Junghoon Park

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at Loyola Marymount University

This Special Issue explores the vital connection between business and public health, highlighting their interdependence in addressing today’s global challenges. First, we demonstrate how firms are both contributors to and recipients of public health outcomes. Second, we examine the complexities business faces in defining its public health responsib...

Although sustainability has recently become a crucial topic of discussion among business practitioners and scholars, the much longer history of sustainability addressing how companies operate is little known. In this chapter, we analyze the historical evolution of attitudes toward sustainability concerns over business activities, i.e., societal wor...

We first summarize the key points of our recent article titled "Tracing the connections between international business and communicable diseases," published in the Journal of International Business Studies in 2022. Then, building on these points, we provide four recommendations for managers to help prevent future pandemics: (i) use the company's co...

Considering the urgency of addressing grand challenges that affect human health and achieving the ambitious health targets set by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the role of business in improving health has become critical. Yet, our systematic review of the business–health literature reveals that business research focuses...

We posit that international business and the emergence and spread of communicable diseases are intrinsically connected. To support our arguments, we first start with a historical timeline that traces the connections between international business and communicable diseases back to the sixth century. Second, following the epidemiology of communicable...

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are becoming a crucial mechanism for coordinating governments’ efforts to address global challenges. However, their implementation by managers of multinationals is challenging. We offer an overview of the pros and cons of the SDGs as mechanisms for managers of multinationals to help contribut...

Building on the concept of externalities, we propose an explanation of how multinationals can contribute to the enactment of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals as part of their ordinary investments. First, we suggest grouping the 17 Sustainable Development Goals into six categories based on whether they increase positive externalitie...