated for the Academy of Management's William H. Newman Award and was a runner-up for the OB Division's Best Paper Award with Entrepreneurial Implications.
Prior to joining HEC Paris, Seungah was a Visiting Senior Lecturer at New York University Abu Dhabi. Prior to academia, she led organizational strategy and design for newly established education nonprofits and provided policy research and advisory services. She also worked as the interim director of a corporate philanthropic foundation, overseeing foundation strategy, board governance, and development of grant projects. She now serves the foundation as a Board Member.
Scientific articles
Social Justice Research, Forthcoming, (in coll. with A. Bamberger, M. J. Kim, F. Yan)
Academy of Management Perspectives, Forthcoming,
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2025, vol. 66, n° 1, pp 25-49, (in coll. with C. M. Wotipka, F. O. Ramirez, J. Song)
World Development, June 2023, vol. 166, n° 106226,
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 30 November 2023, vol. 86, pp 87-104, (in coll. with F. O. Ramirez)
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2023, vol. 87, n° Revitalizi, pp 181-211, (in coll. with N. Cloete, N. Côté, L. Crace, R. Delbridge, J.-L. Denis, ET AL.)
Scientific Reports, August 2023, vol. 13, n° 12187, (in coll. with H. Ibrahim, F. Liu, R. Asim, B. Battu, ET AL.)
Contemporary Arab Affairs, March 2021, vol. 14, n° 1, pp 113-133,
Gulf Education and Social Policy Review, 2021, vol. 14, n° 1, pp 46-68, (in coll. with L. Zahir)
Prospects, July 2020, vol. 48, pp 215-236,
Chapters in edited books
The Oxford Handbook Of Education And Globalization, Paola Mattei, Xavier Dumay, Eric Mangez, Jacqueline Behrend, Oxford University Press, 1 , 29-50
Gender Equity In Stem In Higher Education, H. Ro, F. Fernandez, and B. House, Francis & Taylor Publishing, 2
Comparative Perspectives On School Textbooks, Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych, Alexander W. Wiseman, Springer International Publishing, 265-288
Higher Education In The Gulf, Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan, John McAlaney, Routledge, London, 16-31
Scientific articles
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2025, vol. 66, n° 1, pp 25-49, (in coll. with C. M. Wotipka, F. O. Ramirez, J. Song)
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2023, vol. 87, n° Revitalizi, pp 181-211, (in coll. with N. Cloete, N. Côté, L. Crace, R. Delbridge, J.-L. Denis, ET AL.)
World Development, June 2023, vol. 166, n° 106226,
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 30 November 2023, vol. 86, pp 87-104, (in coll. with F. O. Ramirez)
Chapters in edited books
The Oxford Handbook Of Education And Globalization, Paola Mattei, Xavier Dumay, Eric Mangez, Jacqueline Behrend, Oxford University Press, 1 , 29-50
Gender Equity In Stem In Higher Education, H. Ro, F. Fernandez, and B. House, Francis & Taylor Publishing, 2
Comparative Perspectives On School Textbooks, Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych, Alexander W. Wiseman, Springer International Publishing, 265-288
Higher Education In The Gulf, Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan, John McAlaney, Routledge, London, 16-31
Education
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Ph.D., Organization Studies International Comparative Education, Stanford University - USA
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Master, Social sciences, Other, Harvard University - USA
Academic appointments
Academic Responsibilities at HEC
- 2024- Assistant Professor (Doha Campus), Management and Human Resources HEC Paris
External Academic Responsibilities
- 2022-2024 Visiting Senior Lecturer, Social Research and Public Policy New York University Abu Dhabi_NYUAD
Scientific Activities
Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation
- Member : Academy of Management European Group of Organization Studies American Sociological Association Comparative International Education Society