Kenji Klein

Assistant Professor, Management/Human Resource Management, California State University, Long Beach

Kenji Klein is an assistant professor at the College of Business in Management and Human Resource Management at California State University, Long Beach. Prof. Klein does research on institutional stability and the relationship between entrepreneurship and institutional change. In 2016, Prof. Klein wrote a dissertation titled “Entrepreneurship, Identity, and the Transformation of Marketing Systems: Medical Cannabis in California.” The paper examines “how entrepreneurs operating in underground markets come to see laws governing marketing systems as illegitimate and explores the role identity plays in motivating entrepreneurs to challenge existing institutions.”