Hyelin Kim (Hospitality) and her co-authors recently published their research paper "Why Hotel Employees Care about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Using Need Satisfaction Theory" in the International Journal of Hospitality Management. The article investigates hotel employees’ perception of CSR practices of their firms, within the foundations of need satisfaction theory.

Kim and co-authors also recently had an article, "Examining the Impacts of Touristification on Quality of Life (QOL): The Application of the Bottom-up Spillover Theory," published in The Service Industries Journal. The study aims to understand touristification and the influence of this phenomenon on residents’ quality of life.