Featured Reseach

  • Robots and Labor in Nursing Homes

    How do employment, tasks, and productivity change with robot adoption? As a first step towards filling this gap, we study Japanese nursing homes using original facility-level panel data that includes the different robots used and the tasks performed.

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  • Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI

    The potential for these seismic changes has triggered a lively debate about potential risks and resulted in calls for tighter regulation, in particular from some of the major tech companies who are leading in AI development. This regulation is likely to put at risk the budding field of open-source Generative AI. We argue for the responsible open sourcing of generative AI models in the near and medium term.

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Publications

  • Do Multimodal Large Language Models Understand Welding?

    Yong Suk Lee, Nitesh Chawla, Grigorii Khvatskii, Corey Angst, Maria Gibbs, Robert Landers. Forthcoming Information Fusion. 2025.

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  • University Education Reform and Entrepreneurship Among Alumni

    Charles E. Eesley, Xiaocong Tian, Delin Yang, Yong Suk Lee. Forthcoming at Management and Organization Review. 2025.

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  • Does Information About AI Regulation Change Manager Evaluation of Ethical Concerns and Intent to Adopt AI?

    Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar , Benjamin Larsen , Yong Suk Lee , Michael Webb. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. 2024.

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  • In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intention

    Charles Eesley and Yong Suk Lee. Organization Science. 2023.

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  • The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs

    John Chung and Yong Suk Lee. ILR Review. 2023.

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  • When Does AI Pay Off? AI-Adoption Intensity, Complementary Investments, and R&D Strategy

    Yong Suk Lee, Taekyun Kim, Sukwoong Choi , Wonjoon Kim. Technovation. 2022, vol 118.

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  • Do University Entrepreneurship Programs Promote Entrepreneurship?

    Charles Eesley, Yong Suk Lee. Strategic Management Journal, 2021. 

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  • Modern Management and the Demand for Technical Skill.

    Yong Suk Lee. Labour Economics, 2018, 55:328-343.

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  • The Persistence of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Immigrants

    Yong Suk Lee, Charles Eesley. Research Policy, 2018.

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  • Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, and Economic Growth in Cities.

    Yong Suk Lee. Journal of Economic Geography, 2017, 17(2). Winner of Urban Land Institute Prize for best paper published in Journal of Economic Geography in 2017.

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