About me

Welcome! I am Jiwon Byun, a PhD candidate in Macro Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

I am on the academic job market for the 2025–2026 cycle.

I study how cultural boundaries and network structures jointly shape visibility, evaluation, and strategic outcomes in digital and entrepreneurial contexts. My work develops a cultural-strategic perspective on how actors navigate symbolically segmented environments by forming affiliations and crossing boundaries. I use large-scale panel data, computational text and network analysis, and agent-based modeling, with applications in the global music industry, venture capital investment, and scientific collaboration.

You can find my CV here. Feel free to contact me at 📩 jwbyun@stanford.edu.