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Ko Kuwabara

Organisational Behaviour

Ko Kuwabara

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Contact

Email: [email protected]
Campus: Singapore

Research Areas

Networking, Trust and Social Exchange, Enforcement of Prosocial Norms, Online Markets

Teaching Areas

Organisational Behaviour, Networking

Biography

Ko Kuwabara is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. He teaches a core course on leadership in the MBA programme.

Professor Kuwabara's research explores the motivational psychology of networking: who builds effective networks, what inhibits people from networking, and what can be done to promote sustained engagement in networking. He is currently designing and evaluating different interventions in order to help professionals build and manage their networks more effectively. In related research, he has examined the emergence of trust in cross-cultural interactions and online markets. His research has been published in leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Psychological Science.

Professor Kuwabara earned his PhD and BA in Sociology from Cornell University. Prior to joining INSEAD, he was an associate professor of management at the Columbia Business School where he taught courses on negotiation, social networks, and organisational change in the MBA and various executive education programmes.

Publications

Kuwabara K., Cao J., Cho S. S., Ingram P. (Forthcoming). Lay Theories of Instrumental Relations: Explaining Individual Differences in Dispositional Similarity-Attraction. Academy of Management Journal

Kuwabara K., Zou X., Aven B., Hildebrand C., Iyengar S. (2020). Lay Theories of Networking Ability: Beliefs That Inhibit Instrumental Networking. Social Networks, 62

Kuwabara K., Hildebrand C., Zou X. (2018). Lay Theories of Networking: How Laypeople’s Beliefs about Networks Affect Their Attitudes and Engagement toward Instrumental Networking. Academy of Management Review, 43(1)

Kuwabara K., Thebaud S. (2017). When Beauty Doesn't Pay: Gender and Beauty Biases in a Peer-to-Peer Loan Market. Social Forces, 95(4)

Kuwabara K., Yu S. (2017). Costly Punishment Increases Prosocial Punishment by Designated Punishers: Power and Legitimacy in Public Goods Games. Social Psychology Quarterly, 80(2)

Kuwabara K., Anthony D., Horne C. (2017). In the Shade of a Forest Status, Reputation, and Ambiguity in an Online Microcredit Market. Social Science Research, 64

Kuwabara K. (2015). Do Reputation Systems Undermine Trust? Divergent Effects of Enforcement Type on Generalized Trust and Trustworthiness. American Journal of Sociology, 120(5)

Kuwabara K. (2015). How Does Status Affect Power Use?.

Kuwabara K., Vogt S., Watabe M., Komiya A. (2014). Trust, Cohesion, and Cooperation After Early Versus Late Trust Violations in Two-Person Exchange: The Role of Generalized Trust in the United States and Japan. Social Psychology Quarterly, 77(4)

Kuwabara K., Sheldon O. J. (2012). Temporal Dynamics of Social Exchange and the Development of Solidarity: "Testing the Waters" Versus "Taking a Leap of Faith". Social Forces, 91(1)

Kuwabara K. (2011). Cohesion, Cooperation, and the Value of Doing Things Together How Economic Exchange Creates Relational Bonds. American Sociological Review, 76(4)

Mason M. F., Magee J. C., Kuwabara K., Nind L. (2010). Specialization in Relational Reasoning The Efficiency, Accuracy, and Neural Substrates of Social versus Nonsocial Inferences. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(4)

Kuwabara K., Luo J., Sheldon O. J. (2010). Multiplex Exchange Relations.

Willer R., Kuwabara K., Macy M. (2009). The False Enforcement of Unpopular Norms. American Journal of Sociology, 115(2)

Kuwabara K., Willer R., Macy M., Mashima R., Terai S., Yamagishi T. (2007). Culture, Identity, and Structure in Social Exchange: A Web-based Trust Experiment in the United States and Japan . Social Psychology Quarterly, 70(4)

Kuwabara K. (2005). Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself: Fear of Fear, Fear of Greed and Gender Effects in Two-Person Asymmetric Social Dilemmas. Social Forces, 84(2)

Kuwabara K. (2005). Affective Attachment in Online Markets: A Sociological Study of eBay.

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