Keimei Sugiyama

Education

PhD, Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University
MS, Organizational Development and Knowledge Management, George Mason University
BA, Smith College

Areas of Interest

Dr. Sugiyama uses qualitative inductive methods to closely examine workers’ lived experiences across their work and non-work domains, leading to novel insights about how people navigate organizational challenges and workplace relationships. Dr. Sugiyama’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of careers, identity, and working across difference to answer a lifetime curiosity about how the self-concept, social interactions, and various workplace contexts influence career advancement and success.

Professional Activities

Publications: Dr. Sugiyama’s research has been published in top management journals, including the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Awards and Honors: Dr. Sugiyama received the Academy of Management’s Careers Division Best Published Paper Award in 2025 and previously received the Arnon Reichers Best Student-led Paper Award also from the Careers division in 2018. She is also recipient of the V. Kanti Prasad Junior Faculty Award (2026), the Roger L. Fitzsimonds Scholarly Achievement for Junior Faculty Award (2025), and the Business Advisory Council Teaching Excellence Award (2025) from the Lubar College of Business.

Editorial and Professional Service: Dr. Sugiyama has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior since 2023 in addition to serving as an ad-hoc reviewer for many top management journals. She is also an active member of the Academy of Management in the Careers and Managerial Organization and Cognition Divisions, in addition to serving as representative-at-large in the DEI division’s executive leadership committee.

Selected publications include:

Ladge, J.J., Sugiyama, K., Smith, A., Watkins, M.B. & Carlton, P. (2025). Minding the gap: How perspective-taking and status reflexivity helps Black women executives to relate across difference at work. Organization Science, 36(4): 1357-1383.

Sugiyama, K., Ladge, J.J., Dokko, G. (2024). Stable Anchors and Dynamic Evolution: A Paradox Theory of Career Identity Maintenance and Change. Academy of Management Review, 48(4): 1-20. (2nd and 3rd authors share equal contribution)

Sugiyama, K., Jaks, Q., Bilimoria, D & Liu, H. (2022). Double-Conscious Professional Self-Expression of Racial Minority Scientists-in-Training. Journal of Organizational Behavior. (2024) 45:397-415.

Sugiyama, K., Ladge, J.J., Bilimoria, D. (2023). Calling Oneself and Others In: Brokering Identities in Diversity Training. Academy of Management Journal, 66 (6):1-30.

Masterson, C., Sugiyama, K. & Ladge, J.J. (2021). The Value of 21st Century Work-Family Supports: Review and Cross-Level Path Forward. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2021 (42):118-138.

Modestino, A.S., Sugiyama, K. & Ladge, J.J. (2019). Careers in Construction: An Examination of the Career Narratives of Young Professionals and Their Emerging Career Self-Concepts. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 115 (December 2019), 103306.

Ladge, J.J., Eddleston, K.A. & Sugiyama, K. (2019). Am I an entrepreneur? How imposter fears hinder women entrepreneurs’ business growth. Business Horizons, 62(5), 615-624.

Thomas, N., Sugiyama, K. & Rochford, K., Stephens, J.P., Kanov, J. (2018).Experiential Organizing: Pursuing Relational and Bureaucratic Goals Through Symbolically and Experientially Oriented Work. Academy of Management Review, 43(4), 749-771. (First four authors share equal contribution. Order decided using random list generator.)

Philipsen, M., Case, S., Oetama-Paul A., Sugiyama, K. (2017). Academic womanhood: A life-course career perspective. Community, Work, and Family, 20(5), 623-644.

Sugiyama, K., Cavanagh, K., van Esch, C., Bilimoria, D. & Brown, C. (2016). Inclusive leadership development: Drawing from pedagogies of women’s and general leadership